Documents show federal surveillance operation in Minnesota targeted progressive groups, unions
Defense lawyers say agents used undercover infiltration, subpoenas and facial recognition to build dossiers on groups that were never charged.
- Department of Homeland Security agents conducted a widespread undercover surveillance operation in Minnesota, targeting progressive activist groups and major labor unions protesting a massive federal immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area.
- The programs, dubbed "Operation Puppet Master" and "Project Whipple Shield," were aimed at investigating what federal officials characterized as a network aiding "violent opportunists and agitators," following the deployment of 3,000 DHS officers to the region.
- Undercover officers secretly infiltrated public activist meetings at churches, libraries, schools, and parks—monitoring encrypted chat channels, logging attendee vehicle license plates, and tracking nonviolent protest planning.
- Surveillance extended to 18 major labor unions and grassroots organizations, including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, CWA, and the Sunrise Movement, with federal authorities obtaining years of financial and banking transaction records.
- The intelligence operations were revealed in court filings by defense attorney Kevin Riach, who accused the government of conducting a politically driven, anti-democratic investigation to intimidate constitutionally protected dissent.
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Trump’s DHS carried out vast spying operation against unions and left-wing groups in Minnesota
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Homeland Security accused of political spying on Minnesota protesters, unions
The Department of Homeland Security allegedly ran a sweeping, politically motivated surveillance campaign against protesters, unions and nonprofits with no criminal basis, according to a court filing by a lawyer for a defendant charged in the protests.
Massive government spying operation uncovered in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS—It was bad enough that the Trump regime is taking 15 people to court for exercising their rights to free speech during the murderous ICE raids here but now we know that, as they were taking them to court, they constructed an unprecedented spying operation directed at anyone opposed to the murderous ICE raids. Hundreds or even thousands have been spied on and subjected to being listed as what Trump calls “enemies.” Activists say it wa…
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