In 2006, the FBI recruited Craig Monteilh, a convicted fraudster, to work as a paid informant inside mosques in Orange County, California. Posing as a new Muslim convert named “Farouk,” he attended the Islamic Center of Irvine and prayed there several times a day while secretly recording conversations using hidden devices, including one concealed inside a car key fob.

His job was to steer conversations toward violent extremism in order to identify potential radicals and report information back to his handlers. However, the operation did not unfold the way the FBI had expected.

Members of the mosque became so concerned by the new “convert” and his increasingly alarming comments that they sought a restraining order against him and reported him to local police and the FBI, warning that he might be a dangerous extremist. What they did not know was that he was already working for those same authorities. Rather than being radicalized, the community was the first to raise the alarm.

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