IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.408
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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.
You are on the text-layer copy. Open the scan file
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^ •from your Government renouncing all claim to interfere in ^
its domestic policj' or external affairs.
The IWsh people have no cause of hostility to viny
European nation, even those nations \Aioae natural develop-
ment may bring them into conflict v;ith British interests,
and T/e are desirous of making it clear that we shall in no
event take part in a T/ar of agp;rossion against any people or
permit the nation to be regarded as having arr/ community or
ideiitity of interest \dth Britain thafv/ould moke us liable
to attack by British eneraies.
The occupation of our territory by troops of another
nation and the persistent subvention hero of activities directly
against the expressed national vill and in the, interests of a
foreign po\/cr, prevent tlio expansion and devGlopment of our
institution in consonance with our social noeds and purposes,
and must cease,
Neither the Sovermcnt of tho Irish iloi>ublic nor the
Irish People arc actuated by any feelings of hostilitj' to the
i-eople of Britain, Pwuthor vould \<o volcone a bettor under-
standing but this can bo brought about only on 1h^» basis that
each of tho two Peoples is absolutely free to pursue its c./n
course unhampered by the other, lr*c shall rogrot if this fundi-
montal condition is i.'xuored and vo arc compelled to Intorvone
actively in tho military or conmorcial life of your country as
your Gavernm^nt are nov/ intorvoning in ours.
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The Government of the Irish Republic brlicvc- th it a pvriod
of four days is sufficient notice for your Govcrmont to signify
its intentions ii: this mittor of tho military evacuation aiid for
tho issue of your Declaration of Abdication in rosp-'Ct of our
country. Our Govcrmunt roscr/o the ri^ht of appropriate action
v/ithout further notice if upon tho expiration of tti s period of
grace, these conditions rcmun unfulfilled.
Oil BEHALF OF TIIE GOViiKfLEin' AllD ARIHT COUTJCIL OF
OGLAIGE NA h-SIREAKIT (Irish R-publican A^ny)
(Signed) Fatrick Fleming
"SucVotTury*'
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