US Veteran Fighting with Syria Rebels: A CIA Agent?

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As US Army veteran Eric Harroun awaits trial in Virginia for fighting terrorists in Syria, the man's father revealed that he was working for the CIA and was reporting back to the agency from Syria.

Harroun, a 30-year-old American from Phoenix, Arizona, has been charged by the US government for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely a rocket propelled grenade launcher) to conduct an attack against the Syrian government.

The US Army veteran dubbed by media 'Phoenix jihadist' appeared in numerous videos alongside members of the al-Nusra terrorist Front.

According to FBI documents, Harroun traveled to Turkey last November and joined the rebels led by the so-called "Free Syrian Army" shortly thereafter. His father, Darryl Harroun, told reporters that he doesn't understand why the US government arrested his son, who he says was working for the Central Intelligence Agency.
He referred to his son as a ‘patriotic' American who would never get involved with al-Qaeda, and claims he was gathering information for the US government.
"I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there," the man's father said. "I know for a fact that he was passing information onto the CIA."

After seeing the documents regarding his son's charges, Harroun told a CBS News reporter that it is all inaccurate and misleading and that the truth will eventually come out, since his son was simply gathering intelligence.
"About 99 percent of that stuff that you read on there is a bunch of bull," he said. "I don't think there's any truth in any of this - he's very patriotic."

Last week, the New York Times published an article describing how the agency has been helping foreign governments contribute to the rebels. Unnamed US officials told the paper that the CIA has been secretly airlifting arms and other military equipment to Arab governments and Turkey, who provided them to the country's opposition fighters.
With the agency's involvement in the conflict, it is very possible for the CIA to also have sent their own agents into Syria. Paul Joseph Watson suggests on InfoWars that Harroun's arrest may have something to do with the lack of communication and rivalry between the FBI and the CIA.

The FBI affidavit makes no mention of Harroun having any sort of connection to the CIA, but includes transcripts of interviews in which the man describes being treated like a prisoner in the al-Nusra camp and eventually being accepted by the members. Soon thereafter, he was helping them conduct several attacks on the Syrian regime. He also recalled being questioned about why the US government designated the group as a terrorist organization.

Source: RT, Edited by moqawama.org