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In 2020, as racial justice demonstrations spread nationwide and the most significant Black political movement in decades grew larger, the FBI was convinced that extreme Black political activists could cross the line into domestic terrorism.
That summer, the FBI enlisted Mickey Windecker, a tattooed White man who drove a silver hearse, as a paid informant. Windecker claimed he'd heard racial justice activists speak vaguely of training and violent revolution in Denver. The FBI gave him a recording device and instructed him to infiltrate the city's growing Black Lives Matter movement.
For months, Windecker spied on activists and attempted to recruit two Black men into an FBI-engineered plot to assassinate the state's attorney general.
We partnered with the Alphabet Boys podcast and journalist Trevor Aaronson, who obtained over a dozen hours of Windecker's secret recordings and more than 300 pages of internal FBI reports, to explore the first documented case of FBI infiltration in the modern racial justice movement.
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