On June 6, 1989, FBI and Environmental Protection Agency investigators entered the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant with a federal search warrant. The investigation became one of the defining events in Rocky Flats history. Twenty-five years later, former FBI agent Jon Lipsky sat down with Rocky Mountain PBS to describe, in his own words, how the investigation began, what investigators encountered at the plant, and what happened after the search. How the investigation began L

In 1989, following the FBI raid on the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Colorado’s first special federal grand jury began reviewing evidence gathered during the investigation. Thirty years later, Westword reported on another troubling chapter in that history: attorneys seeking access to records considered by the grand jury were told that federal officials could not confirm where the requested records were located. The Rocky Flats grand jury The special grand jury was impane

Long after the FBI's historic 1989 raid on the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, the agent who helped lead that investigation was still asking questions about what happened there—and whether the land surrounding the former plant should be opened to the public. In its May 2016 feature “Rogue Agent,” 5280 magazine profiled former FBI special agent Jon Lipsky and examined his continuing involvement with Rocky Flats nearly three decades after the raid. , The Investigation That C