FBI Agent Flees to Syria for Romance
An FBI agent with top-secret security clearance turned rogue and traveled to Syria to marry a wanted ISIL fighter she had been assigned to investigate, it has emerged.
Daniela Greene, who worked as a translator for the agency, had used social media to spy on German jihadist Denis Cuspert, a former rapper who had gone by the moniker Deso Dogg.
Cuspert was a prolific online recruiter for the group, who gained a reputation as one of its most brutal foreign fighters. He featured in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) videos threatening the then president Barack Obama and holding a freshly severed head.
But in an extraordinary twist, the two became close and Cuspert convinced Greene to join him in Syria. She left in late June 2014 without telling her employers of her plan, according to Federal Court documents seen by CNN.
Greene, 38, contacted Cuspert on Skype and they arranged a plan for her to travel to Istanbul, where the two would meet and marry before crossing the border into Syria.
Just two weeks after arriving, the agent sent emails from inside Syria to an unidentified person in the US showing she was having second thoughts.
“I was weak and didn’t know how to handle anything anymore,” she wrote on July 8. “I really made a mess of things this time.”
In another, she said: “I am gone and I can’t come back. I wouldn’t even know how to make it through if I tried to come back. I am in a very harsh environment and I don’t know how long I will last here, but it doesn’t matter, it’s all a little too late…”
Greene, born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Germany and later the US, spent a few months in Syria before realising her mistake and returning to America, whereupon she was arrested on terrorism charges.
She received a two-year sentence and was released last summer.
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