CIA activities in Syria

Main article: CIA activities in the Near East, North Africa, South and Southwest Asia

Syria 1983

In 1983, President Assad of Syria signed a peace and friendship treaty with the Soviet Union and some have suggested that the coincidental uprising by the Muslim brotherhood in Syria was a CIA operation to overthrow Assad for his pro-Soviet policies.^[1][2]

Syria 2011

Wikileaks has reported that the US government has been covertly funding the Syrian opposition.^[3] Ron Paul has accused the CIA of being behind the uprising [1] The United States is angry that Bashir Assad has agreed to a major expansion of the Russian naval base in Tarsus that is ongoing[2][3] The close friendship between Russia and Syria have also created great anger in Washington.[4] Syria has also refused to allow a building of a oil pipeline from Iraq through Syria to the Mediterreanan and the Muslim Brotherhood has promised the US government to allow the building of such a pipeline.

Andrew and Mitrokhin. The World Was Going Our Way.The KGB and the Battle for the Third World.2005 Basic Books.

References

1. ^ Ostrovsky, Victor (1990). By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a MOSSAD officer. St. Martin's Press. 
2. ^ Dreyfuss, Robert (2006). Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam. Holt. 
3. ^ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0418/Cables-reveal-covert-US-support-for-Syria-s-opposition

Andrew and Mitrokhin. The World Was Going Our Way.The KGB and the Battle for the Third World.2005 Basic Books.