IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.34
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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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Unless otherwise indicated, the following information
iras developed from the following soxirces;
' THE NEff YORK TIMES MORGUE '
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/\ THE NEff YORK SUN MCRGUE /
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With reference I to the IRISH REPUBLICAN ABMT, the New /
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lork Times of Ju3y 16, 1939 traced its origin through an anoronnous
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writer claimed to have beeh a former member of the I.R.A. Prior to
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the World War in 1914, men and bqys in Ireland were openly drilling
and arming. This gronp was called thelDlISH VOLUNTEERS, which cov-
ered the entire countiy, and another g^ovp confined/to an area approx-
imating the present boundaries of Northern Ireland, caJJLed THE^UISTER
TOLUKTEHIS. Their sole aim was to achieve HonwB Government for the
entire Irish nation.
It -was contemplated that JOHNj^lElMpND, tJien the leader
of theVtrish Parliamentary Party, would use xhis force as a lever in
insisting that the Home BxHe Bill, which had alreac^ passed both
Houses of the British Parliament, be made operative. However, at the
outbreak of the World War, Premier ASQUITH of England demanded of RED-
MOIID that the volunteers should either declare themselves for R£D^ND*S
Parliamentazy Party, or declare what their ultimate aims were so far
as the future of the Irish movement was concerned # As a result, \the
volunteer force was split, the majority siding with REDMOND'S Party,
and about 2^% for the originial principles of the boct5r|>T*ich were fcfr /
an Irish republic. Ibis lat^ter group became known akfsiNN ISINERS/'
/ During the Easter Week Rebellion of 1916, the armed
force of the Rebellion became known as the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARICC. The
men who fou^t in the Rebellion from I9I6 through 1922, and those who
sided with DeVALEEiA are now ^nown as the Old I«R.A«, and are loyal
supporters of th^^ISH IBEg^Ii^TE Govern the present ruling
body in Ireland. Yhe die-hards kept the name of the IRISH REPUBLIC . AN
ARM?, which is presently bazmed by law in Ireland.
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This press account stated ihat the I.R^A. ls\^i\jaS-
organized in Northern Ireland than in the Free State, axid that l&hef,;: \
^'jAdJutant General of the I.rIa. JAMES J.l^iKmffiEN, is presently im- '
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prisoned in Belfast, Ireland, and that MAuRIC^^>nroM^ of Dublin, was
formerly Chief of Staff of this organization, a post idiich is now held
by SEHN RUSSELL. All I.R*A. activities are presently confined to