CIA siege: Armed man in custody after sparking huge response at agency’s Virginia headquarters
Armed police have swarmed the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Virginia with an armed man taken into custody, according to US news outlets.
Fairfax County Police posted to social media that heavily armed police had rushed to the agency’s base in McLean on Wednesday, shortly after 10am, local time, in response to a “barricade incident”, advising motorists of road closures as a result.
Armed members of the FBI SWAT team were seen arriving outside the facility shortly afterwards amid reports that it was put on lockdown in response to the incident.
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The outlet said there were no reports of shots being fired and that several news stations reported that an armed individual was seen experiencing a mental health crisis in the area earlier.
Local station ABC7 said that officials had stated that a man had taken out a handgun and pointed it at the facility.
The incident comes a day after the Trump administration released 80,000 pages of files on the JFK assassination.
