John Crawley

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Anything Goes with James English · US Marine Fighting for the IRA - John Crawley Tells His Story · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

I'd have been about 23, 23, 24.

Well, by the time I went to the States, sorry, about...

Closer to 25.

And you were just happy to go there?

Well, I wasn't happy to go there, but I was told to go, so I went.

I was more or less given the option, you know, if I wanted to stay in the IRA, to go.

You know, and you see, the IRA is very, very... I usually can pronounce that word, but you know what I'm saying?

And the thing about it is...

you didn't, you tended not to second guess people, you know, you just kind of hope there was a reason, there was a good reason that you couldn't see, you know?

And so I just, I followed orders and I went.

And when I got to Boston, then I met,

I was given half a $5 note that was cut in a very erratic way.

And I was told that my contact over there had the other half of this $5 note.

So when I got there, I met the person and I told them that, you know, we're gonna need driver's licenses to buy guns, fake driver's licenses and other resources.

So that's when I first met James Whitey Bulger, the notorious, you know, gangster.

But he wasn't notorious then, he wasn't notorious to me.

I'd never met him, I didn't know who he was.

Excuse me.

And so I met him and he gave us a few guns and he gave us a little money, $5,000, something like that.

It wasn't much.

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