In the “exercise”, they would go into a room and interrogate a “role player”.
Instead, they went to the wrong room, where an unsuspecting airline pilot answered the door. They handcuffed him, threw him into the shower, and interrogated him for about an hour, before he was able to convince them he wasn’t the “role player”.
They then told him that he could never speak about what had happened, and left.
When it became public, the government’s response was basically “oops”.
At the Revere Hotel in Boston, FBI agents and Army Special Ops units were about to conduct a "training exercise".
In the "exercise", they would go into a room and interrogate a "role player".
Instead, they went to the wrong room, where an unsuspecting airline pilot answered the… pic.twitter.com/OmuBXouQQI
— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) April 29, 2023