Louis Ordnance Plant, and those with “CN” headstamps were made by Lake City. Those with “AN” headstamp were made at Twin Cities Arsenal, those with “BN” headstamp were made at the St. I soon passed it on, perhaps to Bill Woodin.įirstly, regarding Lew’s comments about the so-called “Bay of Pigs” ammunition, not all the rounds were made at Lake City. Apparently they made about 30or 40 of these for gifts for a group of VIPs that had come through. On the same visit he gave me one of the LC made, unheadstamped 7.62x39mm rounds that had been finished as a chrome plated dummy. I was told this by the head government quality control inspector at Lake City around 1971. The 30-06 ammunition produced for use in the Johnson rifles used at the Bay of Pigs was made at Lake City (with BN, CN etc headstamps). I didn’t ask, but have always assumed that Golden State was one of these organizations. This information came from two seperate sources, both well positioned to know.
These guys apparently cut their own deals too, but were closely linked to the Agency for a number of years. The payoff for the Agency was the availability of small arms, and some not small arms that had no US government finger prints on them but were clearly from a “commercial firm” as well as having the very visable operations for cleaning, sorting, storing all this stuff to be done by a commercial operation that clearly had commercial sales. This included bankrolling the initial setup and providing access to the vast amount of “surplus” arms available after the war and for some years thereafter. I have been told that essentially all the arms dealers of any significant size that setup just after WW II including all the well known ones were connected with the CIA in one manner or another.
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