JFK Assassination System Identification Form “Agency Information Date: 5/13/201 Released under the John AGENCY: FBI F. Kennedy issassination RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-90144-10020 Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USc 2107 RECORD SERIES: HQ Note). Case#:NW Savg2 Date: 04-10-2016 AGENCY FILENUMBER: — 100-370750-288 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LA TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: = 10/20/1961 ‘PAGES: 16 . SUBJECTS : JOHN HOWARD LAWSON DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Confidential RESTRICTIONS: — Consulted; 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 10/09/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF AISC COMMENTS : RPT, REFERRED TO AISC v9.1 HW 56792 Docld: 32339065 Page 1
Re ot Fonn - - ~ \ . , 4 ., , "FL-263 (5-12-55) U - : . . 2 ] ui , FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIO 3 * Investigative Period — C1: Date 10/20/61 Report made by MARCUS M, BRIGHT, Jr. ! CHARACTER OF CASE, Reporting Office LOS ANGELES ‘¢ ‘TITLE OF CASE Office of Origin LOS ANGELES ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN I$ UNCLASSLF1ED Is-¢ “CEPT WHERE SHOW OLHERWLSS JOHN HOWARE LAWSON, aca Report of SA MARCUS M, BRIGHT, Jr., MMMHK REFERENCE: Los Angeles, “ WG = Pe chai fcte_ ADMINISTRATIVE Declassity on: OADR LAWSON's wife, SUE LAWSON (Bufile 100-309999) is on the Security Index of the Los Angeles Office. A stop notice has been placed, on September 25, 1961, with INS, on LAWSON's return to the United States. LEAD Z LOS ANGELES AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Will develop further pertinent information regarding the Communist Party. activity of JOHN HOWARD LAWSON. Be oe Classifted by . . PAS neciassity om: SAL Special Agent In Charge Do not write in spaces below Jo 13707504 2 99 ae Approved { A ) G v ° an ~. Copies made: Le Qi. Bureau (100-370750 ) { REGISTERED) CORRECTED FIRST PaGe © |} 3 - Los Angeles (100-21198) BC a PAGE Lil) ple LO A 4 4A = fe, SUL fa USER LLL ~ Property of FBI - This report is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which loaned. w U. 8. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1985 o--3 44750 HW 56792 Doeld:32339085 Page 2?
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\ Ret Form FL-263 (5-12-55) t) Reporting Office LOS ANGELES TITLE OF CASE Office of Origin LOS ANGELES Date 10/20/61 Report made by MARCUS M, BRIGHT, Jr. CHARACTER OF CASE i JOHN nowarSALawson » aka ALL INPORMATIOW CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN -OTHERWIS® Is -cC Report of SA Los Angeles. MARCUS M, BRIGHT, Jr., EGE - Pp¥ - chadech by ADMINISTRATIVE Declassity on: OADR Ryaeh REFERENCE: . LAWSON's wife, SUE LAWSON (Bufile 100-309999 ) is on the Security Index of the Los Angeles Office. _ A stop notice has been placed, on September 25, 1961, with INS, on LAWSON's return to the United Stat LOS ANGELES AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Will develop further pertinent Information regarding the Communist Party, activity of JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, um Special Agent * In Charge Approved Do not write in spaces below 707504 29 Copies made: {0 413 C4’ Bureau (100-370750 ) (REGISTERED) 3 - Los Angeles (100-21198 ) 7) CORRECTED PIS PAGE | hte, ST 6 a USER hes E7 ~ Property of FBI - This Yeport is loaned to you by the FBI, and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside the agency to which. loaned. . % U. 8. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1985 O-—-844750 . HW 56792 DBocld:32339085 Page 4
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: 7 Met noe CONFIDEN r I A. Le : 100-2198 on - Los — ee va giving a number of lectures. and. preparing for.a trip) .“”- to the, Soviet Unim. LAWSON had wanted to go to the f. - Soviet Union some months prior thereto but was finaneailly unable ¢o do so at the time. His request to do a “ a peen transmitted by the CP, USA, to the CP of th Soviet Uniea. However, the Soviet Unim had turn down the po Ssibility of inviting LAWSON to the country as a guest for the reason that. another writer/had already been invited te attend a writers’. conference/ scheduled to be held in. the Soviet Union. * GF ) (y LAWSON was ‘in ‘New York city fetor t6 departing”: - on his current European trip and was expected to sail ‘from Montreal for Europe abott the middle’ of May. While in New York, LAWSON visited ‘the National Headquarters. of the oe a CP. OO “The travel plans of. OHN- HOWARD. “LAWSON and . his. “wite included departure from\Montreal on May 17, 1961, from where they would go di ectly‘to Poland. After a stopover in Warsaw for a f days, they expected to proceéd to Moscow in early June. ‘They expected to include an extended stay fin Europe. where “LAWSON AS. anxious to lecture and: write, partlyutertove Weis a expenses but also to meet with students\and teachers.; — - oy at various educational’ institutions. Sometime ‘during. : a the trip, the expectéd to visit Czechos1é6 Germany . Ate | vakia.and A stop notice has peen placed, Vs 25, 1961, with Immigration and Naturalization Se yice, on LAWSON's return fo the United States.” \ | - 7 | | - ; | ~ \ r ve, che peas \. . ' ~N ; AW 56792) Docld:32339085 Page 6