Plot by NI man whose daughter killed by plastic bullet to attack Queen emerges
An FBI file relating to a visit to the United States by the late Queen Elizabeth has revealed a potential plot to assassinate her.
The Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, made an official visit to the west coast of America in February and March 1983.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 refers to a club which “has a popular reputation as a republican bar that is frequented by sympathisers with the Provisional Irish Republican Army ”.
“Though the article contained no threats against the president or the Queen, the statements could be viewed as being inflammatory. The article stated that an Irish group had reserved a large block of grand stand tickets.”
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