Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 04/21/1959
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

124-90143-10073

HQ

100-370750-247

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Recorde

Collection Act of 1992

i44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

LA

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

04/21/1959

2

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:

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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINES

HEREIN WUNGLASSIFIED

EXCEST WHERE SHOWN

OTHERWISE

COW ID

ÉTANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Men.

m.

UNITED

GOVERNMENT

TO

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR; FBI (100-370750

(100-390999

SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-29552)

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, aka

SM. - C

00: LOS ANGELES

DATE:

4/21/59

720/8

Declassily on: DABA

ON CONTAINED

SUE LAWSON, aka

SM - C

00: LOS ANGELES

ALL INFORMA

ASSIFIED

5450

HEREIN IS I

DATEY-25

•BY

LA 3402-S, who has furnished reliable Information

in the 'past,

orally advised SA CLAUDE E. WILLIS, Jr. on

4/17/59 that JOHN HOWARD LAWSON had advised informant that

of the Festival of Arts at Reed College in Portland.

mant did not learn the date of this festival.

LAWSON

Last not aid the la going to tane is sale, sus

LAWSON, with him.

For the information of the Portland office both of

- the above captioned subjects of the Los Angeles office are

Security Index subjects.

LA 3402-S advised on 1/30/59 that JOHN HOWARD

LAWSON, publicly known as one of the Hollywood Ten,

has over

the past several years, conducted various series of lectures

pertaining to playwriting, theater and drama.

During some -

of these lectures, he has made the statement

that he is a

Marxist.

In early 1959, LAWSON stated that he was,

at that

.Ц

time; a member of a Communist Party group made up of writers.

RICHARD JAY COLLINS,

200 Acari, West Los Angeles,

California, a self-admitted former member of the Communist

Bureau (REGISTERED)

045622035668-540/md

7-7-95

12 = 100-379750

(2 - 100-390999)

(TER

2 - Portland (REGISTERED)

3 - Los Angeles (100-21190)

REC- 6900-370 75024-

100-29552)

EX 1091!

134-21A)J@U

124, APR, 37 1959

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LA 100-21198

CONFPENTAL

Party (CP), who is currently employed as a screen writer in

Hollywood,

California, advised on April 27, 1955 that the

"Hollywood Ten"

was the popular name utilized by the press

and public in referring to ten motion picture film person-

alities who were subpoenaed before the House Un-American

Activities Committee In Washington, D. C.

in the

fall of

1947. As a result of these hearings, all of the

ten Indivis

duals were cited and subsequently convicted for contempt of

Congress and served prison sentences.

According to COLLINS;

all were or had been members of the CP In Hollywood, California.

LA 3932-S,

who has furnished reliable information

in the past,

advised on 7/22/58 that at a meeting of the

Zapata Section,

southern california District, CP (SCDCP) on

7/21/58 it was announced that SUE LAWSON was

an unattached

club had been disbanded,

LEAD

PORTLAND OFFICE

AT PORILAND, OREGON

1.

Will attempt to determine the date of the

Festival of Arts at Reed College and advise the Los Angeles

office.

2. Will attempt to afford appropriate coverage of

subjects' activities and furnish pertinent information to the

Los Angeles office.

CONTENTIA

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