Chris Gaubatz

Chris Allen Gaubatz is an American national security consultant who is known for posing as an intern for the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) in order to gather information on the group's inner workings, which were published in the 2009 book Muslim Mafia by his father Paul David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry. The Southern Poverty Law Center and The Intercept have described Gaubatz as a conspiracy theorist.

Early life and career Gaubatz is the son of Paul David Gaubatz,

Undercover for Muslim Mafia For his undercover operation at CAIR, later to be published in the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America, Gaubatz called himself David Marshall, an alleged Muslim student at Ferrum College. The book was championed by at least four Republican members of the U.S. House at the time of its publication. for stealing 12,000 documents from the organization.

Later activities Gaubatz later served as Vice President of former FBI agent John Guandolo's organization Understanding the Threat (UTT), designated an anti-Muslim "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and considered a part of the counter-jihad movement.

In 2016, Gaubatz represented UTT at a congressional hearing on radical Islam at the invitation of Senator Ted Cruz. According to the SPLC "in his testimony, Gaubatz shared his story of infiltration and pushed other anti-Muslim conspiracy theories." Gaubatz also accused the two Muslim Reps. Keith Ellison and André Carson of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, due to the two having attended an Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) event, which Gaubatz claimed to be a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood.

When working for UTT, Gaubatz along with Guandolo traveled throughout the country providing training seminars to law enforcement and civilians on the "jihadi threat". After his resignation from UTT, Gaubatz became president of the RAIR Foundation, or Rise Align Ignite Reclaim, which was founded by prolific anti-Muslim Twitter user Amy Mek, who was exposed as Amy Mekelburg by HuffPost the same year. Gaubatz has also worked with ACT for America. Gaubatz has claimed that CAIR consists of "suit-wearing jihadis" whose ideology is "indistinguishable from that of al-Qaeda or the Islamic State," and suggested that the refugee resettlement program is "a way for terrorists to infiltrate the U.S."