The most active of them all, and the top target of Bureau 24, was another German called Georges Puchert, who operated out of Tangiers, was impervious to threats and for two years led a charmed life. Dealing with Boussouf in Morocco, Puchert learned that one of the F.L.N.’s most favoured weapons was the German Mauser 7.92 mm. carbine from the Second World War. The principal stocks of these were to be found in Czechoslovakia, accumulated from the 1945 defeat, but as they were soon insufficient to meet demand the Communist Czech regime had obligingly set up plants to construct Mausers, perfect down to the last detail, including the swastika engraved in the metal, as a guarantee of top quality.

XREF: Connects to Cold War covert arms trafficking and communist bloc support for Algerian decolonization.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 813