Employee at Federal Agency in Gaithersburg on Suspected ISIS Hit List

An employee of a high-tech federal research agency in Montgomery County was listed on a suspected hit list by the terror group ISIS.

The woman, whose name has not been publicly released, is an employee at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce with a large campus and thousands of employees near Interstate 270 in Gaithersburg.

News4 has obtained federal law enforcement records showing the FBI investigated the case and warned the employee of the threat. Security was increased for the worker and no known connection to ISIS was revealed, according to police reports.

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