Possible target assassination attempt became Queen Elizabeth during an official visit to the United States in 1983, according to FBI documents.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation released a series of files linked to the former monarch of the United Kingdom following her death last September.

They show how the FBI acted to protect Elizabeth’s safety, fearful of IRA threats.

The death threat was “revealed” to a San Francisco police officer who, according to documents, the owner of an Irish pub, alerted federal agents to a phone call from a man he met there.

According to the policeman, the man told him that he wanted to avenge his daughter, “killed in Northern Ireland”. from a plastic ball.

The threat was made on February 4, 1983, about a month before the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, crossed the Atlantic.

According to the document, “a man will try to harm Queen Elizabeth, either by throwing something from the Golden Gate Bridge on the royal ship Britannia, or he will try to her kill during her visit to Yosemite National Park“.

In response to the threat, the Secret Service decided to “close the sidewalks on the Golden Gate Bridge as the ship approaches.” It’s unclear what action was taken in Yosemite, but the royal couple’s visit to the park went according to plan.

file of 102 pages was posted on Vault, an FBI intelligence website, at the request of US media.

Many of Elizabeth’s visits to America, including her trip to the West Coast in 1983, took place at a time when tensions were high in Northern Ireland.

According to the documents, during her trip to New York in 1976, one pilot was accused of flying a small plane over Battery Park with a banner reading “England Get Out of Ireland”.

According to the records, the FBI remained on the alert for what they saw as a real threat to Elizabeth.

Recall that her second cousin, Lord Mountbatten lost his life after an IRA bomb attack on his boat off the coast of Ireland in 1979.

Source: BBC