IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.43
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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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vention, and that McGARRITY would postpone the. convention until their
arrival. . This letter goes on, "This fight is likely to be one dram
out, and we will require money, etc. You could also organize a cam-
paigm in the United States. I cannot imagine another man for the job.
JOE pronises full support of the. Clan. You can bring back all the
available money and arrange with the Clan to supply Thompson revol-
vers, etc. JOE'S letter only reached me last night via Cork. De-
VALERA read it enroute. : He added a note that someone mst go".
. This New York Sun accoumt reflects that New York CLAN
NA GAEL members said that JOE McGARRITY was a prominent member of the
CLAN NA GAEL RE-ORGANIZED, a secessionist body in Philadelphia, and
inidicated that Supreme Court Justice DANIEL F. COHALAN and JOHN DEVOY,
editor of the GAELLIC AlERICAN, prominent Clan members, could not be
reached for comments on the above report. McGARRITY was indicated as
a former wholesale liquor dealer then in the real estate business in
Philadelphia. He was a leader in the movement which caused the split
between DeVALERA and the COHALAN organization sponsoring the DeVALERA
side.
This New York Sun clipping stated that the reference to
Thonpson revolvers concermed a supply of Thompson high powered auto-
matic pistols. Four hundred ninety-five of these weapons were seized
by Custons Offitials on the SteamerIEAST SIDE at Hoboken, New Jersey,
in the summer of l92l. T
This steamer allegedly was chartered by the
bins were found to contain gums.
In connection with this gun rumning case, the New York
World of January 22, 1923, reflects that indictments were returned a-
gainst the following individuals' for conspiracy to transport arms and
armunition to Ireland in 192l:
Colonel MARCELLUS H
H
THOMPSON, Son-in-law of Colonel GEORGE HARVEY,
Ambassador to England in that year
FRANK B.
OCHSENREITER of Washington, formerly Manager of the Wash-
ington Office of the Auto Ordnance Corp.
GEORGE GRORKE, of Washington, D. C.
LAVRENCE /DeLACEY, also knom as FRANKWILLIAMS and LAWRENCEPIERCE
EDARD 'DeLACEY, brother of LAWRENCE .eLACEY