Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BS
To: HQ
Document date: 06/16/1950
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-90143-10323

HQ

100-370750-177

Released under the John

F. kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case# :WH 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

BS

HQ

DATE: 06/16/1950

'PAGES:

15

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:

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CONFIDEANTIAL

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT LOS ANGELES

REPORT MADE AT

BOSTON, MASS.

DATE WHEN

MADE

6/16/50

FILE NO.

100-3374

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, was.

PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE

REPORT MADE BY

6/5/50

RICHARD G. HUNSINGER

rol

CHARACTER OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY - C

75668-54

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

606-1

(5172)

INOrTON cOnTala Subject checked into Hotel Somerset, Boston, lass.

REIN IS

CLASSIMEO

11/20/49 and checked out on 11/23/49.

РEPTФ

Subject

addressed public meeting at Community Church, 565 Boylston

St., Boston, Mass., during which he criticized all

aspects of his Federal contempt trial, U. S. Foreign

and Domestic Policy, U.S. leaders, and approved

Russian criminal procedure. LAWSON also addressed :

meeting of Students Lawyers Guild of Harvard University,

affiliate of National Lawyers Guild. LAWSON also met

with local members of the National Council of American-

Soviet Friendship.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

DETAILS:

At Boston, Mass•

TERCIN IS UNCLASSIFIEI

DATE 4-21-84 BY9145 JRefaglo

Boston Confidential Informant I-1, of known reliability,

advised that the subject checked into the Hotel Sonerset,

Boston, Wass., on Novenber 20, 1949, and checked out late

in the evening of Noverber 23, 1949.

28 WAR 28

1963

ceto DR

On November 22, 1949, HARLOW SHAPLEY advised Boston Confi-

dential Informant I-3, of known reliability, that the

subject was in Boston and was interested in contacting

7. 11-5

APPROVEDAND

PSO/1ç

active members änd leaders of the National Council of the

FORWARDED:

Calone

HARLOW SHAPLEY has been reliably reported by informants to

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

RECORDED - 118

COPIES OF THI

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/c,2 - Boston

3 - Los ingeles (100-6469/1E

13-3707223

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INDEXED - 118

-68

PROPERTY OF FBI-THIS CONFIDENTIAL REPORT AND ITS CONTENTS ARE LOANED TO YOU, BY THE FBI AND ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE OF

AGENCY TO WHICH LOANED.

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CONFIDENTIAL

BOS 100-3374

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS

T-I is ALAN SWITZER, Manager, Hotel Bellevue, Boston,

Mass., who has

been utilized as a confidential source at this office.

I-2 is ND BOS 552 - contacted by Special Agent BRENTON S. GORDON.

I-4 is ND BOS 525 - contacted by Special Agent BRENTON S. GORDON.

I-5 is ND BOS 21 - contacted by Special Agent FREDERICK M. CONNORS.

I-6 is ND BOS 559 - contacted by Special Agent CLEMENT A. O'BRIEN.

I-7 is ND BOS 521 - contacted by Special Agent FREDERICK M. CONNORS.

T-8 is ND BOS 493 - contacted by Special Agent CLEMENT

" A. O'BRIEN.

T-9 is ND BOS 565 - contacted by RICHARD W. DOW.

REFERENCE:

Report of Special Agent GEORGE J. SULLIVAN, dated

January 12, 1950, at New York City.

CONFDENTIALI

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BOS 100-3374

CONTTDENSTAL ZERORNANIS

I-I 10 ALAN SVITZEN, Monager, lotel Bellevus, Boston,

Jesse, who has

beon utilised as a confidential source at this office.

I-2 19 ND BOS 552 - contacted by Special Agent BRUNON S. CorDoN.

T-3 16 ND BOS 1S-215 - contacted by Special Agent EMENICH S. GORDOW.

Ink 16 ND BOS 525 - contacted by Special Agent BRENON S. GORDON.

T-5 is ND BOS 21 - contacted by Special Agent FREDERIOK L, COMORS.

1-6 is ND BOS 559 - contacted by Special Agent CUMENT A, O'BRIEN.

I-7 1s ND BOS 521 - contactod by Special Agent FREDERICK I, CONNORS.

I-® 15 ID BOS 493 - contacted by Special AgeNt CLEMENT A. O'RIEN

I-d 18 ID BOS 565 - contacted by RICIARD Me DOW

REFOREICE:

Report of special Agent CEOROG J. SULLIVAN, dated

January I2y 1950, at New York City.

CONA

EATIAN!

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