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Dublin for transmission to Green Cross in Belfast.
Subsidiary Irish American support groups with NORAID associations have
was founded in 1982, one of its major aims being to raise funds for Acc "for
distribution to the dependants of Irish political prisoners" (as does
NORAID). According to one Press report isome Irish Northern Aid units - at
least in the Massachusetts area - are phasing out their NORAID identity and
being regarded as the IAFs" (Irish Echo, Boston, 19 May 1984). Similarly,
Flannery's 1egal costs in 1982 （see below) and has since continued to
underwrite the legal fees and penal fines of those involved in smuggling arms
to Irish Republican terrorists.
ACC, a continuation of the Prisoners' Dependents' Fund of the 1920s, was
set up in 1953 "to alleviate hardship on Republican prisoners and their
dependents". It shares the Dublin' address of Sinn Fein (the political wing
of the Provisional IRA).Some of its officials have been convicted of
terrorist crimes.Joe Cahill,a trustee of Acc and joint treasurer of Sinn
Fein's Executive Committee, was sentenced to death (but reprieved) for the
murder of a policeman in 1942 and was sentenced by a Dub1in court in 1973 on
a charge of conspiracy to smuggle arms from Libya.
Desmond Ferguson,the
first elected chairman of ACC, was imprisoned in 1974 for IRA membership; in
Provisional IRA leader in Londonderry. ACc claims that it "subsidises the
Green Cross organisation which carries out the same work in the Six
Counties".
Green Cross does not advertise its correct address or telephone number,
and does not publish audited accounts of any kind.It is not recognised as a
charitable organisation by the tax authorities,partly because it is unable
to provide any accounts' and records, but also because its objectives do not
meet the tax authorities' criteria for granting charitable status.
(Dependents of prisoners in the United Kingdom already receive adequate
social welfare provision and, therefore, supplementary payments from
"welfare" organisations should not be necessary.).
The truth is that the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein move money freely
between their different activities, and money obtained ostensibly for
prisoners' dependentsis likely to be used to fund terrorist atrocities.
NORAID leaders have often admitted that·they have no ultimate control over
the use made by their Irish "trustees" of funds collected in the United
States. As the late_Matthew_ Higgins, a director of NoRAID, said,
"we have no objection to it if they [the trustees] have money to spare.
They've got to get them [weapons] from somewhere. If the overall kitty
the purpose of supporting the Irish freedom movement. We still support
the Provisional IRA - no ifs and buts about that...."
(New York Times,
16 December 1975).
Its critics suspect that NoRAID's receipts are far larger than is
admitted, and that very large sums retained in the United States are used to
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Dublin for transmission to Green Cross in Belfast.
Subsidiary Irish American support groups with NORAID associations have
was founded in 1982, one of its major aims being to raise funds for Acc "for
distribution to the dependants of Irish political prisoners" (as does
NORAID). According to one Press report isome Irish Northern Aid units - at
least in the Massachusetts area - are phasing out their NORAID identity and
being regarded as the IAFs" (Irish Echo, Boston, 19 May 1984). Similarly,
Flannery's 1egal costs in 1982 （see below) and has since continued to
underwrite the legal fees and penal fines of those involved in smuggling arms
to Irish Republican terrorists.
ACC, a continuation of the Prisoners' Dependents' Fund of the 1920s, was
set up in 1953 "to alleviate hardship on Republican prisoners and their
dependents". It shares the Dublin' address of Sinn Fein (the political wing
of the Provisional IRA).Some of its officials have been convicted of
terrorist crimes.Joe Cahill,a trustee of Acc and joint treasurer of Sinn
Fein's Executive Committee, was sentenced to death (but reprieved) for the
murder of a policeman in 1942 and was sentenced by a Dub1in court in 1973 on
a charge of conspiracy to smuggle arms from Libya.
Desmond Ferguson,the
first elected chairman of ACC, was imprisoned in 1974 for IRA membership; in
Provisional IRA leader in Londonderry. ACc claims that it "subsidises the
Green Cross organisation which carries out the same work in the Six
Counties".
Green Cross does not advertise its correct address or telephone number,
and does not publish audited accounts of any kind.It is not recognised as a
charitable organisation by the tax authorities,partly because it is unable
to provide any accounts' and records, but also because its objectives do not
meet the tax authorities' criteria for granting charitable status.
(Dependents of prisoners in the United Kingdom already receive adequate
social welfare provision and, therefore, supplementary payments from
"welfare" organisations should not be necessary.).
The truth is that the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein move money freely
between their different activities, and money obtained ostensibly for
prisoners' dependentsis likely to be used to fund terrorist atrocities.
NORAID leaders have often admitted that·they have no ultimate control over
the use made by their Irish "trustees" of funds collected in the United
States. As the late_Matthew_ Higgins, a director of NoRAID, said,
"we have no objection to it if they [the trustees] have money to spare.
They've got to get them [weapons] from somewhere. If the overall kitty
the purpose of supporting the Irish freedom movement. We still support
the Provisional IRA - no ifs and buts about that...."
(New York Times,
16 December 1975).
Its critics suspect that NoRAID's receipts are far larger than is
admitted, and that very large sums retained in the United States are used to
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