Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

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Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond.

15名面临联邦共谋指控的明尼苏达州居民的律师已获得证据，表明美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）针对明尼苏达州及其他地区的左翼社会运动开展了一场大规模、可能违宪的间谍行动。

The high-profile Minnesota 15 prosecution makes clear that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), flush with federal funds and newly hired personnel, is now President Donald Trump’s primary tool against dissent, with a powerful array of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to bear against everyday Americans organizing their communities.

备受瞩目的“明尼苏达15人”起诉案清楚地表明，国土安全部（DHS）在联邦资金和新招募人员的充实下，现已成为唐纳德·特朗普总统打击异见的主要工具，并动用了一系列强大的“9·11”后调查权力来对付组织社区活动的普通美国人。

Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

专家表示，自20世纪60年代和70年代联邦政府针对“新左派”和反战运动进行反叛乱行动以来，美国从未出现过如此规模的行动。

Among the records revealed during the discovery process in these cases are dozens of reports, audio transcripts, emails, intercepted Signal chats, photographs, database queries, and more. They reveal the inner workings of the domestic terrorism investigations, running under the names Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master, authorized by the controversial National Security Presidential Memorandum 7.

在这些案件的证据开示过程中披露的记录包括数十份报告、音频记录、电子邮件、被拦截的Signal聊天记录、照片、数据库查询等。这些记录揭示了国内恐怖主义调查的内部运作，这些调查以“惠普尔盾牌计划”（Project Whipple Shield）和“木偶大师行动”（Operation Puppet Master）为名，并由备受争议的第7号国家安全总统备忘录（NSPM 7）授权。

Published following Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September of last year, NSPM 7 instructs federal law enforcement to use every tool available against organizations and people who criticize the administration’s policies and espouse “anti-Christian” ideas. The full scope and extent of the investigations it authorizes remains unknown.

第7号国家安全总统备忘录（NSPM 7）在去年9月查理·柯克（Charlie Kirk）遇刺后发布，指示联邦执法部门动用一切可用手段，打击那些批评政府政策并宣扬“反基督教”思想的组织和个人。该备忘录所授权调查的全部范围和程度尚不为人知。

Defense attorneys for the Minnesota 15 claim that the prosecution stems from a broader nationwide surveillance operation aimed at opponents of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. One attorney in the case directly compares the DHS-run campaign to the FBI’s infamous Counterintelligence Program, or COINTELPRO, which unconstitutionally surveilled, infiltrated, and blackmailed racial justice, civil rights, and anti-war movements from the 1950s through the early 1970s.

“明尼苏达15人”的辩护律师声称，此次起诉源于一场更广泛的全国性监视行动，旨在针对特朗普政府移民政策的反对者。该案的一名律师直接将国土安全部开展的这项行动与联邦调查局臭名昭著的“反情报计划”（COINTELPRO）相提并论，后者在20世纪50年代至70年代初曾违宪地监视、渗透并勒索种族正义、民权和反战运动。

Three former law enforcement officials who reviewed filings concur, telling WIRED that the case is almost certainly part of a wider intelligence-gathering operation that began long before the administration invaded Minnesota in December 2025.

三名前执法官员在审阅了相关文件后表示赞同，他们告诉《连线》（WIRED）杂志，该案几乎可以肯定是更广泛情报收集行动的一部分，而该行动早在政府于2025年12月进入明尼苏达州之前就已经开始了。

Dueling motions in the case over discovery of DHS’s surveillance program reveal that personnel with Homeland Security Investigations—one of ICE’s two components—repurposed funding mechanisms and investigative tools for serious criminal probes and turned them on domestic dissenters. Operation Keyhole, the HSI undercover program that bankrolled the Minnesota 15 prosecution, dates back to 2008. As of June 2026, it was underwriting a half dozen active undercover investigations in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area.

案件中关于国土安全部监视计划证据开示的对立动议显示，作为ICE两个组成部分之一的国土安全调查局（HSI）的人员，将原本用于重大刑事调查的资金机制和调查工具挪作他用，转而针对国内异见人士。“锁孔行动”（Operation Keyhole）是资助“明尼苏达15人”起诉案的HSI卧底项目，其历史可追溯至2008年。截至2026年6月，该项目正在资助明尼阿波利斯-圣保罗地区的六项活跃卧底调查。

Around 120 HSI agents, many drawn from specialized units across the country that have served as the leading edge of the administration’s militarized immigration enforcement operations, were assigned to the case—including 11 undercovers. They used highly invasive surveillance techniques, including the deployment of Reaper drones and Patriot Act tools usually restricted内 to money laundering and terrorism investigations. Undercover operatives also infiltrated churches in apparent violation of a court order.

