Are there FBI agents in airports?

The FBI has special agents and task force officers assigned as airport liaison agents (ALAs) at each of the nation's TSA-regulated airports in order to respond to aviation-related incidents and threats, participate in joint FBI-TSA airport vulnerability assessments, and interact with interagency and private sector ...



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We also investigate the following airport-based violations: Violence against persons and property at international airports. The FBI investigates this violation if: the victim or offender is a United States national.

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FBI agents are not only permitted to be armed when travelling commercially, but, according to the last agent I spoke to about this, they were required by bureau policy to be armed when flying (this is true of several other federal agencies, as well).

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E. LEOs are the only employees authorized by TSA to carry firearms.

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Are there a significant number of undercover police or security agents at most US and international airports? No. There's not much need for undercover operations at an airport. The police and security people will be in recognizable uniforms.

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has authority over the security of transportation systems within, and connecting to the United States.

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