Texas man is charged for breaching CIA headquarters just one day before Trump assassination attempt

A man from Texas has been charged for attempting to breach the CIA headquarters three times.

The suspect allegedly attempted to breach the facility for the first time on Friday, just one day before a gunman attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. 

Federal prosecutors say the man ‘accelerated into the compound’ with his car on Monday after he peeled away from the security gate, according to documents obtained by journalist Scott MacFarlane.

They allege he also bypassed security and entered the facility on Sunday by ‘following a cleared vehicle under the raised barrier’ at a secure entrance.

He has also been accused of recently being on the grounds at the Pentagon.

The suspect is scheduled to appear in court later day. 

He has been banned from leaving DC and or returning to the CIA or Pentagon facilities. 

The Daily Mail has approached the White House, CIA and Pentagon for comment. 

Officials say the first attempted breach of the CIA facility occurred before Cole Tomas Allen, 31, tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner armed with guns and knives.

Allen appeared in federal court Monday and charged with the attempted assassination of Trump.

Federal authorities suggested the attack had been planned for at least several weeks.

Allen was ordered to remain jailed pending additional court hearings, and faces up to life in prison if convicted of the assassination count alone.

An FBI affidavit filed in the case Monday revealed additional details about the planning behind the assault, with authorities alleging that Allen on April 6 reserved a room for himself at the Washington hotel where the event would be held weeks later under its typical tight security.

He traveled by train cross-country from California last week, checking himself into the Washington Hilton one day before the dinner with a room reserved for the weekend.

The dinner had barely begun when officials say the 31-year-old from Torrance, California tried to race past a security barricade near the cavernous ballroom holding hundreds of journalists and their guests, prompting an exchange of gunfire with Secret Service agents tasked with safeguarding the event. 

Allen carried with him a 12-gauge pump action shotgun he bought last year and a .38 caliber semi-automatic pistol he purchased in 2023, authorities said.

The gunman was injured during the attack but was not shot. A Secret Service officer was shot but was wearing a bullet-resistant vest and survived, officials say.

Prosecutors have not revealed a motive, but Allen called himself the ‘Friendly Federal Assassin’ in a chilling manifesto and made repeated references to the Republican president and his administration, without naming him directly. 

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday said the night was supposed to be one of joy but instead was ‘hijacked by a crazed anti-Trump individual who traveled across the country to assassinate the president and as many administration officials as possible.’

This is a breaking news story.