IRA Part 2 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 6-12 (text layer) · 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.
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Police in Belfast Siui^al
From Our Own CorrMponilent ^
BELFABTi Sunday.
BELFAST poliet, their Easter leave eincelledi weretearehing the district
today for Hugh MeAteeri I.R.A. ohief Of staffi following his daring
public appearance In a Belfaet einema en Saturday night, when gunmen
commandeered the building and McAteer delivered a speech.
The police have seized two largearmsdumps* oneOQntainingweapons
believed to have been used in the cinema episode. *
A programme ofBoly Week fllmi at the Broadway Cinema, In Ibe Natiotiallst axea
of Belfast, was about to end Saturday when aillde wasflathedonthescreen.
This stated that Hugh McAteer, chief of staff of the lAA., and James Steele, his
c \ commandant-general (who, with two others,escapedfromBelfastOaolinJanuary,and
for whose capture ttisre Is a reward of E3,O00Kwouldspeak. if.
IJIA. men stood in gangways^ exits were watched, and the girl in the pay*bax'
under guard.
When the lights went up McAteer and Steele appeared on the stage. Steele rea<
A "proclamation'* protest-
iftg against the partition of
:
lieland.
^ ARMS HAUL
^
Armoured cars, which were
patrolling the streets s few hun-
dred yardg from the cinema at
the time, were agldaonceaselesi
patrcd today. y
, Scoresofhousesweresearched,
and tramcars stopped and pas-
sen^rs questioned.VKarly today
pohce surrounded a house in the
Lisbum Road district and
arrested two men caught escap-
ing from the back. They were
f said to have IJIA. documents in
their possession.
The biggest haul was msda in
the Falls Road area, where 18
loaded revolvers* a loaded tommy-
gun. 21 WXU grenades, two home*
made bombs and SoO rounds of
ammunitioaW9f Isunttla abouse*
....^.^aiis wsfT
*Arrests made sinee Friday night
2um total nearly SO.
The first round-up of sm^eets,^
inwhich40arrestsweremade,was
designed to stop any attemot to
celebrate the Esster rebellion,
commemoration of whidi Is iUegai
InNorthernIreland.
^The cinema alfalr Was a eool
^pfieee of work, oomraented atUgh
police ofBelaU "but tnare were
r^i^r plans which we^ssuuieeiededle
upsetting."
NEWS CHRONICLE
London, EnglsLnd
April 26, 194S