IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.268
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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
Mepablioan Aray in Ireland, 1t La roportod that 1n l936 soan Aaasell
the present Chiaf sf Btafi, oasted certain of the 'olser and more :
moderate leadere and sooured full oontrol e! tbe arganisatien. :ue
set himselr to the taak or 1rfusing more militanay into the moremaat
and of making It a powarfal revolutiorary loree. In Britain the
azasswu peguwqo Treseag, zna 'yarab teeq prd Aury umoyrqndog qsfxr
rezlacing thes leadere with younger man. wome er whom wore soat tre
0o xar+aw 2a 3oy wofassndead uf sq o pe.zodex sex sul :pawtesr
Oraat Britain, aimed at foreing the fuslon of. harthern Ireland with
sire and el erleoting the oomplete soparation et the latter fram 'tbe
Britiah Eupire. rhis lod evantually to tbe bombings in Ingland
which stertod Jannary 16, 1939. (62-60950-1-80x1:
The 美ew Icrk Timoe or July 16, 1939, statod that the
Irish RepublicanArmy was bettar organisod in Iorthern Ireland
than in the Iree State. It was further stated that Irieh Ropublican
Army aotivities ware confined to England iteelf and that the Iriah
Rapublican Arny sought a united Iraland of the Worth and South and
demanded evacuation of Bnglish soldlers froa the narth of Ireland,
and that sone desanded an 1ndependent Irish Republic completely out i
side of the British Cormorwealth of Maticas.
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The Mew Yark Sun of June 27, 20, and 29, 1939, 1n ropart
Ang interviows had uith unidentifiod manbars of the Iriah Ropublican
Ary 1n this coumtry, ir substance, stated that the Irish Republioan
Arny bad iarnally doelarod war on Eagland and tas oarrying cn thnt
mr mith a force of aocrot agenta in London and other Inglish citios.
It mas atated that this information was secured:fraw s group ef four
aen mho wore sngaged in this country 1n raiaing funds Ior the prose-
oution of this mr. It was further stated that the Irisb Ropubliean
Arny had smbarked upon & oampaign to bomb the publio sarvice utili--
ties of the Bngliah citiea.:
(61-7606)
Mnshingtan strr 6r July 3,"i939, carried a sinilnr
article relative to an interviaw in Mew Iark in which it was stated
that important officials or tbe Irish Republican Army had established
hoadquartara in Iew York and from there ware directing a caapaign
which they hoped rould provide the sinews of wmr for a conflict that
they insisted would not ond until Jroland had boen oompletely cut
awmy from Englard.
(61-7560-1615x3)