An FBI file referring to a go to to the US by the late Queen Elizabeth II has revealed a possible plot to assassinate her.
The doc, accessible on the FBI’s on-line vault, outlines what seems to be intelligence offered to federal brokers a couple of risk to the queen’s life in California 40 years in the past.
The queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, made an official go to to the US west coast in February and March 1983.
The file states {that a} telephone name was made by “a person who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Eire by a rubber bullet”.
It provides: “This man moreover claimed that he was going to try to hurt Queen Elizabeth and would do that both by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge on to the royal yacht Britannia when it sails beneath, or would try to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite nationwide park.”
The file refers to a membership that “has a preferred popularity as a republican bar that’s frequented by sympathisers with the Provisional Irish Republican Military”.
One other doc, amongst greater than 100 pages revealed by the FBI on-line, this time referring to the Queen’s state go to to the US in 1991, reveals considerations that Irish teams have been planning to protest on the monarch’s attendance at a baseball sport in addition to a White Home occasion. The knowledge got here from the Philadelphia Irish paper titled Irish Version.
The file stated: “The article acknowledged anti-British emotions are working excessive because of well-publicised injustices inflicted on the Birmingham Six by the corrupt English judicial system and the current rash of brutal murders of unarmed Irish nationalists within the six counties by loyalist loss of life squads.
“Although the article contained no threats in opposition to the president or the queen, the statements may very well be considered as being inflammatory. The article acknowledged that an Irish group had reserved a big block of grandstand tickets.”
A separate file among the many paperwork, dated 1989, stated that whereas the FBI was unaware of any particular threats in opposition to the queen, “the opportunity of threats in opposition to the British monarchy is ever current from the Irish Republican Military”.
The Queen’s second cousin, Lord Mountbatten, was killed in an IRA bombing in County Sligo in Eire in 1979.
