The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has admitted to a senior congressional source that it had as many as 275 plain clothes agents embedded in the crowd during the Jan 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The disclosure stands in direct contradiction to a report issued in Dec. 2024 by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General that stated: “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.”

Disclose TV reports that questions had persisted for the past four and a half years regarding the level of FBI involvement on that day until current FBI Director Kash Patel’s team released a 50-page after-action report to Congress.

According to that report, agents complained about lacking proper safety gear and clear identification to avoid misidentification by other law enforcement.

Other agents complained that political bias had tainted FBI operations under under the leadership of James Comey and Chris Wray with one agent writing, “Our response to the Capitol Riot reeks of political bias.”  Another agent wrote in the after-action report, “We have been used as pawns in a political war.”

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the chairman of the new House Jan. 6 Select Subcommittee, said his committee is digging into the FBI presence on Jan. 6 as well as the roles of its agents and informants on that day.

Loudermilk told Just The News, “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?”

Loudermilk had previously accused the prior Jan 6 Select Committee of failing to preserve all records of that date, pointing to a forensics review that showed 117 deleted and encrypted files as well as a data shortfall of more than a terabyte of expected archived data.

This latest disclosure is expected to focus even greater scrutiny on lingering questions as to whether FBI personnel took part in or incited rioting among the crowds.