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ALL-IHFORNATIONCONTATRE
HEREIN IS UICLASSITIE
DATE02-24-2011BY
(Indicate page, name of
f.SECTION - J
THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
(Mount Cipping in Space Below)
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
lrish romanticism, greed
Date:
AUGUST 3, 1986
b6
Edition: LATEST
b7C
produce US arms smugglers
:On!
Character:IT-NI
or
By.KEN FRANCKLING
Classification:
199-302
United Press International
Submiting Office: MILWAUKEE
Boston, Miss. -- Northern, Ireland's holy.wtr.--: pit-
·ting Cathollc.against Protestant, Belfast boy-o against
Secigexing:
British soldier.- has a long reach Into American sea-
a1,518b
ISAIS AilwAUKEE
ports.:.
Frofn 'pockets in Boston and New York, as well as.
REVEWED
smaller.communities with their own signiflcant Irish- .
RECEIWEO.
American populations, comes money to heip the famlies
GATER2D
INDEXED.
of Irish'prisoners. Lezs visible is the sustained flow of
r
ANALYST!
Ruth Wison's column, "Report to our read-
THROUGH SERIAL
ers,"' will return next Sunday.
One;source close.to,the casesaid
hebellevedthatthe.IRAlinked up
with'the'Murray gangbecause itwas
wa ou ssaon poasnus suodwm sAng zru ysmo
starving.for-money and had·to turn
J provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.
tocrime.toraiseitInsteadofusing
The IRA and the more radicai Irish National Liberation
cash,the source:sald,the:IRAsmug-
: Army are finding it more difficuit these days to run guns,.
gled:South Americanmarijuana:into.
even with the help of American sympathizers and Irish.
Boston:onbarges andswappeditfor.
gangsters who are out to make a buck.
International cooperatlon between US'and-European
Acachejofmachinegunsassault
'police agencies has badly damaged.the Irish Connection.
rifles:pistols/and2:200/rounds.
Weapons seizures and FBl sting operations in the past
ammunitionseized/inLe.ynye,
DO NOT DESTROY
two years have jailed IRA operatives and their American ':
France,inJune/allegedly wasbpnd
helpers, and netted large amounts of weapons and cash.
USTORICAL VALUE
Ratification last.month of a new extradition treaty
inBelfast.Bostonpolitical'sdenuste
"between the Unlted States and Britain, removing exemp-
Padraig O'MalleydescribesBelfastn
tlons for political fugitives, will make it even tougher.
JATIONAL ARCHIVE
his:bookThelUncivllWarsaasd
In desperation, the gunrunners appear to be diversify.
modernwastelandXperhaps:the
1
· Ing, even into drug smuggling, to finance their ventures.
PER ny AH7
In one Boston case, In which seven tons of arms were:
Tguerrillawarfare."
seized off the Irish coast in.September 1984, federal:
An·FBIexpert'says'New.York(was:
1ooleld0-3ue
agents found strong evidence of & guns-for-drugs deal. .!!
the:prime-export-point:for,several
years,untll the:government:heatgot
Seven men, Including afederal informant who disap
peared under clouded circumstances in late' 1984, were
DonaldMcGorty，specialragent.
b6
indicted this spring on gun-running and drug-smuggling·3
charge4oftheyFBl'sycounterintel-
b7c
chargesin the case.
Higencesprogram In-NewYork,sald
The Ipswich, Mass., 'fishing boat' Valhalla allegedly
It-is.a regular':thing:and it:happens,
transported 163 firearms, 71,000 rounds of ammunition,
slxorseven:times a year.Every.two
rockets, grenades, bullet-proof vests and survelllance
months they makea'shipment.They
equipment to Northern Irish coastal waters in September.
arebeing:tapped:bythe-IRAin
1984. The cache was transferred to an Irish vessel that
Northern.IrelandCourierscome over
"was seized the next day by the Irish Navy.
here and requestwhat they.need
Federal' officials linked the Valhalla operation to jo-
99-302- 20
seph P. Murray Jr., 40, reputed leader of a Boston Irish
We're not,talkingzaboutbattles1by
gang. Five of the defendants, including Murray, also face
armies,McGortysald.were.talk
SEARCHED
INDEXED.
charges of smuggling more than 30 tons of marijuana
ingmostly-about'snipers.iGuns:are!
into the United States aboard the British-registered
Caldnwass
readily-avallablehere.'!
frelghter Ramsland, which was seized in Boston harbor
InBelfast,a spokesman for-the.
AU61986
Jin November 1984.
Royal'UlsteriConstabulary(thei
Northern-Ireland/police)said:a.ma-
FBI~MILWAUKEE
jorityjof:all:weapons-arrvingthere
cameathrougha"'Amerlcan:outlets.
