HSI describes a criminal-investigation purpose for undercover agents
Homeland Security InvestigationsFederal investigative agency
The HSI report states a criminal-investigation purpose for integrating undercover agents into groups identified as potential threats.
“This case is opened to document the integration of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Undercover Agents (UCAs) into groups, organizations, or other gatherings identified by intelligence information and other sources as potentially threatening to law enforcement personnel in the performance of their duties.”
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HSI report describes a Minneapolis criminal investigation; Riach compares the operation to COINTELPRO
HSI describes undercover work in Minneapolis as investigation of threats and interference with federal officers. Its St. Paul leader publicly defends the investigation as a response to coordinated violence. Defense attorney Kevin Riach compares HSI's operations to COINTELPRO. The accounts dispute the justification for the surveillance.
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The HSI case-opening report was filed as an exhibit to the defense's August 13 discovery motion. It describes the stated criminal-investigation purpose of the undercover activity.
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The report says an organized network is providing material support to violent opportunists and agitators involved in impeding federal law enforcement and assaulting federal officers. It says HSI St. Paul is conducting a financial investigation to uncover the funding sources used by these groups.
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The report says any individual or organization identified for further investigatory action will be documented in its own case file, and that an assistant U.S. attorney has accepted the investigation for federal prosecution in Minnesota.
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Relative to HSI's undercover surveillance in Minneapolis, the report justifies the operation: it ties the undercover work to an alleged network supporting assaults on federal officers and to a financial investigation aimed at prosecution.
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