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CIA headquarters swarmed by cops over ‘man with a gun’ as SWAT is called in just hours after JFK files were released
A bomb squad has been called out as part of the 'massive' police response
DOZENS of cops have swarmed CIA headquarters after a man with a gun stormed an entry gate at the federal facility.
One person has reportedly been taken into custody after police and SWAT teams shut down roads leading to the CIA campus to investigate the threat.
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Police called the emergency in McLean, Virginia, a barricade situation after they rushed to the scene before 11 am.
An hours-long standoff ensued and initial reports indicated a suspect fired a gun in the air.
However, law enforcement later said no shots had been fired but they confirmed the suspect pointed a gun at the facility.
"There is an ongoing incident that law enforcement is currently responding to outside CIA Headquarters," a CIA spokesperson said.
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"Additional details will be made available as appropriate."
A passerby called the police response "massive" with the entrance to the CIA complex and nearby streets blocked off by police, military vehicles, and fire trucks.
The warned residents of the road closures due to a "barricade incident at CIA HQ."
Other than confirming a threat at the gate, the CIA hasn't given any more information about what's going on.
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Scanner traffic indicated one person had been taken into custody and the scene appeared to be clearing by 3:15 pm.
The CIA complex is less than 10 miles from Washington, DC.
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The incident on Wednesday morning isn't the first time CIA headquarters has been targeted.
In 2021, a man was shot by an FBI agent and rushed to the hospital after he brought a gun to the complex, reported.
And in 1993, a Pakistani man killed two CIA employees and wounded three others stationed outside the agency's headquarters.
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The attack comes just hours after President Donald Trump released a portion of classified documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Over 80,000 pages related to the investigation into the November 22, 1963, shooting had yet to be released.
On Tuesday night, Trump fulfilled a campaign promise by releasing 63,400 files about JFK's assassination.
Sleuths hoped the new docs would provide insight into decades-long rumors that the mafia was behind the president's murder.
The reluctance to release the documents also fueled speculation about a possible CIA or government cover-up.
However, presidential historian Michael Beschloss told NBC News he wasn't sure the newly-released reports would expose any further information.
“There are so many theories that are conflicting," Beschloss said.
"It’s very hard for me to imagine that there will be one piece of evidence that will make everyone agree on what happened here.
"What most people do agree is that the killing of John Kennedy changed history, and mainly in a bad way.”
Trump's release adds to the 13,000 records the Biden administration made public in December 2022.
The previous administration only released the documents after it was sued by the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the country’s largest nonprofit repository of JFK assassination records.
“It’s high time that the government got its act together and obeyed the spirit and the letter of the law,” Jefferson Morley, vice president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation, told NBC News at the time.
“This is about our history and our right to know it."
Biden said documents were withheld to "protect against an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or the conduct of foreign relations that is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.”
Some presidential historians argue there's no reason for keeping the documents classified.
“We’re 59 years after President John Kennedy was killed, and there’s just no justification for this,” US District Judge John Tunheim said.
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