Newly launched FBI recordsdata 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 information launched in regards to the late Queen.
Other particulars embrace a police tip-off a couple of menace from an IRA sympathiser who wished revenge for the dying of his daughter.
The officer who supplied the data claimed {that a} month earlier than Ronald and Nancy Reagan hosted Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in 1983, he obtained a cellphone 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.
“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 in regards to the IRA and its sympathisers throughout royal visits.
The FBI’s issues about potential IRA violence in opposition to 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.
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” had been planning protests at Memorial Stadium.
A memo cites an article printed within the Philadelphia Irish Newspaper that acknowledged “anti-British feelings” had been working excessive on account of “injustices inflicted on the Birmingham Six”.
It refers to 6 Irishmen who had been wrongfully despatched to jail for the IRA bombing of two pubs in Birmingham. Their convictions had been overturned a number of months earlier than the royal go to.
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The FBI file acknowledged 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 information had been launched following a freedom of data request submitted after Queen Elizabeth II’s dying on 8 September.
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