DENVER -- The FBI and local law enforcement agencies have been called in to investigate some racist fliers that were distributed throughout Eagle County Tuesday morning, 7NEWS Investigates reported.

The fliers say, "Don't Have Sex With Blacks. Avoid AIDS."

Eagle police said they received several phone calls from residents who woke up to find these fliers on their doorsteps and on their car windshields. The fliers were in plastic bags and weighted down with rocks. Police told 7NEWS Investigates that the fliers were distributed throughout Eagle County, and not just in the town of Eagle.

The fliers name three men, their area of residence, and state, "These Black sexual predators lied about being HIV positive and had sex with dozens of White Women ... Don't Be the Next Victim."

A white supremacy group calling itself the National Alliance is claiming credit for the fliers.

The FBI in Denver told 7NEWS' Tony Kovaleski that they are monitoring the developments, but no crime has been committed since no threat was issued.

"As offensive as we may find it, people have every right to put it out," said FBI spokeswoman Ann Atanasio. "It is reasonable to conclude the racial overtones of the Kobe Bryant case would cause this organization to target this area (Eagle)."

The National Alliance was founded by the late William Pierce, author of the racist novel "The Turner Diaries" that figured prominently in the Oklahoma City bombing case. Pierce left nearly everything he owned to the group when he died of cancer in July 2002.

Eagle County has recently been the focus of a national spotlight because that is the site where Bryant's sexual assault trial will play out. The 24-year-old NBA star, who is black, is accused of raping a white 19-year-old employee of a luxury resort in nearby Edwards.

Bryant says the sex was consensual and that he is guilty only of adultery. He is married to Vanessa Laine and has a baby daughter. He is set to appear at the Eagle County courthouse on Oct. 9.

Eagle County sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Andree said investigators do not believe the fliers were related to the Bryant case.

Andree would not say whether the West Virginia-based National Alliance or similar groups had distributed fliers in this mountain community before. She did not know how many fliers had been left.

Mayor Roxie Deane called the fliers "totally unacceptable" and said people received them in the mail and in plastic bags thrown into their yards. She received two fliers herself and said they bore Denver postmarks.

Deane said she believes the Bryant case triggered distribution of the fliers.

"We are definitely not racists," Deane said of her 3,500 fellow residents. "In fact, I've gone out of my way in interviews to say that. I don't know if they're offended by that."

Mark Potok, spokesman for the Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors white supremacist groups, said the National Alliance often distributes similar fliers.

"They do have a history of coming in to communities where they sense some kind of racial conflict and doing their best to take advantage of that," Potok said. "I think they see that the Kobe Bryant case is getting very different reactions from white America and black America.

"They're there to exploit that position, they're hoping white people angered at this alleged rape will join them in their quest."

In December, a flier urging people to join the racist group were left on doorsteps and driveways in Colorado Springs. And in February 2002, similar fliers bearing the alliance's name were left in neighborhoods in Lakewood.

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Additional Information:

Southern Poverty Law Center