IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.46
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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
Govermment. DeVALERA is a past patriot. He is today what JOHN RED-
MOND was in l9l6. We shall sinply ignore him as we ignored REDMOND.
We areafter the real eneny, and the only eneny, and that eneny is
England. The fight therefore, will be wholly in the occupied coun-
ties of Northern Ireland and in .England".
This despatch states that McGARRITY was the principal
figure back of the preparations made in this coumtry for the uprising
of l9l6. SIR ROGER CASENENT was his guest in Philadelphia just prior
to entering Germany on his ill-fated atteupt to organize an Irish
brigade among Irishmen who had fought in the British Army and had
been taken prisoners by the Germans. Born of a well-to-do Irish
family, McGARRITY made a fortune in Philadelphia real estate, and
vas once heavily interested in property in the Grand Central area
in New York City.
The Nev York Times of June 6, 1939 reported the arrest
of SEAN RuSSELL in Detroit, Michigan by Federal Agents, and reported
that he was accompanied by JOSEPH McGARRITY of Philadelphia. The New
York Sun of August 2, l939 reflects an Associated Press despatch fron
Belfast, Ireland, stating that JOSEPH licGARRITY was questioned by
Belfast Police, in an effort to learn of the whereabouts of SEAli
RUSSELL. kcGARRITY was vacationing in County Tyrone when the police
found him, and had 2rrived in Northern Irelard approximately two weeks
previously. It was reported that Scotland Yard was investigating the
rumor that RUSSELL had reached Ireland on a freighter.
With reference to the information previously reported
to the effect that McGARRITY had been indicted in the Southern Dist-
rict of New York for a violation of the lottery statutes, the criminal
docket in the Southern District of New York, #C-lo4-68, reflects that
on December 29, 1938, an indictnent was filed-against JOSEPH_ McGARRITY
and the following-fndividuals:
GERALDKELLY
JOHN W./ KELLY L
WILLIALI.MEAD aliaS DAVIDXJACKSON
CONNIE/NEENAN aliaS MRS. C:
JOHN W KELLY, 2nd
JOHN R,WKELIY
CLIFFORDBURGETT
for a violation of Title l8, Section 88 and Section 387 - tl
"Smuggling.
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