IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 · p.52
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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 his request that American authorities arrested RUSSELL, and that
RUSSELL had come to the United States in May of l939, after the King
and Queen of England had landed in Quebec, and that RUSSELL'S trail
was picked up in Butte, Montana.
Sun of June l6, l939, vhere RUSSELL is reported as speaking to an :
audience of l2oo people in the main auditorium of the Transport House,
153 West 64th Street, New York City, at a mass meeting sponsored by
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Another speaker Was SHAMUSKBRISLANE, member of the CLAN NA GAEL. RUS-
SELL requested financial Support for the I.R.A., and in this speech re-
gaged in the campaigm of bombing.
This report reflected that RUSSELL had been in Los An-
geles on May 31, l939, and entered the United States at New York City
on April l5, l939 with a temporary visitor's visa issued by the Aner-
ican Consul at Dublin on April 6, l939. RUSsELL had an Irish passport
and obtained the visitor's permit to visit a relative in The Bronx,
New York City. He was described as 40 years of age, Director of hiun-
itions in the Anglo-Irish War ending in l922, and as one of two old-
timers who signed a proclamation signaling the start of a wave of
1938. He, together with GEORGEXPLUNKETT, had been condemmed to death
after the Easter Rebellion of l9l6, but were later freed. Their or-
ganization began flourishing in l932, and was declared illegal in
1935, and on March 30, 1939, the Irish Parliament passed a bill making
treason punishable by death, it apparently being considered an act of
treason to belong to this organization.
The New York Sun of August 3, l939 indicated_that RUS-
SELL was to be refused entry to Great Britain, and was umofficially
reported as having then entered the coumtry secretly and his arrest
ordered.
The New York Sun of August 8, 1939 reflected that the
Labor Departnent had advised that RUSSELL agreed to leave the United
States, and that his $5,ooo. bond would be cancelled upon his reporting
,to an American Consul in a foreigm port. His whereabouts at/the tine
was umkmowm, but he was believed still to be in the United States.
The New York Times of August 13, 1939 reflected that
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