IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.270
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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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yon Barnatotr, the German ambassador to the Uaited States. Taia
British White Paper mentioas the organisation known aa the Frionds
tee糖un 0st ia st6t ye Limrqe量 uy poqaTtavaae stn uorqa 'ooted 3e
Strest, Keu York City, by Aibert Sander, a Gorman spy. This or-
ganisation wae arfiliatod with the Clan Ba Caol, the soclalist Party
of Mew Iork, and with a German-Iriah assooiation salled the Amrican
Truth Society. Albert Sandor was sonviated in Mow Iork in Fsbriary
of l9l7 for sspionage aotirities and was sentenced to two years im-
priaonaent. This rhite Paper statea that the Gernan General .atar!
In Berlin on January 2b, l9l5, sent to the Oerman military astaohs
In Waahington, D. C., a oable sdvisinz that porsons wuitable for
sabotage aotivitios in ths United States oould be 'socured fron,
first, Sosoph MoGasrity or Philadelphiay wooood, @ John ?. Koating!
Miohigan Arenuo, Chicago, Illinols; and, third, Joremiah O'Loary.
16 Park Row, How Iork City; and indiaated that MoGarrity and Loating
were ooneidered absolutely reliable but ratber Lndisoroet, Ihe Hhite
Papor sontinued that in l9ls, Irish-lmeriaane organtsod' the'Priends
of Irish Freodoz, the officors of whioh were all members of tho
Clan Ma Gael. Of the Yriends of Iriah Proedon, Judge Cohalan Was &
member of the board of directors, and Jereniah O'Leary and Josoph
McGarrity were on the exscutive coumittes. John Deroy was also in--
terested in this society. This John Deroy was montioned in the mito
Papor ss ths anthor ol a letter dated Jaly 20, 19l6, writton to
Lanrence DeLacoy in San Francisco, California. Thie letter referred
to the loss or Casenent's enterprise and criticiaed him for his
Yisionary taotios. Devoy attributed the failure ol Casomontts
Fenture to the faot that just prior to the Bastor week robollion,
the United 3tatos Gororomont had raided tbe offidssor.Kolr Yaughn
Igal at 6o Wall Street, and had seized certain doouments locatod
there. This latter indiyidual was a Geraan agent poaing as an
advortising man, and Detoy indicated that the documonta roferring
to Caseaant's reature were saised and ths Infornation reported to
the Britiah Gorernment.
The khite Paper further roportod thnt on January l8, l917,
an oflioial Sinn Fein organisation in Amerioa was Laancbed at tbe
orfiaes of the Friends of Irish Froodon, looated at 26 Courtlandt
Stroet, New Iork City. Among the officers or thla nsu orgahisation
Were Joremlah O'Loary, John J. O'Leary, Petor Goldon, Captain Lon-
teith, Stephen W. Johnson, Donnis Spellissey, John D. Moore, and
James Larkin.
The Khite Papor aharacterizod John Deroy as the
ohief agont in America for comranications betweon Germany and the
Sinn Foin aotivities in America. James Larkin was an alleged labor