IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.47
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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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purporting to be lottery tickets. Conspiracy".
On January 23, l939, all defendants pleaded not:guilty,
with the exception of NEENAN and McGARRITY, for whon bench warrants
rere issued and returned non est, on March 28, 19B9. On May 15, 1939,
GERALD and JOHN W. KELLY, together with WILLIAM HEAD, entered pleas
6f· guilty, and an May 19, 1939, all three were sentenced .to 'serve
one year and one day, sentence suspended and placed ·on probation and
fined $l,ooo. each. Bail was discharged as to the remaining defendants,
on the motion of the Government, with the exception of defendants NEENAN
and McGARRITY.
The file in the United States Attorney's Office relative
to this case reflected that the investigation was conducted by the Post
Office Inspectors, Ner York City, and that at a Commissioner's hearing
for the removal of McGARRITY from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April.
19, 1939, Commissioner JAMES H. MALIoY discharged McGARRITY since the
only witness on behalf of the Government, Post Office Inspector E. T.
LOVERN, failed to identify McGARRITY.
The filefurther reflects that the United States Attor-
ney's Office in the Southern District of New York, contemplated a nolle
prosse against JOHN W. KELLY, .2nd, who was the Son of GERALD KELLY, and
JOHN R. KEILY, SOn of JOHN W. KELLY, and CLIFFOR BURGETT, ward of JOHN
W. KELLy, all of whom were-around.20. years of age.
From an examination of the file, it appeared that Mc-
Sweepstake lottery tickets in the Philadelphia section, and it appears
that McGARRITY either resides there, or can be reached at 49O9 Wymn-
field Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and either is interested in,
or operates the saloon located at l308 Drury Street, Philadelphia, Penn--
sylvania.
It was noted that a copy of the indictment in this lot-
tery case had been furmished to the State Department, for the atten-
(67c)
tion of Special Agent
It is probable that the State De-
partment was interested in McGARRITY at the time of the visit of the
King and Queen of England, and this was the reason for the interest of
this latter departnent in this lottery case.
In view of the fact that it may be desirablerat a later
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