소련 동무들이 영국 제국주의자들 잘되는 꼴을 가만 볼 사람들이 아님. 그래서 아일랜드 동무들을 지원하기로 맘먹음. 그런데 대놓고 지원하다 걸리면 골치아프니까 북아일랜드에 소련 냄새 안나는 물건들을 골라서 몰래 건네주기로 함.

작전명 SPLASH
소련 정보수집함에 물건(기관총 2정, 자동소총 70정, 발터 권총 10정, 41,600개 탄창)을 싣고 가서 방수포장해서, 북아일랜드 해안에서 90Km 떨어진 곳 수심 40m에 두고, 찾아가기 쉽게 부이를 띄워서 표시해둠. 아래 그물 있는 거 표시할 때 쓰는 걸로.

소련 냄새 빼려고, 발터 권총은 서독산 기름으로 마무리했고, 포장도 해외에서 산 거고, 부이도 핀란드산 아님 일제였음.

그래두면 좀 있다가 내용물이 뭔지 모르는 아일랜드 동무가 어선 타고 와서 건져감. 크.

On July 3, 1972 the Irish Communist leader, Michael O’Riordan, wrote to remind the CPSU Central Committee that the arms he had first requested on behalf of the IRA in November 1969 had still not been received. Since then, on behalf of the Official IRA, he had held numerous discussions on the means of shipment with the KGB’s “technical specialists:” “The fact that there has not been the slightest leak of information for two and a half years proves, in my opinion, a high level of responsibility with regard to keeping the secret, so to speak.”


Andropov agreed. On August 21 he presented to the Central Committee a “Plan for the Operation of a Shipment of Weapons to the Irish Friends,” codenamed SPLASH. SPLASH was a variant of operation VOSTOK, which had delivered arms to Haddad and the PFLP two years earlier. Once again, the weapons and munitions—2 machine-guns, 70 automatic rifles, 10 Walther pistols, 41,600 cartridges, all of non-Soviet origin to disguise the involvement of the KGB—were transported by a Soviet intelligence-gathering vessel, on this occasion the Reduktor. On this occasion, the arms, in waterproof wrapping, were submerged to a depth of about 40 meters on the Stanton sandbank, 90 kilometers from the coast of Northern Ireland, and attached to a marker buoy of the kind used to indicate the presence of fishing nets below the surface.


KGB laboratories carefully examined the arms shipment before it left to ensure that there was no trace of Soviet involvement. The Walther pistols were lubricated with West German oil, the packaging was purchased abroad by KGB residencies and it was specified that the marker buoy should be Finnish or Japanese. A few hours after the arms had been deposited on the sandbank, they were retrieved by a fishing vessel belonging to the “Irish friends,” whose crew were unaware of their contents.52 Operation SPLASH was supervised on board the Reduktor by an officer from the 8th Department of Directorate S (the successor to Department V). Several further Soviet arms shipments to the Official IRA were delivered by similar methods.

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