Newly released FBI documents reveal a possible IRA threat to Queen Elizabeth II's life during her official visit to the United States in 1983.
Newly released FBI documents detail a potential plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 visit to the United States.A man claimed he was going to try harm Elizabeth while she was in CaliforniaThe cache of files released on the Bureau's website, shows intelligence provided to agents about threats to the Queen on her trip.The officer said he received a call from a man he met at an Irish pub.
He claimed he was going to attempt to harm the Queen and would do this "either by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the Royal Yacht Britannia when it sails underneath," or when she visited Yosemite National Park, the document said. The document noted the officer who told the FBI of the plot was "Generally cooperative although he makes no secret of his sympathies for the IRA".
Ahead of her 1989 visit to Kentucky, an internal FBI memo said "the possibility of threats against the British Monarchy is ever-present from the Irish Republican Army".
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