Subj: [Charleston Voice]
FBI agent gave Whitey Bulger explosives to send to IRA
Bulger IRA links laid
bare in Boston trial and recent book
By JAMES O'SHEA,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Sunday, July
21, 2013, 7:33 AM
An FBI agent gave Whitey
Bulger 40 pounds of plastic explosives, most of which was sent to the IRA, a
key witness in the Whitey Bulger trial has stated.
Steve Flemmi
is the prosecution key witness already serving life without parole who says he
accompanies Bulger on most of his murder sprees, including the strangling
of Flemini’s own girlfriend, Debra Davies, because she knew the two men were
FBI informers.
On Friday
Flemmi testifies that in the 1980s, FBI agent John Newton gave him
and Bulger a case of C-4 explosives to send to the IRA.
“It was a
surprise when we got it,” Flemmi told the court, adding that he believed
that Newton, who was a former Green Beret, got the plastic explosives while in
military training.
Newton had
the explosives in his South Boston home and arranged for the two gangsters to
come and pick it up. Newton has denied the accusation.
Links to the
IRA have surfaced in the trial. Bulger was very close to senior IRA figure Joe
Cahill, meeting him frequently in Boston after he smuggled him across the
border from Canada on a supporters bus, when the Boston Bruins hockey team were
playing a Canadian side.
Bulger
idolized Cahill, according to Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, two Boston Globe
writers who have written a definitive book on Bulger called “Whitey Bulger”. Bulger
had an Irish passport obtained legally through his grandparents
nationality in 1987.
Following the
explosives hand over, the IRA worked with the Bulger gang on getting more
weapons, which ended when the Valhalla trawler left Gloucester, Mass in 1984,
chock full of guns and explosives for the IRA. The 7 and half tons of weapons
was estimated to have cost $1 million dollars.
The arms were
handed off to an Irish fishing trawler, the Marita Ann, but that boat was
stopped and boarded by Irish navy officials, tipped off by an IRA mole.
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