It's been recently reported ICE surfaced with a deployment at at least one NYPD precinct.
Did you know Unicorn Riot obtained 100s of pages of confidential ICE Special Agent manuals? Our #Icebreaker series takes a deep jump into smallest details (thread):
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Did you know Unicorn Riot obtained 100s of pages of confidential ICE Special Agent manuals? Our #Icebreaker series takes a deep jump into smallest details (thread):
unicornriot.ninja/tag/icebreaker/
ICE has two main branches: Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the little-known second biggest component of Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). We obtained the entire Obama-era Special Agent guide for ICE-HSI agents. 
"Targeting and stripping citizenship from naturalized foreign-born Americans" - #Icebreaker Pt 1 – Secret Homeland Security ICE/HSI Manual for Stripping US Citizenship
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#Icebreaker Pt 2 – Confidential Homeland Security Asset Forfeiture and Search and Seizure Handbooks - incl tactics of warrantless searches, (Video example @RodWebber recorded in unfounded HSI raid near 2016RNC)
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Investigative journalist @EoinHiggins_ leveraged #Icebreaker Pt 2 to explore ICE methods for warrantless searches and confirmed the manual's authenticity - a good example of how our reporting helps build solid foundations for the facts
“...target the assets of violators within all HSI core areas of investigation for seizure and forfeiture… assets should be seized as soon as practical... seizure & forfeiture of criminally derived assets... part of the ongoing investigative strategy.” unicornriot.ninja/2018/icebreake…
Next a deeper dive into federal tracking databases
#Icebreaker Pt 3 – Confidential Homeland Security Fugitive and Compliance Enforcement Handbooks
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How ICE-HSI tracks people, runs database checks and forms of enforcement vs immigrants & student visa holders
#Icebreaker Pt 3 – Confidential Homeland Security Fugitive and Compliance Enforcement Handbooks
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How ICE-HSI tracks people, runs database checks and forms of enforcement vs immigrants & student visa holders
#Icebreaker Pt 4 – Homeland Security Special Agent On-the-Job Training Manual - 100 pages designed to sharpen ICE agent skills at deporting people from the United States.
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It maps specific obscure federal tracking databases.
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It maps specific obscure federal tracking databases.
The heavy hitter - #Icebreaker Pt. 5 – Confidential Homeland Security Undercover Operations Handbook. 227 pages on Undercover Ops & "Otherwise Illegal Activities" - entire framework for approving criminal operations, lucrative payouts to informants & more
The 227 page handbook, marked OFFICIAL USE ONLY, broken into 14 chapters and 10 appendices, shines light on the secret architecture of America’s informant management operations.
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Flowcharts and many subsections show exactly how ICE management committees approve illegal criminal conspiracies - and the existence of ICE “undercover contract psychologist” staff tasked with mitigating psychic trauma suffered by ICE operatives and informants
One seasoned observer pointed out to UR a key dimension to consider in a policy manual like this is how the handlers keep the informants working for them -- into exhaustive detail about how informants can be financially compensated and allowed by ICE to commit profitable crimes.
#Icebreaker Part 6 covers ICE’s “Special Response Team” (SRT) area of doctrine, the section of ICE organized along paramilitary lines, for "SWAT" style raids.
In Sept 2019 ICE got attention for a 'redaction fail' in gearing up for “Hyper-Realistic” raid simulation, ordered for the politically-sensitive site Fort Benning, GA, home of the U.S. counterinsurgency and torture training center formerly known as the School of the Americas.
Civil liberties expert @onekade pointed out this is “some real boomerang theory in action. For decades the security state hosts a school for foreign services to teach how to violently quash left resistance”. "Arizona" & "Chicago" sets included
In #Icebreaker Pt 6 we covered how leading ICE-HSI "Special Agents in Charge" (SACs) sought to split HSI from ICE into "independent entities" due to internal tension - much of HSI was built from the former US Customs Service, which was not aimed at immigration enforcement.
