How Whitey Bulger Smuggled 7 Tons Of Weapons To The IRA In Coffins

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The coffins carrying departed members of Boston’s Irish-American clan back across the Atlantic for burial in the land of their fathers were unusually heavy. But no one suspected a thing.

“We were able to get at least five rifles, a couple of handguns, and some ammunition under a corpse,” recalled Patrick Nee, an IRA sympathiser and lieutenant of the infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger. “Caskets were ideal for smuggling”.

While enforcing a murderous protection racket around the city’s south side, Bulger and Nee’s Irish-American mob were also running guns to the boys back home.

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