This article is about our own "merchant of death" during the cold war: Ernst Werner Glatt. Pretty incredible story. Glatt, a German national, did the CIA and DIA's gun running around the world while amassing a small fortune. According to the article he also was a major source in our foreign material acquisition programs.

Licensed to Kill: Shadowing our Government's Favorite Arms Dealer, by Ken Silverstein. Harper's, May 2000. (PDF)