Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 9/7/50
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90143-10340

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

100-370750-185

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NI 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

LA

HQ

DATE :

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

09/07/1950

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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

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Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT

REPORT MADE AT

LOS ANGELES

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CONADENTIAL

LOS ANGELES

FILE NO. 100-21198

DATE WHEN MADE

9/7/50

TERIOD FOR

WHICH MADE

8/23/50

REPOrT MaDE BY

BERNARR M. PACEK

JOHN TOWARD TANSON, MaS., JaCOb ILI INFORMATION CONTAME OF CASE

RAREIN IN UNCLASSIFIED

EXCEPI HERE SHOW SECURITY LATTER

OTHERWISS

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

On June 9, 1950, Federal Judge EDWARD CURRAN, United

States District

Court of the District of Columbia,

sentenced the subject to serve one year in jail and pay

a fine of $1000 on his conviction of contempt of Congress.

Subject is now incarcerated at the Federal Correctional

Institute, Ashland, Kentucky, where he will serve his

sentence:

A confidential informant, formerly a COMMUNISI

PARTY member in Hollywood, said that the subject was

leader of the COMMUNIST PARTY movement in Hollywood.

Still another informant, who was a COMMUNIST PARTY mem-

ber in Hollywood, described LAWSON as the "great white

father" of the Communist movement in Hollywood. He

stated that IATSON deals directly with the National

CONMUNIST PARTY Headquarters in New York rather than

with the Los Angeles. County COMMUNIST PARTY Office.

"Connittee toofree the ten" is now active in Hollywood.

LARSON's newest literary effort is entitled "HIDDEN

About this book, LAWSON says, "It is a

large crowdedy loving, and angry book.

It is about

the whole heritage of culture that is threatened by

the knavish politicians and pettifogging lawyers, who

MAR

APPROVED AND

FORWARDED:

ARGE

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COPIES OF THIS REPORT

Bureau (100-24499) (Encl.)

New York (100-80918) (Info.)

Los Angeles

OOPY IN MILE

49V

52 0CT 19

1950

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IA 100-21198

SUNNISENTA

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CNDI IA 3234, who so advised SA LESLIE

F. WIRREN on hugust 2, 1949.

ERNEST PHILIP COHEN, Beverly Professional

Building, Beverly Hills, California, who

so advised SA MARCUS M. BRIGHT on April

22, 1950.

LOUIS F. BUDENZ, New York City, who so

advised SA WILLIAM J. McCARTHY of the

Now Jork Office on April 4, 1950, and

June 23, 1950.

CNDI In 3404, who so advised SA MARCUS

M. BRIGHT on July 26, 1950.

Sp 1723 no fun thed in mation to eM

speciad Agents of the San Francisco

gIlIce in January, 1950.

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CNDI LA 3103, who so advised Si MERLE Lo

PARKER on May. 8, 1950.

JeNsEN on April 10, 1949.

CNDI IA

3257, who so advised SA ROMEY

STEWART

on June 30, 1950.

CNDI LA 3379, who so advised SA IRVING

I. WEEKS

on June 29, 1950.

REFERENCE:

California:

Report of SA BERNARR M. PACEK dated May 17, 1950, at Los Angeles,

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