The Boston bombing suspects' mother was put on a federal terrorism database by the CIA about 18 months before the marathon attack, US government officials have said.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva was added at the same time as her eldest son Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to two officials.
Tamerlan and his brother Dzhokhar are suspected of carrying out the double bombing on April 15 that killed three bystanders and wounded 264 at the race.
Tamerlan, 26, was killed in a shootout with police a week ago, and his 19-year-old brother is in prison charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.
The CIA reportedly put Mrs Tsarnaeva on the classified Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database, known as Tide. It includes known and suspected terrorists.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva and Anzor Tsarnaev The move came after the US was contacted by Russia in 2011 amid concerns that the mother and son were religious militants intent on travelling to Russia.
But the US may not have taken strong action on those warnings because of lingering Cold War-era distrust of Russia, a former Russian official told Congress on Friday.
Andranik Migranyan, the director of the New York-based Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, said the US and Russia still view each other warily, and so American officials "just didn't pay enough attention" to warnings about the Tsarnaev family.
Tamerlan was investigated after Russia's FSB security service raised concerns that he had become a follower of Russian Islam, and Russia asked the FBI and the CIA to look into his activities.
Inclusion on the Tide list does not automatically subject a person to surveillance or travel restrictions.
A childhood photo of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Other media reports on Friday cited government sources as saying Mrs Tsarnaeva is being investigated as a "person of interest" for any part she could have played in radicalising her eldest son.
Mrs Tsarnaeva vehemently denies her sons had anything to do with the Boston bombing, claiming they have been framed and are the victims of a conspiracy.
She claims she had seen a video of Tamerlan being arrested and was later shown pictures of him alive.
In an emotional interview in Russia, Mrs Tsarnaeva said she wishes she had never moved her family to the US from their native Dagestan.
"You know, my kids would be with us, and we would be, like, fine," she said.
"So, yes, I would prefer not to live in America now! Why did I even go there? Why? I thought America is going to, like, protect us, our kids, it's going to be safe."
Her husband, Anzor Tsarnaev, says he plans to travel to the US to bury his elder son and to try to visit Dzhokhar in the Federal Medical Centre Devens outside of Boston.
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