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'm not going to betray my comrades.

You know, it's just not going to happen.

So they actually got up to leave.

And then he, as he was leaving, I said, yeah,

He shook my hand coming in here.

Will you not shake it now?

So he turned around and magnanimously took my hand, you know, shook my hand.

And I says, maybe we'll meet up in 35 years and we'll swap a few war stories.

And he goes, oh, maybe we will, he says, you know.

And then I says, I'll tell you what, I says, I'll do you a favor.

I says.

I'll tell you how to defeat the IRA.

I says, you tell your British friends to leave Ireland and allow us to build a national democracy without any further interference from the British and our internal affairs.

And I says, I guarantee you the IRA will disappear overnight.

And I says, I'll tell you another thing too.

I says, I'll not charge you a penny for that information.

So he just smiled and he left, you know.

So I went in.

Back in, and I reported it to the boys, the approach.

I phoned the prisoner's department in Dublin, told them of the attempt to recruit me, and I phoned my solicitor, Mike Fisher, who I only recently learned has since died, and I'm sorry, lovely, lovely man, and told him of the approach to, of the attempt to recruit me as an informer.

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