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

planning at that stage maybe operation not not maybe we were planning an operation in england that stage to uh knock out the um or to disrupt the power supply to the south southeast of england for a period of time uh the thinking behind it was that uh there had been two bombs in the city of london at bishopsgate and at um

Baltic Exchange.

And those two bombs caused more financial damage to the British economy than the 10,000 explosions in the whole course of the Troubles.

And so they set up a ring of steel around the city of London.

and over 1,500 cameras, nearly impossible to penetrate.

So, you know, we kind of came to the conclusion then that if you were in Bonn or Frankfurt or Tokyo or Wall Street and you were phoning somebody in the city of London, you don't care if he's in a palatial office or a tent.

All you care about, can he answer the phone and can he use the computer?

And you can't do that without electricity, you know.

So we came up with a plan to –

uh, disrupt the electricity in the south hip of England for a period of time.

Uh, we weren't sure how long it would take because we weren't sure how long it would take the British to, to respond to it.

But, uh, we were, uh, caught then in London.

Again, I believe we were informed on again.

And, uh, we, uh, ended up getting 35 years in prison for that.

And, um, about, uh,

Several weeks after we were convicted, I was approached by a prison officer who said the two Americans wanted to see me from the American embassy.

And I said, well, I'm Irish and I have an Irish passport.

I have nothing against the United States, no problem with the Americans.

But, you know, if I have a consular issue, I'll deal with the Irish embassy.

So the prison officer went away, came back about an hour later and said,

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