Has your town/neighboorhood ever been visited by CIA or FBI? A big case or something?

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shelwood46@reddit

Not long after 9/11, there was this rash of letters containing anthrax being sent out. A number of them were postmarked from the obscure rural post office around the corner of my then residence. For about a year, they had terrible trouble with utilities coming into their little building, poorly marked utility trucks parked outside every damned day, a bored looking tech doing clearly not much of anything in the basket. They eventually gave up (the culprit was never caught). I assume they were FBI but they'd be awfully even worse at their jobs if I knew exactly which agency they were from, right? (My only confirmed contact with CIA is that I have a bunch of extended family who work for "the State Department")

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benjpolacek@reddit

My current city has for sure. Sioux City is decent sized I'm sure something has happened.

As for my small Nebraska hometown, probably not , at least as far as I know. My county, there surely has been as we did have an atlas missile silo and I know in the 80's there was a small but significant posse comitatus presence in rural Nebraska during the farming crisis. Honestly I'm surprised that hasn't happened again, but also its not like Nebraska has divided government so I wonder if that's why we don't have as much of a hate group presence except for literal Nazi Gary "Gerhard" Lauck but he's not in my hometown but Lincoln and I think Fairbury. Guy's a genuine idiot and has served time in Germany for distributing neo nazi propaganda and yet he's in rural Nebraska.

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Carrotcake1988@reddit

I’m going with the or something.

Many family members with military or government office loved ones have encountered the FBI for background checks. It’s not really a big deal.

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ketamineburner@reddit

Yes, most major cities have their own FBI offices, it's not a big deal.

The CIA collects information only regarding foreign countries and their citizens.Its mission is to collect information related to foreign intelligence and foreign counterintelligence. So, no, the CIA should not be visiting American towns.

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whitecollarredneck@reddit

When I was a prosecutor for my county, my boss walked into my office and asked me to volunteer for something without telling me what it was.

Turns out, the FBI was in town to exhume a body from a decades-old cold case to perform new DNA testing. They wanted local law enforcement, including an attorney, on scene with them during the process.

I brought two other coworkers along (it was a slow day). The FBI agent in charge said that it was important for all of us to "not draw attention to what was being done." So the FBI shows up in a giant cargo truck marked "FBI EVIDENCE COLLECTION" or something, and about 5 agents in the classic blue and yellow "FBI" windbreaker start milling around this little cemetery. That draws a bit of attention...

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Terradactyl87@reddit

The FBI showed with a hazmat team to clear out a fentanyl lab in an apartment complex in my town a few years ago.

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Kakapocalypse@reddit

My hometown had federal police coppers swirling around because some relatives of the Boston bomber lived there. They had no connection to the crimes, but in the manhunt days, they were considered suspicious

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rawbface@reddit

You would never know. It's not like in the movies where it's a public spectacle.

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pinniped1@reddit

"We would never operate inside the U.S."

This official statement brought to you by the CIA.

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SugarSweetSonny@reddit

A old joke, "Thats why he have the NSA !"

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SugarSweetSonny@reddit

The FBI has an office here. Also have known several people who joined the FBI.

As for the CIA, only met a couple ever in my lifetime.

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WashuOtaku@reddit

The FBI have an office nearby, so yea.

The CIA are not allowed to operate inside the U.S.

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2moons4hills@reddit

Lol the CIA have historically been known to Operate inside the US, it is well documented.

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OpportunityGold4597@reddit

The CIA aren't allowed to operate inside the US without an domestic agency attached

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EpicAura99@reddit

an domestic

An ‘omestic?

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Ok_Stop7366@reddit

Oh look he watched sicario

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YellojD@reddit

Jaycee Lee Dugard Harvey’s Casino Bombing I’m sure there’s a ton more.

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effulgentelephant@reddit

I live in Watertown, MA. They found one of the Boston bombers here, not far from my street!

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BusinessWarthog6@reddit

Yeah, a boxer kidnapped his wife iirc and they got him in VA. Riddick Bowe for those curious

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Nouseriously@reddit

When I got my Top Secret clearance, the FBI asked my neighbors if I was trouble.

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mellemodrama@reddit

Often lol bc of drugs and trafficking

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MartialBob@reddit

Sort of.

My town has one of those boarding schools that's basically a feeder school for the Ivy League universities. I don't recall all of the details but there was some incident in the late 90's where a couple FBI special agents were killed and they held the funeral at this school. I happened to be driving by when I saw a lot of the agents walking out. They looked like they came from central casting. All of them were tall, relatively attractive and wearing trench coats.

