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Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger narrowly escaped an assassination plot hatched in 1969 by the Hells Angels, a new BBC documentary claims.
According to a former FBI agent, the American motorcycle gang targeted Jagger following a purported dispute over concert security.
Jagger only escaped because the boat the would-be killers were using was swamped in a storm, according to a report on the documentary in the The Sunday Telegraph.
Jagger had said he would not use the gang as concert security following a notorious free concert at Altamont Speedway in California in 1969, at which a young fan was killed by members of the Hells Angels.
The details of the plot were recently revealed in the BBC documentary The FBI at 100.
According to Special agent Mark Young, a group of gang members set out in a boat to target Jagger at his holiday home in the Hamptons, New York. They planned to enter the property from the garden adjacent the waterfront. The plan failed when the group were thrown overboard in rough seas. The group survived the swamping, but a second assasination attempt never took place.
It is believed Jagger was never told of the plot against him.
- NZHERALD STAFF
