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A CIA official has revealed that the terrorist plot at Taylor Swifts Vienna concert was intended to kill tens of thousands of fans..
The foiled terror plot led to the cancellation of all three of the singers Eras Tour concerts in Austria earlier this month.S)..
They were plotting to kill a huge number, tens of thousands of people at this concert, I am sure many Americans, CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen said the annual Intelligence Summit just outside Washington, D.C., according to The New York Times..
On August 8, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, head of Austria's Directorate of State Security and Intelligence, said in a news conference that the 19-year-old Austrian suspect confessed that they had planned "to carry out an attack at Swifts concert using explosives and knives..
"His aim was to kill himself and a large number of people during the concert either today or tomorrow," he added, according to Le Monde..
