Washington DC [US], May 14 (ANI): In a development that has stirred controversy in Washington, DC, Fox News reported that the CIA raided the office of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Fox News reported that CIA agents removed dozens of boxes allegedly containing files related to the John F. Kennedy assassination and MKUltra, the CIA’s Cold War-era mind control program, which Gabbard was reportedly in the process of declassifying.
However, Olivia Coleman, press secretary for the Director of National Intelligence, denied the report, calling it inaccurate.
“This is false — the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office,” Coleman said in a post on X.
Meanwhile, Representative Anna Paulina Luna said she would subpoena the CIA if the agency does not return boxes of files allegedly seized from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Luna posted on social media that the CIA has 24 hours to return the files to DNI Tulsi Gabbard or she will issue a subpoena, noting that Congress had requested access to the records.
“The reason why this is troubling, A) there was an executive order that the president directed the full declassification of JFK, but then also to the MK-Ultra files. Famously, the CIA said that all documents were released and other documents had been destroyed,” Luna told NewsNation.
Luna further stated, “Given the nature of docs in question, we are sending a preservation notice. Docs need to be returned to ODNI given that ODNI was given direction and authority by the president to declassify RFK, MLK, and JFK files. Regarding MKUltra, these were documents specifically requested by my task force and currently being used for our investigation.”
Luna chairs the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which is part of a bipartisan effort to declassify files on subjects that have long fueled conspiracy theories.
The MKUltra program, developed during the Cold War, allegedly involved experiments aimed at manipulating and brainwashing subjects through torture techniques and psychoactive drugs such as LSD, according to NewsNation.
Allegations regarding the alleged CIA raid first surfaced during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday, Fox News reported.
Whistleblower James Eardman III claimed that the files were actively being prepared for public release when the CIA allegedly intervened and took possession of them. (ANI)
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