A CIA official said the FBI was in attendance at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and warned government agencies could find ways to "put anyone in jail."
In an undercover video released by Sound Investigations, Gavin O'Blennis, a contracting officer for the CIA, said upwards of 20 FBI agents were present amongst the crowd at the Capitol riot.
O'Blennis, who previously worked for the FBI from 2021 to 2022, said government agencies could "put anyone in jail if you know what to do."
"You set 'em up," O'Blennis told the undercover reporter. "You create the situation to where they have no choice but to act on their impulse. And once they act on that impulse, some would call that entrapment."
When asked if the FBI frequently practiced entrapment, O'Blennis said the agency gets "really close," noting the agency rode a "fine line" with entrapment.
"We get as close as we can to it without doing it," he added.
The undercover Sound Investigations reporter suggested the agency could "entrap some of these pro-lifers" into carrying out acts they wouldn't organically engage in, to which O'Blennis referred to the act as a "nudge."
"If we're to that point, we already know everything about you," he added.
"Sometimes you just gotta give 'em a quick little ... just to see what happens," O'Blennis continued. "Sometimes you light the fuse and just wait for it to follow."
O'Blennis indicated government agencies were "sometimes" behind protests and other rallies.
The CIA contractor said there was "nothing like putting out fake social media" posts to "really get people mad."
"You put a post out there, or you have some fake profile [that] says something that ... we know is going to trigger them," O'Blennis said. "We already know your history."
O'Blennis joked that reports are sometimes referred to as "fake news," noting they were in fact "embellished a little bit."
The undercover reporter asked if notable anti-establishment personalities like Tucker Carlson were targeted by the FBI, to which O'Blennis noted the agency went after InfoWars host Alex Jones "hardcore."
"You always want the biggest and loudest," O'Blennis said. "Took his money away. Chopped his legs off."
O'Blennis said the agency was not currently targeting Jones because he was "broke" after his legal battles.
"We were looking at all of his followers," O'Blennis added.
O'Blennis also conceeded the agency couldn't silence Jones, noting he didn't "incite a riot like [Trump]."
"He didn't encourage people to go shoot people," O'Blennis continued. "He didn't do anything."
The CIA contractor said the agency educated the use of civil cases when no federal option is available.
O'Blennis later said he knew about 20 government agents who were undercover in the crowd during the Capitol riot.
"There always are [agents] when there's a big protest in DC," O'Blennis said.
"Maybe they had 20. You needed 1,000 to get rid of that crowd," he said of the protestors at the Capitol, noting the location was under Capitol Police's jurisdiction.
Last July, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he wasn't sure if government agents were dispersed throughout the crowd during the Capitol riot.
