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UECLASSIFICATION AUTHORI Il MPTOMATIC DECLASS PAVE 8-25-2014 con ; Los Angeles 13, California October 10, 1945 1OO~-1E355 ANRBOPRIATE A AND FLEDOAZS ff ADVISED i 4 Director, FBI AY a: INDEPENDENT CITIZEN'S COMMITTEE OF TES ARTS, SCIENCES AND PROFESSIONS INTERNAL SECURITY ~ C d- -47 , > CLASSIFIED BY: ry: DECLASSIFY ON: OADR ° - a Beptember 24, 1945, Confidential National Defense OS Informant dvised the Los Angeles Office that a person believed ~ Sa BID to be WALDO SALT, screen writer and Communist now employed with the ne Office of War Information in New York City, sontacted JOHN HOWARD LAWSON, leader of the Commmists in the motion picture industry in Los Angeles. He advised LARSON that he was calling at the request of HANNAH DORNER, who ig an employee of the ICC in New York City, and told LAWSON that the & ICC had a chance to get HERRYQNALLACE'S book ontitled’y Sixty Million Jobs” Dear Sirs fO0 3B and had been conducting négotiations with WALIACE for ‘the rights to make a film of this book. He wanted LAWSON to bring it up at the council mesting of the Hollywood Independent Citizen's Comaittee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions which was being held that night. in Hollywood, , He told LAWSON that the film would probably be made in New York for three easons: (1) WALLACE would be available to assist in the preparation of the soript. (2) They have only three months or 50 to complete sang (8) The most efficient end the best documentary men are in New York. les He aleo told LAWSON that the help expected from the Holly- cod Independent Citizen's Committee would be chiefly financial. ile said hat WALLACE had given his enthusiastic approval to this idea on that date and he said that the film would be definitely under the auspices of th ICC. He inferred it woyld be a dooumentary picture. FEV Very truly yours , ALb INFORMATION CONTAINED , A ( wesety 12 UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT A he WHERE SHOWN OTHERQTSBe gy 7°” SAC ORIGINAL COPY FILED IN ¢ V9 1000618355 | JRV s CHC ocos New York 100-1862 100e2 1198 5\D eo? ren