Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 06/21/1946
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90143-10263

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

HQ

100-370750-97

Released under the John

assassination Records

collection Act of 1993

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Cased:NW 54460 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LA

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 06/21/1946

' 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

1HH 54460

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CONTADENTIAL

FEDERAL BUREAU OF

INVESTIGATION

Form NO, 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT LOS ANGELES

FILE NO.

REPORT MADE AT

LOS ANGELES

DATE WHEN MADE

6-21-46

PERIOD FOR

WHICH MADE

+/2:5/1,9,10,

44,15/16

REPORT MADE BY

ROBERT W. HOLLMAN

TITLE

CHARACTER OF GAGE

JOHN HOWARD" LAWSON, was

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

AT INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSLFISD

EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN

OTHERWISE

Declassy est

Subject recently completed screen play for WALTER

WANGER and has re-assumed active leadership of

Commanist movement in the motion pioture industry.

Subject named to Exocutive Council of HICCASP and

continues to exert control in Hollywood writers

•Mobilitation. Subjeot identified as sponsor of

*New York reception for Russian writers and infor-

mant discloses subject active in formation of

Russian-American Institute.

Subject and PAUL

ROBESON, Negro actor, named to newly reorganized

Cultural Commission. Subject active in affairs of

National Negro Congress,

the director of which is

presently visiting LAWSON. Subjeot, through head

of local Communist Party, has secured CIO support

for Congressional candidate RUBEM/BOROUGH. Subject

meetings on March 30, April

100-21198

LEB

REFERENCE:

April pocial Agent Be

Report of Special Agent ROBERT W. HOLLMAN dates

Classifted by 91A5 Jeloglas

DETAILS:

4-16-86

Source A has recently advised the office that LAWSON has completed "Angela

Is 21"

, a screen play for WALTER WANGER and has stated that recently LAWSON

told him thatwhile he had two or three offers to do screen plays for other

producers, he felt that he should take time off now to begin the rewriting

of his book on American history.

According to this Source LAWSON har

APPROVED AND

SPECiAL AGENT

FORWARDED:

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

GOET TO FUL

COPIES OF THIS REPURT

5

-

Bureau

1

- New York (inf)

3 - Los Angeles

100-370750-97

RECORDES

INDEXHE

2 MON

CREDENTIAL

COPIES DESTROYED

28 WAR 23

1963

28.540

ING OFTICE

7-2034

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CONVENTAL

LA 100-21198

CONEIDENTIAL M

Source A is ENDI ILA. J0-1

Source B is CNDI LA 1138

source c 1s TONDI LA RD 5]e)U

Source D 1a CNPI LA 2954 @S40

Source

E 18 CNDI LA 3058

CCHALINSERINT

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COASENTAL

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