IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.406
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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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100-7828
" a member of the Army of the People of IrelanJ and
VfflEREAS since British orininal law, supported \rj British A ar m ia y ea
forces,.condemned a soldier of the Irish Republican
to death by hanging,, its procedure is at variance
•and a violation of the recognition of the Irish Republxcan
Army hy the British Government when tiie aforesaid govern-
ment sought the Truce in Ireland in July, 1921, and
Ti?HEREAS THOMAS JOSEPH TTILLIJiMS, soldier of the Irish Lepublican
Amy, for porfonning his duly to the People of Ireland was
done to death in the traditional British method reserved
for the opponents of British Imperial aggression, and
TfflBREAS Ihe Irish Race Tmich has carried the banner of Freedom
throughout the v;orld, and particularly in the ^lorioan Con-
tinents, stands agast at this latests manifestation of in-
sult and indignity upon a people who desire the er.ercise of
Freedom in their own land, and "
TJKEREAS in the enforcement of hor imperial' lavs in Ireland-
laws similar to those ascribed to her enemies in Europe
for the suppression of vtiich ximericaji troops are being
sent overseas, flmericans are observing typical -ritish
oppression while British propaganda is endei-yoring to
undermine the warn understanding end friendship that
exists between the People of the United States and tiie
people of Ireland, and
miEREAS since British Imporial policy is tho direct negative
to the present iwiorican crusade for the extension of
freedoms throughout tho world, countless American lives
may be sacrificed ir. vain oven as their very presence
in Ireland is ineffectual in combatting fourtoonth century
oppression- thoir inaction moreovor ondorscs tho studied
silence being shown to the demands of the people of Ireland
for the restoration of their sovercsign rights and self-
government denied to them by a British staiwte. The
tfovernmain of Ireland Act (1S20).
mil B3 IT RESOLVED
That we, A^ierican citizens, cherishing the belief
Uxat no poaoc can exist v/hilo the exorcise of
Freedoia is denied to a people whose natural
convictions and innate desires arc devoted to
its attaimant, do endor£o tho recent manifesto
of MiQ Irish Republican Array as being consistont
and compatible v/ith the dotonnination of lixe
people of Ireland to be Froo, and ;
BiS IT FURTHER RBSCLVED
That T/o, on behalf of tho Irish Raco in these
American ContincntG, pledge our moral and
financial support to tho Irish Republican ^ximy
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