The FBI released a report this week revealing a possible plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II of England during an official visit to the United States in 1983, the international press announced on Friday.
According to the document, a San Francisco (California) police officer contacted the FBI to inform them that he had met a man in an Irish pub who, on several occasions, mentioned the possibility of taking the law into his own hands and attacking against the life of the British monarch in revenge for the death of her daughter.
This source explained that the suspect, about a month before the visit of the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, to California, assured that his daughter “had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet,” according to reports. This Friday the British public broadcaster BBC.
At that time, Northern Ireland was the scene of conflicts between supporters of the island’s reunification and those loyal to London (nationalists and unionists).
“He was going to try to attack Queen Elizabeth II and would either do it by throwing an object from the Golden Gate Bridge at the Royal Yacht Britannia as it passed under it, or try to kill the queen when she visited Yosemite National Park,” the source explained. , according to the report FBI report.
For this reason, access to the bridge was prohibited when the royal ship was approaching.
Security measures taken at Yosemite were not mentioned in the report.
The nearly 100-page document was published this week on Vault, the FBI’s website, following a request from various media outlets under the Freedom of Information Act.
It was not the first time that the FBI expressed its concern for the safety of the then British monarch on official visits to the United States, the same thing happening in 1976, in New York, and in 1989, before Elizabeth II traveled to Kentucky.
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 of last year, at the age of 96 and after 70 years of reign.
Source: TSF
