Newly released FBI files show the bureau was concerned about 'ever-present' threats to Queen Elizabeth II by the IRA during visits to the US
were not unfounded. In 1979, Queen Elizabeth's second cousin, Lord"Dickie" Mountbatten, was killed in an IRA bombing in Ireland.During a 1991 visit when the late Queen and President George Bush planned to attend a Baltimore Orioles baseball game by helicopter, FBI agents shared intelligence with the Secret Service that"Irish groups" were planning protests at Memorial Stadium.
It refers to six Irishmen who were wrongfully sent to prison for the IRA bombing of two pubs in Birmingham. Their convictions were overturned a few months before the royal visit.The FBI file stated the article contained no direct threats but its contents"could be viewed as being inflammatory," and that"an Irish group had reserved a large block of grandstand tickets" to the game.
The records were released following a freedom of information request submitted after Queen Elizabeth II's death on 8 September.
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