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104-10170-10139 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch41742 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-107-03 a iLTHIS CpY FOR RELEASE Condensed Information on Sgt. Marshall HOUTS from: 1VASH-SEC-OP-13 folder 14 MHZ -- 618 o September 1945 a. While still at Kvankpyn Major Charles J. TREES and Captain Carrol C. GARRETSON called HOUTS to their tent. .(TREES was HOUTS' Commanding Officer and GARRETSON was Executive Officer to TREES.) TREES stated that GARRETSON had discovered fifty-one .45 calibre automatic pistols at Chittagong which were charged out to no one. TREES and GARRETSON believed they could get a good amount of money from the sale of the weapons, but they wanted HOUTS' advice so they wouldn't get caught. (HOUTS had been in the FBI). They offered HOUTS one-third of the profit and, after se.veral days, he agreed. b. On the nicht of 3-4 July 1945 HOUTS assisted in the clandestine delivery of the pistols to a Lt. Col. Tun Aung, a Burmnese officer in the Burma Rifles- for burial, until a market could be found. c. On 15 July 1943 HOUTS was questioned by the OSS investigator and assisted him in 'he recovery of the pistols. 2. During the first week that HOUTS was in Rangoon an informer told him that 90 swor.'s had beun buried in th conpound of A. Habeeb. At GARRETSON's direction and expvnse HOUTS had the swords cleaned. On 25 May 1945 HOUTS delivered them to TREES' quarters. On 13 July 1945 TREES quarters were searched and S6 swords were found and confiscated by OSS. (Several classified documents were also found in TREES duifle bag. I 3. TREES. GARRETSON and perzonnel under their command misappropriated poperty (jewelry and old books) during the first two weeks of the occupation of Rangoon. 4. Six OSS personnel were killed in a plane crash early ii June. Three parachutes were recovered from the crashed planw. GARRETSON and HOUTS had :atamas and other articles of clotbing tailored from the parachutes. . 1:: Sprig 1934 TREES and GARRETSON were invoBd in the illegal sale of opi.m.

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