Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Donald Trump just months into his first term in 2017, for a multitude of reasons including subversive efforts to spy on and investigate Trump's campaign for no legitimate reason.

Now, with the FBI under the leadership of new Director Kash Patel, the Bureau is probing whistleblower allegations that Comey directed an "off-the-books" undercover investigation of the Trump campaign in 2015 using so-called "honeypots," Breitbart reported.

That alleged operation, first disclosed to Congress by an unnamed FBI whistleblower last year, was notably separate from and came before the FBI's 2016 "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation of supposed Trump-Russia collusion that has been widely exposed and discredited in the ensuing years.

Comey sent undercover "honeypot" agents to infiltrate Trump campaign

The Washington Times reported that the FBI is now searching for two former female undercover agents who were allegedly used as "honeypots" in an "off-the-books" investigation that was "personally" ordered and directed by then-Director Comey in 2015 to infiltrate and target high-level members of the Trump campaign.

A "honeypot" operation is the intelligence community term for the use of undercover agents, typically attractive young females, to pretend to be romantically or sexually interested in a target as a means to obtain sensitive and/or nonpublic information.

Per the whistleblower who first raised the allegation last year, the secretive probe was kept hidden from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his damning internal probe of the FBI's gross misconduct in targeting the Trump campaign in 2016 over the baseless and unproven Russian collusion hoax.

Times reporter Kerry Picket further revealed in a Wednesday X post, "One of the individuals making the protected disclosure said that when Special Counsel John Durham interviewed the whistleblower about the operation, Mr. Durham appeared to have ignored the information when it was provided and was never included in the special counsel’s report."

"This individual advised that after interviewing with Mr. Durham, the whistleblower was subject to repeated retaliation by FBI officials and left FBI headquarters," she added.

Allegations first disclosed to Congress last year

The Washington Times previously reported in October 2024 that an FBI whistleblower quietly disclosed to the House Judiciary Committee that former FBI Director Comey "personally knew" about and "personally directed" an alleged "honeypot" operation that involved two female undercover FBI agents infiltrating and traveling with high-level members of the Trump campaign in 2015.

The disclosure asserted that the undercover agents were not tasked to investigate any specific crime but rather were engaged in a so-called "fishing expedition" in search of anything incriminating that might be used against then-candidate Trump or others around him, which would likely violate FBI rules that require a "predicate" to open any investigation.

"The case had no predicated foundation, so Comey personally directed the investigation without creating an official case file" in the FBI's systems, the disclosure alleged. "The FBI has multiple methods of protecting highly sensitive investigations, so Comey did not have a legitimate reason not to officially create an official investigation file or have a file number."

What happened to the "honeypot" operation and the undercover agents?

Per The Times' reporting, it doesn't appear that Comey's alleged "honeypot" operation against the Trump campaign in 2015 was successful, and it was eventually shut down and replaced in 2016 by the more official but still un-predicated "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation.

According to the whistleblower, the initial secret probe targeting Trump was ended once an unidentified media outlet obtained a photo of one of the undercover agents and was about to publish it, but refrained from doing so after the Bureau lied and claimed that the agent was an "FBI informant" who would be killed, presumably by the Trump campaign, if her identity was revealed.

It was further alleged in the disclosure that, after the "honeypot" operation fell apart, one of the two undercover female agents was transferred to the CIA, so as not be called later as a witness, while the other was rewarded with a promotion to a senior leadership position at the FBI.