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FD-350 (Rev. 12-5-78)
(Mount Clipping in Space Beiow)
U.S. Says It Has Broken an I.R.A. Ring
That Crossed From Canada to Buy.
Weapons
By RICHARD D. LYONS
Among the items..being sought, ac.
cording to the seized document,were
BUFFALO, Feb. 28 -- Federal immi.
nearly 200,c00 roundsofammunition
gration officials say they have broken
that would fit machine guns,rifles and
an intermational.munitions conduit of
pistolstumed out by American,British,
the Irish Republican Army that bad
Czechcslovak and Soviet arsenais. Also
been sneaking its members into tbe
sought wereelectronic devices that
United States to buy arms for shipment'
couiddetonatebombsbyremotecontrt
to Dublin and Belfast for aslong as eight
andsmall remotecontrolledaircraft
years.
capable of carrying20 poundsof expiq.
In the last two months, seven mer?
sivesasfarasfivemiles.
connected with the Provisional wing ot
The diary contained the names p?
the I.R.A. have been arrested as they
moretbanadozenAmericancompanies
soughtto cross fromCanadato the
that might have been able to supply ei
United States illegally by way of four
ther the ammunition or the electronic
bridges bere and in NiagaraFalls.
gadgetry.Some of the companies had
"It bas taken more than a year of un-
fficesasfaraway asArizona andCalr
dercover work and investigations, but
fornia. Federal investigators have been]
we have broken this pipelinethat
'seekinginformation thatwouldtiesales
stretchedfromDublinthroughAmster-
from these companies to the I.R.A.pipe.
dam and Toronto to Buffalo,' said Bene
line, if such purchases were in fact
dict J. Ferro, the local director of the
made.
Immigratica and Naturalization Serv.
The five men were arrested Feb. 6.
ice.
while trying to cross the Whiripoo.
In the latest arrests,three weeks agd,
Rapids Bridge at Niagara Falls. One α
five men were taken into custody at Ni.
themwasidentifiedas29-year-oldDes.
agara Falls.Immigration inspectors at.
mond Eliis, who is being held in an Erit
tached to Operation Shamrock, as thd
County jail and whose extradition is
investigation was called, said they con-
being sought by Irish authorities. .
fiscateds10,000 in British currency and
James Quinn, a spokesman for the
a diary containing a "shopping list" for!
Garda,the Irish National Police,said in
weapons. The cash and the diary were in
Dublin that Mr. Ellis had posted bond of
a car used by some of the men, the in-
25,000 Irish pounds,about $37,500,late
spector said.
last year, pending an investigation into
charges that he had vlolated explosives
laws, but had disappeared from his Dub.
lin home eariy last month.
Mr. Ellis has been described by law.
enforcementofficiaisinBuffaio and
Dublin as an electronics expert farailial
with devices used to detonatebombs.
Federal officials here have privaterly
confirmed that meetings have been held
in the Ellis case here, in Washington and
in Toroato, involving lawyers for the
StateDepartmentand theJusticeDe
partment, and officials of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police and the Cana.
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(Mount Clipping in Space Beiow)
U.S. Says It Has Broken an I.R.A. Ring
That Crossed From Canada to Buy.
Weapons
By RICHARD D. LYONS
Among the items..being sought, ac.
cording to the seized document,were
BUFFALO, Feb. 28 -- Federal immi.
nearly 200,c00 roundsofammunition
gration officials say they have broken
that would fit machine guns,rifles and
an intermational.munitions conduit of
pistolstumed out by American,British,
the Irish Republican Army that bad
Czechcslovak and Soviet arsenais. Also
been sneaking its members into tbe
sought wereelectronic devices that
United States to buy arms for shipment'
couiddetonatebombsbyremotecontrt
to Dublin and Belfast for aslong as eight
andsmall remotecontrolledaircraft
years.
capable of carrying20 poundsof expiq.
In the last two months, seven mer?
sivesasfarasfivemiles.
connected with the Provisional wing ot
The diary contained the names p?
the I.R.A. have been arrested as they
moretbanadozenAmericancompanies
soughtto cross fromCanadato the
that might have been able to supply ei
United States illegally by way of four
ther the ammunition or the electronic
bridges bere and in NiagaraFalls.
gadgetry.Some of the companies had
"It bas taken more than a year of un-
fficesasfaraway asArizona andCalr
dercover work and investigations, but
fornia. Federal investigators have been]
we have broken this pipelinethat
'seekinginformation thatwouldtiesales
stretchedfromDublinthroughAmster-
from these companies to the I.R.A.pipe.
dam and Toronto to Buffalo,' said Bene
line, if such purchases were in fact
dict J. Ferro, the local director of the
made.
Immigratica and Naturalization Serv.
The five men were arrested Feb. 6.
ice.
while trying to cross the Whiripoo.
In the latest arrests,three weeks agd,
Rapids Bridge at Niagara Falls. One α
five men were taken into custody at Ni.
themwasidentifiedas29-year-oldDes.
agara Falls.Immigration inspectors at.
mond Eliis, who is being held in an Erit
tached to Operation Shamrock, as thd
County jail and whose extradition is
investigation was called, said they con-
being sought by Irish authorities. .
fiscateds10,000 in British currency and
James Quinn, a spokesman for the
a diary containing a "shopping list" for!
Garda,the Irish National Police,said in
weapons. The cash and the diary were in
Dublin that Mr. Ellis had posted bond of
a car used by some of the men, the in-
25,000 Irish pounds,about $37,500,late
spector said.
last year, pending an investigation into
charges that he had vlolated explosives
laws, but had disappeared from his Dub.
lin home eariy last month.
Mr. Ellis has been described by law.
enforcementofficiaisinBuffaio and
Dublin as an electronics expert farailial
with devices used to detonatebombs.
Federal officials here have privaterly
confirmed that meetings have been held
in the Ellis case here, in Washington and
in Toroato, involving lawyers for the
StateDepartmentand theJusticeDe
partment, and officials of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police and the Cana.
#3
wol
U65