#Icebreaker Part 7 covers ICE’s “Case Management Handbook” based on a critical database structure called Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS), a backbone of federal law enforcement data management and intelligence gathering since 1987. unicornriot.ninja/2019/icebreake…
Aside from the information garnered from surveillance & informants, instructions in the handbook cover key info related to court proceedings & discovery for defense attorneys, & how certain info about informants should not be placed in the main case files. unicornriot.ninja/2019/icebreake…
TECS has been replaced with “Integrated Case Management” (ICM), designed and managed by controversial data mining intelligence contractor #Palantir, owned controlled by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.
For more than a century dossiers & tracking have been key to US empire.
For more than a century dossiers & tracking have been key to US empire.
TECS hasn't usually attracted much attention but it got noticed for being used to track Wikileaks volunteer David House. Despite TECS alert flags, Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was able to avoid scrutiny, later review found. Oddly, late actor Peter Fonda also commented:
Icebreaker Pt 8 – Leaked ICE Handbooks for T and U Visa Application Investigations – covering the particular classes of U.S. residency visas that help victims of crimes and human trafficking. “T visa” program aims at helping protect applicants from abuse.
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In June 2019, Colorado resident Jeanette Vizguerra was denied a U-visa six years after an application, after she suffered a violent crime in the United States. The U.S. has been trying to deport Vizguerra, who has U.S. citizen children, since 2009.
In June 2019, Colorado resident Jeanette Vizguerra was denied a U-visa six years after an application, after she suffered a violent crime in the United States. The U.S. has been trying to deport Vizguerra, who has U.S. citizen children, since 2009.
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#Icebreaker Part 9 covers several handbooks: arrest procedures, interviewing techniques, live and photographic lineups, and psychophysiological detection of deception (also known as polygraphs).
#Icebreaker Part 9 covers several handbooks: arrest procedures, interviewing techniques, live and photographic lineups, and psychophysiological detection of deception (also known as polygraphs).
Much of the Interviewing Techniques manual, starting on PDF page 26, focuses on the various ICE interrogation techniques including logical, sympathetic, indifferent, face saving, egotistical, exaggeration, indirect, direct, non-directive, and controlled answer.
#Icebreaker Pt 10 – Leaked ICE Agent Private Bill and Commercial Trade Fraud Investigation Handbooks
The roots of ICE-HSI in since-disbanded US Customs Service visible in this collection of trade fraud & international commerce investigation techniques
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The roots of ICE-HSI in since-disbanded US Customs Service visible in this collection of trade fraud & international commerce investigation techniques
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The final entry in our series, #Icebreaker Pt 11 – Bush/Clinton Era Customs Investigators Manuals, covers the manuals for the pre-Department of Homeland Security, pre-ICE investigative service. unicornriot.ninja/2020/icebreake…
These archaic manuals shed particular light on the little-understood inner workings of the U.S. financial infrastructure, such as the wire transfer systems administered by the Federal Reserve System, and money laundering investigations conducted therein.
The manuals included in this set are:
USCS OI Controlled Deliveries (1997)
USCS OI Evidence (1997)
USCS OI Informants (1997)
USCS OI Investigative Methods (1990)
USCS OI Methods of Tracing Funds (1991)
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USCS OI Controlled Deliveries (1997)
USCS OI Evidence (1997)
USCS OI Informants (1997)
USCS OI Investigative Methods (1990)
USCS OI Methods of Tracing Funds (1991)
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The 1997 informants manual includes policies about letting informants profit from money laundering transactions - this type of policy got referenced in the 2006 Michael Mann film "Miami Vice"
According to the 1997 informants manual, records about federal informants are retained for 50 years at regional Federal Records Centers
Obscure cash flows for informants detailed including Purchases of Information (POI), Purchases of Evidence (POE), "Payment from the Confidential Fund" and awards of compensation called "moiety" for seized items
This manual exposes something called the "confidential fund" that was barred to external auditing.
That wraps up our #Icebreaker series. Your support made it possible to dig deep into the little-understood, secret world of federal agents, weird databases, informant policies & authorized "otherwise illegal activities"
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