IRA Part 1 of 7 · 61-7606 sect 1-5 (text layer) · 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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61-555
at his reqxaest that American authorities arrested RUSSELL, and ih&t
RUSSELL had come to the United States in May of 1939, after the King
and Queen of England had landed in (Juebec, and that RUSSELL'S trail
iras picked up in Butte, Montana.
RUSSELL'S activities are next reported in the New Tprk
Sun of Jane 16, 1939, idiere RUSSELL is reported as speaking to an ;
a^udience of 1200 people in the main auditorium of the Transport House,
153 West 64th Street, New lork City, at a mass meeting sponsored l?y
the CULN NA GAEL ani IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMT Cltibs of Greater New York.
Another speaker was SHAMOS^BRISLANE, member of the CIAN NA GAEL. RUS-
SELL requested financial ^port for the I.R.A. , and in this speech re-
ferred to the expediticnaiy force of this organization dn England en-
gaged in the campaign of bombing.
This report reflected that RUSSELL had been in Los An-
geles on May 31, 1939, and entered the United States at New Tork City
on April 15, 1939 with a temporary visitor«s visa issued by the Amer-
ican Consul at Dublin on April 6^ 1939 • RUSSELL had an Irish passport
and obtained the visitor's penoit to visit a relative in The Bronx,
New York Cily He luas described as 40 years of age, Director of Mian-
itions in the Anglo-Irish Viar ending in 1922, and as one of two old-
timers Twho signed a proclamation signaling the start of a wave of
anti-British terrorism in EngJ-and and Ireland beginning in Febmiaiy
1938. He, together mth GBORGEJ^LUNKETT, had been condemned to death
after the Easter Rebellion of l9Jb6, but were later freed. Their or-
ganization began flourishing in 1932, and was declared illegal in
1935, and on March 30, 1939> the Irish Parliament passed a bill making
treason ptinishable by death, it apparently being considered an act of
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treason to belong to this organization*
The New lork Sun of August 3, 1939 indicatedJbhat RUS-
SELL was to be refused entxy to Great Britain, and was unofficially
reported as having then entered the country secretly and his arrest
ordered.
The New lork Sun of August 8, 1939 reflected that the
Labor Departoent had advised that RUSSELL agreed to leave the United
States, and that his $5,CXX). bond would be cancelled ijgpon his reporting
,to an American Consul in a foreign port* His whereabouts at ^the time
Vas unknown, but he was believed still to be in the United states
The Kew York Times of August 13> 1939 reflected that