IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.275
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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
LaTs xiol mog ur aea 'Lary uuorrandeu qaTrr eas Je, Turoaeg xaysum
and had announced to the prasa that he was about te atart a ssm
paign to obtain mpport for tbe Iriah Bopablioan Axi
The New York Sun or lugust Iz, 1936, indicatod that sean
Russell wae in the United states for tho puspese of a leoturw tour
and that he was financed by the Aaorioan Clan Ma Qaol and Yarioua
Irlah sounty societies, and Indioated taat his·rirst leotare was
to be givan in Clereland, Ghio, during tbe wook or August l6, 1936,
W. Toesu polaoces 'gs6t 'st ienyny Je snon LTrea oul
aying that the Iriah Republican Army ln Iroland bad airplanos
hiddon and manned by acilled pilots and had large suppliea or
amunition oonooalod in both England and Ireland.
Tbo Mow York Sun et August 23, 1937, 1ndioated thst Sean
Russeil was then in San Pranciaco and waa engaged in touring the
United States to rally Irih-Amoricans to hia Clan Ha Gael.
Tho New York Sun of June l6, 1939, rsportod that Soan
S1 ITrdy to LaTo xrol aon 4t soqnis po4fun sq1 petoque peu ttoesny
1939, with a teaporary visitor'g vlsa issued by the Amorican Consul
at Dablin, Iroland, on April 6, 1939. It atatod that Huasoll had
an Irish passport and had obtained the vlsitor's porait to riait
a relative in the Bronz, New York City. Ho mas dosoribed as forty
years of age, director of mnitions in the Arglo-Iriad nar onding
in I922, and as one of tbe two old-timers who signed a proclaration
signaling the start of a wave of anti-Britiah terrariom ia Bngland
and Ireland beginning in Fobruary, l938. This artiolo furtbor
stated that Soen Rusaell vith Goorge Plunkett had booa sondomnod
to doath after the Easter rebelllon of l9l6, but wore later freed;
that thoir organization began fiouriahing in l932 and was declarod
illogal in 1935; and that on March 30, 1939, the Irisb Parliament
passed a bill micing treason puniahable by death, it apparontly
being considered an aot of troason to beloag to this organizations
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