Russia-born Survivor contestant, 32, worked for Project Veritas as a 'honey pot' to 'lure Democrats into conversations she secretly recorded' Hope Higgins, whose real name is Anna Khait, has been working for Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group known to produce video via secret recording Khait managed to lure former Democratic campaign worker Michael Kolenc Kolenc spoke disparagingly about his former boss Oregon Governor Kate Brown Khait, who was a former contestant on Survivor managed to score time with Kolenc by treating him as a possibly love interest Khait also managed to surreptitiously record West Virginia teachers union member Jay O'Neal for another Conservative group, Accuracy in Media