Since1970,hesald,theRUChas
FBI/0OJ
ALL-IHFORNATIONCONTATRE
HEREIN IS UICLASSITIE
DATE02-24-2011BY
(Indicate page, name of
f.SECTION - J
THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
(Mount Cipping in Space Below)
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
lrish romanticism, greed
Date:
AUGUST 3, 1986
b6
Edition: LATEST
b7C
produce US arms smugglers
:On!
Character:IT-NI
or
By.KEN FRANCKLING
Classification:
199-302
United Press International
Submiting Office: MILWAUKEE
Boston, Miss. -- Northern, Ireland's holy.wtr.--: pit-
·ting Cathollc.against Protestant, Belfast boy-o against
Secigexing:
British soldier.- has a long reach Into American sea-
a1,518b
ISAIS AilwAUKEE
ports.:.
Frofn 'pockets in Boston and New York, as well as.
REVEWED
smaller.communities with their own signiflcant Irish- .
RECEIWEO.
American populations, comes money to heip the famlies
GATER2D
INDEXED.
of Irish'prisoners. Lezs visible is the sustained flow of
r
ANALYST!
Ruth Wison's column, "Report to our read-
THROUGH SERIAL
ers,"' will return next Sunday.
One;source close.to,the casesaid
hebellevedthatthe.IRAlinked up
with'the'Murray gangbecause itwas
wa ou ssaon poasnus suodwm sAng zru ysmo
starving.for-money and had·to turn
J provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.
tocrime.toraiseitInsteadofusing
The IRA and the more radicai Irish National Liberation
cash,the source:sald,the:IRAsmug-
: Army are finding it more difficuit these days to run guns,.
gled:South Americanmarijuana:into.
even with the help of American sympathizers and Irish.
Boston:onbarges andswappeditfor.
gangsters who are out to make a buck.
International cooperatlon between US'and-European
Acachejofmachinegunsassault
'police agencies has badly damaged.the Irish Connection.
rifles:pistols/and2:200/rounds.
Weapons seizures and FBl sting operations in the past
ammunitionseized/inLe.ynye,
DO NOT DESTROY
two years have jailed IRA operatives and their American ':
France,inJune/allegedly wasbpnd
helpers, and netted large amounts of weapons and cash.
USTORICAL VALUE
Ratification last.month of a new extradition treaty
inBelfast.Bostonpolitical'sdenuste
"between the Unlted States and Britain, removing exemp-
Padraig O'MalleydescribesBelfastn
tlons for political fugitives, will make it even tougher.
JATIONAL ARCHIVE
his:bookThelUncivllWarsaasd
In desperation, the gunrunners appear to be diversify.
modernwastelandXperhaps:the
1
· Ing, even into drug smuggling, to finance their ventures.
PER ny AH7
In one Boston case, In which seven tons of arms were:
Tguerrillawarfare."
seized off the Irish coast in.September 1984, federal:
An·FBIexpert'says'New.York(was:
1ooleld0-3ue
agents found strong evidence of & guns-for-drugs deal. .!!
the:prime-export-point:for,several
years,untll the:government:heatgot
Seven men, Including afederal informant who disap
peared under clouded circumstances in late' 1984, were
DonaldMcGorty，specialragent.
b6
indicted this spring on gun-running and drug-smuggling·3
charge4oftheyFBl'sycounterintel-
b7c
chargesin the case.
Higencesprogram In-NewYork,sald
The Ipswich, Mass., 'fishing boat' Valhalla allegedly
It-is.a regular':thing:and it:happens,
transported 163 firearms, 71,000 rounds of ammunition,
slxorseven:times a year.Every.two
rockets, grenades, bullet-proof vests and survelllance
months they makea'shipment.They
equipment to Northern Irish coastal waters in September.
arebeing:tapped:bythe-IRAin
1984. The cache was transferred to an Irish vessel that
Northern.IrelandCourierscome over
"was seized the next day by the Irish Navy.
here and requestwhat they.need
Federal' officials linked the Valhalla operation to jo-
99-302- 20
seph P. Murray Jr., 40, reputed leader of a Boston Irish
We're not,talkingzaboutbattles1by
gang. Five of the defendants, including Murray, also face
armies,McGortysald.were.talk
SEARCHED
INDEXED.
charges of smuggling more than 30 tons of marijuana
ingmostly-about'snipers.iGuns:are!
into the United States aboard the British-registered
Caldnwass
readily-avallablehere.'!
frelghter Ramsland, which was seized in Boston harbor
InBelfast,a spokesman for-the.
AU61986
Jin November 1984.
Royal'UlsteriConstabulary(thei
Northern-Ireland/police)said:a.ma-
FBI~MILWAUKEE
jorityjof:all:weapons-arrvingthere
cameathrougha"'Amerlcan:outlets.
Since1970,hesald,theRUChas
FBI/0OJ