Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 04/28/1949
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

FBI

124-90143-10393

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

100-370750-146

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Recorde

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NT 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

04/28/1949

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JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

MANDY LAWSON

• DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

10/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGIMATED AT LOS ANGUIS

APPORT MADE AT

NEW YORK

TITLE

NY FILE NO. 100-80918

DATE WHEN MADE

4/28/49

PERIOD LOR

WHICH MADI

3/7/49

JOHN FIONARD LAWSON, MASO,

Jacob' Levy, Jack Lanson

REPORT MADE BY

GEORGE J. SULLIVAN

CHARAGTIM OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY • C

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

CCOR

IAWSON'S activities and CP Iront affIllations

at MY set forth.

-RUGE

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIMIEL

DATE

REFERINCES

recite

45-21

DETAILS:

Bureau f1le 100-24497

Raport of A SERVAT MA FACE, to Angles, 1/2610,

The files of the her Tork Offico reflect , Cle

voluminous amount of intornation concerning the

subject of this case which information has been prevlously subudtted

to the office of origin. However, pertinent Information which bas

not been previously submitted is set out belows

Copies of a press release dated June 12, 1947,

Staff writer, "New lork World Telegran",

at Manhattan Center, New York City, on June 11, 1948. The subject

Of his dissertation was "Artiste Fight Back",

Confidential Informant: ND 426 advised on March 15,:

1944, that LAWSON was Secretary of the American Society for Techrdeal

A1d to Spanish Democracy in February, 1937. ND 426 advised on

November 6, 1943, that LAWSON served as a member of the Max/Bedacht

Birthday Coumittee.

BEDACHT 18 former head of the IWO and nenber of the

communist Party.

IPPROVED AND

FORWARD: Odwar

cheed

DO NOT WRITE IN THERE SPACES

AM CHAROS

RECORDED

INDEXED - 56

COPIEs OF THIS REPOT

1100-320750-146

MN Z9 1943

2 Ner fork lore

Quets desirat

MAR 23

1963

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NY 100-80918

Confidential Informant ND 426 advised on karch 13, 1942 that

LAWSON 18 Ireasurer of the National Committee for Peoples Rights.

He also has been identified with the following organizations,

Board member 1940

SCHAPPES' Defense Cormittoo - member, 1941

Joint Committee for the Defense of Brazilian People - Cormittee

member, 1936

Fourth American Writers Congress - Committee nember, 1941

Fourth Anerican Writers Congress and Congress of American Artists -

dinner spesker, 1941

Confidential Informant ND 392 on October 31, 1947, advised that

IAWSON, at a dinner sponsored by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugees Conndttee

at the Astor Hotel, New York City, October 30, 1947, attacked the

Un American Activities Comnittee and condemned the same Committee on

1to present "witch-bunta".

REFERRED UPON COMPLETION TO THE OFFICE OF ORIGIN

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