Jerry interviews John Crawley, author of The Yank: My Life as a former US Marine in the IRA tells how he and other Republicans used Boston mobster and murderer James ‘Whitey’ Bulger to help source and transport weapons to Ireland in 1984. The arms left the US on a trawler called the Valhalla and were then transferred to another vessel, the Marita Ann. The Marita Ann was intercepted by Irish authorities off the Kerry coast.
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