---
category: Private Organization
location: Russellville, Arkansas, USA
summary: Arkansas parking meter manufacturer allegedly used as a front for manufacturing
  weapons parts for the Contras, with connections to Webb Hubbell.
tags:
- Organization
- Organization/Military
- Organization/Intelligence
- United_States
- Arkansas
- 1980s
- Contra_War
- Dark_Alliance_Investigation
---

Park On Meter Inc. was a small manufacturer of parking meters located in Russellville, [Arkansas](/places/arkansas/), that was allegedly used as a front for manufacturing weapons parts for the [Contras](/organizations/contras/).[^1]

### Weapons Manufacturing Allegations

Former Air Force intelligence officer [Terry Reed](/people/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](/places/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](/people/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]

[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Chapter 6: "They were doing their patriotic duty"