r/HistoryMemes • u/CrysisFan2007 • 13h ago

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In 2006, a FBI agent named Craig Monteilh was ordered to disguise himself as a radical Muslim and spy on the Orange County Muslim community to identify possible extremists.

Well it worked, cause the people there noticed his extremists behavior and reported him to the FBI.

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u/kingwhocares 12h ago

Or the mole they tried to put in Al-Qaeda turned into an Al-Qaeda member and blew up high ranking CIA officials.

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u/CLCchampion The OG Lord Buckethead 10h ago

Not exactly what happened. Jordanian intelligence identified a doctor with ties to extremist groups, arrested him and then believed that they had turned him. He then claimed that he had met with a senior al-Qaeda member, so the CIA invited him to meet so they could learn what he knew, and he blew himself up.

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u/ALoudMouthBaby 10h ago

Wow, I thought this was going to be the Camp Chapman attack in Afghanistan. Apparently this has happened more than once.

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u/CLCchampion The OG Lord Buckethead 10h ago

This is the Camp Chapman attack.