The Irgun Zvai Leumi sent a statement today to newspapers and press associations denying that it was responsible for the letter bombs ?nt to prominent Britons last week, at the same time that Italian and British police are arresting 12 suspects in Genoa.
The Irgun charged that reports published in the press here, accusing it of implicity in the attempted bombings, were a British provocation, aimed at persuad? the Italian authorities to give British intelligence a free hand in combatting illegal immigration from Germany and Austria of Palestine-bound migrants and in halting the departure of blockade-runners.
The Irgun also attacked the English-language nespaper Rome American for publishing an article stating that the headquarters of the Irgun in Italy were located in the Jewish refugee camp at Grygliasco, near Turin, and criticized the Associated ?ress for carrying an allegedly false story that a Sternist in Genca had confessed sending the bombs.
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