IRA gun-running in America
How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running operation in New York in 1981
Witness History · BBC World Service
January 27, 202213m 16s
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Show Notes
How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running plot in New York in 1981. We hear from retired FBI agent, John WInslow, who posed as a gun dealer to infiltrate a network of Americans supplying weapons to the Northern Irish paramilitary group, the IRA. The United States was a key source of money and guns for the Irish republican cause.
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