AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : COMMENTS : v9.1 ' RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: . DATE: ‘PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Identification Form “Agency Information FBI 124-90143-10129 HQ 100-370750-NR Document Information FBI LA HQ 10/18/1941 19 HERBERT BIBERMAN JOHN HOWARD LAWSON PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Confidential - 1B; 4 Redact 10/09/1998 INDEFINITE RPT | AW 54460 Docld:32336711 Page 1 Date: 5/13/20] Peleased under the John Kennedy Assassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). asef#: NW 54460 Date: 1O-O4-2017
HW 54460 See ica may inertewennetem + nehaentene FEDERAL BUREAYV File No. 100-6769 Origin: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 5 Period Report made by: Report made at: Date LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Title: 10-18-41 THOMAS E, MYERS GWS 7 vase of case: HERBERT BLBGRMAN; oo SON _ - __ JOHN HOWARDLAWSON | Ot INTERNAL SECURITY (R) pees ETRRtE § . hackasaty HO Oe OL stg 6 a) SYNOPSIS; EDWARD C. CARTER left Los Angeles oct. 12, 1941 - en route San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago[for 1 (4 further activities bearing on organization local committees for Russian war relief. Bureau offices in said cities notified and surveillance requested. THOMAS L. HARRIS, National Secre= tary, AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SOVIET RELATIONS, visited Los Angeles .- Oct. 5 to Oct. 11, 1941; delivered address Oct. 9, 1941 featur-. ing transcription of broadcast by Women of Moscow and urging Support for Soviet Union. HARRIS also conferred with BIBERMAN: and LAWSON Oct. 10, 1941 concerning participation of subjects in organization of local unit of A.C.S.R. Plans perfected at SON, peonincne roe abe letter written by HARRIS to ERNEST DAW- SON, prominent Los eles Oommunist, indicate subjects, with VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE and JOHN GARFIELD, are to take active part. in organizing local unit A.C.S.R. Photographic and photostatic copies HARRIS' document forwarded Bureau and New York. Char- acter of A.C.S.R. as militant C.P. front organization with. plans for national development clearly disclosed, and Bureau advised by teletype. Personnel of meeting held at LAWSON'S home Oct.-5, . 1941 ascertained; group apparently concerned with activities LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WRITERS. Additional meeting, held Oct. 16, 1941 st home of LESTER COLE, was attended by BIBERMAN and LAW- sor sGuestionnie status MADELINE RUTHVEN cited. Additional - mail ‘covers established. General YAKHONTOFF, under auspices of I.W.0., expected Los Angeles presently for propaganda purposes. SwAeCe \ (60 - 3709500 ZFE VEC ORE 2 - Chicago 4 - New York 4 - Los Angeles wi, DoclId: 32336711 Page ? Joo -> FYI F- 33. - xe,
a HERR E NE A CONARA - REFERENCE: Report of Special Agent THOMAS E. MYERS, Los . Angeles, California, dated Qctober 11, 1941. Los Angeles teletypes dated {October 13 and 15, 1903) (B : | | . | | DETAILS: At the close of the last weekly period reflected in re- ference report, EDWARD C. CARTER was still at Los Angeles , and under observation intermittently by Special Agents STANLEY R. RUSSO — é and the writer. CARTER occupied room 6317 at the Hotel Biltmore, Les Angeles, a and was observed checking out of that hotel on October 12, 1941. A lengthy list of telephone numbers for calls made by CARTER during his stay at the i Biltmore Hotel was furnished by Assistant Manager CATO of that hotel, and 4 the identities of the subscribers thereto are being secured for inclusion ; in a subsequent report. CARTER left no forwarding address and went per- : sonally to the United Airlines Office immediately adjacent to the Bilt- - more Hotel, where he made air travel reservations. From Mr. As C. VOORHIS; Reservations Clerk of the said airline, the following prospective itiner-. ary of CARTER was obtained; , The records disclosed. that CARTER was scheduled to travel - on Flight 17 leaving San Francisco at 3:15 P.M. on October 14, 1941 for Seattle, due to arrive in Seattle at 8:27 P.M. the same date. He was.. further booked to leave Seattle via United Airlines on Trip No. 14 for Chicago. at 4:15. P.M. on October 15, 1941, and scheduled to arrive at Chicago at 8:32 A.M., October 16, 1941. Inasmuch as CARTER traveled from New York to Los Angeles via this airline, it was aspumed that he would make further reservations on the same carrier at Chicago. il of the offices on CARTER'S route were advised by reference teletype for oct. CON °13,.1941,) which further related CARTER'S status as an organizer for the COMMITTHN FOR MEDICAL AID TO RUSSIA. It was requested therein that the PaeTe Oo ier gdb WEEE OE PDSSSs GT Even taShemeene bs daseTSpca ees cerning his contacts, activities, and developments resultant therefrom in each of-the named cities. ; Confidential National Defense Informant Los Angeles No. 1100 indicated that due to subject BIBERMAN'S illness, he did not ac- company CARTER to the plane and did not see him personally after October -9, 1941. JANE MEADE, however, according to the cited informant, took up various matters with CARTER and relayed CARTER'S messages to BIBER- MAN. It will be observed hereinafter that BIBERMAN was engaged. on October 10, 1941 on another of his projects and apparently did not have time to entertain CARTER at his home. However, JANE MEADE indicated to BIBERMAN that the program of the Russian Aid Committee was thought by CARTER to be progressing satisfactorily and it is apparent that the group felt that, CARTER'S visit achieved the results of unity and cohesion in the movement, the lack of “revert I) previously felt by them, as shown in the writer's reference report. -During the current weekly period it has been observed daily - Q 4 ‘WW 54460 Docld:32338711 Page 3