Philip "Flip" Zimmerman was a Jewish-American policeman from Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1979, he helped Ron Stallworth with his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan, posing as Stallworth in person as Stallworth contacted the Klan via telephone.
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Zimmerman speaking with Felix Kendrickson
Philip "Flip" Zimmerman was an officer of the Colorado Springs Police Department in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and he worked alongside Jimmy Creek in the intelligence department during the 1970s. In 1979, he agreed to help Ron Stallworth with his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan, with Stallworth posing (over the phone) as a white man willing to join the Klan, and Zimmerman pretending to be Stallworth at in-person meetings with Klansmen. Zimmerman and Stallworth cultivated their relationship with the local Klan chapter under Walter Breachway, and Zimmerman was almost exposed during Felix Kendrickson's "Jewish lie detector test"; he was saved when Stallworth threw a rock through the Kendrickson family window to distract the Klansmen. He was later initiated into the Klan, and he discovered a plot to bomb a civil rights rally, thwarting the Klan bomb plot; the Klansmen accidentally blew themselves up. Chief Robert J. Bridges congratulated the two of them, but ordered them to end the operation and keep all details from the public.