IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.41
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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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on the part of Irish-Americans during the World War. Documentary
evidence nas qaoied^ purporting to show how.SIR ROGER CASEMENT'S
^rat^rprise was planned by Irish-Americans -with Berlin through Count .
VoNvBERHSTOFF, then German Ambassador to the United States.* This
^British White Paper xaenticais the prganiaatioa known as theXJRgMDS
OF PEACE/ which was established ^in Febru^iy of 1915^ at I5O Nassau
Street, New Tork City, by AIBERTVBANDER/ a German spy/ This organ-
ization was affiliated with the CIAN NA^tULELj the^SQ&IALIST PARTI
OF. NEST TORK, and with a German-Irish Association'Jqalled th^AlKilCAN
TRUTH SOGJETI. ALBERT SANDER was convicted in Hew York inTebruary
oi 1917 for espionage activities/ and was s^itenced to two years'
imprisoninent*
This ?Jhite Paper states that the German General Staff
in Berlin on January 26, 1915. sent to the Genaan Military Attache in
Washington, D* C, a cable advising that persons suitable for sabotage
activities in the United States could be secured from first, JOSEPH
McGARRirr of Philadelphiaj second, JOim P.^gfEATING, Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, and third, JEREKIAHXO'LSJftRY, 16 Park Row, Mew York
City, and indicated that McGAERITI and KEATING were conside;:^ abso-
lutelj' reliable but rather indiscreet.
The THiite Paper continLued that in 1915^ Irish-Americans
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organized "THE PRIEt^DS OF 2RISH FREEDOlf", the officers of which were
all members of the CIAN NA GAEL. Of the Friends of Irish Freedom,
Judge COHAIAN was a member of the board of directors, and JEREMIAH
O'lEARI and JOSEPH McGARRITI were on the executive committee • JOHN
DEVOY was also ±nterested in this society*
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This JOffll DEVOY was mentioned in the TShite Paper as
the author of a letter dated July 20, I9I6, written to lAT/JRENCE De-
UjACEY in San Francisco, California, this letter referring to the loss
of CASEliENTVS enterprise, ani criticizing him for his visionary tactics.
DEVOY attributed the failure of CASEMENT•S venture to the fact that
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just prior to the Easter Rebellion, the United States Government had
raided the offices of TWDLF VADGHN KEL at 60 Wall Street, and had
seised certain dociments located there* Ibis latter individual was
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.a German agent posing as an advertising man, and DEVOY indicated
that the documents referring to CASEliENT'S venture were seized and
the information r^orted to the British Government.
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