IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.266
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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
HBL:EBN: BK
美orember 6, 1941
SEONT
IRISH ACTIVITIES IN THS UNITED STATES
Irish aotlvitieo in the Daited Statos,' espocially
shiy pertain to'the support' being clven hy the Iriah in thia
sountry to the Iriah revolutioaists ia Ireland and to the Goumans.
in tbe present confliot, appear to cantar around tbe Irish Republi-
oan Army snd arriliated organisations in this country.
On Jaiy 16, 1939, the 1ew Yerk Times traoed the arigin
Of tbeIrish Republican Army, basod on infarmation furnlshed by an
anonyiaods uriter who claiaod to have boen a farmar member of 'the
Irish Hepublican Army. It was statod that prior to the World Har
:huyme peuu Suytrtip Aruodo asen puwtoar uy aAoq puw uoa ti6t ug.
This group ms oalled the Irish Tolunteers, mbich covered the on--
tire country, and another group which was confined to an ares ap-
proximating the present boundaries of Northern Ireland, and whose
members ware called the Ulstar Tolunteers. Their sole aim was to
achieve hcme governnent for the entire Irish nation. It was con--
tomplated that John Redmond, then the leader of tbe Irish Parlia-
aentary Party, would nse this farce aa'a lerer in iamisting that
the Home Rule Mill, ahich had already passed both bonses ef the
British Parliament, be made operative; howerer, at t he outbreak ot
the World Tar Ho. l, Premier Lsquith or rngland demandod of lednond
that the rolunteera ahould either dsalare tbemsalves for Redmondls
parliamentary party or declare what their ultimate aims were as
as the Iature ef the Irish moveaert mms sencerned. As a result.
the rolunteer force was split, the majority siding with Radmond!g
party snd about twenty-five per cent for the eriginal principles
or the body, whioh mre for an Irioh Ropablie. me lstter sroup
came knomn as tbe sinn Teinars. (6l-7606)
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RECOKDLL.
Based cn informatian -securod in Ingland,"the IrIsh Ra-
pabliean Army ia the name givan to the Irish Yolunteerswho partlci
patod with the.Iriah citisens army in the Iriah Rebellion or l9l6
and 1n the guarrilla mriare that was waged in Ireland Yron then
mntil 1922. Arter the signing ef the treaty in that year, thare
was a plit, and sone 'of the mombers sided with Michael collins,
and others broke away from him and continued to fight the Ireo
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State authorities mho bad, they considered, betrayed Ireland by
Mr.coffe
Bigning α treaty which did not secure for Ireland full independence.
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