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Bombshell report claiming FBI had 274 ‘plainclothes agents’ embedded in J6 crowd spurs more questions

September 26, 2025 | | Print Article

The FBI has reportedly admitted that it had 274 plainclothes agents present during the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

The FBI made the admission to Congress, according to a senior congressional source who spoke with TheBlaze. (*Note: The Blaze is reporting 274 agents, not 275)

This bombshell finding seems to be a direct contradiction of what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in a report released last December.

“We found no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6,” the dubious report read.

However, TheBlaze notes that “[d]epending how one reads ‘undercover’ agents versus ‘plainclothes agents,’ both statements could be true.”

That said, the OIG’s report did also reveal that there were 26 so-called FBI “confidential human sources” present on Jan. 6. Of the 26, four of them trespassed onto the U.S. Capitol, though the OIG claimed none of them were authorized to do so.

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Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), the chairman of the House’s new and improved Jan. 6 committee, has expressed massive interest in finding even more answers.

“One thing that we have learned, and this came on the tail end of the Biden administration, when their Department of Justice admitted that they had many, I mean, more than two dozen, paid informants embedded in the crowd,” he told Just the News this week.

“And so my question is, you know…our FBI does pay to have informants through different organizations, and their primary job is intelligence, you know, to provide information. But, with that many paid informants being in the crowd, we want to know how many were in the crowd, how many were in the building, but I also want to know, were they paid to inform or instigate?” he added.

Loudermilk also said he would like to know whether the FBI’s informants passed any information to leadership before the riot erupted.

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“​​But of these informants, if they were paid to inform, what information did the FBI actually get from them?” he said. “How did they not know that this was coming? If they had that many paid informants, I believe they did know it was coming.”

He further suggested that some of the informants may have purposefully remained silent beforehand because they wanted to see a riot occur.

“You know that we do have evidence that there were people that were instigating, such as a Metropolitan Police Officer that was undercover in plainclothes,” he said. “The question would be — when we get more evidence of people who are instigating that may be part of the government or maybe in law enforcement — were they caught up in the moment, or did they have orders to do this? Was this pre-planned?”

“Or is it just something that somebody decided, you know, that would be really good if we could catch some of these MAGA people rioting at the end of 2020…not necessarily thinking they’re going to get into the Capitol, but maybe?” he added.

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Meanwhile on social media, sleuths are beginning to try to identify Jan. 6 rioters who were seen on camera who may have been FBI agents.

Below is one prime example:

Below appears to be another:

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