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Queen Elizabeth II faced a potential assassination threat during a 1983 visit to the United States, newly released FBI documents show.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a cache of files relating to the late Queen's travels to the US, following her death last year

The 102-page cache was uploaded to the Vault, the FBI's information website, on Monday, following a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by US media outlets

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The FBI warned the Secret Service that "Irish groups" were planning protests at the stadium and "an Irish group had reserved a large block of grandstand tickets" to the game.

The bureau told NBC News there might be "additional records" that exist besides the ones released this week, but it did not set out a timetable for their publication.

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