JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form 5/13/201 Peleased under the John Kennedy “Agency Information FBI a ‘ AGENCY : Assassination Records - (44 USC 2107 Note). RECORD SERIES: HQ ase#:NU 54460 Date: 1O-O4-2017 AGENCY FILENUMBER:  100-370750-263 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LA TO: HQ TITLE : DATE: 09/14/1960 *PAGES: 3 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 : MEMO v9.1 ' WW 54460 DoclId: 32336677 re NSD 28 Page 1
o Hs OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 | | ; a) a UNITED STATES cok, ANMENT CONF ENT IAL © | fe Dy “Memorandum | | Z, a y TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (10-370750) DATE: September 14, 1960 ek - OAL INF ATION CONTAINED OTHERWISE . HEREIN ISXUNCLASSIFIED FROM: SAC, LOS Dn (2100-21198) EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN SUBJECT: JOHN 3 HOWARD LAWSON - “ALL (AFOR MAGES, { CoATANED OO:TA HEREIN IS UNA Re Bureau letter to Office of Security, pepart- ment of State, dated 8/11/60, regarding the possibility of travel by ‘LAWSON outside the United States. Z oSCUASSLFTED BY ¢ On 9/6/60, LA 3402-S reported that during a’. personal contact with.LAWSON the day before, he indicated that nothing definite had been decided about his possible | trip to Cuba as guest of the Cuban Film Institute. LAWSON said that in any event he would not be able to leave. before 4 the middle of October; that he is scheduled to leave . ot {[Los Angeles in about two weeks on a lecture tour which | ill take him to San Francisco, Portland and Séattle. . 7 His wife SUE will go with him. LAWSON indicated to informant that he would much rather go to Europe than to Cuba; and that if he did, he would seeenough to form the basis for a series of lectures that would last all | Winter when he got back; however, he did not indicate any | definite plans whatever regarding a European trip Cm Subsequently LA 3402-S was, “in contact with LAWSON again; and on this occasion, informant learned that LAWSON. will leave on 10/7/60 on a speaking trip to San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. At Portland, he will lecture on playwriting at Reed uy He will return to Ios Angeles about 10/15/60. . |) 0- 390789 -47 P sect! ot - Bureau - Washington ‘Field Office ; 1 - San Francisco. EX 102 » 19 1960 1 - Portland ot & SEP 19 1 - Seattle —_— 3 - Ios Angeles 1 - 100- 23398), = 1 - 100-29552)(S. LAWSON) 7 . i? QQ - 100- 8864) (COLE) a ; a, is & oe CON ENTIAL (AW 54460 Doctld:32336677 Page 2?
ws Tk cONFBENTIN 0 LA 100-21198 , «Te 4s noted that Seattle advised by airtel dated 8/16/60 that atcSeattle, LAWSON will probably be sponsored by the Washington Cultural CO-OP Association. * During his M8), contact with LAWSON, LA 3402-S received a definite impression that LAWSONhas coaled considerably toward the trip to Cuba. LAWSON indicated that the Cuban spokesmen do not really have much to offer there, and he again stated. he would much rather go to Europe instead. (/V/| In regard to the possibility of a European trip by LAWSON, informants have developed nothing concrete as yet. In this. comhection, however, the following information received from LA 3932-S on 7/1/60,.may be the basis for LAWSON's Fucus: GU) European trip at an unspecified time in the future. 3 ‘ geekiew LAWSON was present at a meeting of the : Council of. the Professional-Cultural Section, Communist Party (CP), Los.Angeles on 6/21/60. Part of the business of that meeting was a discussion concerning the possibility that section council members JOHN H. LAWSON and LESTER COLE (Bureau file 100-2230) were giving considerable thought to. spending sometime in eastern Europe. Apparently this stemmed from the fact that Mrs. JEAN PESTANA, Attorney | and member of the Section Council, (Bureau file 100-389985) was then visiting in eastern Europe and had written back .. that. the Communists in Czechoslovakia were interested in having intellectual Communists from other countries visit Czechoslovakia; that there agears to be a considerable difference between the attitude of the Russian Communists and that of the Czechoslovakian Communists toward outside intellectuals; that whereas the. Russians feel Communists should work in their own countr#,the Czechoslovakians feel there is great need for intellectuals and specialists in Czechoslovakia at the present time and therefore welcome such people, in Prague. uy eteecnasememntnaeaaiy . ‘Both LAWSON and COLE indicated that they have | good connections in Czechoslovakia. Both indicated their ,/ . desires to spend sometime, possibly a year, there if it ; CONFIMENTIAC | | t t | AW 54460 Docld: 32336677 Page 3