Nearly 50 FBI, Homeland, Army Intelligence, JTTF Agents Worked on Jan. 6: Court Filing

The heavy presence of undercover federal agents constituted an ‘induced entrapment of all who were at the Capitol,’ defendant William Pope wrote.

An FBI special agent (L) responds to the shooting of Ashli Babbitt at the U.S. Capitol. FBI agents (R) escort senators from the Hart Senate Office Building to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. Capitol Police/Graphic by The Epoch Times

Nearly 50 FBI special agents and members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)—including U.S. Army counterintelligence, Homeland Security, and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) personnel—were on duty Jan. 6, 2021, and later provided affidavits in federal Jan. 6 criminal cases, a new court filing says.

A motion by defendant William Pope of Topeka, Kansas, suggested that many of those agents were on U.S. Capitol grounds during the protests and breach that took place on that day.