GUN DEALER IS QUIZZED ON IMPORT CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120008-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGWN POST
AND flMES HERALD
MAR Z 71964
Gun Dealer. is. Quizzed
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. Senate investigators yester
day turned to the subject of
international gun, traffic in
their "probe of legislation
needed to curb the flow of
arms within the United
States.
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D,-
Conn.), chairman of the sub-
committee to Investigate Ju-
venile Delinquency, said, "A
very real cause of the mail.
,order gun problem is the
mother-lode of fire arms,
'cached in foreign countries
throughout the world that fast-
;buck artists are exploiting to
arm the delinquent teen-agers,
hoodlums and psycopaths who
walk the streets of America.'
The only witness during yes
terday's morning and late
afternoon hearings was gun
merchant Haywood H. Hunt
or, who was arrested in Los
Angeles Monday on a charge
of conspiracy to defraud the
Government.
Hunter's arrest stemmed
from the Government's alle-
gation that he falsified in-
voices and understated the
value of ,a 1963` shipment of
firearms, including subma-
chine guns, from Singapore
,to Oregon.
.. Hunter, 38, was named by
Los, Apgeies , pol cg witnesses
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ort base C rRGH,
Paul Schuette as year as one of several: Th Customs Bureau valued
on Irma
navailable to help trace guns
sed in crimes.
He told the subcommittee
hat many of his records are
n Hamburg, Germany, which
s now his headquarters.
Dodd suggested that the re-
ords were shipped out of the
ountry because of the sub-
ommittee investigation, but
unter denied it. Pressed by
odd, he agreed to make the
ecords available to the sub-
ommittee later.
Questioned about the Singa-
ore gun shipment, Hunter
vice refused to reply on the
butt T not sure that's not a
tend to incriminate him
,
piecemeal secr t," Hunter replied.
the story emerged
,
anyway. a you sure you ; are tell-
He said he bought about 5001ing is the straight of this?"
assorted firearms from the inq red Dodd.
ingapore' Police Department, " rtainly," said Hunter.
He was "shocked," Hunter, K ating suggested that the
eclared, when customs in-isubc mmittee probe deeper
pecto,rs opened` the shipment into that subject during sOnne
n Oregon and found 24 sub.,futu e executive session.
achine guns, which. carry
igh duty,, that were not listed
n invoices.
The automatic weapons had
een described to him as Bei-
tta carbines, he said.
"WVhy the Singapore Police:,
epartment would sell n
ubmaehine guns, ' I: don'ti
now," said. Hunter