IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.404
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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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KY 100-7828
Goverment, and on Ireland's leanings towards ttxe Allies in their cause, ^
iiaoDBIM)TT was classed as a statesman wittiout portfolio,
ConcerninE idacDSEMOTT the follovdns - a ^ rt T ic ^ le ^ a I pp M ea j re i d T in ^^ iii ^ e
^EISH ECHO dated gptaaaber 12, 1942, headed
" Senator Frank liacDermott, v:ho usually issues his pontifical
iroadsides as a member of the upper chamber of the Bire legisla-
ture, and quite recently has assumed the same task in the United
States, where he is hibernating in the dual capacity of a polite
refugee and propagandist against Irish neutrality, hastened last
Saturday to exploit his views in the Herald Tribune on 1he
problems of the ooimtry from which ho draws part of his income
out of the taxpayers' money.
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wonder if the Soiiator considers it good morals to con-
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tinue drawing a salary ftrom the Eri.G treasury Tdxile he reniains
in another country and contributes not one jot or tittle of
service to the people vmom he is paid to sorvG? IIo \ras not
delegated by any responsiblo authority in Eire to corae here to
tell the American people hoi'^ eager he is to havo his countrymen
accept his political philosophy rugarding the partition issue,
noutrali+y, or anything else that affects their wolfp.ro. S9 '
far as wo knov/, ho is a man v;ithout a mandate.
The Senator, hovvovor, takos himself r-.thor seriously; it is
an attribute of his chart^ctor that enhances the ludicrousnoss of
his ponderous pronouncements. IIo has a pontificial vmy v;ith him,
has the Senc^tor, and it is the irony of fato thr^t he must needs
travel without a govonLaont portfolio.
Imagine how history mi^t bo ruvolutionizod in the tivinkling
of an eye if tho Senator were ondov;ed vdth the poorer of a tribune
of his people
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Deep in —-Qio roots of his country^s soil, as he
is, and boldly proclaims so different from the Tones, Ihe
Bnmets, the Kussoils, the llitchcls, the rarnclls, th—o foarsos
and tho others viho could not claim that distinction "the- Sena-
tor would verily be a second Dc.niol come to judg^aont, a li^t
in the darkness of a chaotic world, had tho gods but favored
him v/ith tho scepter of supremacy ovur the national affairs of
the country which ho finds so much tinb to excoriate beyond
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its boundaries,
BAIJOII MORRISSSY "v:as in chargo of the Irish Pavillion during the
World's F'lir in IIov York Cit^% JAIvIES BRISL/uffi operates a ^;:iloon at
96th Street and Lexington Avenue, Hew York City.
JOEiT KcCARTiri is in tho.stojmship business ,_Jle is kno\/n as a
radical and belongs to the iJatorford lton*s Association*
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