IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.276
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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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belere s meoting ot the Ynights ol the Bod Mranch Mall, Ban Franciaoa,
California, which ms held imder the saspices ef 3. Yernon Healy, re-
ported aa a prominent Communist in San Francisco and ao being active
In Iriah affairs at the present tine and also during the Werld Tar.
Russell was reparted to be the Chief ef Btaff er the Iriah Mspublioan
Aray and as being in this country on & mission in behalf or that ar-
ganisatioa. The press quoted him as stating that he had nothing
urottandng qsrxr ous La 4no popirwo saupqmoq oyz qspn op og Lrrwaos.xod
Aruy in Bngland, but that they Were carried sut mnder hia direetion
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as an act of war against Iagland.
Thile in Butto, Momtana, in Iay, 1939, Russell apoko beforo
the Irish Club which, it ms statod, is eomposed of the higher class
of citizene of Butte smd that its purpose is to farthar the activitiss.
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of the Irish Bepublicans.
The Jew York Sun of June l6, 1939, roported that Russell
made a spoech to an audience of twelve hundred poople in the main
auditorium of the Iransport House at Iew Iork City, mbich was a
mass nesting sponsored by the Clan Ma Cael and Iriah lepublioan
Arry club of Greater Hew York. Another speaker was Bhaimus Brislsne,
a uember of the Clan Ma Gael. Russell roquested financial suppart
for the Irish lepubliean Arny and in his speech referred to the ou.
peditionary farce of thls crganisatien in Bngland engagod in tbe
canpaizn or bombing.
The Yew York Times of June 6, 1939, reflectod the arrest
or Russell in Dotroit, Michigan, on June 5, 1939. It atated that
Russell was aocoepanied by Joseph MeGarrity of Philadelphia, kmown
aa the Irish Republican Aray leader in the Unitod States, bat that
McGarrity was not held by the authorities. This article,stated that
Bussell maa arrested in front of the Michigan Contral Bgilwmy Station
And was said to have boen touring the Unitod States aakdng apeechea.
This article stated that MoGarrity, mho ma reginterod at a botel in
Detroit, sapressed surprise at the arreat and stated that he and
Russell had cone from Chicago to Detroit to see some friends'and
said that ho was an old friend of Russell, who bad been here for
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