Kash Patel Clarifies President’s Fiery Post Alleging 274 FBI Agents Were ‘Agitators,’ While FBI Acknowledges Agents Were PresentFBI Director Kash PatelFBI Director Kash Patel has moved to clarify and partially walk back the President’s explosive claim that undercover FBI agents may have been responsible for instigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The clarification came shortly after President Trump posted a fiery statement on Truth Social, alleging that the FBI secretly placed 274 agents in the crowd, potentially acting as “Agitators and Insurrectionists,” and accusing FBI Director Christopher Wray of repeatedly “LYING” to Congress. '” He concluded by demanding an investigation into “Dirty Cops and Crooked Politicians.”However, speaking to Fox News Digital, Kash Patel corrected the narrative of agent-provocateurs. Patel clarified that the agents’ deployment was for a “crowd control mission.”“Agents were sent into a crowd control mission after the riot was declared by Metro Police—something that goes against FBI standards,” Patel stated. Sign up: Subscribe to our free newsletter for a curated selection of top stories delivered straight to your inbox.