Former top White House strategist Steve Bannon wanted to place a spy inside Facebook to monitor the social-media giant’s hiring just weeks before he was named to run Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to a report on Monday.

Bannon, who resigned from the White House last month, got the idea to plant a mole from Chris Gacek, a former congressional staffer who now works for the Family Research Council, a group that lobbies against abortion and LGBT rights, BuzzFeed News reported, citing an email exchange between the two.

“There is one for a DC-based ‘Public Policy Manager’ at Facebook’s What’s APP [sic] division,” Gacek wrote to Bannon on Aug. 1, 2016, according to the report. “LinkedIn sent me a notice about some job openings.”

The job announcement listed responsibilities to “develop and execute WhatsApp’s global policy strategy” and “represent WhatsApp in meetings with government officials and elected members.”

“This seems perfect for Breitbart to flood the zone with candidates of all stripe who will report back to you / Milo with INTEL about the job application process over at FB,” Gacek wrote to Bannon, referring to Milo Yiannopoulos, a former editor at Breitbart News.

“Can u get on this,” Bannon directed Yiannopoulos in an email later the same day.

Yiannopoulos forwarded Bannon’s request to some researchers, who wrote back that it “Seems dificult [sic] to do quietly without them becoming aware of efforts.”

Bannon resigned as chairman of the news website after Trump named him the chief executive of his campaign on Aug. 17, 2016 .

Yiannopoulos left Breitbart last February after videos surfaced of him defending pedophilia.

BuzzFeed said Bannon, Yiannopoulos or Gacek did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the email exchange.

The report also said it’s unclear whether Bannon was able to implement Gacek’s idea to infiltrate Facebook.

The revelations come as Facebook faces scrutiny about the role it played in the 2016 presidential campaign and ads it sold to Russian-linked accounts that were part of a scheme to spread propaganda during the election.

The media giant’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company has turned over the more than 3,000 ads to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian involvement in the election and any collusion by Trump campaign officials.

Facebook is also strengthening its review process for political ads, Zuckerberg said.