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Undercover FBI agents spy on Burning Man festival to prevent ‘terrorism’ and test out new ‘intelligence collection’ technology

Posted on September 3, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Darren Boyle reports:

The FBI has admitted to gathering secret intelligence about the annual Burning Man festival since 2010.

In response to a request under the 2012 Freedom of Information Act, the security service said its Special Events Management unit has kept files on festival-goers, known as ‘burners’ – to ‘aid in the prevention of terrorist activites and intelligence collection’.

But the FBI’s 16-page response to the question by Inkoo Kang is heavily redacted, with information about the technology being used to secretly gather the information being blanked out.

Read more on The Daily Mail.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.

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