Respectable names from the United States and from London were involved, but the biggest traffic came through West Germany, particularly the port of Hamburg. The reason was simple to explain: since the demise of the Allied Occupation controls, the Bonn government had done nothing to replace the previous strict limitations on the arms trade. While this gap remained unplugged, the Federal Republic was a happy hunting-ground for the dealers.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 810