IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.37
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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
The New York Sun of November 30, l93l reported another
meeting at the Astor Hotel, at which the CLAN NA GAEL pledged umal-
r a o oa
and refused to accept the Irish Free State as the final settlement of
the Irish question. ,
The Horld Telegram of March 1, l939 reported the form-
ation by the CLAN NA GAEL and the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY VETERANS, INC.
of the UNITED IRISH REPUBLICANS at a meeting at Clan Headquarters at
537 West l25th Street, New York City. There were 350 people reported
to be present at this meeting, and it was hoped that this latter or-
mity since l92l. The report further stated that circulars contained
the following letterhead:
*IRISH REP UBLICAN ARMY -
AMERICAN PUBLICITY BUREAU
537 WEST 125th STREET
NEW YORK CITY!I
The headquarters of the new organization was to be at
the same address, amd at this meeting MICHAEL QUILL, New York City
Councilman and President of the) TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION, Was the prin-
cipal speaker. (It will be recalled that at ADIES COMMITrEE hearing
in September of i939, QUILL was designated by witness as a member
of the COMMUNIST PARTY).
This report further stated that the new group would be
composed of the CLAN and I.R.A. VETS together with other Irish labor,
religious and coumty organizations. The new organization would function
separately from these, and no officers were picked as yet. At this
meeting, QUILL is quoted as predicting that the movement.would at
least equal the peak of strength obtained in l92l by Irish sympath-
izers in this country, who raised the millions of dollars for the
ganization's activities and the events in the struggle to make Ireland
an independent nation. QUIlL attributed the resurgence of the move-
ment, marked by bombings in Europe recently, in part to "MR, CHAMBER-