IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · 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.
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61-555
Government. DeVALERA is a past patriot* He is todaj^ yfhBX JOKN RED-
M3HD Has in 1916. Tfe shall simply ignore him as iie ignored REDMOND.
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/ Ke areafter the real eneny, and the only eneny, and that enecy is
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1/ England. The fight therefore, irill be wholly in the occiipied coun-
ties of Northern Ireland and in England**.
This despatch states that McGARRITT iras the principal
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figure back of the preparations made in this country for the uprising
of 1916, SIR ROGER CASEMENT iras his guest in Philadelphia jxist prior
to entering Germany on his ill-fated attempt to organise an Irish
brigade among Irishmen libo had fought in the British izny and had
been taken prisoners by the Germans. Bom of a well-to-^o Irish
family, McGARRITT made a fortune in Philadelphia real estate, and
•was once heavily Interested in property in the Grand Central area
in New York City.
The Nerr York Times of June 6, 1939 reported the arrest
of SEAN RUSSELL in Detroit, Michigan Federal Agents, and reported
that he was accompanied by JOSEPH IfcGARRITX; of Philadelphia. The New
York Sun of August 2, 1939 reflects an Associated Press despatch from
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Belfast, Ireland, stating that JOSEPH mcGARRITT T/as questioned by
Belfast Police, in an effort to learn of the whereabouts of SEAIJ
RUSSELL. l^cGAERITY was vacationing in County l^rrcne when the police
found him, and had arrived in Northern Ireland 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 lotteiy statutes, the criminal
docket in the Southern District of New Yoik, #C-l04-68, reflects that
on December 29, 1938, an indictment was,filed-against JOSEPH McGARRITI
and the foUowin^HLhSividuals:
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//' \ <}SIALD\KELLY
^ A^; JOm^ W./. KELLT v
'/ / WILLIAM/MEAD alias mvJDMACKSON
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XX)NNIEj»pENAN alias MRS.^Ci
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" clifeq^Yburgett
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for a violation of Title 18, Section 88 and Section 387 - "Smuggling
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