and bonus addendum

Risks of Being a Political Criminal

2025
Obviously, you don't run around telling everyone you're
under investigation, anyone who has been investigated, or
in close relation with someone who has, knows this well.
So how do we ensure we keep those around us safe while
under this type of pursuit?

To start this:

Is this an inflammatory title? Kind of. Kind of not.
This is not a blanket statement, not by a long shot.
So in what context is this meant?

Firstly, Political criminals, specifically if they've been
caught, specifically if they are anarchists.

Secondly, there will be no answers here. There will be
questions posed and pondered, things suggested and
condemned - but none of these are answers. This is fo
encourage thought on the issue and hopefully illuminate a
needed conversation, I have opinions and surely my
opinions will reflect here, figure out yours.

Finally, everything is hypothetical. Always.
So lets propose a hypothetical:

A person, a political criminal, let's call them elderberry, is
under surveillance ofa federdl agency and actively under
repression of the courts in trial. Aware of this, elderberry
continuously involves themselves in political situations
that require discretion. Some of their close affiliates are
aware of this, but they regard themselves as an
“organizer” as wellas find themselves going to discrete
anarchist gatherings. They engage in political activities,
with varying risk levels, and often coexist in sensitive,
political spaces, both with individuals that are aware of
their surveillance status and with those who are not.

s this okay?
Those who are aware of elderberry’s status are able to

address that within their risk assessment when deciding to
involve themselves. What about everyone else?

Let's say elderberry goes to a gathering, 4 days in the
forest, At an anarchist gathering you can expect the
surveillance of local law enforcement, but, suddenly,
because of elderberry's attendance, federal surveillance is
now targeted at the gathering, Feds have authority, access,
and equipment that js not available to local kops. Most
others at the gathering will not have viewed being under
the federal gaze as a likely possibility. Even with the
increase of left-wing political repression in recent years,
for most anarchist gatherings, federal agencies are barely,
if at all, aware and do not care, Yet elderberry changed
those odds.

Depending on the gathering, depending on the frontline,
there’s a damn good chance of high-risk individuals being
there: other political criminals who have evaded bein,
investigated, migrants, “illegal” workers, people on the
run, etC... . None who anticipated the feds watching them.
Altiough ihey were not the subject of the investiggtion,
due to the increased abilities of the agency surveilling
elderberry, flags may be raised, or, they may plainly
investigate everyone. Given the current RICO case against
Weelaunee forest defenders, which is attempting to set
precedent of left-leaning communities and, specifically,
anarchist (or those who they choose to label as such),
working together being labeled as “organized crime” and
“racketeertng”; this is plenty of incentive for said federal
agency to take note on everyone at that gathering.

Elderberry arrived with 1 or 2 close comrades, there are
30ish people at the gathering depending on the day.
Elderberry,aitempted to be diligent (or maybe they didn')
to make sure their stuff wasn't bugged or tracked, but
maybe they missed something. Turnis out their phone is
bugged, and although they don't have it on them while
having Sensitive conversations, it's on them enough
during casual moments and a few things lip throtigh.
They also mostly turn off their phone when they are
partaling in sensitive activities, some of which are group
activities - a ?atlem that may or may not be noticed.
Nobody but elderberry and the comrades they came with
know that they are under federal surveillance.

Can anybody else there give informed consent to
participating? Fooling dcal kops isa lot easier than fooling
the feds. Evading local kops is a lot easier than evading the
feds, You're playing a very different game when you are
dealing with 3 letter agencies.
Obviously, elderberry can't go around telling everyone at
the gathering that they are under surveillance or being
investigated - that would leave them vulnerable.
Obviously, people often tend to try keeping a low profile
while under surveillance, but that is an individual risk one
must make for themselves. When making that personal
assessment should you actively be considering those
around you? Is it ethical not to? Even outside of spaces
with explicitly active political criminals, would it be ethical
for elderberry to volunteer at a soup kitchen that has a lot
of “illegal” migrants that go there?

This is a question of are others informed enough to make
proper risk assessments to gauge their willingness, and
therefore consent, and do we owe each other that? Is it fair
to put others at that risk? Is it worth it? Could it be
harmful?

