Trevor Aaronson is an American

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. He is a contributing writer at

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and author of ''The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism''. He was a 2020 ASU Future Security Fellow at New America and a 2015

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Fellow. Aaronson is the creator and host of the documentary podcasts ''American ISIS'', which tells the story of Russell Dennison, an American who joined the

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as a fighter in Syria; and ''Chameleon: High Rollers'', which investigates an FBI undercover operation in Las Vegas. In January 2023, Aaronson launched a podcast series calle
Alphabet Boys
about "secret investigations of the FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, and other alphabet agencies". The first season, Trojan Hearse, focuses on the summer 2020

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-like infiltration of antifa /

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protesters and activists in Denver, Colorado following the May 2020 Minnesota police killing of George Floyd. Aaronson has won the Molly National Journalism Prize, the Data Journalism Award and the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award.

Works

* ''The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism'', Ig Publishing, 2013,

References

External links

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"How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists" (TED2015)
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