According to the FBI, Queen Elizabeth was close to being the victim of an assassination attempt

II. Queen Elizabeth II was exposed to a potential assassination attempt during her visit to America in 1983, according to newly released FBI documents.

The FBI released files related to the Queen’s trips to America after her death last year. These show how concerned the FBI, which helped ensure the monarch’s security during her visits, was about threats from the Irish Republican Army (IRA), reports the BBC.

A San Francisco police officer was informed of the threat. According to the file, a police officer frequented an Irish pub in San Francisco and alerted federal agents to a call from a man he met there. The officer said the man told him he wanted revenge for his daughter, who had been killed in Northern Ireland.

According to the FBI, it wasn’t long ago

The threat came on February 4, 1983, about a month before World War II. Before Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip’s visit to California.

“He would have tried to harm Queen Elizabeth, either by throwing an object from the Golden Gate Bridge onto the royal yacht Britannia as she passed under it, or by trying to kill Queen Elizabeth while she was visiting Yosemite National Park ” the document states.

In response to the threat, the Secret Service planned to “close the sidewalks on the Golden Gate Bridge as the yacht approaches.” It is not clear what measures were taken in the national park, but the visit took place. The FBI did not release details about the arrests.

The 102-page document was uploaded to the FBI’s information website, the Vault, on Monday after US media outlets filed a Freedom of Information Act request. Many of the late Queen’s visits to the United States, including a visit to the West Coast in 1983, came at a time of heightened tensions over riots in Northern Ireland. In 1976, the late queen visited New York for the American bicentennial celebrations.

The documents show how a pilot was issued a summons for flying a small plane over Battery Park with a sign reading “England out of Ireland”. The files show that even after this, the FBI kept a watchful eye on what it considered to be a real threat to the late queen. His second cousin, Lord Mountbatten, died in 1979 in an IRA bomb attack off the coast of County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

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