Park On Meter Inc. was a small manufacturer of parking meters located in Russellville, [[Arkansas]], that was allegedly used as a front for manufacturing weapons parts for the [[Contras]].[^1] ### Weapons Manufacturing Allegations Former Air Force intelligence officer [[Terry Reed]] claimed that Park On Meter was secretly manufacturing parts for M-16 rifles as a subcontractor on a CIA weapons project to supply the Contras. The *Washington Post* confirmed in 1994 that the company "did make some gun parts for Iver Johnson," another Arkansas manufacturer that shipped weapons to [[Nicaragua]] through a Mexican distributor. The Post dismissed the parts as "firing pins, not M-16 bolts as the book contends."[^1] ### Key Personnel Park On Meter's former secretary and corporate lawyer was [[Webb Hubbell]], who was also the brother-in-law of the company's owner. Hubbell admitted to a *Time* magazine reporter that POM was also making rocket launchers.[^1] Iver Johnson, the arms company near Little Rock that POM supplied, "did ship a load of weapons to Nicaragua through a Mexican distributor, according to former plant engineer J. A. Matejko," the *Washington Post* confirmed.[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty"