The FBI used an undercover cop with pink hair masquerading as a prostitute to infiltrate progressive activist groups in Colorado Springs, Colorado, an extensive report by The Intercept shows.
April Rogers is a detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the summer of 2020, the FBI enlisted her services to infiltrate racial justice groups in order to spy on them. She used the name Chelsie Kurti and said she was a sex worker.
Jon Christiansen is one of the co-founders of the Chinook Center, a progressive community space in Colorado Springs that Rogers walked into claiming that she wanted to volunteer. Christiansen said that Rogers implied that she was a sex worker.
“She implied over the course of getting to know her that she was a sex worker,” said Christiansen. “She dressed in a way that was sort of noticeable,” added his wife, Samantha Christiansen. Rogers claimed to have a file cabinet that she could donate to the center.
“And I was like, ‘Yeah, sure. We need all kinds of stuff,’” said Jon Christiansen. “This giant filing cabinet. In retrospect, after the fact, we’re like, ‘Right, that looks like a filing cabinet that would be in a police station.’”
The outlet claims that Rogers was tapped to act as “Chelsie” during the FBI’s investigation in Denver the same year where a paid FBI informant named Mickey Windecker became a prominent activist in the racial justice organizing scene there. Windecker encouraged activists to become violent and gave the FBI information about an activist who frequented protests in Denver and Colorado Springs.
The information provided prompted the Colorado Springs operation, and Rogers tried to entrap at least two young men into gun-running using tactics employed by Windecker. Windecker allegedly tried to get two activists to commit violent crimes, including assassinating Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.
Rogers reportedly began inviting activists back…
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