Writes about this The Hill.
The man, whose name has not been released, met with the radicals at the Washington Monument on the day of the assault and followed them to the building, observing what was happening.
Later he gave all the information to the curator.
During the riots, an informant entered the Congress building without touching anything, and left the Capitol through a window after a while after the police informed him that someone had been shot.
"The agency's (FBI -
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) mission is to protect Americans and abide by the United States Constitution, and intelligence gathering is essential to that end," an FBI spokesman told The Hill.
A protest rally by supporters of the then current US President Donald Trump took place in Washington on January 6.
Subsequently, the event escalated into riots.
The demonstrators broke into the building of the Congress, where the procedure for approving the results of the presidential elections was taking place.
In July, one of the alleged participants in the storming of the Capitol was identified thanks to the dating application Bumble.