IRISH GERMAN AGENTS
DROPPED BY PARACHUTES.
LONDON, January 18
The “Daily Mail” reports: Two Irishmen were recently dropped by parachute from a German plane ever Eire. They carried £6OOO in English and Irish notes, and small wireless transmitters. They are John O’Reilly, aged 28, and Patrick Kenny, aged 35. O’Reilly formerly broadcast over the German radio as an Irish “Lord Haw Haw.” The “Daily Express” says: O’Reilly and Kenny had instructions to carry out sabotage, beginning at the Foynes airport, and also to collect all war information possible and to transmit it to Germany. According to another report. O'Reilly was dropped three miles from his father’s home. O’Reilly, however, was arrested after two clays of freedom. All his papers permitting him to leave Germany and to land in Eire were in order, including his exit permit, signed by an Irish Charge d’Affaires in Berlin. Kenny was seriously injured in landing. He was sent to hospital. Both men are now reported to be lodged in Dublin gaol.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1944, Page 3
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