evidence: In December 1986, Ulster Resistance representatives met with other loyalist paramilitary groups to discuss smuggling weapons into Northern Ireland, according to police intelligence.[12] In early 1987 senior UR member Noel Little, using an alias, travelled to Geneva and Paris to meet a representative of South African arms exporter Armscor named Douglas Bernhardt.[12] Little arrived with a "shopping list" of weapons including assault rifles and mortars.[12] At least two DUP members attended a meeting in County Armagh in May 1987 with UR leaders which discussed the possibility of acquiring arms. "They (the DUP members) were told there was a way of getting guns, that a shopping list was possible and that others were ready to help," an anonymous Ulster Resistance member later alleged.[30] The group collaborated with the UVF and the UDA to procure arms. In June 1987 the UVF stole more than £300,000 from the Northern Bank in Portadown. The money was transferred to Swiss and other banks accounts in Europe via suitcases carried by "respectable" members of the Unionist community involved in banking business, and insurance.[33] The money was used to buy 206 Vz. [...] - ^ Belfast News Letter, 30 May 1989 - ^ a b "Foiled plot would have equipped the UVF and UDA". belfasttelegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.