Newly launched FBI information present the bureau was involved about “ever-present” threats to Queen Elizabeth II by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) throughout visits to the US.
A memo warning brokers in Boston and New York to stay “alert for any threats” forward of a 1989 go to to the east coast was amongst 102 pages of data launched concerning the late Queen.
Other particulars embrace a police tip-off a few risk from an IRA sympathiser who needed revenge for the dying of his daughter.
The officer who supplied the knowledge claimed {that a} month earlier than Ronald and Nancy Reagan hosted Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1983, he obtained a telephone name from a person he knew from an Irish pub.
According to the memo, the person stated his daughter had been killed by a rubber bullet in Northern Ireland.
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“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,” the confidential file states.
The paperwork present FBI brokers routinely shared intelligence and preparations with the US Secret Service concerning the IRA and its sympathisers throughout royal visits.
The FBI’s issues about potential IRA violence towards members of the Royal Family weren’t unfounded. In 1979, Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin, Lord “Dickie” Mountbatten, was killed in an IRA bombing in Ireland.
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During a 1991 go to when the late Queen and President George Bush deliberate to attend a Baltimore Orioles baseball recreation by helicopter, FBI brokers shared intelligence with the Secret Service that “Irish groups” have been planning protests at Memorial Stadium.
A memo cites an article printed within the Philadelphia Irish Newspaper that said “anti-British feelings” have been operating excessive as a result of “injustices inflicted on the Birmingham Six”.
It refers to 6 Irishmen who have been wrongfully despatched to jail for the IRA bombing of two pubs in Birmingham. Their convictions have been overturned a couple of months earlier than the royal go to.
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The FBI file said the article contained no direct threats however its contents “could be viewed as being inflammatory,” and that “an Irish group had reserved a large block of grandstand tickets” to the sport.
The data have been launched following a freedom of knowledge request submitted after Queen Elizabeth II’s dying on 8 September.
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