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touched ol by a remote-control bomb.
police believe was trained by Palestinians in Libya, was
Ireland Office and the'Royal Uister Constabulary -- the
murder. Another defendant, Francis McGirl, was found
9o British investigation into the Mountbatten kiling,
innocent..
lyhich took piace in the Irish Republic.
Ellis was charged July Z7 in Dublin Special Crimina
：：
Ellis has been described by law-enforcement officials.
Court with' possession of explosive components and was
in Buffalo and Dublin as an electronics expert familiar
freed on s37,500 bail. James Quinn, a spokesman for the
with devices used to detonatebombs.
Garda, the Irish national police, said in Dublin that Ellis
Federal officials in Buffalo have privately confirmed
posted the bond pending an investigation into charges
that meetings have been held in the Eulis case here, ip
be had violated explosives laws.
Washington and in Toronto, involving lawyers for thj:
s anod t arenaar yodar oi paapo sem sa ..
StateandJusticeDepartmentsandofficialsoftheRoyal
：tion in Dublin, but a police spokeswoman,who asked not
Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Ministry dl
tp be pamed, said he has not reported since Jan. Z7.
Justice.
With the February arrests and those of two other Irish
Republican Army sympathizers in January, immigra-
:tion officials say they have broken an international
munitions conduit of the Irish Republican Army that
had been sneaking its members into the United States to
buy arms for shipment to Dublin and Belfast .for as long
as eight years..
Lmmigration inspectors attached to Operation Sham-
rock, as the investigation was calied, said they confis-!
catedS10,000 inBritishcurrencyandadiarycontaining
and the others last month. The cash and diary were in a
Icar used by some o! the men, the inspectors said.
Among the items being sought, according to the se
ized docurnent, were nearly 200,c00 rounds of ammuni-
tion that wouid fit machine guns, rifles and pistols
turned out by U.S.,British, Czechoslovak and Soviet
rsenals,electronicdevicesthatcoulddetonatebombs
yremotecontrolandsmallremotecontrolaircralt
apable gf carrying 20 pounds of explosives s tar as five
thiles.:
'It's a lot of sensa tionalism cooked up by the press,
said Gilroy, who served a prison sentence in Canada o
gun-running charges seven years ago, one ot those ar.
rested Feb.6.
!Benedict Ferro, Buffalo district director for the Immi-
. gration and Naturalization Service, said the investiga.
.tion of suspected IRA activities in the United States was
iindicating a supply line.
Ferro said one bit of evidence was the telephone num-
Mississagua, written oa a piece of paper carried by
Kierman Nugent, an RA officill arTested in New York
City in 1980. .
· The house was put under surveillance, and it was
found people and automobiles arniving there were cros-
'sing the U.S. border regularly, he said.
About five years ago the immigration service began
encodingin acomputerbankthelicensenumbersotall
:cars entering the United 'States. Ferro said an inter-
. pretation ot the patterns indicated the IRA was reguiar-
:iy sending people across the bridges here and in Niaga.
-368
police believe was trained by Palestinians in Libya, was
Ireland Office and the'Royal Uister Constabulary -- the
murder. Another defendant, Francis McGirl, was found
9o British investigation into the Mountbatten kiling,
innocent..
lyhich took piace in the Irish Republic.
Ellis was charged July Z7 in Dublin Special Crimina
：：
Ellis has been described by law-enforcement officials.
Court with' possession of explosive components and was
in Buffalo and Dublin as an electronics expert familiar
freed on s37,500 bail. James Quinn, a spokesman for the
with devices used to detonatebombs.
Garda, the Irish national police, said in Dublin that Ellis
Federal officials in Buffalo have privately confirmed
posted the bond pending an investigation into charges
that meetings have been held in the Eulis case here, ip
be had violated explosives laws.
Washington and in Toronto, involving lawyers for thj:
s anod t arenaar yodar oi paapo sem sa ..
StateandJusticeDepartmentsandofficialsoftheRoyal
：tion in Dublin, but a police spokeswoman,who asked not
Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Ministry dl
tp be pamed, said he has not reported since Jan. Z7.
Justice.
With the February arrests and those of two other Irish
Republican Army sympathizers in January, immigra-
:tion officials say they have broken an international
munitions conduit of the Irish Republican Army that
had been sneaking its members into the United States to
buy arms for shipment to Dublin and Belfast .for as long
as eight years..
Lmmigration inspectors attached to Operation Sham-
rock, as the investigation was calied, said they confis-!
catedS10,000 inBritishcurrencyandadiarycontaining
and the others last month. The cash and diary were in a
Icar used by some o! the men, the inspectors said.
Among the items being sought, according to the se
ized docurnent, were nearly 200,c00 rounds of ammuni-
tion that wouid fit machine guns, rifles and pistols
turned out by U.S.,British, Czechoslovak and Soviet
rsenals,electronicdevicesthatcoulddetonatebombs
yremotecontrolandsmallremotecontrolaircralt
apable gf carrying 20 pounds of explosives s tar as five
thiles.:
'It's a lot of sensa tionalism cooked up by the press,
said Gilroy, who served a prison sentence in Canada o
gun-running charges seven years ago, one ot those ar.
rested Feb.6.
!Benedict Ferro, Buffalo district director for the Immi-
. gration and Naturalization Service, said the investiga.
.tion of suspected IRA activities in the United States was
iindicating a supply line.
Ferro said one bit of evidence was the telephone num-
Mississagua, written oa a piece of paper carried by
Kierman Nugent, an RA officill arTested in New York
City in 1980. .
· The house was put under surveillance, and it was
found people and automobiles arniving there were cros-
'sing the U.S. border regularly, he said.
About five years ago the immigration service began
encodingin acomputerbankthelicensenumbersotall
:cars entering the United 'States. Ferro said an inter-
. pretation ot the patterns indicated the IRA was reguiar-
:iy sending people across the bridges here and in Niaga.
-368