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FD-350Rev. 5-8-81} (Indicate page, name of (newspaper, city and state.) Lrish Echo (Mount Cipping in Space Below) P Date: Jtf30/82 Edition: Brooklynarms Titfe: trialhears Clark Character: or By Kevin McCormack Classification: Thetrialoffiveynaturalized Submitting Office: Americancitizens.chargedwith illegallyexportingweapons.to. of the alleged,plof was betweer Indexing: I the,Provisional IRA continued in December 19s0 and June i981.- Brooklyn Iast weekwith the OnTuesday, Oct.26 the ir. I defense .attorneys..calling: I defense called former. -yitnessesranging from a.former U.S. Attorney Genera .US-Atforney.,Genera. to Ramse I Northern Irish,politicall'activist I BernadetteMcAliskey. to the. agentand'anauthorof articles on witness stand the CIA.as.exper The, five defendants,are, appeared the, palr. would.be used. .to support'the testimony of Earl; - nsurance.company/.supervisor Redickas to theplausibility of from'JacksonHeights,Queens CIA involvement in arms ship GeorgeHarrison67a.retired ments to the IRA! .. armored.carguard-from Redick statedfrom thewitness Brooklyn;Patrick Mullin44,.a stand on Oct 19 that he sold guns telephone.companyemployee .to.George DeMeg, an illegalarms., from:BrooklynThomas-Falvey dealercurrentlyservinga10 1 54apart-timeg corstructio orker from-HollisQueensand I sem. ou .Aneaenl. suodeam. Harrison's: alleged supplier of. andair-conditioningengineer from Yonkers Rediek said he sold weapons'to The:fivearecharged.with, plottingtoshipa.20millimeter DeMeo was, an, operative.of the. Ieanon,aflamethrower,. machinegunsand1i,automatic had:with DeMeo. Redick said in Hifles,allseizedjby.theFBiin. his opinion thesales madeto Mullin'sbasement,itothe DeMeo were CIA sanctioned. ProvisionalIRA.The timespan On Oct18 DeMeo-denied any Continued on ties with the CIA. McGehee, who: was, called to I, the standby. Michael.Kennedy; Flannery'sattormey testified :based on: his:25-years,as:a!CIA referredto the CIA,that it was possible tor the CIA tobe. involvedwith.shipping armsto the IRA. He,said, however, that? suchshipments: Kennedy.contipued'guestioning McGehee,askingthatifa/CIA .operative,.which,is..apar time-agentforthe CIAwas .caughtin such a covert activity.! FBI/DO