Planned Terrorist Attack at Taylor Swift Concert Was Intended to Kill “Tens of Thousands of People,” CIA Official Says

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Planned ********** ******* at Taylor Swift Concert Was Intended to ***** “Tens of Thousands of People,” CIA Official Says

The thwarted ********** ******* on a Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert in Vienna was intended “to ***** a huge number, tens of thousands of people,” including Americans, according to the deputy director of the CIA.

At the annual Intelligence Summit just outside Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, David S. Cohen shared an update on the investigation into the planned ********** plot earlier this month, which resulted in the pop star canceling all her shows in Austria’s capital.

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“They were plotting to ***** a huge number, tens of thousands of people at this concert, I am sure many Americans,” Cohen said, as reported by

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. “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.”

On Aug. 7, Austrian concert promoter Barracuda Music

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that the three Eras Tour shows scheduled at the Ernst Happel Stadium would be canceled over an apparent ********** plot. Austrian authorities have

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accused of plotting the *******, including one who was found with *****-making material.

Cohen emphasized they had no doubt that the goal of the plot was to ******* the Eras Tor show, ******** a large number of concertgoers.

Weeks following the cancellation of the shows, Swift broke her silence on the planned attacks, as well as expressed gratitude to the authorities. “Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating,” she wrote on

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. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of *****, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.”

The superstar continued, “But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives. I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together.”

Cohen did not share how the C.I.A. learned of the planned *******. The Times reported that 200,000 people were expected to attend Swift’s Vienna shows.

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