[1] Owens served in the US Navy during World War II from January 1943 to August 1946, discharged from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
[1] In March 1947, Owens started work as an investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
[3] His superior was senior investigator Louis J. Russell and colleague Donald T. Appell, all of whose names regularly appear in congressional hearings, e.g., the August 28, 1950, testimony of Lee Pressman.
In 1959, he started work with Townsend Engineering in nearby Santa Ana, California, and led marketing and sales of its "Identi-Kit," a visual identification system for law enforcement.
[1] Courtney Owns died age 99 on November 18, 2014, at his home in Laguna Niguel, California.