The CIA headquarters were sent into lockdown on Wednesday morning after a gunman was spotted near the agency's base, as SWAT teams and bomb squads closed down the area in Langley, VA.

Chilling images captured the moment a disheveled suspected gunman was taken into custody outside the CIA headquarters on Wednesday morning after he was seen making threats with a weapon near the agency’s base.

The armed man, seen wearing camouflage and sporting long hair and a beard, sent the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia into lockdown as cops raced to the scene.