Osama Eldawoody

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Osama Eldawoody is a US citizen with a nuclear engineering degree who volunteered to work as a paid New York City Police Department informant to work undercover in Mosques in the New York area. His work broke up a terrorist plot by Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay to blow up the Herald Square Subway Station and Macy's Herald Square Department Store, one of the largest in the World. He was paid $100,000 over 3 years.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/14/cbsnews_investigates/main2012224.shtml