This is a breaking news alert…
A security incident has been reported at Deep State Headquarters…..sorry, I mean “CIA Headquarters”.
Here’s what we know so far:
⚠️🇺🇸#URGENT: Major security incident occurring at the CIA Headquarters in Virginia#Langley l #VA
Roads have been closed surrounding the complex. Witnesses on scene reported hearing gunfire shortly ago.
Standby as I verify further information on this unfolding incident. pic.twitter.com/AqvPDnMA5M— Intel Point Alert (@IntelPointAlert) May 3, 2021
Ambulance arriving on the scene at CIA Headquarters after we heard 13 loud bangs that sounded like gunshots. https://t.co/BfFuYSuZZm pic.twitter.com/kZwBkXGsPV
— Julia Cherner (@JuliaCherner) May 3, 2021
MSDNC Reports:
Breaking News: "Ongoing security incident" at CIA Headquarters, according to police@KenDilanianNBC joins us with more pic.twitter.com/oiRGxyHsmG
— Katy Tur Reports (@KatyOnMSNBC) May 3, 2021
And from NBC News:
A police spokesman tells NBC News there is an ongoing security incident outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia that is being handled by the spy agency’s guard force.
The Fairfax County Police spokesman said his police department was helping manage traffic outside the heavily guarded main CIA entrance, off a busy thoroughfare in a Virginia suburb near Washington, D.C.
Two law enforcement officials said an intruder tried to drive into the CIA facility without access and was stopped by armed guards, who operate a series of gates. One official familiar with the matter said no shots had been fired, and another law enforcement source said CIA security officers were negotiating with the person, who remained in his or her vehicle.
In a statement, an agency spokeswoman said, “In coordination with our local law enforcement partners, we are addressing a security situation just outside the secure perimeter of CIA Headquarters by our main gate. Our compound remains secured, and our Security Protective Officers working the incident are the only Agency personnel directly involved.”
The FBI’s local field office also released a statement, saying after receiving a report of a suspicious vehicles, the FBI “joined our law enforcement partners at the scene to assist in addressing the situation.”
The headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va.
The headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va.Daniel Slim / AFP via Getty Images file
A reporter on the scene from the NBC News station in Washington, D.C., WRC-TV, observed a significant amount of police activity around the security gates to the headquarters complex. The buildings themselves are set far back from the gates.Security around the CIA is taken especially seriously because in 1993, a Pakistani national killed two CIA employees in their cars and wounded three others as they were waiting at a stoplight near that main entrance. Mir Aimal Kasi, also known as Mir Aimal Kansi, fled and was at large for four years before being arrested, returned to the U.S., tried and convicted. He was executed in 2002.
A police spokesman tells @NBCNews there is an ongoing security incident outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, that is being handled by the spy agency's guard force. https://t.co/GwHWVZa986
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 3, 2021
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