Those were probably South Korean, they were pretty beat up.
Springfield Sporters also purchased a quantity of Garands from Colombia around the same time...they had been bought for cash back in the 50s, so there were no Lend-Lease/MAP issues with them, unlike the South Korean ones.
That may well be. This was 35 years ago, so 90% of the details escape me now. Still, we figured if we could build a pair that wouldn’t blow up in our hands and there was decent furniture, we would come out ahead. In retrospect, I’d have settled for a wall-hanger.