The World - News from Aug. 8, 1988
An Irish customs officer was charged with being a member of the Irish Republican Army after police in Dublin seized portable radio equipment that could have helped guerrillas block British army scanning devices. The officer, Frank Sutcliffe, 30, of Dublin, was arrested after a three-week surveillance operation that tracked radio sets sent to a Dublin post office box from Amsterdam, security officials said. Last November, the IRA blamed British army scanning devices for prematurely detonating a bomb that killed 11 people at a war memorial ceremony in the border village of Enniskillen. British authorities have denied the charge.
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