by Misty Severi
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence denied reports Wednesday night that the CIA “raided” National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s office and seized documents related to MK-Ultra and the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Fox News reported the alleged raid, which came from Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who heads a special House Oversight taskforce related to declassifying government secrets.
The alleged raid comes after Luna said she would be holding a hearing on the CIA’s former project MK-Ultra, which conducted experiments and studied the potential use of LSD and other drugs for mind control and information-gathering purposes.
“This is false – the CIA did not raid the DNI’s office,” DNI spokeswoman Olivia Coleman said on X in a rare rebuke of Fox News.
Luna clarified that the incident did not occur on Wednesday, was not a raid and that the ODNI has jurisdiction over the seized documents.
“Clarification: Took documents that ODNI has jurisdiction over,” Luna posted on X. “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.”
It was not immediately clear what the operation could be classified as, but a U.S. intelligence official confirmed to Just The News that the incident was not a “raid.”
This incident highlights ongoing tensions over President Trump’s long-standing vow to deliver full transparency on historical government secrets. During his 2024 campaign and immediately upon taking office, Trump pledged to declassify remaining records on the JFK assassination and other sensitive topics, stating he would act “early on” to give Americans the truth after decades of stonewalling.
Three days into his second term, he signed Executive Order 14176, directing the full declassification of records concerning the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The National Archives released nearly 80,000 previously withheld JFK pages in March 2025, with additional tranches for RFK and MLK following in subsequent months.
In a parallel push for openness, the Trump administration recently directed the release of never-before-seen Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files. On Friday, a week ago, the Department of War posted the first tranche of documents, videos, and photos via the new Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), fulfilling Trump’s directive to declassify government holdings on UFOs and related phenomena.
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Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage. Executive Editor of The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network Christina Botteri contributed to this report.
