The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed the series travel related files RQueen in the USAafter his death last year.
They show how the FBI, which helped secure the monarch during her visits, became concerned about IRA (Irish Republican Army) threats to the monarch.
For example, the docs state that A death threat who learned from a police officer in San Francisco.
According to the file, a police officer who frequented an Irish pub in San Francisco informed federal agents of a statement made by a man he met at the location.
The agent said that this man, in turn, told him that he wanted to avenge his daughter, who “was killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet”.
This threat was recorded on February 4, 1983, about a month before Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip visited California.
“The man was going to try to hurt Queen Elizabeth. This throw an object on the royal yacht Britannia, from the Golden Gate Bridge just as he swam under. Or he tried to kill her when she visited Yosemite National Park,” the document says as evidence from this source.
In response to the threat, the secret services planned to “close the gangways of the Golden Gate as the yacht approached.”
It is not clear what steps were taken in Yosemite, but the actual visit took place. The FBI has not released details of arrests in connection with these incidents.
document, o 102 pages that were uploaded last Monday to Vault, the FBI information site.following a request made by US media under the Freedom of Information Act.
Tensions with Northern Ireland
Many of the late Queen’s state visits to the US, including her visit to the West Coast in 1983, took place at a time of heightened tensions in the UK. amid unrest in Northern Ireland.
In 1976, Elizabeth II was in New York for the celebration of the bicentennial of the United States.
Documents from the time show how a pilot was issued a ticket for flying a small plane over Battery Park in New York with a sign that read: “England, get out of Ireland.”
The files show how the FBI remained vigilant in the face of what it saw as real threats to Elizabeth II.
Not intentionally, The Queen’s second cousin, Lord Mountbattenwho was a politician, diplomat and the last viceroy of India, was killed in an IRA bombing off the coast of County Sligo, Ireland in 1979.
Otherwise, in this case before The Queen’s personal visit to Kentucky in 1989.an internal FBI memo states that “the possibility of threats to the British monarchy is always present from the Irish Republican Army (IRA).”
The memorandum goes on to ask “Boston and New York to remain vigilant for any threat to Queen Elizabeth II by members of the IRA and immediately report all such warnings to (City of) Louisville” in Kentucky.
A racehorse lover and owner, Elizabeth II is known to have visited the state several times during her lifetime to enjoy the site’s equestrian attractions, including the famous Kentucky Derby.
During a state visit in 1991 V The Queen was supposed to watch the Baltimore Orioles baseball game with then President George W. Bush.
On the occasion, the FBI alerted the Secret Service that “Irish groups” were planning protests at the stadium and that “an Irish group has booked a large number of tickets to the stands” for the game.
The FBI told NBC News that there may be “additional documents” in addition to those released this week, but has not set a schedule for its publication.
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Source: La Opinion
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