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The trainee, who worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter that was dated October 1 and signed by Patel. It claimed that the former employee displayed an improper "political" message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Joe Biden,
FBI officials abruptly fired a new agent trainee from the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., after discovering he had once displayed a Pride flag at his desk. In an Oct. 1 letter, FBI Director Kash Patel “summarily dismissed” the trainee,