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ORTHEPAPERWaS
ZYSWITCHEDdriverSon
phone number traced to a house in
Toronto.Surveillance of the house
us at the last minute,"·said Mr.
provided immigration investigators
!Ferro, explaining that Mrs. Quigley
with Canadian and American auto
replaced ber husband at the wheel
licenseplateaumbers thatwererun
just before the attempt to enter the
through the computer that keeps
U.S. at the Whirlpool Bridge in
trackofallcarsentering
the
Niagara Faus.
United States from Canada, Mr.
Morrison was arrested almost
fmuitaneously at the Peace Bridge
Ferro said.
Examination of the computer
a car driven by Patrick Morrell
records indicated apatternof
f Niagara Falls, Ont., who was
crossing into the Niagara Frontier
twentually. acquitted of smuggling
charges.
by the same cars.
Mr. Ferro said immigration!
Mr. Ferro said immigration
investigators, dubbing their work
agents “expected" that Carron and
Operation Shamrock, stood by as at
Morrison would have been driven to
least a dozen Irish aliens crossed
:New York‘by the ring's Buffalo
theborderandheadedforother
|members had they not been
U.S. cities.
stopped.
"We didn't know all the princi-
Carron, who occupies the Parlia-
pals;’heexplained."wewatched
ment seat once beld by the late IRA
this for the better part of a year for
hunger striker, Bobby Sands, and
Ithe express purpose of picking our
Morrison were expelled from the
shots very carefully,” be added.
U.S. a week after their arrests but
The time to strike arose when
.ordered to return later this month
Owen Carron, a member of the
to face trial on charges of illegally
British Parliament, and Daniel J.
pnteringthecountry.
Morrison, a publicist for the IRA's
A Woodiawn Steelworker, Bert
political wing. arrived in Toronto
Cronin, has put his house up as
last month.
property bond to guarantee the re
The two, denied visas to visit the
turn of Carron and Morrison..
United States, had followed the!
Mr. Ferro said -immigration
pipeline route, flying from Belfast,
agents traced the llegal Irish
toDublintoAmsterdamandthen
aliens, who had entered the United
toToronto where,as British sub
States to New York, Boston, Chica-
jects, no visas were required for
go, Baitimore and Philadelphia.
them to enter.
Intelligence data gathered from
Canadian authorities kept watch
Interpol and other countries showed
on the two'and,when it was learned
the IRA sympathizers either had
Carron was to speak at a dinner in
records involving violent' crimes or
New York City Jan. 22,an alert
were associated with men with vio-
was issued at border crossings.
dent backgrounds, Mr. Ferro said.
Morrison was driven from Toron-
Their purpose in .entering thd
United States, he added, was gear!
to to Niagara Falls, Ont., by the
husband of Helen M. Quigley, 33, of
Jednot toward terrorism but toward
Hamilton, who was arrested for
raising funds for IRA objectives irf
trying to smuggle him into the
Northern Ireland.
United States.
"These peopie were not lepre
chauns," he said. "They were as-
sociated with people who have been
convictedof terroristactivityand 1
have great trouble drawing the dis.
tinction between fund raisers and
bomb thrnwers.'".
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ZYSWITCHEDdriverSon
phone number traced to a house in
Toronto.Surveillance of the house
us at the last minute,"·said Mr.
provided immigration investigators
!Ferro, explaining that Mrs. Quigley
with Canadian and American auto
replaced ber husband at the wheel
licenseplateaumbers thatwererun
just before the attempt to enter the
through the computer that keeps
U.S. at the Whirlpool Bridge in
trackofallcarsentering
the
Niagara Faus.
United States from Canada, Mr.
Morrison was arrested almost
fmuitaneously at the Peace Bridge
Ferro said.
Examination of the computer
a car driven by Patrick Morrell
records indicated apatternof
f Niagara Falls, Ont., who was
crossing into the Niagara Frontier
twentually. acquitted of smuggling
charges.
by the same cars.
Mr. Ferro said immigration!
Mr. Ferro said immigration
investigators, dubbing their work
agents “expected" that Carron and
Operation Shamrock, stood by as at
Morrison would have been driven to
least a dozen Irish aliens crossed
:New York‘by the ring's Buffalo
theborderandheadedforother
|members had they not been
U.S. cities.
stopped.
"We didn't know all the princi-
Carron, who occupies the Parlia-
pals;’heexplained."wewatched
ment seat once beld by the late IRA
this for the better part of a year for
hunger striker, Bobby Sands, and
Ithe express purpose of picking our
Morrison were expelled from the
shots very carefully,” be added.
U.S. a week after their arrests but
The time to strike arose when
.ordered to return later this month
Owen Carron, a member of the
to face trial on charges of illegally
British Parliament, and Daniel J.
pnteringthecountry.
Morrison, a publicist for the IRA's
A Woodiawn Steelworker, Bert
political wing. arrived in Toronto
Cronin, has put his house up as
last month.
property bond to guarantee the re
The two, denied visas to visit the
turn of Carron and Morrison..
United States, had followed the!
Mr. Ferro said -immigration
pipeline route, flying from Belfast,
agents traced the llegal Irish
toDublintoAmsterdamandthen
aliens, who had entered the United
toToronto where,as British sub
States to New York, Boston, Chica-
jects, no visas were required for
go, Baitimore and Philadelphia.
them to enter.
Intelligence data gathered from
Canadian authorities kept watch
Interpol and other countries showed
on the two'and,when it was learned
the IRA sympathizers either had
Carron was to speak at a dinner in
records involving violent' crimes or
New York City Jan. 22,an alert
were associated with men with vio-
was issued at border crossings.
dent backgrounds, Mr. Ferro said.
Morrison was driven from Toron-
Their purpose in .entering thd
United States, he added, was gear!
to to Niagara Falls, Ont., by the
husband of Helen M. Quigley, 33, of
Jednot toward terrorism but toward
Hamilton, who was arrested for
raising funds for IRA objectives irf
trying to smuggle him into the
Northern Ireland.
United States.
"These peopie were not lepre
chauns," he said. "They were as-
sociated with people who have been
convictedof terroristactivityand 1
have great trouble drawing the dis.
tinction between fund raisers and
bomb thrnwers.'".
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