FBI files reveal a plan to kill Elizabeth II during a trip to the United States

Files published by the fbi on various visits made by Isabel II to USA in the 1980s and 1990s they revealed threats and a potential plan to assassinate the iconic monarch, who died last September at the age of 96.

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Among these documents, published on the website of the US federal police, is a note relating to a trip made by the British Queen and her husband, the prince philipto California in 1983.

According to information obtained by the police San Francisco through a source close to Irish nationalist circles, a man who claimed that “his daughter was murdered in North Ireland by a rubber bullet” had made plans “to attack Queen Elizabeth.”

I planned to “throwing an object from the bridge golden gate about the royal yacht’Britannia‘ when he went under, or trying to kill the queen during his visit to the national park of Yosemite”precise.

Four years earlier, in 1979, the armed group GONNA (Irish Republican Army) assassinated Louis Mountbattendistant cousin of Isabel II and her husband’s uncle, planting a bomb on his boat. It was the height of the Northern Irish conflict that pitted Catholic republicans and Protestant unionists for 30 years, with the participation of the British army.

Another note, relating to a state visit by the monarch in 1991, refers to threats by Irish groups to disrupt events he was supposed to attend, such as a baseball game and a reception at the White House.

A 1989 document ensures that, although there were no specific threats against the queen, “The possibility of threats against the British monarchy is ever present from the GONNA”.

Elizabeth II, who died last September in Scotland At 96, he was the target of other assassination attempts.

In 1970 suspected IRA sympathizers tried to derail his train west of sydneyin Australiaand in 1981 the GONNA planned a bomb attack during a trip north of Scotland.

That same year, a mentally challenged teenager fired a bullet into the queen’s car during a visit to New Zealand. Also in 1981, another teenager fired six blanks at him during a military parade to celebrate the monarch’s birthday in downtown London.

Source: Elcomercio

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