Question Is: What Was The FBI Doing At Burning Man?

The FBI has allegedly admitted to gathering secret intelligence about the Black Rock City festival since 2010. Read more below.

As strange as it sounds, it’s legit. The FBI have been keeping close tabs on Burning Man over the last five years. What does that mean, exactly? Well, apart from spying on the actual festival when it happens, the undercover agent admitted to having files on all attendees of Burning Man, who often go by ‘burners’.

2012 Burning Man

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The question is, why would the Federal agents be interested in the festival at all? An August 19, 2010 memo from the FBI to all field offices says the Bureau would work with the local authorities to “aid in the prevention of terrorist activities and intelligence collection.” Another memo, a week later, says the Bureau was contacted by a security company hired by Burning Man to do a threat assessment. The FBI said it had “no intelligence indicating any outside threats, domestic or international,” to the event. To the Bureau’s knowledge, the greatest threats during the festival were “crowd control issues and use of illegal drugs by participants.”

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Apparently, internal documents of this were provided to investigative journalist Inkoo Kang in February 2013, but for some reason, they were made public only recently, as the 29th edition of the festival was underway.

Stranger things have happened, folks. Keep tabs here for more news.

(Story Via: rt.com)