Update: Chaos as ODNI Denies Multiple Reports That CIA Just Raided Gabbard’s Office – Rep. Luna Clarifies Statement – Sen. Lee Suggests Possible Treason

Conservative News DailyMay 14, 2026
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Hours of online reporting claimed that the CIA had raided the office of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and seized boxes of documents tied to the JFK assassination and the CIA’s MK Ultra program. Olivia Coleman, Gabbard’s press secretary, publicly denied that claim, saying the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office.

The article says the initial “raid” narrative appears to have spread from testimony by CIA agent James erdman III and social posts that later led members of Congress to repeat the allegation. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna first shared the report as a CIA incursion, but later clarified that documents were taken from places under ODNI jurisdiction and that the event was not necessarily happening “today” or as a raid.

The story further claims that an intelligence official told Pavlich that the documents were taken during last year’s government shutdown and had not been returned. Sen. Mike Lee continued to argue that if the CIA took documents under ODNI oversight, it would raise serious legal and procedural concerns. The CIA did not comment.



For a few hours on Wednesday evening, reports suggested that the Central Intelligence Agency had just taken extreme measures.

When the dust settled, however, reports were revised to clarify that the troubling incident — which Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee called potentially treasonous — actually took place months ago.

Late Wednesday on the social media platform X, Olivia Coleman, press secretary for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, refuted multiple reports that the CIA had raided Gabbard’s office and seized boxes of files pertaining to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the CIA’s notorious MK Ultra mind-control experiments.

“This is false – the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office,” Coleman wrote on X.

The press secretary d a since-deleted report from Fox News’ Jesse Watters.

In truth, however, the report originated not with Watters, but with active CIA agent James Erdman III.

On Wednesday, Erdman appeared before Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky’s Senate Homeland Security Committee, where the agent testified regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci’s alleged “intentional” cover-up of the COVID-19 virus’ probable lab origins. Erdman’s testimony reportedly rankled some people at the CIA.

Then, on X, the news outlet Leading Report credited Erdman with revealing that “CIA seized 40 boxes of JFK and MK-ULTRA files that were being processed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for declassification.”

Next, Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida took the report and ran with it.

After sharing the report on X, Luna later spoke to NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich.

“We were actually just notified that the CIA went in and took documents out of ODNI, multiple boxes pertaining to the JFK files as well as MK Ultra,” the congresswoman told Pavlich in a clip posted to X at 6:00 p.m. EST.

That, of course, sounded like the CIA raided Gabbard’s office on Wednesday.

Watters and Fox News reported it that way. And independent journalist Nick Sortor d Watters’ report in a clip posted to X. (Watters has deleted the report, but Sortor’s d version of it remains available.)

“HOLY CRAP! The CIA just RAIDED Tulsi Gabbard’s office, and SEIZED documents related to the JFK assassination, MKUltra, and more, that Gabbard was set to declassify … BOXES of them  … The CIA is in DIRECT VIOLATION of a Trump executive order 47 must REEL IN CIA!” Sortor wrote.

Hours later, Luna clarified her original statement.

“Clarification: Took documents that ODNI has jurisdiction over. Also, this did not happen today & was not a ‘raid’ however it did take place and we are just being made aware of it based on reporting etc,” Luna wrote on X at 9:15 p.m. EST, more than three hours after her comments to Pavlich.

Pavlich then reported on X that she had spoken to an intelligence official who said that the CIA took the documents in the middle of the night during last year’s government shutdown, and the agency has not returned them.

Meanwhile, Sortor had some harsh words for Luna, who he blamed for the lack of clarity.

“UPDATE: Members of Congress are once again proving they’re much more interested in being ‘iNfLuEnCeRs’ than members of Congress,”  Sortor wrote on X.

Amid all the chaos, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah remained focused on the CIA’s alleged actions.

First, Lee characterized the CIA’s alleged actions as treasonous, “if true.”

Then, after Luna’s 9:15 p.m. clarification, Lee wrote on X that the timing made no difference. If the agency seized those boxes of files, then it broke the law, he said.

“If CIA took anything from @DNIGabbard, that’s a problem because by law CIA reports to her,” Lee wrote.

The CIA has not commented.

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