Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 10/20/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90144-10020

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

100-370750-288

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

LA

HQ

DATE: 10/20/1961

'PAGES:

16

SUBJECTS :

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Confidontial

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted; 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF AISC

COMMENTS:

RPT, REFERRED TO AISC

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

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

58262 Date: 09-22-2022

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Reporting Office

LOS ANGELES

TITLE OF CASE

Office of Origin

LOS ANGELES

Date

10/20/61

Report made by

MARCUS M. BRIGHT, Jr.

CHARACTER OF CASE

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4/19/61 at

Los Angeles.

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ADMINISTRATIVE

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LAWSON's wife, SUE LAWSON (Bufile 100-309999)

is on the Security Index of the Los Angeles Office.

A stop notice has been placed, on September 25,

1961, with INS, on LAWSON's return to the United states.

LEAD

LOS ANGELES

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AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Will develop further

pertinent information regarding the Communist Party

activity of JOHN HOWARD LAWSON.

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CORRECIOD FIRST PAGE

11/15/61

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LA 100-21198

giving a number of lectures and preparing for a trip

to the Soviet Union. LAWSON had wanted to go to the

Soviet Union some months prior thereto but was financially

unable to do so at the time.

His request to do so had

been transmitted by the CP,

USA, to the CP of the

Soviet Union.

However, the Soviet Union had turned

down the possibility of inviting LAWSON to the country

as a guest for the reason that another writer had already

been invited to attena a writers

' conference scheduled

to be held in the sovdet Union.

LA I-16 (5/10/61)

LAWSON was in New York City prior to departing

on his current European trip and was expected to sail from

Montreal for Europe about the middle of May.

While in

NEw

CP

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LAWSON visited the National Headquarters of the

LA I-17 (5/4/61)

The travel plans of JOHN HOWARD LAWSON and

his wife included departure from Montreal on May 17, 1961,

from where they woüld go directly to Poland.. After a

stopover in warsaw for a few days, they expected to

proceed to Moscow in early June.

They expected to

include an extended stay in Europe where LAWSON is

anxious to lecture and write, partly to cover expenses

but also to meet with students and teachers at various

educational institutions.

Sometime during the trip,

they expected to visit Czechoslovakia and Germany.

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SUE LENSON (Bufile 100-399999)

Jos Angeles Offsee

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AT LOS ANGELES

CALIFORNIA:

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JANCEORMOS

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LA 100-21198

giving a number of lectures

and preparing for a trip

to the

Soviet Unin

LAWSON had wanted to go to the

Soviet Union some months prior thereto but was financailly

unable to do so at the time.

His request to do so had

been transmitted by the CP, USA, to the CP of the

Soviet Union.

HOwEvEr,

the Soviet Unim had turned

down the possibility of Inviting LAWSON to the country

as a guest for the reason that another writerhad already

been invited to attend a writers' conference scheduled

to be held in the Soviet union.

LA I-16 (5/10/612

LAWSON was in New York City prior to departing

on his current European trip and was expected to sail Irom

Montreal for Europe about the middle of May.

While In

New York, LAWSON visited the National Headquarters

3 of the

LA I-17 (5/4/61)

The travel plans of JOHN HOWARD LAWSON and

his wife included departure from Montreal on May 17,

1961,

from where they would go directly to Poland.

After a

They expected to

include an extended stay in Europe where LAWSON IS

anxious to lecture and write, partijutarcover cove

expenses but also to meet with students and teachers

at various educational institutions.

the trip, e

they expected to visit Czechoslovakia and

Germany.

A stop notice has been placed, on

September 25,

1961, with Immigration and Naturalization Serzice, on

LAWSON's return to the united States.

CONFIDENTI

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