IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · p.410
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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
The dues are 25^ per month and each member is taxed $1.00 per
month for 1he defense fund»
It is said the I.R.A, has five districts in the Ifeited States.
District Ho. 1 is t<ew York City; District Ho. 2, Eearny, Nevf Jersey;
District llo. 3, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts.
District Ho, 3 is said to be a little stronger than District No. 1 iirliich
is Nev/ York City. District No. 4 is Butte, i^ontana, and is said to be
about the same strength as Mew York City< Dis trict IJo. L covers the
West Coast and headquarters are at San Francisco. District Ko. 5 is
said to have the strongest membership in -Uie United States*
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The following editorial v/as written in -the IBISH SCHO of
September 12, 1942
« BREIHTAII NAILS A LIE
Robert Brennan, Irish llinister to the United States, found
it necessary this vreek to voice the sentiments of the Irish
people against the horrid slanders that have been circulating
for more than a week regarding the attitude of Iroland toward
the American troops that are nov/ camped iho.re.
l!r. Brennan, a rei?)onsible Irish official vAio is thoroughly
familiar Tdth the conditions x^t Ireland and -vAio recently spent
several weeks there, condemned the s tories that have appeared
in -^rican nev/spapers, since the execution of Y/illiams in
Belfast Last I^ednesda^s to Ihe effect that there is growing
hostility among tho Irish to the men who,are living among them
as part of the Amerioar .xpoditionary forces.
^Reports of demonstrations against American troops in
Ireland have been grossly exaggerated by those r.ho are jealous
of the traditional good f-jeling existing betireen the people of
Ireland and America,* Mr.. Brennan declared.
The Irish Minister put his finger on tho kernel of the
matter. Jealousy of the bonds of friendship that have alv/ays
existed betvreen Ireland and the United Status, bonds that
vrero forged in a friendship that grew out of a coinmon love of
liborty against an enomy that invoked tho most repulsive forms
t of tyranny Tor its destruction in both countries* ^
i*r. Brennan ifas merely referring to an historical fact
v/hich cannot be obliterated, evon though today -the United
States has joinad hands vrith Britain against the povors of .
Nazism.
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