Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 05/17/1950
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90143-10315

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

100-370750-171

Released under the John

issassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel.

Casef:N! 54460 Date

10-04-201°

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: LA

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 05/17/1950

'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 :

RPT

v9.1

HH 54460

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Post

Form NO. I

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT LOS ANGELES

FILE NOX 2I

100-21198

REPORT MADE AT

DATE WHEN MADE

LOS ANGELES

5-17÷50

TITLE

PERIOD FOR

WHICH MADE

-3/24,31/50

5/10/50

REPORT MADE BY

mwr

SA BERNARR M. PTACEK

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, WAS.

CHARACTER OF CASE

Jacob' Levy, Jack Lawson

me 82601/a

INTERNAL SECURITY-O/

Pasted

Classified

Reclassly

11-2081

Classiffed

Declassily

APPROVED

AND

FORWARDED:

for New York City

where he will make a speaking

In behalf of the "Hollywood 10" and remain

until

GABR

about June 15, 1950.

In New York City he resides

at 344 E. 45th Street, though his permanent address

continues to be 9354 Burnet Ave., San Fernando,

Calif.

A confidential Informant has advised of LAWSON's

membership in the Communist Party.

Informant advised

that LAWSON was quoted

"with reverence"

at Hollywood

Communist Party meetings.

Supreme court refused to

review convictions of DALTON TRUMBO and subject on

Contempt of Congress charge.

The court was again

petitioned to hear case on basis of "an individual is

not compelled to testify before a government body if he

believes he will incriminate himself and laws of

California where both men live permit them to refuse

to state their political affiliation."

a member of the Board of Directors of the newly

• CONTAINED

formed Southern California Council of American--Soviet

Friendship.

The American-Russian Institute of Southern

California now displays a red ceramic bust of LAWSON

which 1s about two feet high. He wrote an article in the

April 1950 issue of the "Masses & Mainstream"

entitled

"Myth and Money."

...

LAWSON 18 a delegate to the National

Arts,

Sciences and Professions Council Convention in

New York April

28, 1950 and attended a gathering

honoring Dr. HARLOW SHAPLEY, retired chairman of the

National

Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions.

Physical description set out. fU

ECIAL AGENT

100- 370950-171

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

COPIES DESTROYED

28

COPIES OF THIS REPORT

MAR(83 - 1B&reau (100-24499)

2

- New

York (100-80918)

_ LOS

Angeles

IN

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INDEXED - 28

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L A 100-21198

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Informant

CD-49

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INFORMANT PAGE

Date

3-29-50

5-8-50

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40227

3-27-50

CNDI LA 3200

LOUIS F. BUDENZ

JOHN ALLEN DUNKEL

CNDI LAI295HUNKET

GENE HAGBERG

6404 W. Nollywood

BIvd.

NK 1727

ND Bos 538

CNDI LA 3287

CNDI LA 3234

[CNDI LA 3258

CNDI LA 33.79

4-4-50

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May 1947

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Agent to Whom Information

Furnished

SE George C. Lowry

SE EARI F. "DUDLEY

SE STANLEY E. COUPE

SE DONALD R. BELMONT

SA BERNARR M. PTACEK

New York Agents

SA MERLE L. PARKER

SA MERLE R. ADAMS

SA BERNARR M. PTACEK .

Newark Asents JOU

Boston Agents

SA BERNARR M. PTACEK

SA LESLIE F. WARREN

SA GEORGE THOMSON

SA IRVING T. WEEKS

SA FRED G• "DUPUIS

REFERENCE:

Report of SA BERNARR M.

PTACEK at Los Angeles dated

3-7-50

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NAL

d/0-103

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