CNN is acknowledging that a gripping story it aired last week depicting a Syrian man being let free from a Damascus prison after the fall of dictator Bashar Assad's regime was not what it seemed. The network said that it has since found out that the man shown in correspondent Clarissa Ward's report,

The news outlet reported the man was said to have been involved with the collapsed Assad regime as an intelligence officer.

CNN said that a man who previously claimed to be a civilian detained in a Syrian prison was actually a military intelligence officer for the Assad regime, citing local sources. During a segment that aired Dec.