约120名HSI特工被指派负责此案，其中包括11名卧底。他们中的许多人来自全国各地的专业部门，这些部门一直是政府军事化移民执法行动的先锋。他们使用了极具侵入性的监视技术，包括部署“死神”无人机和通常仅限于洗钱及恐怖主义调查的《爱国者法案》工具。卧底人员还明显违反法院命令，渗透进了教堂。

The Minnesota 15 indictment stems from the Trump administration’s demand that the Justice Department “go big and go loud” to crack down on community response networks during last winter’s Operation Metro Surge. Twin Cities activists organized volunteers to monitor DHS agents and their vehicles using encrypted Signal groups, homebuilt vehicle databases, and a centralized dispatch system. Government prosecutors claim that this amounts to a criminal conspiracy to block immigration enforcement, unlawfully identify and stalk federal agents, and even assault them.

“明尼苏达15人”的起诉书源于特朗普政府要求司法部在去年冬天的“地铁激增行动”（Operation Metro Surge）期间“大张旗鼓”地打击社区响应网络。双子城的活动人士组织志愿者，利用加密的Signal群组、自建的车辆数据库和中央调度系统来监视国土安全部特工及其车辆。政府检察官声称，这构成了阻碍移民执法、非法识别和跟踪联邦特工，甚至袭击他们的刑事共谋。

Their defense attorneys say the heavy charges filed against the Minnesota 15 don’t align with their alleged conduct. “This is the first time I’ve had a client who’s accused of a conspiracy and went on a speaking tour,” says Kevin Riach, who represents defendant Isaac Sant.

他们的辩护律师表示，对“明尼苏达15人”提出的重罪指控与他们被指控的行为不符。代表被告艾萨克·桑特（Isaac Sant）的凯文·里亚赫（Kevin Riach）说：“这是我第一次遇到被指控共谋罪的当事人还去进行巡回演讲。”

An internal ICE document laying out the scope of Operation Puppet Master—which led to the indictment of the Minneapolis 15—ends by noting, “This case has also been accepted under CUC Op Keyhole.” According to prosecutors, Operation Keyhole is a long-standing program created by HSI’s Saint Paul office to fund “undercover activity”—primarily equipment purchases and personnel costs—in a region covering Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska. The program has funded at least 77 investigations into “narcotics trafficking, child sexual abuse, financial investigations, and counter-proliferation” since it started in December 2008.

一份概述“木偶大师行动”（导致明尼阿波利斯15人被起诉）范围的ICE内部文件在结尾处写道：“此案也已根据CUC锁孔行动（Op Keyhole）受理。”据检察官称，“锁孔行动”是HSI圣保罗办公室设立的一个长期项目，旨在为覆盖明尼苏达州、南北达科他州、爱荷华州和内布拉斯加州的地区的“卧底活动”（主要是设备采购和人员成本）提供资金。自2008年12月启动以来，该项目已资助了至少77项针对“毒品贩运、儿童性虐待、金融调查和反扩散”的调查。

The CUC prefix, per an internal 2008 DHS handbook unearthed by the independent media outlet Unicorn Riot, refers to Certified Undercover Operations, a formal designation with clearly defined oversight mechanisms, procedures, and reporting requirements. Operation Keyhole’s parameters are reviewed every six months by a committee comprising senior DOJ and DHS officials. As of June 2026, when it was last renewed, Keyhole funded six active investigations, including Project Whipple Shield, which was initiated in February to probe claims of assault, stalking, and doxing of DHS agents and other federal employees, and underpins the Minnesota 15 indictment.

根据独立媒体“独角兽暴动”（Unicorn Riot）挖掘出的一份2008年国土安全部内部手册，CUC前缀指的是“认证卧底行动”（Certified Undercover Operations），这是一个具有明确监督机制、程序和报告要求的正式名称。“锁孔行动”的参数每六个月由一个由司法部和国土安全部高级官员组成的委员会审查一次。截至2026年6月该项目最后一次续期时，“锁孔行动”资助了六项活跃调查，其中包括“惠普尔盾牌计划”。该计划于2月启动，旨在调查有关国土安全部特工和其他联邦雇员遭受袭击、跟踪和人肉搜索的指控，并构成了“明尼苏达15人”起诉案的基础。

At least 11 undercover agents working under Operation Keyhole infiltrated Twin Cities anti-ICE activists, participating in martial arts and know-your-rights trainings, marches, general strikes, and community meetings. They also infiltrated activists’ communications network for identifying possible undercover ICE vehicles and dispatching activists to tail them through the Twin Cities, and penetrated several activist group chats on Signal, transmitting their contents back to other HSI colleagues for analysis and eventual inclusion in the ind

至少有11名在“锁孔行动”下工作的卧底特工渗透进了双子城的反ICE活动人士群体，参加了武术和“了解你的权利”培训、游行、总罢工和社区会议。他们还渗透进了活动人士用于识别可能的ICE卧底车辆并派遣活动人士在双子城跟踪这些车辆的通信网络，并潜入了几个Signal上的活动人士群聊，将内容传回给其他HSI同事进行分析，并最终将其纳入起诉书。