The FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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The FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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Six FBI officers engaged on task abroad solicited or had intercourse with prostitutes, together with at a karaoke bar, a therapeutic massage parlor, and a gents’s membership, after which weren’t forthcoming when questioned by investigators, in response to a doc launched by the Justice Department’s inside watchdog.

The DOJ’s Inspector General’s Office made public in 2021 a barebones, one-page abstract of its findings that FBI officers had accepted “commercial sex” whereas on obligation overseas, but it surely didn’t disclose any particulars on the misconduct itself.

Now, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Inspector General’s workplace has launched what’s often called a Report of Investigation that dates to Oct. 20, 2021. The 37-page doc is closely redacted, together with all references to the identities of the FBI officers in addition to the nation or international locations the place the misconduct befell, but it surely supplies a wealth of recent particulars in regards to the six officers’ actions.

It paints an image of FBI staff who repeatedly engaged in actions that violated Justice Department and FBI insurance policies, and uncovered them to doable extortion and blackmail.

The report discovered that one of many FBI officers, for instance, paid for intercourse throughout an outing with international legislation enforcement companions at a karaoke bar, in addition to at a strip membership and a therapeutic massage parlor whereas on official work overseas.

Another official was discovered to have paid for intercourse at a “gentleman’s club,” and in addition to have had intercourse with a prostitute supplied by a bunch nation’s legislation enforcement officers, in response to the report.

The report says that one of many officers instructed investigators that on one event, international legislation enforcement officers supplied to ship prostitutes to the FBI officers’ lodge rooms. Later that very same night, “a prostitute showed up” on the villa he was staying in. The official admitted to having intercourse with the girl, in addition to one other prostitute who turned up.

The identify of the nation is redacted.

In that very same part of the report, an FBI official whose identify is blacked out instructed investigators that he has paid for business intercourse however there have been “zero occasions” the place a international nation has “tried to leverage him as a result of their providing him with a prostitute, adding this is a ‘cultural thing unfortunately.'”

A 3rd FBI official was discovered to have negotiated intercourse for FBI colleagues along with sleeping with a prostitute himself.

Two extra brokers had been discovered to have engaged in intercourse with prostitutes, whereas one different was discovered to have solely solicited one.

As a part of the IG’s investigation, the officers got polygraph checks. The report says investigators concluded that 5 of the FBI officers lacked candor or lied about their dealings with prostitutes.

The officers’ actions violated a number of FBI insurance policies, together with failing to report contacts with international nationals, and failing to report their very own misconduct in addition to their colleagues’ misconduct.

The report says three of the officers implicated within the report resigned, two retired and one was faraway from his place.

The FBI just isn’t the primary U.S. legislation enforcement company to should self-discipline its personnel for partaking with international prostitutes.

The Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Administration was hit by scandal in 2012 after it emerged that their brokers had introduced prostitutes again to their lodge rooms after an evening of laborious ingesting in Cartagena, Colombia.