Joe, the original buyer wouldn't have been Sam Cummings, would it?
Larry, the buyer was Harold Chait who transported money from The Boston Metals Processing Company and also the Baldt Anchor and Chain Company using trust accounts at The Bank of Maryland to the South Florida Soldiers of Fortune who put the funds into the hands of the ragtag army. Both companies were CIA fronts for laundering money. Evidently the same model was also used in the Iran Contra fiasco. A trust officer at the bank by the name of Robert Maxwell became a whistle blower exposing the scheme.
Chait purchased the gun shortly before Christmas, 1957 and the A&F records noted to charge it to the Boston Metals account. I wonder if he used it as a gift to some shadowy character.....
An Internet search of these people is really interesting, revealing all the intrigue of the best of the spy novels.
