Rare photo taken in 1 965 shows underground ordnance repair shop inside a cave in Yemen. Workers produced weapons and repaired or modified the proliferation of Soviet and US small arms in the area. (Courtesy of Time/Life Carp.) A handmade Turkish Thompson,' produced in a clandestine series of workshops on Cyprus Total production of such weapons is estimated at 10.000. (Photo courtesy of Capt.JMC Gagni, Royal 22 Regimental Museum, Canada J assembled, and shipped at night. Captain Gagni said most of the homemade Thompsons went to the Turkish National Guard. He said about 10,000 such weapons were produced. 'The United Nations never succeeded in stopping this