CIA Provided Crucial Clues to Attack Plans at Swift Concert in Vienna

PeopleOther ♦ Published: August 29, 2024; 22:34 ♦ (Vindobona)

The CIA has confirmed that it provided the decisive tip-off to prevent a possible attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. Information had been received about four people with links to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia who were planning an attack.

The U.S. secret intelligence service CIA has confirmed that it provided the decisive clue to prevent a possible attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons, Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Public domain

At the beginning of August, Vienna was the scene of a foiled terrorist attack that could have endangered the lives of tens of thousands of people. A planned attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium was successfully prevented in a joint operation by the Austrian authorities and the US Secret Service, the CIA. The severity of the threat and the international…