Before Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to San Francisco, a man seeking revenge for his daughter’s death threatened to injure or “kill” the monarch “when she visits Yosemite National Park.”
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, visited San Francisco in 1983 after spending a few days in Los Angeles and at US President Ronald Reagan’s private ranch. About a month before that visit, reports of a possible threat against the British monarch reached the FBI.
The alert came from a local police officer (who has not been identified), who used to frequent a pub Irish. On February 4, 1983, he received a call from a man he knew from that establishment, supposedly a sympathizer of the IRA, a nationalist group that advocates the reunification of the two Irelands, stating that “his daughter had been murdered in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet”.
In the more than 102 pages of confidential documents that were released publicly this Monday, which are cited by NBC News, it reads that “this man also alleged that he would try to harm Queen Elizabeth II by throwing something from the Golden Gate Bridge into the royal yacht Britannia when she passed under or would she try to kill Queen Elizabeth II when she visited Yosemite National Park“.
In response to this possible threat to the safety of the monarch who died in September of last year, according to the New York Post, US intelligence services outlined plans to close the walkways of the Golden Gate Bridge as the date approached. Britannia.
The police warned the FBI – even before learning about the alleged threat – that due to the protests against Reagon and against Elizabeth II during their visit to San Francisco it would be “very difficult to foresee or prevent incidents that could embarrass the Queen or the President”. ” . Even so, the international press points out, the documents do not show that anyone has been arrested for attempting to carry out any violent act against the monarch for political reasons on this or any other visit.
Despite this, FBI records reflect a potential danger that could exist for the Queen whenever she visited the US: the IRA and their sympathizers.
Source: Observadora
