Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 11/8/46
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/13/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-90143-10266

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 100-370750-99

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 54460 Date:

10-04-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: LA

TO :

HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 11/08/1946

'PAGES:

8

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

AH 54460

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CHIELL

3-18221.

THIS CASt ORIGINATED AT LOS ANGELE

REPORT MADE AT

Los Angeles

TITLE

DATE WHEN MADE

11/8/46

PERIOU

FOR

+ 3; 078,23;

10/22,24,28g

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JOHN HOWARD

LAPSON, was

SANE BISER SLA

LoR. FILE NO. 100-21198.

REFORT MADE BY

ROBERT W. HOLLMAN

CHARACTER OF CASE

INTERNAL SECURITY - Co

SYNOPSIS OF FAC

• COSTANGO

IdnapN bao loutsued studio offers to rewrite his-

torical text. Recently Subject spent week in San

Francisco as guest of REVELS CAYTON and conferred

with WILLIAM SCHNEIDERMAN•

subject bitterly at-

tacked as Communist by Hollywood Reporter and M.P.A.

Subject named to editorial board of "Mainstream",

HEREIA :$

SHANT HA

CLOSES

"a new Marxist quarterly"; identified as President

of Lincoln Book Center, Daily World sponsor and will

serve as technical adviser on forthcoming N.M.U.

FES

1941

shotst. Subject active in affairs of H.I.C.C.A.S.P,

ana Aeria ran in ta are get counterted

at 10 recent Connunist meetings and identified meet

íng /with MAX WEISS and ABE MC GILL. Bank account

examined.

G

REVERENCE:

Classified My

55k

Declassim +

Report oi Special Agent ROBERT W. HOLLMAN dated

June 21, 1946, at Los Angeles.

Ков6

Letter to San Francisco dated June 20, 1946.

Letter from San Francisco dated July 25, 1946/

letter to the Bureau dated July 17, 1946.

mdi

DETAILS:

Source "A" has advised that LAWSON has declined an offer from

WALTER HANGER to write a screen play in favor of continuing the hietorical

180-370750-99

APPROVED AND

FORWARDED:

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

COPIES OF THIS REPORT

- Bureau (Enclosure )

- New York (information)

- Los Angoles 15

12-12-47

PY IN PILE

JURIES DES

28 MAN 25

EX - 23

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COMPORTAL

Lo A. #100-21198.

*CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS

Source "A"

Source. #B"

Source 11gHl

Source '"D"

Source "E"

san Francisco-102.

The informants are being further covered for reasons of

office security

CONFNOENTIAL

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