An Afghan man living in Oklahoma state of the United States who allegedly plotted to conduct an attack on Election Day on behalf of Daesh worked a security job for the CIA in Afghanistan, Fox News reported.

Authorities believe Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, became radicalized after he arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 9, 2021, weeks after the American troops pulled out of Afghanistan, a senior Biden administration official said.

He entered the U.S. on a special immigrant visa (SIV) and is on parole status pending adjudication of his immigration proceedings, the Department of Homeland Security said this week. Those facts were disputed by the State Department.

Officials have since clarified that Tawhedi came to the U.S. via humanitarian parole and later applied for SIV status.

Humanitarian parole is a process by which Tawhedi would have been held in a third country for screening and vetting and then flown to the U.S.

After moving to the U.S. in 2021, he applied for special immigrant status, a pathway for a green card, and was approved. He hadn’t finalized his status, which is why the State Department denied a DHS claim made this week that Tawhedi arrived with an SIV.

It was still unclear when the State Department approved him for an SIV after DHS approved him for humanitarian parole in 2021. Tawhedi applied for SIV status immediately after arriving in the U.S.

There were no red flags that would have barred him from entry into the U.S., officials said.

Tawhedi was arrested Monday and is charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to ISIS and receiving a gun to be used to commit a felony or a federal crime of terrorism.

In his seized communications, Tawhedi allegedly indicated that his attack was planned to target large gatherings of people on Election Day. He was busted after speaking with an FBI confidential informant, the Justice Department said.