JFK Assassination System Date: $/13/201 Identification Form “Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI . Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90143-10227 Lssassination Records f ollection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES: HQ (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NU 54460 Date: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: _ 100-370750-63 noO-04-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LA TO: HQ TITLE: [Restricted] DATE: 00/00/0000 ‘PAGES: 2 | SUBJECTS : | JOHN HOWARD LAWSON DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT i CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified | RESTRICTIONS: 1B ' -  CURRENTSTATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 10/09/1998 “OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE H COMMENTS : LET TE A { v9} - 14 » AW 34460 BDocld: 32336809 Page 1
invited States Hepartinternt of 3 Iustice. NY Sa Los eles 13, Caljfornia.. ie a March 30, 1945 a IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO on , ot . Fieno, 100221198 2 _Dsseton FBI Re: JOHN sowaro® arson, i alias Jacob Levy Ll SECURITY. (c) : a) “Subject is a Communist key figure in the Los. Angeles" Pisrd an a Division. Authority is hereby requested toinstall a microphone surveillance hee at the residence of subject, 4542 Coldwater Canyon. Avenue, Nor hn Hollywood, telephone Sunset 2 8485, The Bureau has previously authorized the maintenanc aft of a technical or telephone sumeillance on subject at. that address, whichyis /)s/fi._. currently being maintained. oe So, bes MG LAWSON .is the real leader of the. “Communists in the motion” ott picture. industry, He was reported Chairman of the Northwest Section, Los. Angeles County Communist Party--U. S.A. (motion picture industry. section) until tan ‘it. became the Communist Political Association in dune, 1944... He is currently i. a member of the seven-man Motion Picture. and Radio Commission of the Los So \ | Angeles County CPA which appears to set the policy for the Communists in the _ | -., motion. picture and radio. industry. In addition, LAWSON is a member of the Executive Board of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, an important front oo organization in Hollywood, and is an official of the Hollywood Writers Mobili- 7 -- tation which, of course, is currently writing all the scripts for the Overseas '* Film Bureau of 0.W.I. LAWSON is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, which committee is. responsible for the entire ~ product from. the selection of ideas to writer and ‘producer assignments in these O.W.I. scripts. Subject is also a member of the Executive Board of the People's 4 Educational Center which has replaced the, League of American Writers. ‘School for! Writers, 7 te has. “been ascertained vhrougMeonfidential X National | Defense o “Informant LA JO-1. and surveillances by Bureau agénts that in any matter of importance to the Communists in the motion picture industry which arises, JOEN > _ HOWARD LAWSON is consulted.. Also, meetings of the Motion'Picture and Radio i = a the P.E.C., the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, and other meetings Vas we TONTA > a held. at LAWSON's home with great frequency. He also confers with ELIZABE YA EWN, former Northwest Section Organizer, who. appears to act in the same _ 74 ‘4 capacity in the new cultural and miscellaneous group setup (which, is, the. sue # ib cessor vio the Northwest Section) about once weekly “agi! FO = os 7 TH is velieved that considerab evihtornl Gone : suning...the ot PE polio of ‘the. GPA in, the motion ees ale atid and on aes and Lat | ile? ot COUN LES pEsTROY ED BARNA i of nS OM ‘ © . . & p oo "Ak : Le . HW 54460 Docld:32336609 Page 2?
yo c ° t ! \. ; “as ° “Director - ST a on fisron 30, 1945 Re: JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, wea. ' a JOR INTERNAL SECURITY (¢) | ee {nse Xe allied cultural ‘Pields could be obtained ‘through the’ installation of a micro- _ phone. surveillance at the LAWSON home. The Bureau's attention is particularly . invited to ‘the - fact that LAWSON has. stated that he end his wife, SUP WS ON, “.are going to. attend the International Security Council meeting at San Francisco LAWS ON have both he and his wife been outi of Los Angeles together in the past. y) . which begins April. 20,-194 AB Therefore, if the Bureau deems it advisable to - authorize; this ‘installation it is requested that Los Angeles be advised prior (a to April 25, 1945, since only in rare instances during the investigation of “Very truly yours, R. By HOOD | SAC. + 100-21198 - os ae JRV:RT ° _ AW 354460 DoclIda: 32338809 Page 3