This story is getting better every day. It's starting to explain the Lee Enfield's role in the cold war. All we need now is a little Ian Fleming and some good 007 Bond music. A couple of questions:
1) Why didn't the CIA:
- get the Greek HXP 303 ammo that we are now buying for surplus ( or maybe they got most of it. All my HXP is dated '69 and '75. Maybe the CIA got all the production from all except those years)
- buy the Irish surplus rifles?
- buy stocks of Ishapore Enfields that were in abundance and nearby in India?

2) Were Interarmco and/or Century Arms working as front for the CIA? (Buying large stocks of surplus, then diverting some of it to hot spots?)

Interested in small tid-bits that can be pieced together as well as "big stories.