According to a person with knowledge of the matter, construction workers who fled an ice attack at a building location near the CIA on Wednesday to scale fences around the headquarters of the espionage agency.
Officials from the immigration and customs authorities did not provide the agency about the raid in advance, and the incident caused a traffic jam outside the CIA complex in Langley, Virginia during the morning commuting.
The New York Times reported for the first time.
A CIA spokesman said by e -mail that the law enforcement authorities replied to a security incident in the agency complex, but had not stopped any further details.
ICE did not immediately answer a request for comments.
Some construction workers were trying to avoid the ice official who arrived at the building location.
The CIA temporarily gave precautions to the agency to check whether the scope of the campus was safe. The workers who tried to scale the fences did not violate the headquarters or represent a threat, said the source.