The plot to kill the queen was shared with a San Francisco police officer weeks before her visit. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - A trove of documents released this week by the FBI reveal details about an assassination threat against Queen Elizabeth II before a trip she and her husband made to the United States in 1983, as well as other security concerns linked to the Irish Republican Army.
The unidentified officer said he had received a phone call on Feb. 4, 1983, from a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet. The officer frequented an Irish pub called the Dovre Club, which the FBI described as a gathering place for sympathisers of the IRA.
The man on the phone call shared plans to harm the queen by either “dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the royal yacht Britannia” when it sailed underneath or attempting to kill her during a visit to Yosemite National Park, the documents said. Specific details about how either plot would have been accomplished were not provided.
During another trip, in 1991, the queen attended a Baltimore Orioles game with President George Bush. FBI officials took note of a letter published in a Philadelphia Irish newspaper before the trip.
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