IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.50
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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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/at Cleveland, Ohio during the week of August l6, 1936. A prior des-
patch as reported in the Herald Tribume on November 20, 1925, indi-
cated the arrest in Dublin, Ireland, by the Irish Free State, of SEAN
RUSSELL on charges of treason.
The Daily News of August 15, 1936 reported RUSSELL as
saying that the I.R.A. in Ireland had airplanes hidden there, manned
by skilled pilots, and had large supplies of ammnition concealed in
both England and Ireland.
The New York Times of November l4, 1927 reported the
arrest in Dublin, of SEAN RUSSELL, together with MICHAEL PRINCE, for
violation of the Free State Treason Act.
The New York Sun:of August 23, 1937 indicated that SEAN
RUSSELL was then in San Francisco, and was engaged in touring the Un--
ited States to rally Irish-Americans to his CLAN NA GAEL.
The New York Times of June 6, 1939 reflected the ar-
rest of RUSSELL, reputed leader of the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARIY, in De-
troit, by Federal Agents on June 5, l939. RUSSELL was accompanied by
JOSEPH McGARRITY of Philadelphia, kmovm as an I.R.A. leader in the Un-
ited States, who was not held by the authorities. RUSSELL was arres-
ted in front of the Michigan Central Railway station, and was said to
have been touring the United States making speeches. McGARRITY, who
was registered at a hotel in Detroit, expressed surprise at the ar-
rest, and stated that he and RuSsELL had come from Chicago to Detroit
to see some friends, and said that he was an old friend of RUsSELL who
had been here for about six weeks on a valid passport.
RUSSELL was held at Detention Headquarters in Detroit,
Michigan, and THOMAS FX CHAWKE and FRANKKANE, attorneys, were re-
ported to have been engaged to represent' RuSSELL. The State Depart-
ment was reported as denying-receipt of any request for RuSSELL'S ex-
tradition, and this New York Times report indicated that J. BUGAS,
FBI official in charge of the Detroit Office had declined to discuss
the case.
The New York Tines of June 7, 1939 indicated that RUS-
SELL was held at Immigration Detention Quarters as a Federal prisoner
man of the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARlfY, and is reported to state that he
had intended going fron Chicago to Nevr York City, and thence to Ire-
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