Biography
Andrew Duggan was an Irish-American supporter of Irish republicanism who lived in New City, New York, and was active in the Irish Northern Aid Committee. Federal agents arrested him on June 21, 1982 during an investigation of a plan to buy and export weapons, including surface-to-air missiles and rifles, for the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was released on a $50,000 personal-recognizance bond. After a nine-week federal trial in Brooklyn, a jury convicted Duggan in May 1983 of conspiracy and several weapons-transport and export offenses. The court imposed concurrent terms, the longest of which was three years. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the convictions in 1984.
Initial custody separated from later sentence
June 21, 1982 initial arrest ended in release on $50,000 recognizance bond.
Source: UPI, June 21, 1982, contemporaneous arraignment and bail report. Initial bail release is not a final discharge from a later prison sentence. An arrest-site record is not automatically a prison-admission record.
Verified federal release: October 3, 1986
The paper lists Andrew Duggan at Danbury with number 16591053, equivalent to 16591-053. See the Irish People, November 10, 1984, page 7, prisoner-address list and adjacent case fundraiser. This contemporary register-number link identifies the same person in the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, checked October 20, 2026: ANDREW DUGGAN, register 16591-053, actual release October 3, 1986. This is the official federal release date, not the end of parole or a forecast calculated from the sentence. The separate June 1982 bail episode is unchanged. The September 1984 admission remains month-only, not September 1 as an exact day. No continuous imprisonment total is calculated.
