John Crawley
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Apr
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Well, they went to him.
I didn't know who this guy was.
He was a fisherman.
They offered him $10,000 to, you know, to use his fishing boat to take whatever guns we had across the Atlantic.
And so he was offered 10,000 and other inducements like, you know, they were going to buy thousands of dollars worth of bait and things like that.
He could swordfish on the way home and make tens of thousands of dollars from that and keep all the profit.
And there's another guy called John McIntyre, who was later murdered by Whitey Bulger.
He was given $10,000 to, you know, to man the boat.
And he was a bit of a jack of all trades, a fisherman, and he knew his way around the boats.
Even though I'd been in the Marines, I mean, I was, I was no fisherman, I was no sailor.
So I was kind of dead weight on the boat, you know?
But anyway, we gathered everything up.
We were given coordinates where to meet an Irish boat off the coast of Ireland.
Uh, we left in, in September, in the middle of September in 1984 with about seven tons of weapons on board and this fishing boat that wasn't even supposed to cross the Atlantic.
You know, it was a crazy stunt like, you know, and, uh, we took off and, uh, about halfway across the Atlantic, we hit a storm hurricane.
It was actually a hurricane.
And I remember Bob Anderson, the captain, telling me that he'd been monitoring it coming up the Gulf Stream.
And I remember thinking, you know, this is all we need now, you know.
But when it hit, it was absolutely horrendous.
It did tremendous damage to the boat, knocked out four of the seven tempered glass windows.
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