IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · 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.
ZURBR3DK, Immigration Service District Director at Detroit, was re-
ported as saying that be, RUSSELL, irotQ.d be held tmtil bis passport
was received from Washington. RUSSELL was alleged to have entered
the United States through false and misleading statements. RUSSELL
was quoted as saying: *>McGARRITI iras chief organizer in the Uaited
States of the GULN UK GAEt, a group of ftiends of the Irish patriots
who are fitting for Irish liberty*)H8w^«.' RUSSELL denied any intent
to visit Windsor, Ontario, where the King and Queen of England were
due to disezobark at the time of RUSSELL'S arrest, and RUSSELL indi-
cated that he had been on a speaking tovir of the United States for
five weeks. The British War Office was quoted as dez]Qring that th^ 1
had made the request for RUSSELL*S detention, and no receipt of any
request fen: extradition was known of.
/ The New York Times of June 8, 1939 reflected that RUS-
;ELL was released by District Director ZURBRICK after notification from
Washington, D« C. that a 15^000, bond for RUSSELL had been approved.
RUSSELL, according to this press item, was to haive a hearing in De'broit
on the foUovring Saturday on a deportation warrant charging that he
had overstayed a thirty day visitor's permit.
Previously, the Nevf York Times of June 1, 1939 was re-
y ported to be considering an attenpt to extradite RUSSELL reported to
^ be in California for prosecution for the bombings in England.
The New York Sun of May 31, 1939 reported that as re-
presentative of the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY in the United States, JOSEPH
McGARRITY of A909 ^tsmnfield Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn^lvania, had
forwarded to President ROOSEVELT, the text of a resolution of the
^CyiJANN NA MBAN, af^/Irish V^m^ protesting
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^SagfidnsT"'tfee-cooperation"of the American Police in the RUSSELL affair.
IScGARRITI indicatedxhat he was conceined fay reports that British auth-
orities offered free ro\md trips from Los Angeles to London, to Bxsy
two American citizens idio had heard RUSSELL declare in Los Angeles
that he personally was responsible for the acts of warfare carried out
in Ehgland by menibers of the I.R.A. It was stated that THOMAS'^EVLIN,
a reporter of the Los Angeles Examiner, and Patrolman J. S.'^d^OEHR of
the Los Angeles Police Department, had accepted this offer. '"^
The New York Times of June 7, 1939 reported that Chief
Nonstable AISERT CANNINQ of Scotland Yard had disclosed that it was