IRA Part 2 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 6-12 · p.222
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61-7606 is the FBI’s old main file on the Irish Republican Army. 61 is the classification (treason / internal security in that era). 7606 is the case number. When the paper got too thick they bound it into sections. Joshua Smith’s 2015 release is seven PDFs covering sections 1–32, from 1939 into the early 1990s. A serial is one document inside a section (a letter, teletype, or clipping). The file list follows those PDFs, not the serial numbers.
The 2015 drop includes a second PDF with an embedded text layer for some parts (_text). Same pages as the scan; that copy is omitted from the file list. Word-level OCR differs and search may still hit both.
Transcript
Cinema Gunmen's Arms Found by
Police in Belfast Sunday Raid
From Our .Own Correspondent
BELFAsT, Sunday.
B
ELFAsT police, their Easter leave cancelled, were searching the district
today for Hugh McAteer, I.R.A. chiof of staff, following his daring
public appearance in a Belfast cinema on Saturdty night, when gunmen
commandeered the building and McAtoer delivered a sptech.
The police have seized two large arms dumps, one containing weapons
believed to have been used in the cinema episode.
A programme of Holy Week nlmis at the Broadway Cinema, in the Nationalist area
'ss su uo pourg sem sps g uaum Auprngeg ud pao ot 1noqe sem 'isenieg 1o
This stated that Hugh McAteer, chief of stall of the IR.A., and James Steele, his
commandant-general (who, with two others. escaped from Belfust Gaol in January, and
for whose capture there is a reward of E3,0oo), would sptak.
I.R.A. men stood in gangways, exits were watched, and the girl in the pay-box wa
under guard.
When the lights. went up McAteer and Steele appeared on the stage. Bteele read
proclamation " protest-
against the partition of
eland.
ARMS HAUL
Armoured cars, which were
patrolling the streetsafewhun-
dred yards from the cinema at
the time, were agaip
on ceaseless
:patrol today.
Scores of houses were searched,
and tramcars stopped and pas-
sengers questioned.Larly todny
police surrounded a house in the
Lisburn Roed district and
arrested two men caught escap-
ing from the back.
They were
said to have I R.A. documents in
their possession.
the Falls Road area, where
18
loaded revolvers, a loaded tommy-
gun, 21 Mils grenades, two home-
mnde bombs andaso'rounds of
ammunition were found in n house.
TAINED
A.PlaNs UPBET
Arrests made since Friday night
ALL INFC
now total nearly 60.
The frst round-up of unpeet.
In which 40 arrests were made, was
HEREII, IS UNC .
y iduae Cue dops o pausisap
celebratethe
Laster、rebellion,
commemorationofwhichuileg
In Northern Irelnnd.
The cinemn affeir was a oo!
plece ot work."
commentedahigh
there
were
upsetting.
NEWS CHRONICLE
London, England
Apr11 26, 1943
ENCLOSUFT
7.