The CIA said tens of thousands of Taylor Swift fans may have died if a foiled plot on the singer during her Vienna concerts had succeeded.
Tens of thousands of Taylor Swift fans could have been killed during her Vienna concerts earlier this month if a thwarted attack on the singer had succeeded, according to the CIA.
The severity of the threat was revealed by the agency’s Deputy Director David Cohen at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Maryland.
‘They were plotting to kill a huge number—tens of thousands of people at this concert, including I am sure many Americans—and were quite advanced in this’, he said.
The CIA discovered intelligence about the plan ahead of the concerts and notified Austrian authorities.
It led to rapid arrests and the cancellation of three sold-out shows on Swift’s Eras Tour, disappointing her many fans.
Cohen said: “The Austrians were able to make those arrests because the agency and our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do.