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BananaMapleIceCream@reddit

The Feds stormed my work once, took an employee out in cuffs and packed up his entire office.

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nomuggle@reddit

There used to be an FBI office in my town, but it was broken into the in 1970s and lots of confidential files showing government corruption were stolen and given to the Washington Post and now it’s a State Historic Site with a plaque and everything.

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Oceanbreeze871@reddit

I was questioned by the fbi. Neighbor was getting a security clearance. Dudes in suits Asked me questions about my neighbor, easy.

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Maxwyfe@reddit

I live in a very small town. Nothing ever happened until some jerk robbed a bank. Cue the FBI. They sent two young guys out to investigate.

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typhoidmarry@reddit

My SIL’s neighbor is FBI. They see each other socially.

He doesn’t talk shop.

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KaBar42@reddit

We had that one moron claiming to be the leader of the Not Fucking Around Coalition get slapped by the FBI following an incident where he pointed a loaded AR-15 at LMPD officers from a rooftop during the Floyd riots.

Of note, he is the same moron who claimed that:

The bolt closing on an AR pattern rifle would cause a discharge (it won't)
Every day, recruits in basic training blow their brains out when their M4's bolt closes (Ignoring the fact that ARs are a closed bolt system, thus would also imply trainees are walking around with live ammo and routinely loading a round with their rifles pointed at their heads, and that such a thing would be obvious from the sheer amount of dead trainees in basic training)
The AR pattern rifle is called a: "Bullpup, 'cause she kick!" (Bullpups are rifles where the magazine is located behind the trigger and AR pattern rifles have some of the weakest recoil in existence)
His coalition somehow managed to negligently discharge a long gun into the ground and injure three people

Needless to say, the FBI visit for this guy was warranted.

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huhwhat90@reddit

We had the Postal Police do a bust here recently, so that was kind of interesting.

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wiarumas@reddit

Frequently. For stuff ranging from crime to things as simple as background checks.

Its very common to have the FBI around. CIA... not so much.

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cryptoengineer@reddit

When I got a clearance, my neighbors received visits from federal agents, enquiring into my character. Their kids found this very exciting.

This was years ago, and I'm retired now, so I'm not compromising anything.

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TheRealDudeMitch@reddit

The FBI? Yeah of course. They are a domestic law enforcement agency with a wide range of responsibilities. There’s field offices in I think every state, and some have multiple. And field offices can have smaller detached offices as well. It’s not weird at all if the FBI is investigating something pretty much anywhere in the U.S. The people who live in town probably wouldn’t even know they were there unless it was a notable media event.

The CIA on the other hand, deals with foreign intelligence. They are NOT a domestic law enforcement agency and have no legal authority to carry out operations in the U.S, or at least that’s what we are told.

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Otherwise-OhWell@reddit

I don't know if the FBI's "Untouchables" ever made it out to my suburb while investigating Capone, but I like to think they did.

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paka96819@reddit

You could always tell who was the FBI back in the 70s, at least where I live. They were white males who wore suits. Nobody else wore suits, not even our bankers.

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krill482@reddit

All those types of govt agencies have always had a presence in my neck of the woods.

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Th3MiteeyLambo@reddit

There was a shooting in my city where the shooter shot up some police officers that were responding to a totally unrelated fender bender. The shooter killed one cop, and wounded 2 others before the 4th cop killed him.

The FBI got involved because it was pretty clear this guy was planning something bigger as he had tons of ammo and more weapons in his vehicle. They tracked his residence down to an apartment building near-ish my house, but that’s the closest I’ve ever been to an FBI response

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Inspi@reddit

The FBI has a cyber crimes office in my area, I assume they working on all sorts of things there. Only interactions I've had is when I worked in the building next door and learned not to take lunch at a certain time because of the huge line of government employees and agents in every restaurant. They do not screw around when it is lunch time. On the other hand, it also made those places super duper extra special safe to eat at lol.

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broadsharp@reddit

Yes.

You’ll probably never know if the CIA was involved in a case.

The FBI is in every major city.

And yes, the FBI conducts multiple investigations from white collar to large narcotics trafficking.

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dystopiadattopia@reddit

When I was a kid the FBI tapped our phones because we had a relative who was a fugitive from the law. It was pretty obvious, you could hear the clicks on the line. I was young enough to think it was terribly cool.

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virtual_human@reddit

After the 2008 financial crisis we had someone moved in across the street. About six months later the two people who lived there were in handcuffs in the driveway. Local cops though. Some kind of drug offense, don't know the details. Other than that, quiet neighborhood.

