Bombs - Guns - Weapons

Oct. 10, 1971 - Big Hunt For Gun-Runners. Special Branch officers flew to Amsterdam yesterday to help Dutch police crack Operation Patriot I.R.A. code name for a gun-running service between Czechoslovakia and Eire. Four tons of arms and ammunition seized on Saturday from a DC-6 chartered from a Belgian firm were being held in an airport strongroom at Schiphol where detectives unpacked bazookas, mortars and grenades that had been flown in from Prague. Photo Shows:- Russian and Czech arms for the I.R.A. being examined by a security official after they had been seized at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport

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Ammunition Amsterdams Bazookas Chartered Crack Dc-6 Detectives Eire Examined Firm Flew Flown Grenades I.r.a Mortars Patriot Schiphol Seized Strongroom Tons Unpacked

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