Document says man claimed he would attempt to harm monarch while she was visiting California
An FBI file relating to a visit to the US by the lateThe document, available on the FBI’s online vault, outlines what appears to be intelligence provided to federal agents about a threat to the queen’s life in California 40 years ago.
The file states that a phone call was made by “a man who claimed that his daughter had been killed inIt adds: “This man additionally claimed that he was going to attempt to harm Queen Elizabeth and would do this either by dropping some object off the Golden Gate Bridge on to the royal yacht Britannia when it sails underneath, or would attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth when she visited Yosemite national park.
Another document, among more than 100 pages published online by the FBI, this time relating to the queen’s state visit to the US in 1991, reveals concerns that Irish groups were planning to protest at the monarch’s attendance at a baseball game as well as a White House event. The information came from a Philadelphia Irish paper titled Irish Edition.
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