Working through the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership with local police, the FBI assembled files on local activists using information secretly gathered by Rogers. I tell the story of Windecker and his FBI work, as well as the investigation in Colorado Springs, in “ Alphabet Boys,” a 10-episode documentary podcast from Western Sound and iHeartPodcasts.Īs the FBI’s Colorado Springs investigation reveals, Denver wasn’t the only city where federal agents infiltrated racial justice groups that summer. Windecker provided information to the FBI about an activist who attended demonstrations in both Denver and Colorado Springs, prompting federal agents to launch a new investigation in the smaller Colorado city. The work of Rogers, or “Chelsie,” is a direct offshoot of the FBI’s summer of 2020 investigation in Denver, where Mickey Windecker, a paid FBI informant, drove a silver hearse, rose to a leadership role in the racial justice movement, and encouraged activists to become violent.
The FBI enlisted her to infiltrate and spy on racial justice groups during the summer of 2020.Īpril Rogers, left, a police officer who went undercover for the FBI in the Colorado Springs activist community, participating in a housing-rights march during which several activists were arrested. The young woman, whose real name is April Rogers, is a detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department. “I never questioned it.”īut Chelsie’s identity was as fake as her long pink hair. That makes sense,’” said Autum Carter-Wallace, an activist in Colorado Springs. “I think somebody else had told me that, and I just was like, ‘Oh, OK. “She implied over the course of getting to know her that she was a sex worker,” said Jon Christiansen, Samantha’s husband and another co-founder of the Chinook Center. She also dropped regular hints about her chosen profession. The pink-haired woman said her name was Chelsie. But no one among the activists found that unusual or alarming everyone has their own style. “She dressed in a way that was sort of noticeable,” said Samantha Christiansen, a co-founder of the Chinook Center. One day during the summer of 2020, she walked into the Chinook Center, a community space for left-wing activists in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and offered to volunteer. The young woman with long pink hair claimed to be from Washington state.
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