Feminist, retired professor of political science, Chair The Political Quarterly board, politics obsessed,cat lover, Bridge player, Italy, food.
Joni Lovenduski, is Professor Emerita of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London.
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![Because CIA archives are inaccessible, with the exception of the relatively few documents that have been declassified and redacted through the Freedom of Information Act process, Cummings’ file has never been available to researchers. And as for this specific document, researchers have seen it before—I cited it in my book, in fact—but key phrases were redacted. Now we know what was behind those black lines.
Summarizing Cummings’ file, the previously released redacted version of the document states that “On 17 August 1954 CUMMINGS became the principal agent of the [redacted] International Armaments Corporation and Interarmco.” In the newly released, unredacted version, it reads: “On 17 August 1954 CUMMINGS became the principal agent of the CIA-owned companies known as International Armaments Corporation and Interarmco” (emphasis mine).
In other words, the CIA “owned” the country’s largest importer and distributor of guns, the company that would spearhead a remarkable boom in gun ownership in the United States in the decade and a half before the Gun Control Act iced war-surplus imports.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:522225phgdd7avbuaenveodf/bafkreiexfuowqxapwxxwfywmhlcmu734lgtzj2qtylqhtxvtdqd73s3km4@jpeg)
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