IRA Part 2 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 6-12 · p.279
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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
NY 100-7828
to knerica, then likering the present Irish struggle for freedom from England
to the i.merican struggle for freedom from England in 1765, after which they
kould launch into a tirade against the British govemment for its present
policy of dividing the Irish Counties into Uister and Eire, and would close
mith pledges to the heroic Irish dead never to give up the fight until
Ireland 's frecdon is won.
References were frequently m2ede throughout speeches to the
articles aprearine in the Nev York tines and Daily News on Easter Sunday
morning which eAicles told the story of the seizure of a Belfast movie
house by HUGHiciTEFR, Chief of Staff of the IR. in Ireland. Elsewhere in
ing cirrEn'S activities will be found. Little reference was made to the
warning given by Mc.TEER to the United States to the effect that the main-
tenance of lnited States troops in North Ireland would eventually lead to
thcst troops bcing used in assistins the British war of imperiol aggression.
The spcaksrs w.re cireful to show no cvidence of un-.merican
attitudes and the oniy reierencc mnde to .mcriccr: policy wes tostate that
smerica shouud have includcd Irclard's frecd m in the forming of the itlantic
Charter, which is an oftenh.arc statement in the IR. circles.
The spccchcs were uniformly badly given and were utterly
lacking in orstorical. or drem:tic efiect.
BiRTLEY 2ugH aopcared on tht. program three times, once at the
nich corresponds to the imericen Declaration of Indcpendence, in the cyes of
the Iri. menbcrship.
Luring the readirg of this procla mation the audience
in thr center of the stage. Lctcr ir the program, he read thc oath of
allcgience to the lrish Republic which is set out bclow:
"I do solcmnly swear (or affirm) that I do not and shsll
not yield a voluntary support to any prctended govcrnment, authority
or povtr vith Ireland inimical thcreto; and I do furthcr swcar
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supnort and defcnd thc Irish Rtnublic and the Government of the
Irish Rcpublic, which is Dail Eireann, against all cnemies,
forcigr and domestic, that I vill bear true allcgiancc to same,
and that I take this obligation freely without any mental resrr-
vation or puroose of cvasion; so help me, God."
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