APPENDIX 7 AFFIDAVIT OF THE FABRIQUE NATIONALE D'ARMES DE GUERRE (BELGIUM) ON THE ORIGIN OF THE F.N. RIFLES (FAL) 7.62 mm CAL. NATO The undersigned, Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, incorporated, with rporate headquarters at Herstal-lez-Liége (Belgium), represented by its President Administrator-delegate, Mr. RENE LALOUX, and by its General Director, Mr. OTHON CHSEL, has received for examination, from Major Pimentel-Malaussena, Chief of the Venezuelan Receiving Commission, a light automatic rifle (F.A.L.) that underwent various alterations intended to mask its identity. The undersigned declares, as it is also concluded by the attached report, that the weapon received presents all the characteristics of the weapons delivered in 1959 by the Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, S.A., to the Government of the Republic of Cuba. In this connection it should be noted that no weapon that presents these characteristics has been delivered to any other county. |