Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 04/20/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90144-10039

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 100-370750-303

Released under the John

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54460 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE:

FBI

LA

HQ

DATE: 04/20/1963

'PAGES:

2

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: AT

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v9.1

HH 54460

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DocId: 32339101

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FD-36 (i

12-13-56)

CONFIDENTIAL

FBI

Date:

4/20/63

Transmit the following in

Via

AIRTEL

(FR)

ENTMINEO

ED

TO:

FROM:

RE:

34d

al

AIR MAIL - REGISTERED

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-370750)

SAC'S, WFO

NEW YORK (100-147468)

Declassify ow: DABR

SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-21198)

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

IS - C

HEREIN IS UNCAASSIFIED

DATE4. 30-86.879145 Jefog 08

Re Bureau letter 4/10/63 indicating that information

from a most sensitive and reliable source, which

is not to be disseminated outside the Bureau,

dicates JOHN HOWARD LAWSON currently in Yalta,

Crimea, USSR, has been

In contact with LEON QUAT,

259 Broadway, New York 7, New York.

wife will

be returning to the U. So, Intending to reach New

for a week or 10 days.

WE previously placed a stop with Non-Immigrant

control section, immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

Local informants have been again reminded to promptly

furnish any information coming to their attention concerning

the return of the LAWSONs to the Los Angeles area.

[For the information of New Jork and WFO on 4/1/63

LA 3932-S advised SA HARVEY G. BERKEY that JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

anicsis a current member of the Professional-Cultural

Section of

the Southern California District CommunistUPenty: (SCDCP) on

leave while

follows:

residing temporarily in the USSR.

He Is described

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DOG IANET ONE

Bureau

WFO (REGISTERED:

2

New

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Los Angeles

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(8)

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- 12 АРП 20 1963

KONTROLI

Sent

CONPISENTIALI

SUB

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