Justin Kelly
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first heard May 2026
last heard 23 May
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The Pat Kenny Show · Justin Kelly on the ‘Arms Crisis’ of 1970 and its aftermath · 23 May 2026
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It weighed very heavily on our childhood.
It completely changed the trajectory of the family life.
My father was a career soldier.
He joined the army when he was a teenager.
And the arms trial happened when he was 40 years old.
So he was still a young man, but he'd spent 20 years as a serving soldier.
And his career was abruptly ended by the arms trial.
And his reputation was...
Well, really, it was a government plan to bring these guns in, in the case of a sort of a doomsday situation with the people in the north who were under siege.
And I think the government were approached by these Catholic defense organizations who came down and they met with senior members of the government.
And my father was in military intelligence and he was charged with purchasing these guns.
Instructed to purchase these guns and he went off to Europe and...
There were all sorts of negotiations.
That's right.
He wrote about that in his book, that there was a British intelligence got involved.
Yeah, they subsequently worked with a guy called Otto Schluter and they purchased the guns and everything was signed off on and the money was paid over.
At a certain point, there was a change in government policy, and the government denied that this was a sanctioned operation.
Yes, and the operation was sanctioned by the Department of Defense, which made it, that was the authority that would make this a legal operation.
And when the Department of Defense decided that they did not want to take responsibility and denied their role,
It made it a crime because as long as the Department of Defense were in charge, this was a legally sanctioned operation on behalf of the government.
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