JFK Assassination System Identification Form Date: 5/13/201 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: ‘PAGES :. SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : » _ RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Agency Information FBI | 124-90143-10114 HQ 100-370750-1 Document Information FBI LA HQ ~ 08/16/1941 9 HERBERT BIBERMAN JOHN HOWARD LAWSON PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified a Redact 10/09/1998 INDEFINITE RPT Released under the John Kennedy Wss5assination Records ollection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#:NWU 54460 Date: 1O-O4-2017 rrr a rr en v9.1 HW 54460 Docld: 32338696 Page 1
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Form No. 1 THIs CASE ORIGINATED AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FILE NO. 100#6769 REPORT MADE AT DATE WHEN MADE PERIOD FOR REPORT MADE BY WHICH, MADE LOS ANGELES, CALIF. B/16/1 B/11-16/1a [. E. MYERS ahb TITLE CHARACTER OF CASE HERBERT BIBERMAN . INTERNAL SECURITY (C) SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: Subject BIBERMAN reported chief contact executive committee of Communist Internati dna! Mexico City, and Communist Party officia f in United States. Subject'’s wife, GAIL SoONpEGcA) motion. picture actress, and JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, playwright, believed assisting Subject in. alleged activities. Residense of Subject placed under surveillance and Confidential Informants' - appropriately utilized to develop confirmation BIBERMAN status. Subject has been prominent in Communist front activities, notably American Peace Mobilization, of which he is. chairman; and is well known as motion picture director and writer. Wife is known as fellow traveler. _ JOHN HOWARD LAWSON attended plenary sessions. of the Communist Party National Committee, New York City, June 28th and 29th. BIBERMAN Imown to have visited DR, IGNACIO MILLAN, reported top- ranking Communist official in Mexice, during 1938. Continuous age $e HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATEX:\D RU B REFERENCE: Bureau letter to Los Angeles dated August 7, : fii APPROVED AND SPECIAL AGENT DO NOT WRITE JN THESE SPACES 7” FORWARDED: . IN CHARGE foo --3707f6-| f agen ‘ J ‘@ - New York a a ‘ i an 3 - Los Angeles | H U. 8. QOVERYMENT FRENTING OFFIC 7—2034 — ‘HW 54460 Docld:32338696 Page 2
ae \ is ea notation that he had been in New York for the past few months. on theatre work. It has not been possible as yet to establish the exact whereabouts of LAWSON, but it is contemplated that this information will presently become available through the confidential contacts established in connection with this investigation. It is desired to set forth briefly an indication. of BIBERMAN's known status in the Communist front movement. ‘The Los Angeles files heroin cited disclose that he assumed the local leadership of the former American Peace Crusade in June. of 191,03; and wrote a long — article in the "New Masses" on August 20, 1910, which reflects the alleged motives of that organization. His close associates in this movement, which has been definitely shown to be a Communist sponsored | organization, are: ; SAMTEL ORNITZ GUY ENDORE DONALD L. HEALY RICHARD S. OTTO GLENDA SULLIVAN . _ JOHN STAPP | . THOMAS P. CULLEN _ a r po . BIBERMAN has appeared publicly on many occasions, i speaking on behalf of the American Peace Mobilisation, which succeeded — the American Peace Crusade, and Confidential National Defense Informant i Le Ae #3, whose identity is known to the Bureau, desoribes him as follows: "He is one of the most menacing figures in the ; . local revolutionary ranks today by reason of his ° smooth manner, his unquestionable brilliance of . { mind, his. quick thinking, his pleasant personality, i : and a quality which seems to make him equal to any exigency. He possesses a pleasing speaking voice, a and is billed at all of these affairs as amotion — picture director.” ; JOHN HOWARD LAWSON has been present in Los Angeles at. numerous meetings at which BIBERMAN spoke, and it is evident that they were closely associated. ; Be The present offices of thé American Peace Crusade are located at 1,26 South Spring Street, telephone Michigan 2092, and a source usually found extremely reliable has. been established to obtain information of value from his office. * It has been @stablished that THOMAS P. CULLEN, above : mentioned, is most. frequently in charge of the office; and that BIBERMAN visits this point rarely. A Hollywood office of the American Peace Mobilization is located at 1558 North Vine Street, and by observation, it has been determined that this is a one-room office on the second i floor of the Otto K. olson Building, at the corner of Selma and Vine Streets. / ; HW 54460 Docld:32336696 Page 3