JFK Assassination System Date: $/13/201 Identification Form “Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI : - Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: —124-90143-10178 Assassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 ' ase#:NWU 54460 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER:  100-370750-NR HO-04-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LA TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 01/20/1944 i “PAGES: 22 SUBJECTS : JOHN HOWARD LAWSON DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/09/1998: | OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE ~ COMMENTS: = RPT | v9.1 8 \nW 54460 Docld:32338760 Page 1
ae mentee ne 2 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIO 7 | PERIOD FOR REPORT MADE BY REPORT MADE AT , DATE WHEN MADE us — V20/ 10/26,23, 26/43 JOHN R. VICARS KP TLE : . 32 79as HARACTER OF CAS Renae JOSEPH praeraa, et al —-12/1,8,23,27/13 INTERNAL SECURITY - c Ae NORA TTGN CONTA ds eR Ete POA ° . CEPT Wy as ‘SHOWR STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL / SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: = -::e pnd - <n BIBERMAN mnsferred from Branch B (uel) » Northwest. Section, ‘an. ‘October, 1943, to Group 3, Branch A (Writers), ‘Northwest Section. Held 1913 CP Book.No. 17073. BIBERMAN observed at apparent branch meetings 12/8/13 by 7 LYYVRG_ OF'2= Rene rere io te (ariters)- ‘He held 1943 CP Book Ho. 30198. geen eve APPROVED AND ° SPECIAL AGENT 7 - r= FORWARDED: ~ “ -_IN CHARGE j a zo als 07 S¢ “ COPIES OF THIS REPORT DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES “p TORS 3 Lea Angeles WW'54460- Docld:32338760 Page 2
‘ HW 54460 | THE NEW YORK. FIELD DIVISION | Division for any information on RHODA. RYPINS. An individual by the name of "810 South Spring Street, to ascertain the identity and Communistic tendencies an qa2a 8° ‘ UMDEVELOFED LEADS Re U ee here # At New York city, will review the indices of ithe New York Field ISAAC L. RYPINS ie méntioned in the Los Angeles files as.a radical whose. oN writings were banned from the mails in Vorld Wer I. Pessibly RHODA RYPINS 4 is a relative. - . OF SC # Will review the reports of highly confidential sources intimate with ALEXANDER STEVENS (New York File 100=2),753) to ascertain if STEVENS had _ contact with HERBERT BIBERMAN on February 20 to 25, 1913, and particularly _ : on February 2); and 25, 193, the specific period in which BIBERMAN is velieved a to have been in New York. - oo THE LOS ANGELES FIBLD DIVISION “Ab Los Angeles, Celiforfia, will maintain contact with Confidential National Defense infornat TA 78 tor bank checks on subjects, and also for check on entrance of BIBERMAN's safe deposit box, Ho. 820, at this bank. — # W411 develop an informant in LARSON neighborhood for continucus © surveillance, it being noted that HARTHA and ELWOOD KAY (employed at LOCKHESD AIRCRAFT CORPORATION), 452) Coldwater Canyon Avenue, reside in a good location and. one which wa have previously used to advantage. # Will contact the appropriate officers’ of the. We T, GRAND COMPANY, of H. A. BARTH. . | %  W41L ascertain subject BIBERMAN's activities prier to his leader- _ ship in the American Peace Hobilization through Confidential Netional Defense Informant LA 1138, : . | | WHI follow the activities of subjects in the Los Angeles area through confidential informants, spot surveillances, and other sources, i a . RENT A SO AP= VG sd DoclIda: 32338760 Page 3
; whe. Ce on _ . a SOURCES oF INFORMATION As CONPIDENTIAL WATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMANT 1125007 Be # a 8 De @ g : 3 i Ge + 3 #® l, , He " " wo | Tr Records of Anti~Subversive Department, Los Angeles . i , Police Department, Wilshire Station. ee a ~~ Feowerosinray, WAPIONAL DEFENSE INFORMANT’ ZA ~IQ) | : or re LA~1138. J jp ee Lr.) -Attormay, RICHARD B. COMBS, Chief Investigators” anh bp . ; _ -Jegislative Joint Fact Finding: Committee on Un- : 7 ee . American Activities, who wrote.letter- to this-office.__.: 7 o concerning this interview on 22/30/13. (See LA: yily Se = Mx.“ RALPH.DERR, 1827 North Bl Cerrito, manager of tate oo >; @partaent house. af a tO Ne © Peow ronan # NATIONAL DEFENSE sonia IA - ae | BAAR OY | : AW 354460 Bocld:32336760 Page 4