FBI’s Darkest Secrets Exposed

Episode 113 with Trevor Aaronson

We’re grateful to have Trevor Aaronson on the pod this week to discuss his reporting on FBI infiltration of the racial justice movement in Denver almost three years ago. Aaronson tells the story of how Mickey, a fifty-year-old outsider in military fatigues who talked a big game about his past history of combat, joined a group of young activists and fought to dispel their suspicions about his motives — only to inform on and threaten the group in exchange for checks from the FBI (to the tune of $20,000). Watch below: