Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 6/11/62
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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•JFK Aissassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-90144-10031

HQ

100-370750-298

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

collection Act of 1992

144 0SC 2107 Noter.

Case#:NMT 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO:

TITLE :

FBI

LA

HQ

DATE : 06/11/1962

'PAGES :

2

SUBJECTS :

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/09/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO

v9.1

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

• 59:0-101

UNITED STATES

Memorandum

HE INDENTIAL

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-370750)

DATE: 6/11/62

TIP/ACONTAINED

FROM

SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-21198) (P)

UNCLASSIFIED

AALINTON

EXCEPTNHERE SHOWI

SUBJECT:

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, aka

SM - C

ALL INFORMATIOM CONTAINED

00: LOS ANGELES

HEREIN IS UNCLASSISIED

DATE 4-30-86/By 9145 Je/calalo

OTHERWiSE

ReBulet dated 4/19/62, and Los Angeles letter dated

5/11/62.

A bank account for JOHN HOWARD LAWSON has been

located at the Highland Park Branch of the Security First

National Bank and Trust Company, Los Angeles, 5601 North

Figueroa Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

On 6/4/62, Mr: ROBERT CRIMLI of the Cashiers Depart-

ment, Security First National Bank's Main Office, advised

SA MARCUS M. BRIGHT, JR., that this account was originally,

opened in 1953 on referral from the Bank's branch in Van

Nuys, California.

The account is carried in the name of

JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, aka John Howard, or Sue Lawson, 948 Elyris

Drive, Los Angeles,

California. The account records note

with this a MARGOIS has power of attorney in connection

this account.

For the past year, according to Mr. CRIMLI, the

account has maintained a balance of between $1,000.00 and

$3, 000.00.

over

At the present date, the balance is a little

$1,000.00 and there has been no deposit or other

credit to 1t since January, 1961.

It 1s believed that the above nentioned BEN MARGOLIS

who has power of attorney in connection with the account is

very likely identical with attorney BENJAMIN MARGOLIS, (Buf1le

100-25130) whose CP affiliations have long been established and

who is currently

on the security Index of this office.

-Bureau

2. - Los Angeles

MMB MM

(8)

DRZLASSIFIED BY

ON

7-11

Declassify,

OR DABR

100-3702501 298

FEC- 27,

g JUN 18 1062

(JFK)

57 JUN 22 1962

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CONFIDENTIAL

LA 100-21198

on 6/5/62, during a connection with Los Angeles

3932-S, Informant advised, based on information he has

learned from CP contacts of LAWSON, that LAWSON is still in

Moscow, USSR, where he 1s currently engaged in writing a

book on film making, which he hopes to get published in

the Soviet Union.

Informant's information is that LAWSON

probably does not intend to return

the end of the current fear. (aUto the unled states before

2 -

!

CCONFISENTIAD

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