FBI documents reveal secret threat to ‘harm Queen Elizabeth’ during 1983 trip to US

FBI documents reveal secret threat to ‘harm Queen Elizabeth’ during 1983 trip to US

The paperwork had been launched this week on the FBI’s information web site. Queen Elizabeth II died final September after a 70-year reign.

The queen’s West Coast go to along with her husband, Prince Philip, included a cease in San Francisco in March 1983.

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The FBI has disclosed a possible menace to Queen Elizabeth II throughout her 1983 journey to the United States. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)

The FBI mentioned {that a} San Francisco police officer who frequented a bar fashionable with sympathisers of the Irish Republican Army had acquired a cellphone name in February 1983 from a person who claimed his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet.

According to the paperwork, the person mentioned he was going to “attempt to harm Queen Elizabeth” by both dropping an object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the queen’s royal yacht or attempt to kill her throughout a go to to Yosemite National Park.

The paperwork mentioned the Secret Service meant to shut the bridge’s walkways because the yacht drew close to.

US President Ronald Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II
US President Ronald Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II elevate their glasses in a toast throughout a state dinner in 1983. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

The names of the officer and the caller had been redacted within the paperwork, which didn’t point out whether or not precautions had been taken at Yosemite or whether or not any arrests had been made.

A March 7, 1983, memo indicated the queen accomplished the U.S. go to “without incident” and that “no further investigation is warranted.”

The paperwork detailed different safety issues involving the queen’s visits to varied U.S. cities.

When she attended a Baltimore Orioles sport with President George H.W. Bush in May 1991, a number of dozen demonstrators within the park chanted slogans condemning Britain’s coverage in Northern Ireland.

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