Prosecutive report + Buffalo clips · p.81

afterfre-violated terms of his bond
that required him to contact police
three times a week, sources said.
He landed in Toronto Jan. 31,
sources added, and was picked up
by a suburban Toronto man and
taken to a Toronto "safehouse"
used by IRA sympathizers, the
$ources said.:
U.S. officials have investigated
for nearlytwo years areported
pipeline that stretches from Belfast
toAmsterdamtoTorontotoBuffald
to smuggle IRA activists into the
U.S. to raise funds or purchase
guns and ammunition.
Two Buffalo-area men reportedly
participate in the pipeline as
drivers once the IRA activists
reach the Niagara Frontier.
The five men arrested last Satur-
day remain in the Erie County Cor-
rectional Facility at Alden.Federal
Judge John T. Curtin Friday order-
ed a hearing for them Tuesday,
fontending their detention without
bail “goes against the grain of our
procedures here."
Their arrests came less than two
weeks after the arrests of two Irish
nationalists linked to the outlawed:
IRA's political arm, Sinn Fein.
The two, Owen' Carron, a mem-
beroftheBritishParliamentin the
seat once occupied by the late IRA
chunger striker Bobby Sands, .and
Danny Morrison, a Sin Fein publi-
cist, face trial in Buffalo March 8
oncharges stemming from.theirat-
tempt to enter the U.s.
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