IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · 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.
Transcript
on the part of Irish-Americans during the Horld War. . Documentary
evidence was quoted, purporting to show how SIR ROGER CASEMENT'S
enterprise was planned by Irish-Americans with Berlin through Count
VONBERNSTOFF, then German Ambassador to the United States..:.This
British White Paper mentions the organization kmow as the)FRIENDS
OF PEACE, which was established 'in February of 19l5, at l50 Nassau
Street, New York City, by ALBERTSANDER, a Gernan spy. This organ-
ization was affiliated with the CLAN NA GAEL; theASOCIALIST PARTY
OF. NEW YORK, and with a German-Irish Association Qalled theAMERICAN
TRUTH SOCIETY. ALBERT SANDER was convicted in Ner York in February.
imprisonment.
This White Paper states that the German General Staff
in Berlin on January 26, 19l5 sent to the German 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
McGARRITY of Philadelphia; second, JOHN P.AKEATING, Michigan Aveme
Chicago, Hlinois, and third, JEREMIAHo:LEARY, l6'Park Row, New YorK
City, and indicated that McGARRITY and KEATING vere considered abso-
lutely reliable but rather indiscreet.
The White Paper continued that in l9l5, Irish-Americans
organized "THE FRIENDS OF IRISH FREEDOM", the officers of which were
all members of the CLAN NA GAEL. Of the Friends of Irish Freedom,.
Judge COHALAN was a member of the board of directors, and JEREMAH
O'LEARY and JOSEPH McGARRITY were on the executive committee. JOHN
DEvoY was also interested in this society.
This JOHN DEvOY was mentioned in the White Paper as
the author of a letter dated July 20, l9l6, written to LAWRENCE De-
LACEY in San Francisco, California, this letter referring to the loss
of CASEliENT's enterprise, and criticizing him for his visionary tactics.
DEVOY attributed the failure of CASEMENT'S venture to the fact that
just prior to the Easter Rebellion, the United States Government had
raided the offices of WOLF VAUGHN IGEL at 6o Wall Street, and had
seized certain documents located there. . This latter individual was
.a German agent posing as an advertising man, and DEvoY indicated
that the documents referring to CASEMENTiS venture were seized and
the information reported to the British Govermnent.
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