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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
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November 26, 1974
On Friday evening, 1l/1/74, TONY HEFFERNAN, Joint
General Secretary of the Sinn Fein, spoke in room W-l of
Detrich Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, under
the joint sponsorship of the Penn Committee for social change
and the James Larkin Irish Republic Club, telephone number
467-2806. H
HEFFERNAN addressed a group of approximately
80 individuals and indicated that he had. taken a. tour of
the U.S. and had recently visited San Francisco, Oakland, and
Santa Cruz, Calif. His talk was confined to the history of.
Northern Ireland and the acceptance, of the. Irish. people. by
the British.
He mentioned
and' of the Irish
Rebellion and of his crucial struggle for survival and of the
Irish exploitation'by the British. He advised that the British·
imperialism and economic domination are the reasons for the
trouble in that country and that the British live in luxury
while the Irish paid the price through high rents. for slums.
HEFFERNAN then exhibited a large rubber bullet
abouti four or five inches long and one inch thick, which he
stated was made in the United States. He declared that the
rubber bullet was lethal and that he could kill anyone stand-
ing in front of it.
ALL INFORMATION CCNTAINED
BEREINIS UNCLASSIEIED
DATE 09-28-2010BY
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
b7C
b7D
November 26, 1974
On Friday evening, 1l/1/74, TONY HEFFERNAN, Joint
General Secretary of the Sinn Fein, spoke in room W-l of
Detrich Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, under
the joint sponsorship of the Penn Committee for social change
and the James Larkin Irish Republic Club, telephone number
467-2806. H
HEFFERNAN addressed a group of approximately
80 individuals and indicated that he had. taken a. tour of
the U.S. and had recently visited San Francisco, Oakland, and
Santa Cruz, Calif. His talk was confined to the history of.
Northern Ireland and the acceptance, of the. Irish. people. by
the British.
He mentioned
and' of the Irish
Rebellion and of his crucial struggle for survival and of the
Irish exploitation'by the British. He advised that the British·
imperialism and economic domination are the reasons for the
trouble in that country and that the British live in luxury
while the Irish paid the price through high rents. for slums.
HEFFERNAN then exhibited a large rubber bullet
abouti four or five inches long and one inch thick, which he
stated was made in the United States. He declared that the
rubber bullet was lethal and that he could kill anyone stand-
ing in front of it.
ALL INFORMATION CCNTAINED
BEREINIS UNCLASSIEIED
DATE 09-28-2010BY