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LONDON: A new cache of FBI files has revealed a possible plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to California in 1983.
The potential threat followed a phone call made by “a man who claimed his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet,” according to the document, which also refers to a pub frequented by IRA sympathizers.
The Queen and her husband Prince Philip He visited the West Coast of the United States in February and March 1983, and the trip passed without incident.
Four years earlier in 1979, IRA paramilitaries massacred opponents of British rule in Northern Ireland. Louis Mountbattenthe last colonial ruler of India and Philip’s uncle, is killed in a bomb attack.
The file states that the man claimed he was going to try to harm the Queen “either by dropping some objects from the Golden Gate Bridge onto the British royal yacht when it was sailing under it”.
Instead, they added, “he will try to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visits Yosemite National Park.”
A separate file among the documents, dated 1989, indicated that while the FBI was unaware of any specific threats against the Queen, “the potential for threats against the British monarchy has always existed by the IRA”.
The queen, who died last September at the age of 96, had previously been reported to have been the target of other assassination plots.
In 1970 IRA sympathizers tried unsuccessfully to derail her train west of Sydney, while in 1981 the IRA attempted to bomb her on a visit to Shetland, off the north-east coast of Scotland.
In the same year, a mentally ill teenager fired a single shot at the Queen’s car during a visit to New Zealand.
Another teen fired six blanks at her during the Trooping the Color parade in central London.
The potential threat followed a phone call made by “a man who claimed his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet,” according to the document, which also refers to a pub frequented by IRA sympathizers.
The Queen and her husband Prince Philip He visited the West Coast of the United States in February and March 1983, and the trip passed without incident.
Four years earlier in 1979, IRA paramilitaries massacred opponents of British rule in Northern Ireland. Louis Mountbattenthe last colonial ruler of India and Philip’s uncle, is killed in a bomb attack.
The file states that the man claimed he was going to try to harm the Queen “either by dropping some objects from the Golden Gate Bridge onto the British royal yacht when it was sailing under it”.
Instead, they added, “he will try to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visits Yosemite National Park.”
A separate file among the documents, dated 1989, indicated that while the FBI was unaware of any specific threats against the Queen, “the potential for threats against the British monarchy has always existed by the IRA”.
The queen, who died last September at the age of 96, had previously been reported to have been the target of other assassination plots.
In 1970 IRA sympathizers tried unsuccessfully to derail her train west of Sydney, while in 1981 the IRA attempted to bomb her on a visit to Shetland, off the north-east coast of Scotland.
In the same year, a mentally ill teenager fired a single shot at the Queen’s car during a visit to New Zealand.
Another teen fired six blanks at her during the Trooping the Color parade in central London.
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