IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.51
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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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land, but decided to stop in Detroit to see some friends. J. L.
ZURBRICK, Immigration Service District Director at Detroit, was re-
ported as saying that he, RUsSELL, would be held until his passport
was received from Washington. RUSSELL was alleged to have entered.
the United States through false and misleading statements. RUSSELL
was quoted as saying: "McGARRITY vas chief organizer in the United
States of the CLAN NA GAEL, a group of friends of the Irish patriots
who are fighting for Irish liberty#xxxx#.' RUSSELL denied any intent
to visit Windsor, Ontario, where the King and Queen of England were
due to disembark at the time of RUSSEtL'S arrest, and RUSSELL indi-
cated that he had been on a speaking tour of the United States for
five weeks. The British War Office was quoted as denying that they
had made the request for RUSSELL'S detention, and no receipt of any
request for extradition was kmowm of.
The New York Times of June 8, 1939 reflected that RUS-
SELL was released by District Director ZURBRIcK after notification from
Washington, D. C. that a $5,Ooo. bond for RUSsELL had been approved.
RUSSELL, according to this press item, Was to have a hearing in Detroit
on the following Saturday on a deportation warrant charging that he
had overstayed a thirty day visitor's permit.
Previously, the Nev York Tines of June l, l939 was re-
ported to be comsidering an attenpt to extradite RUSSELL reported to
e
The Nev York Sun of May 3l, 1939 reported that as re-
presentative of the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY in the United StateS, JOSEPH
McGARRITY of 49O9 Wymnfield Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had
forwarded to President RoosEvELT, the text of a resolution of the
CUMANN NA MBAN, anIrish Women's Nationalist Organization, protesting
Aagainst the-cooperation of the American Police in the RUSSELL affair.
McGARRITY indicated that he was concerned by reports that British auth-
orities offered free round trips from Los Angeles to London, to any
that he personally was responsible for the acts of warfare carried out
in England by members of the I.R.A. It was stated that THOMASXDEVLIN,
a reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, amd Patrolman J. S.kOEHR of
the Los Angeles Police Department, had accepted this offer.
The New York Times of June 7, 1939 reported that Chief
Constable ALBERT CANNING of Scotland Yard had disclosed that it was
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