https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-many-274-fbi-044816806.html



Did the FBI have 274 plainclothes agents undercover and embedded in January 6 crowds at the US Capitol? No, that's not true: Many of 274 FBI agents documented in a report were part of the law enforcement response after the crowd stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The agents were not undercover nor were they embedded in the crowd. The article making the claim appears to be referencing a report showing FBI agents were responding to the crowds at the Capitol and reports of explosives being found, not that they were in the crowd before the riots began. The words "plainclothes" and "undercover" do not appear in the report.

The claim appeared in a September 25, 2025 article published on The Blaze website titled "FBI had 274 plainclothes agents embedded in Jan. 6 crowds, congressional source says," (archived here) which opened:



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The FBI has not acknowledged it had undercover officers embedded in the crowd at the Capitol that day. The Blaze article appears to be using the 274 number cited in an article published on Just the News website (archived here) titled, "FBI Bombshell: 274 agents sent to Capitol for J6, many later complained they were political 'pawns.'" The article opens:



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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/just-the-news/