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ALL FBI INFORMATION CONTAINED
b6
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
October1986
b7C
DATE03-08-2011 BY
THEPROVISIONALMOVEMENT ANDNORAID
The Provisional IRA is the main terrorist organisation in
Northern Ireland, where over 2,500 people have been killed
in the troubles·of the past 17 years. Its agent in the
United States.is NoRAID,which provides it with financial
(and material) support and has been condemned by successive
Irish Governments.
The Irish Northern Aid Committee, known as NoRAID, is the Provisional
IRA's main fund-raising organisation in the United States and is the major
regular source of.IRA funds from abroad.US Federal investigations have
established links between NoRAID officials and illegal weapons dealers in the
United States.
Support for Irish Republican extremism among the 43.7 million US
citizens'who claim Irish descent (l98l census) has a long history.
The
American branch of the. Fenian Brotherhood, founded in New York in 1858,
reached a climax over 60 years ago. The minority of Irish Americans who now
support the Provisional IRA are inspired by distorted memories of "the
Troubles" of 1919-22 and.of the. subsequent Irish civil war in the south.
veterans of the 1919-22 period.Its publicity director,Martin Galvin,a
lawyer with the New York City Sanitary Department, claimed in 1983 that there
were 92 chapters in 70 cities,that nationa1membership was about 5,000 with
a periphery of 30,000, and that the organisation had so far raised $3
million.In 1985 Galvin told The Irish News that his organisation was
u u s o q d o a
Ireland, north or south.
Galvin has also made contact with Irish communities elsewhere in the.
world.In June 1984 he visited Adelaide, South Australia to attend the
second national conference of Australian Aid for Ireland (AAl),an
organisation founded the ·previous year in Melbourne to unite all existing
"republican support" organisations.
He.urged the AAI to consolidate its base
in the Irish Australian community.
Provisional IRA "welfare"channel
organised for the sole purpose.of feeding and clothing
homeless,-the.
the
FLNFWYORK
conjunction with the Northern freland Office for general briefing purposes.
MAG 1S64 .670
b6
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
October1986
b7C
DATE03-08-2011 BY
THEPROVISIONALMOVEMENT ANDNORAID
The Provisional IRA is the main terrorist organisation in
Northern Ireland, where over 2,500 people have been killed
in the troubles·of the past 17 years. Its agent in the
United States.is NoRAID,which provides it with financial
(and material) support and has been condemned by successive
Irish Governments.
The Irish Northern Aid Committee, known as NoRAID, is the Provisional
IRA's main fund-raising organisation in the United States and is the major
regular source of.IRA funds from abroad.US Federal investigations have
established links between NoRAID officials and illegal weapons dealers in the
United States.
Support for Irish Republican extremism among the 43.7 million US
citizens'who claim Irish descent (l98l census) has a long history.
The
American branch of the. Fenian Brotherhood, founded in New York in 1858,
reached a climax over 60 years ago. The minority of Irish Americans who now
support the Provisional IRA are inspired by distorted memories of "the
Troubles" of 1919-22 and.of the. subsequent Irish civil war in the south.
veterans of the 1919-22 period.Its publicity director,Martin Galvin,a
lawyer with the New York City Sanitary Department, claimed in 1983 that there
were 92 chapters in 70 cities,that nationa1membership was about 5,000 with
a periphery of 30,000, and that the organisation had so far raised $3
million.In 1985 Galvin told The Irish News that his organisation was
u u s o q d o a
Ireland, north or south.
Galvin has also made contact with Irish communities elsewhere in the.
world.In June 1984 he visited Adelaide, South Australia to attend the
second national conference of Australian Aid for Ireland (AAl),an
organisation founded the ·previous year in Melbourne to unite all existing
"republican support" organisations.
He.urged the AAI to consolidate its base
in the Irish Australian community.
Provisional IRA "welfare"channel
organised for the sole purpose.of feeding and clothing
homeless,-the.
the
FLNFWYORK
conjunction with the Northern freland Office for general briefing purposes.
MAG 1S64 .670