Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 07/06/1953
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90143-10019

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 100-370750-216

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

'PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

07/06/1953

7

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

10/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: RPT

Teleased under the John F. Kennedy

issassination Records Collection Act ol

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

58262 Date: 09.22-2022

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& CURITY INFORMATION

ADEN TIAL

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT LOS ANGELES

REPORT MADE AT

NEW YORK JUL 6

DATE WHEN

MADE

PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE

REPORT MADE BY

1953

6/5,8,9,17/53.

TITLE

THOMAS 4. POWERS

JOHN HOWARD

LAWSON, was

ALL INI

HER FIN

ENCEPT

RVATION CORCATNIAGTER OF CASE

§ UNCLASSIRL INTERNAT

SECURITY

HERE SHOWE

ECLASSIPIED BY S4,58StD1

DW

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

LAWSON

scheduled

to give four lectures in NYC

• NCASP on "Our National Culture" during

latter part of March and first part of April. He was a speaker

at a Stalin memorial meeting in NYC on 3/26/53. The "Daily

Worker" indicates LAWSON spoke at a Roosevelt-Stalin memorial

meeting on 4/12/53, which was sponsored by Chicago Council

of American-Soviet

"Masses and Mainstream".

Friendship. He wrote an article in

Mashed alb

-RU C-

Declassify on cApe ye/

DETAILS:

Confidential Informant I-l, of known reliability,

advised on March 20, 1953, that JOHN HOWARD LAWSON would present

a series of four lectures on "Our National Culture"

on March 20, 1953.

• beginning

Other lectures were scheduled for March 27th

and April 10 and 17, 1953. According to the informant, the

lectures would be under the auspices of the National Council

the Arts, Sciences and Professions (NCASP) •U

of

According to the informant, LAWSONIs lectures

would consist of a discussion of FREDERICK DOUGLASS, WALT

WHITMAN, EUGENE V. DEBS and THEODORE DREISER. The material to

be used

in these lectures is based on LAWSON's fortheoming

book on the culture of the United States.

Confidential Informant I-3, of known reliability,

on April 15, 1953, furnished a throwaway, which indicated that

LAWSON's fourth scheduled lecture was rescheduled to April 19,

1953• COPIES DESTROYED

4 1 MAR 27 1963

Classified by S5 Selagion

APPROVED AND

FORWARDED:

SPECIAL ACENE ClaSSity QI:

CAR 4.2386

IN CHARGE

gIN

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JUL: 8 1953

< - New

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NY 100-80918

ADMINIS TRA TIVE PAGE

INFORMAN IS

IDENTITY

OF SOURCE

1-1

CSNY 426

DATE OF ACTIVITY

OR DESCRIPTION

OF INFORMATION

Lectures

sponsored by

NCASP,

3/20,21:4/10

and 17/53

Stalin Memorial

Meeting,

3/26/53

DATE

RECEIVED

3/20/53

4/2/53

Reception delegates, 4/26/53

NCASP, 4/25/53

AGENT WHO

FILE NO.

RECEIVED

AND

INFORMATION:

LOCATION

SA EVERETT

K. DEANE

SE PAUL G.

MITCHELL

100-9355

989

1-C

NY 384-S

T-3

CHARLES R.

SILCOCK,

Potential

Confidential

Source, NYC

T-4

CSNY 588

J-5

NY 359-S

1=6

NY 300-S

T-7

NY

363-5

REFERENCE:

SA JOHN W.

DO OLEY

134-82-254

SA WILFRED R.134-186

SCHLARMAN

Documentation

Negative

6/9/53

SA JOHN W.

Ins tant,

DOOLEY

report

Negative

6/9/53

SA RICHARD

H. BLASSER

Ins tant

report

Negative

6/10/53

SA RICHARD

H. BLASSER

Instai

repor

Los Angeles letter to Bureau, 3/11/53

Summary report of SA ANDREW JOSEPH DECKER, Jr.,

3/23/53, Los Angeles

CONFILX

NTIAL

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