Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 3/7/50
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90143-10311

RECORD SERIES:

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

100-370750-167

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

880381n8t1on records

Collection

Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased:NIT 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: LA

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

03/07/1950

•PAGES:

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

DocId: 32338893

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CCADENTIAL

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT

LOS ANGELES

FILE NO.

100-21198

REPORT MADE AT

LOS

ANGELES

PATI

WHEN MADE

3/7/50

PERIOD

FOR

REPORT MADE BY

BERNARR M. PTACEK

gbb

TITLE

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON," was Jacob Levy, '

Jack Lawson

CHARACTER OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY - C

T-1 states that NEMMY

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

SPARKS and DOROTHY HEALEY have referred to the

subject

as a member of the Communist Party.

LIL INYORMATION CONTAI

SPARKS is the former chairman and HEALEY iS

HOREIN XS UNCLASSIFIN!

present chairman of IACCP. In a Los Angeles

AXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

speech LAWSON said that the forces of evil

OTHERWIS

around J. EDGAR HOOVER brought forth the Palmer

Raids and terror reigned across the land; that

today J. EDGAR HOOVER is doing a hatchet job

on people's rights; and that J. EDGAR HOOVER was an

apprentice in 1919 but now he is a full-seasoned

hatchet man. He said the constitution of the

Soviet Union is the greatest document in the

world. LAWSON was present at the ASP Steering

4 19

Committee meeting on February 20, 1950, called

to discuss the H-Bomb.

-P-

lasted Pla

Declassif

*: OADR

6-26€

OFF)

15:10

ale

Classlied by 9

Declassify on: OA

ODETAILS:

COPIES DESTROYED

28 MAR 23

1963

CONMUNIST PARTY MEMBERSHIP

I-], of known reliability, advised on September 2, 1949 that

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON was a member of the Communist Party.

APPROVED AND

FORWARDED:

SPECIAL ACT

100-320280t,671 said that helf-du)

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACE

244449

- BurGE OF THIS REPORT

I - New York (100-80918)

3 - Los Angeles

MAR 14 1950

37,

RECORDED

INDEXED 89

89

8-35109

U.S. GOVEr

14 54460

ДосТА: 32338893

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LA 100-21198

INFORMANT

T-1

T-2

T-3

T-4

T-5

T-6

T- 7.

I-8

T-9

T-10

REFERENCE:

CONTIENTLAL

INFORMANT PAGE

IDENTITY

CNDI LA 2954

CNDI

2954

CNDI LA 2954

CNDI LA J0-1

CNDI LA J0-1

CNDI LA CD-60

AGENT

DATE

GARY SAWTELLE

GARY SANTELIE

MERLE R. ADAMS

Special Employee

JACK V. HOUSEHOLDER

Special Employee

HAROLD R. EVANS

Special Employee

DONALD R. BELMONT

Special Employee

DONALD R. B ELMONT

Special Employee

WARREN LONG

september 2, 1949

August 23, 1949

January, 1949

October 18, 1949

coor 2, 905 (u)

Decamber: 279, 1949

November 14, 1949

February 15, 1950

CNDI LA 3058

CNDI LA 2900

GEORGE THOMSON

FRED G. DUPUIS

LESLIE F. WARREN

1947

February 26, 1945

CNDI LA 3234

CNDI I. 3287

August 2, 1949

BERNARE M. PTACEK

- February 8, 1950

CNDI LA 3200

NK 1727

BERNARR M. PTACEK

Way, 1947

Newark Agents

January 26, 1948

LONDI LA 3265

VERNON D. JENSEN

April 10, 1949

Bureau File 100-24499

Report of Special Agent BERNARR M. PTACEK at Los Angeles

dated October 24, 1949

-9-

14 54460

DooId: 32338893

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