New information has come to light regarding the foiled terror plot that forced global pop sensation Taylor Swift to cancel three highly anticipated concerts in Vienna.

Earlier this month, Austrian officials arrested two individuals suspected of planning a large-scale attack on Ernst Happel Stadium where Talyor Swift was set to perform to over 150,000 fans. Authorities raided the home of the 19-year-old principal suspect who had been radicalized online into supporting ISIS and uncovered a dangerous cache, including chemical substances, explosive devices, detonators, and fake currency amounting to $21,000.

According to CIA deputy director David Cohen, if it weren’t for the help of US intelligence, tens of thousands of innocent concertgoers might have been killed.

“The Austrians were able to make those arrests because the agency and our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do,” Cohen told the Associated Press on Thursday. “They were plotting to kill a huge number. Tens of thousands of people at this concert, including I am sure many Americans, and they were quite advanced in this.”

“I can tell you within my agency, and I’m sure in others, there were people who thought that was a really good day for Langley,” he said. “And not just the Swifties in my workforce.”

Swift’s Eras Tour has shattered records by becoming the most lucrative concert series ever. Her performances have drawn international crowds, with fans flying across continents to attend her European concerts.

In an apology to her fans over the cancellation, Swift expressed her gratitude that we are “grieving concerts and not lives.”

“The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows. But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives,” Swift wrote on Instagram.

“I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together. I decided that all of my energy had to go toward helping to protect the nearly half a million people I had coming to see the shows in London.”