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brilliantpants@reddit

My office got raided by the FBI, the local police, and the ATF one sleepy morning. They thought they were going to find a bunch of shady shit, not a bunch of tired people sending email and drinking coffee. We lowly workers didn’t know what it was all about for months, but apparently it was related to tax shenanigans being perpetrated by the owner.

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Vexonte@reddit

If the CIA comes through and does their job, though they are not legally allowed to operate within the US wink wink.

FBI is often attached to major things but also get attached to minor things that fall under their jurisdiction. I've heard they have been brought in for something as minor as a teenager vandalizing a post office because it was federal property.

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machagogo@reddit

NYC has offices, so regularly...
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But it ain't the movies. The FBI generally are boring.

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BurgerFaces@reddit

My great grandparents were involved in the mafia. An FBI surveillance van would park down the road. I was too young to remember any of it, but everyone says they figured out who who was in the van pretty quick and just kind of laughed at them.

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Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit

We had a manhunt just north of us for about a week. Psycho ex boyfriend captured his ex girlfriend and had her tied up for a couple weeks. He took her to this area with the idea he was going to kill her and hide the body. Fortunately psychos can be stupid and she managed to escape him and get away with his car.

But it is very rural here and so hiding wasn't to difficult. He got caught because he came into town and asked for a drink, police shot him.

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Katskit89@reddit

Not that I know of.

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anneofgraygardens@reddit

yeah, it wasn't like anything for me since they didn't need my assistance.

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brookish@reddit

We had the zodiac killer so, yeah.

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weirdoldhobo1978@reddit

FBI agents came to my town last year because one of my former coworkers participated in the 2020 attack on the Capital building.

Like he wasn't a major player or anything, he was just another idiot in the mob. He and his brother admitted to crawling through a broken window and messing with some stuff before leaving. He surrendered himself voluntarily.

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dachjaw@reddit

My neighbor noticed a suspicious car parked across the street from me so he walked up to it, knocked on the window and demanded to know what they were doing there. After failing to brush him off, they said they were conducting surveillance but refused to identify themselves. He contacted authorities and it turned out they were FBI agents surveilling a suspected child trafficker who was later arrested.

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Caranath128@reddit

My next door neighbor in MD was FBI. between him and the Crown Vic across the street( state police paint job) felt pretty safe.

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animal_wax@reddit

Jennifer dulos

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TheAngryPigeon82@reddit

My town has an FBI office. It's in the upstairs of a bank.

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t_bone_stake@reddit

Yeah. Had a couple national news worthy stories where I am in the last few years that warranted at least the attention of the FBI. As far as the CIA…who knows for sure

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Fancy-Primary-2070@reddit

Yeah. My boss was investigated by FBI. He was a pretty big pot dealer back in the day, but then ran a regular business I worked for.

The FBI tried to shake me down but my boss had made sure I didn't know much. He didn't deal but helped his old high school buddies launder money and I wrote the checks as payroll clerk.

One time he let me use a vacation house he couldn't use that he'd rented for a month. There was a caretaker there all time but never would help me with anything (it was a grand old estate with like 25 bedrooms but had squirrels in the kitchen, etc). I only found out at his trial he was an FBI agent posing as the caretaker and waiting for some of the "players" to show up.

It was just me and my dad and my best friend, though because my boss figured out something was up.

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CJK5Hookers@reddit

My grandfather was sitting on his porch swing and the FBI kicked in his neighbors door. Guy was stealing stuff and sending the money to some terrorist organization

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No-Clerk-5600@reddit

We had a neighbor commit a crime, and the FBI came to our house and interviewed us. Other people on the block got interviewed, too.

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FivebyFive@reddit

I've worked with the FBI before on phone scams out of Nigeria.

It was really cool. Just so neat to see they were doing something about it, and to get to hear about the process.

GBI came when a customer threatened me (yes, me) with a bomb.

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TheBimpo@reddit

The FBI has field offices all over the country, they investigate all sorts of things. There would be nothing unusual for them to be in any town anywhere in the US.

They have broad units including: domestic and international terrorism, cyber crime, public corruption, civil rights, organized crime/drugs, white-collar crime, violent crimes and major offenders.

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EvaisAchu@reddit

Lots of cities have their own FBI offices. You probably wouldn't know they had been there if you lived in an area without an office. They don't make their presence known the majority of the time.

In my really small town, the only case I know they showed up for was a missing little girl. The case exploded in the media (internationally) and the only reason I knew the FBI was there was the Sheriff named them in a press conference.

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