Man in custody after armed police swarm CIA headquarters over 'barricade incident'
WASHINGTON −A man was taken into custody after armed police swarmed the federal Central Intelligence Agency headquarters on Wednesday, according to multiple news outlets.
The Fairfax County, Virginia Police Department did not immediately respond to a query from Paste BN.
Heavily armed police rushed to respond to a "barricade incident" at the headquarters of the CIA in McLean, Virginia, on Wednesday, shutting down the road outside in both directions, Fairfax County Police said on X.
The incident began shortly after 10 a.m., according to a Fairfax County Police Department post on X alerting motorists to a road closure outside CIA headquarters.
The CIA issued a statement at about 1:24 pm saying, "There is an ongoing incident that law enforcement is currently responding to outside CIA Headquarters.”
Fairfax police said no reports of shots fired had come over the radio. Some local news stations reported an armed man experiencing a mental health crisis in the area earlier.
The incident comes one day after the Trump administration released new and newly unredacted spy agency files about 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Local TV station ABC7 quoted officials as saying a man pulled out a handgun and pointed it at CIA headquarters. It quoted a law enforcement official as saying no shots had been fired and no injuries were reported. It said the Fairfax County Police Bomb Squad was on-scene.
WUSA9 reported that the incident involved an armed man experiencing a mental health crisis on CIA property just outside headquarters, which is closed to the public and heavily guarded.
(This is a breaking story that will be updated.)