a secret two-year effort by iran to keep close tabs on this woman, masih alinejad at her house in brooklyn with the goal of kidnapping her. i m an iranian journalist, activist but to be honest, the government in iran have different names for me. reporter: she is an outspoken critic especially its treatment of women, an author with a big profile on social media. federal prosecutors say these four men in iran, operatives of its intelligence service, hatched a plot to snatch her off the street, hiring private investigators to watch and photograph her house, falsely telling them she owed money to a client in the middle east the fbi says it found this screen shot showing that one of the iranian men even researched ways to spirit her away by boat u.s. authorities were so concerned, they moved her to safe houses for eight months a fifth person, a woman in california is charged with helping move nearly half a million dollars here from iran to finance the plot iran s foreign ministry tonigh