CIA hit with lawsuit for illegally investigating unvaccinated employees as espionage threats.

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Lawsuit claims CIA chief operating officer ordered counter-espionage department to probe all unvaccinated workers and contractors.

Unvaccinated staff were treated as threats to the US government according to the filing.

Case seeks class action status for affected employees and contractors.

Feds For Freedom announces support for the lawsuit against the agency.

Investigation came during COVID vaccine mandate period.

Treating vaccine refusers like spies shows how far agencies went to push compliance and punish dissent.

This kind of overreach erodes trust fast when intelligence tools get used on internal medical choices.

Lawsuit could open the door to more cases against other agencies that did similar targeting.

The CIA investigated thousands of personnel and contractors for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, a new lawsuit states.

In 2021, then-President Joe Biden imposed vaccine mandates for federal employees and contractors. Shortly after, the CIA’s chief operating officer directed the Counter Espionage Department to probe all unvaccinated workers and contractors.

The agency treated refusers as threats to the United States government. A cross-agency group led by former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard learned of the order in 2025 from a whistleblower and received CIA confirmation of the investigations.

The CIA did not cite any authority for the directive. Plaintiff James Erdman III, an unvaccinated employee, asked the agency to remove all investigation-related material from files but got no response.

This led to the lawsuit filed June 30 in federal court in Virginia. The suit seeks class certification for affected employees and contractors.

It also asks the court to declare the order illegal and force the CIA to delete the information from files. None of the investigated workers were fired.

Epoch Times coverage of the CIA lawsuit: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/exclusive-cia-investigated-officers-for-espionage-over-not-taking-covid-19-vaccine-lawsuit-6054857
Complaint document details: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28384356-complaint-against-cia/

This guy is also a whistleblower.

James Erdman III, a CIA whistleblower who testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday alleging a federal cover-up of COVID-19 origins, has a long history of clashing with the government on the coronavirus issue.

Erdman told senators on Wednesday that intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA, are failing to provide transparency and accountability, and warned Congress is being misled as a result.

“The legislative and executive branches will continue to be misinformed if this type of behavior is not

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-james-erdman-iii-cia-whistleblower-who-went-from-covid-mandate-fights-senate-spotlight