Queen Elizabeth II faced an assassination threat during a visit to the US in 1983, the FBI has revealed
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The file states that a phone call was made by “a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet”. The file describes a club that “has a popular reputation as a republican bar that is frequented by sympathisers with the Provisional Irish Republican Army ”. A separate document, relating to the Queen’s state visit to the US in 1991, outlined concerns that Irish protestors were planning a demonstration against the Queen during her attendance at a baseball game, alongside a separate White House event.
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