The FBI has disclosed a potential threat to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1983 trip to the United States.
The documents were released this week on the FBI含羞草研究社檚 records website. Queen Elizabeth II after a 70-year reign.
The queen含羞草研究社檚 West Coast visit with her husband, Prince Philip, included a stop in San Francisco in March 1983. The FBI said that a San Francisco police officer who frequented a bar popular with sympathizers of the Irish Republican Army had received a phone call in February 1983 from a man who claimed his daughter had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet.
According to the documents, the man said he was going to 含羞草研究社渁ttempt to harm Queen Elizabeth含羞草研究社 by either dropping an object off the Golden Gate Bridge onto the queen含羞草研究社檚 royal yacht or try to kill her during a visit to Yosemite National Park. The documents said the Secret Service intended to close the bridge含羞草研究社檚 walkways as the yacht drew near.
The names of the officer and the caller were redacted in the documents, which did not indicate whether precautions were taken at Yosemite or whether any arrests were made. A March 7, 1983, memo indicated the queen completed the U.S. visit 含羞草研究社渨ithout incident含羞草研究社 and that 含羞草研究社渘o further investigation is warranted.含羞草研究社
The documents detailed other security concerns involving the queen含羞草研究社檚 visits to various U.S. cities. When she attended a Baltimore Orioles game with President George H.W. Bush in May 1991, several dozen demonstrators in the park chanted slogans condemning Britain含羞草研究社檚 policy in Northern Ireland.
The Associated Press