Jacob Wohl's elaborate plan to smear Robert Mueller involves hiring a private intelligence firm SureFire Intelligence, and claiming that one of its operatives, a self-identified ex-Israeli intelligence officer named Simon Frick, had discovered evidence of misconduct on Mueller's part. However, the plan backfired when SureFire's poor opsec enabled reporters to determine that many SureFire employees were actually Jacob Wohl himself, using fake names and profile pictures.