(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The National Security Agency reportedly has at least three pages of secret records on “QAnon”—the internet personality from which numerous conspiracy theories emanated, mostly during the first presidency of Donald Trump.
According to the conspiracy theories, QAnon is a highly placed federal official with a “Q Clearance.” Among other claims, QAnon purports that there was a conspiracy amongst various federal agencies to traffic children—and that Trump was working behind the scenes to dismantle that illicit network.
On Wednesday, UFO researcher John Greenewald Jr., who runs the site The Black Vault, said he filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA for all its records about QAnon. In response, the NSA told him that it had several records, including three secret records that the agency refuses to release on national security grounds.
First the CIA refused to confirm or deny whether it had QAnon records. Then the FBI acknowledged 43 pages but withheld more than half. Now, after a 6 year wait, NSA says it located a 3-page document that remains classified SECRET.
What’s in it?https://t.co/yCtvBoXP0u
— John Greenewald, Jr. (@theblackvault) September 23, 2026
“The NSA located a separate three-page document that remains classified SECRET and was withheld in its entirety,” Greenewald said on his website.
The NSA also apparently found a few other insignificant records, including internal NSA communications making a joke about QAnon, as well as a prior request from him for QAnon information.
The NSA’s disclosure comes about three years after the FBI released 25 pages of records on QAnon. The CIA, for its part, has refused to confirm or deny that it has QAnon records.
The FBI documents indicate that the bureau opened a preliminary investigation in late 2018, likely issued multiple subpoenas and utilized at least one “highly sensitive” undercover informant to discover the identity of QAnon.
However, the FBI apparently closed its probe in January 2019 without collecting any evidence, according to the heavily redacted records.
“All investigative techniques and methods have been completed /discontinued. No leads were set during the course of this investigation. No evidence was collected during the course of this investigation,” a Jan. 28, 2019 memo states. “No criminal subject was identified after logical and reasonable preliminary investigation. [An unnamed assistant U.S. Attorney] of the Southern District of New York concurred with closing.”
Throughout Trump’s presidency, Q posted cryptic messages on the websites 4Chan and 8Chan, and the persona’s followers would try to decipher their meaning. This often led to absurd conspiracy theories, such as that Trump was still secretly the president, Hillary Clinton would be executed at Guantanamo Bay and the deceased JFK Jr. would reappear to run for president in 2024 with Trump as his running mate.
Democrats painted QAnon as a dangerous Trump-driven conspiracy that encouraged its adherents to do things such as storm the Capitol.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
