IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · 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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ventiorij and that McGARRITY would postpone the convention until their
arrival. This letter goes on, "This fi^t is likely to be one drawn
out, aixi we will require money, etc. Ton could also organize a camr-
paign in the ttiited States, I cannot iznagine another sian for the job«
JOE promises full support of the Clan, You can bring back all the
available money and arrange with the 'Clan to supply Thoispson revol-
vers, etc, JOE'S letter only reached me last night via Cork. De-
VALERA read it enroute. He added a note that someone must go*^«
This New York Sun account reflects that New York CLAN
NA GAEL menders said that JOE McGAKRITI was a prominent member of the
CL&K NA GAEL RE-ORGANIZED, a secessionist body in Philadelphia, and
iiidicated that Supreme Court Justice DANIEL F, COHALAN and JOHN DEVOY,
/editor of the GAELLIC AMERICAN, prominent Clan members, could not\be
^reached for comments on the above report. IteGARRITI 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 COHAIAN organization sponsoring the DeVALERA
side.
This New York Sun clipping stated that the reference to
Thonpson revolvers concerned a supply of Thonp.son high powered auto-
matic pistols. Four hundred ninety-five of these weapons were seized
by Customs Offifcials on the Steamerj(£AST.SIDE .at Hoboken, New Jers^,
in the summer of 1921. This steameA allegedly was chartered the
SINN FEIN to cany coal to Ireland, but burlap packages in the coal
bins were found to contain guns
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3h ccainection with this gun running case, the New York
World of janiaary 22, 1923, reflects that indictments were returned a-
gain—st the fo—Uovdng individuals*for conspiracy to transport ^ feiiiis and
amnrunition to Ir—eland in 1921:
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Colonel liAECELLUS H/ THOMPSCK, son-in-law of Colonel GEORGE HARW,
^ Ambassador to England in that year
PJRRAANNKK B.f ( OCHSENREITER of Washington, formerly Manager of the Wash- '^-^
ington Office of the Auto Ordnance Corp
GECRGE GijKRQRKE, of Washington, D* C.
* LAWRENCEIfteLACEY, also known as Faw^Kj^Iil^ and lAWEMCE^tnECE
EDlTARD/peLACEY, brother of LAWRENCE ..aLACEr