IRA Part 2 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 6-12 · p.289
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Irish Republican Army Part 2 of 7 61-7606 Sect 6-12
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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
: 3998
NY 100-7828
'In the Nev York Times dated hpril 25, l9l3 there appeared an
article which revealed that HUGH lickTEER, Chief of Staf: of the Ilk., who had
and several armed lP. men, seized control of a movie house in the nati.nalist
area of Belfast on i.pril 24, 1943 and there held a meeting commemorating
the Easter rebellion of l9l6. The article stated that both men read state-
ments, then disappeared after which the audience stayed in a one minute
silent tribute to "the ren who died for Ireland". The seizure was apparently
made with dtaratic efrect. In this article, lictTErR vas quoted as follows:
"re varn the Govcrnment of the United States that a
resumntion of hostilities bet!eer the Irish ilenublic and Great
Britain almost inevitably vould mea: that tmerican troops alsc
vould becoue involved and that anerica, champion of democracy and
co-sponsor of the s.tlantic Charter, toulc find herself engaged with
Britain in vaginr a var of imperial aggression and conquest against
the trish people."
Hci.TEFR'S exploit received vide publicity by press and radio
and vas the signal for ruch comment among British-hating Irishmen.
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RET