IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.35
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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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England itself, anl the Association seeks a imited Ireland of the
Berth and the South, and demands eraciiation of fiiglish soldxers from
the North of Ireland. Some I.E.i- members go further and demand an
independent Irish Repitolic coiapleteJy outside of the British Coinmon-
irealth of nations, /
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• This press despatch further stated that in some quar-
ters of Europe, it was openly stated that a certain European power
is at the back of the I.R.i. bombings in England, and that funds are
supplied to leaders for that purpose.
In connection with tte I.E.A., the New York Sun on
June 27, 28 and 29, 1939 > reported interviews had with unidentified
members of the HOSH REPUBLICAN ARICC, which in substance stated that
the IRiai REPUBLIDAN ARM! had formally declared war on England and
was carrying cn that war with an expeditionary force of secret agents
1/ In London and other English cities. This information came from a \
groMp of four man who were engaged in this country in raising funds \
for the prosecution of this war, and had enbarked upon a canpaign to ^
boirib the public service utilities of the English cities.
Press clippings reveal that since January 1939> 132
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bombings have occurred which have been attributed to I.R.A. activities
in England. Other press despatches estimate that there existed in
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England 3,000 I.R.A*'agents, and that DeVAIERA, the President of the
IRISH FREE SIATE scored such activities and called upon the organi- |
zation to cease, since DeVALERA'S policy was to achieve the same re- j
suit by non-violent means, and disapproved thoroughly the campaigi of |
violence.
I.R.A. activities in the United States are generally
Identified with ths CLAN NA GAEL, an Irish patriotic society. The
CWi NA GAEL was organized in the United States around I860, and gave
practical and financial support to the men of Ireland in the Rebellion
of Easter Week, 1916, and CIAN Hk GAEL officers and members and
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friends collected most of the several millions of dollars raised '^'^
through the sale of Irisii Republican Bonds in 1922 to help the Re- ;
publicans in Ireland in the Rebellion against England. v
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X In 1920, individuals in New lork City and e^sewhei^
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seceded Arom the CIAN M. GAEL and organized UTH^^E-O:IEGANI2JED CIAN