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104-10170-10139 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/0000)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch74421 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10170-10139 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 ST THIS COPYSN FOR RELEASE. Condensed tnfornation on Sgt. Marshall HOUTS from: WASH-SEC-OP-l3 folder 14 MHZ -- 618 o September 1945 1. a. While still at Kyankpyn 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 several 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 Burmese officer in the Burma Rifles for burial, until a market . could be found. c. On 15 July 1945 HOUTS was questioned by the OSS investigator and assisted him in the recovery of the pistols. 2. During the first week that HOUTS was in Rangoon an informer told him that 90 swor-is had been buricd in the compound of A. Habeeb. At GARRETSON's direction and expense HOUTS had the swords cleaned. On 25 May 1945 HOUTS delivered them to TREES' quarters. On 13 July 1945 TREES quarters were searched and 36 swords were found and confiscated by OSS. (Several classified documents were also found in TREES duffle bag.) 3. TREES. GARRETSON and personne! under their command misappropriated p'operty (je.elry and old books) during the first two weeks of the occuration of Rangoon. 4. Six OS personnel were killed in a plane crash early in June. Three parachutes were recovered fiom the crashed plan. GARRETSON and HOUTS had :a'imas and other articles of clothing tailored from the parachutes. 5. I: Sri° 1954 TREES and GARRETSON were involved in the illegal sale o: opium.

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