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CIA Says Suspects in Taylor Swift Vienna Concert Terror Plot Planned to Kill ‘Tens of Thousands’

Suspects in the Taylor Swift Vienna concert terror plot were hoping to kill 'tens of thousands,' according to the CIA, which helped expose the plan.

The CIA says that the suspects in the alleged plot to attack Taylor Swift ‘s Eras Tour shows in Vienna, Austria were aiming to create a massive casualty event involving a “huge” number of victims. The information came during a briefing on Wednesday (August 28) from CIA deputy director David Cohen, who, according to the Associated Press, said that his agency discovered intelligence that helped to disrupt the planning and led to the arrests of the three young suspects. The singer opened up about the scary terror threat in a statement last week, writing, “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.

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