FBI Prepares for Increasing Drone Threats Disrupting World Cup

The FBI plans to deploy roughly 60 specially trained state and local police officers across venues for the FIFA World Cup to detect and electronically disable hostile drones as security officials warn that threats once associated with foreign battlefields are increasingly possible inside the US.

Training is already underway with less than four weeks until the tournament starts with millions of visitors expected to crisscross 11 US cities. The competition, which starts June 11 and ends in New Jersey on July 19, is also being played in Mexico and Canada.