DHS Undercover Agents Infiltrated 15 Minnesota Anti-ICE Defendants' Networks, Logging Signal Chats and Photos
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 25
DHS Undercover Agents Infiltrated 15 Minnesota Anti-ICE Defendants' Networks, Logging Signal Chats and Photos
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 25
Summary
Court-disclosed DHS files show undercover agents posed as community members in Minnesota, joined Signal groups, saved protest chats and photographed meetings as prosecutors pursue 15 Minneapolis activists on conspiracy charges tied to impeding ICE.
Agent 9843 — using the Signal handle “peanutbutterjelly” — attended December 2025 trainings and organizing meetings, then offered help with fundraising, flyers, volunteer recruitment and verifying hotel locations where ICE agents were believed to be staying.
Other agents reported that organizers stressed peaceful protest and no public-safety threats, yet still took detailed notes on attendees, photographed signs and meeting spaces, and in one February operation used 9 agents to trail 4 protesters.
The disclosures expand on earlier revelations about DHS’s “Operation Puppet Master,” which civil-rights lawyers say criminalized lawful anti-ICE activism under a broader Trump-era directive targeting “antifa” as domestic terrorism.