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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
DAF:IS
May 26, 1942
SEE RFVIRSE
61-76865186
SIDEFIR
Spocial
I Agent In Chargo
New York, New York.
ACTION
15
RE: IRISH REPUBLICAN ARNY
INTERNAL SECURITY (IRIS8)
Dear
Sir
The Bureau has nov received infornation from the Depertment of State,
Washington, D.c., that Patrick Hughes, Vice Consul of Career, born in Ireland
in l894, assumed duties in the Iriah Consulato at Wow York City, on June 13,
1938. He had formorly servod as Acting Consul in Chicago, Illinois, for fivo
1938, and his hone addros8 was stated to be 33-72 156th Street, Flushing, New
York. S-\
The State Dopsrtment advised that thore was no obiection to a discreet
investigation of Hughes, but every precaution should be tekon not to contraven
the inviolebility of the rocords and archives of the Consulate and no menber
the at.ff should be Eppronched for questioning. S -)
Subsequently verbal advice wes received fron the State Department tha
Patrick Hughes, Iriah Vice Consul at Ne? York City had been transferred to
to the death or Daniel r. McGrath.
It will be noted in the reference Bureau letter that no specific in-
vestigation was requestod. However, a request wasmade for you to submit any
substantiating information that might be contained in your file6.
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not belleved desirable .to initiate an investigation concerning hin.
CECRET
CaseMied by EeXIS.
Yery .truly
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Deca on: aeYQ
OMM.STAMP
John Bdgar Hoova
Director '
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