FBI agent gave Whitey Bulger explosives to send to IRA
Bulger IRA links laid bare in Boston trial and recent book
ByJAMES O'SHEA,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Sunday, July 21, 2013, 7:33 AM
Updated Sunday, July 21, 2013, 7:33 AM
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James 'Whitey' Bulger
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 old 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.
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