NY opens 199 from 97-2700, 1981 · p.47

FD-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)
ALLINFORMATIQN
INED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 02-24-2011BY 60322 UC/LP/PLJ/JCF
Wiretaps on Irish-Americans
FBI EXPOSES
GUN-RUNNERS
(Indicate page,name of
newspaper,city and state.)
LoNdON
Undercover agent :"sold
Daily Telegcaph
dud ammunition to IRA
By 1AN BAiL.in New York
CHILLING accounf of how · Noraid, the American: :
Irish. Aid Committee,"
acguires: arms from underworld.dealers
for smuggling to the I R A, and: how an F B I undercover.agent pene-
trated a major gun-running, ring, is. ser our in governimenr papers.filed'
in connection with a trial next month of four I R A supporters. .
: Brooklyn, .,fesh' out- charges' the Govern'
. o s
Flannery, 78, director and. co-foinder. 'of
Date: 10/3118)
Noraid, and three other Irish-Amerrcans,
of conspiring to: ship : an simpressive
Edition:
arsenal of:American and'Israeli
from New York to the IR A.
Title:
Among'other things, the Grand:Jury:
indictment against'the.four. meh, and:a
supporting F B I complaint, disclose that: "
Character:
: Noraid has. cash in New York to negotiaterambifious..
or
arms deals. One involved the acquisition of.350
Classification:
Ingram.'MK-10·45 calibre 'sub-machinaguns.
Submitting Office:
costing- $250 (f136) eacha single ,deal: worth"
$87,500*(47,554).
199-7574.
running to the I RA. i..
"...
In one deal, in yhich an' I R A, arms supplier. bought
ammunition for a 20mm cannonfron.a Fedgral
NOV 1 7/1981
under-cover,agent, the F B I made sire theF RA
was buying duds.- The ammunition had.
been
" rendered inert by an exp!