A former FBI informant who posed as a Muslim convert to infiltrate mosques in California has said the FBI instructed him to have sex with Muslim women if it would help him gather information. Craig Monteilh has admitted collecting phone numbers and other personal information about Muslims in the Los Angeles area, even planting a recording device in the local Muslim Student Union. He told HuffPost Live his FBI handlers encouraged him to date Muslim women.

Craig Monteilh: “There were some times that in the dates it would get intimate, so I would ask my FBI handlers what I should [unintelligible]. And they instructed me, if I was getting good intel, to allow it to go into sexual relations.”

When he was working as an informant, Monteilh’s extreme talk of violence and jihad alarmed his targets in the Muslim community, who ultimately reported him to the FBI and took out a restraining order against him.