An FBI file from 1983 has revealed a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II... The document says a man planned to harm the monarch during her visit with Prince Philip to the west coast. via MetroUS
It adds: ‘This man additionally claimed that he was going to attempt to harm Queen Elizabeth and would do this either by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the royal yacht Britannia when it sails underneath, or would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite National Park.’
It then refers to a club which ‘has a popular reputation as a republican bar that is frequented by sympathisers with the Provisional Irish Republican Army ’. A separate document relating to Elizabeth II’s state visit to the US in 1991 reveals IRA members were planning to protest her presence at aThis document is among 100 pages published by the FBI online with information from the Philadelphia Irish paper titled Irish Edition.At the time, the IRA was a powerful terrorist organisation
The file states: ‘The article stated anti-British feelings are running high as a result of well publicised injustices inflicted on the Birmingham Six by the corrupt English judicial system and the recent rash of brutal murders of unarmed Irish nationalists in the six counties by loyalist death squads.
‘Though the article contained no threats against the president or the Queen, the statements could be viewed as being inflammatory.
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