Personally, i believe it is the feds’ job to try to find political
criminals, and leading the feds to hotspots for their
investigations is doing their job for them. We owe each
other alot, even if we are not in direct community. Not
even necessarily for each other but for Liberation, When
we are fighting alongside each other, even if on different
fronts, itls in our best interest to protect each other.

Again, these are not answers, only opinions. And, although
hypothetical, a very real concern, especially Tately.

We need more political criminals, not more political
prisoners. We keep us safe. Or at least we probably should.
Risks of Being a Political Criminal
Hello NeverSleep anarchists,

Twoke up 4 o’clock in the morning, I decided to visit your
website to see is there are some news, and I see you published
questions about political criminals, should we spend time with
other people and expose/bring thern automatically to
repression? here is my opinion, I will try to be short, but I see
author of zine don’t know so much about spies therefore I must
‘write longer. you can also publish this message on your website,
because we can not leave comments on articles, thérefore I send
email to you.

Person who made questions in this zine asked many questions
and I can not answer all of that, I can say one short example: I
was in Denmark and I said to anarchist (insurrectionist) girl
from Croatia: I am followed by danish spies and if I visit
anarchists, they will be followed also, therefore it is better that I
don't visit their gatherings and don’t spend time with them. She
told me: “we are anarchists and we must accept that we are
under repression, we can finish any time in the prison, we must
stay together and we should not separate because of repression,
it meants I should not avoid other anarchists.” it is the same
about spending time withllegal immigrants or squp Kiichen
mentioned in this zine about political criminals, if you are under

epression, you should not isolate yourself from others, and
others shotild accept they can finish in the prison because ruling
class make repression and nobody can escape from that. o, I
answered shortly about many questions from zine.

Because author of zine, and others also maybe, doesn’t know so
much about spies, here is additional text about spies, I know
more about them because I was spied from 1998 to 2019 when
they set me up £ years of prison, when [ went out from ptison,
they didn’t follow me any more, although author of zine know
something, he said federal spies have bigger resources than local
cops and that’s true, to be short, cops follow anarchists when we
plan to make protest in the city, sometimes they also send
infiltrator o participate in organizing protest to getall -
information what we plan to do, but you should be clear, spies
don'tfollow anarchists only when we protest, they folloty us al
the time many years until they succeed to put us in the prison,
before I explain how spies work, just to say shortly for
anarchists,ifyou burm cars o destroy property, don't think spies
don't know who did it, they don’t give a shit for property and
they will arrest you onlly if you wat to kill politicians and
capitalists, spies are happy when we burn cars, the{mlsuse itto
demand miore money from the budget, so, shoitly, be careful that
cops don't arrest you when you destroy bank or burn cars, spies
‘will not arrest you because of that. beside it, when you break the
law, only participant of actions should know that, don’t say to
everybody what you plan to do, you are not only observed, you
ate already vety possibly infltfated, and you will never kriow
who is infiltrator because his job is to support you and to get your
trust, your girl maybe has sex with you to get your trust and to
repoft yourway of thinking and do you plan to break the law,
therefore, don’t tell to anybody when you plan to break the Liw,
don’t tell even to your girlfriend and don’t forget even people
Who are not snitches c4n collabotate with cops when they face 15
years of prison, to get smaller sentence, and you will get
testimony in the court against yourself if you trust to everybody
and you speak to everybady that you made some action against
the law...if you don’t believe that your girl can be infiltrator of
gpies, Just to ell you that Putin had private meeting with Russian
female spiwho tised professional sex to get trust of American
cltizens who should be spied, o you like t ot not, spies give
training to female spies how to get trust of lar%et, they téach
them what man like about sex and what they shotild do to get
trust of target. all secret services work in the same way, it i not
done only by russian secret service. we should not be paranoid
because we are target of spies, we should have girlfriend and we
should be together with other people, but avoid to tell to
anybody, including your girlfrend, that you plan to attack

oliticians and capifalists, even spies will not arrest you for

amaging property, they will collect information and one day
they can use it a%amsl you to keep you longer in the prison. to be
honest, you can frust only to the people whio are already arrested
by the Secret service, former political prisoners are people with
whom you can speak openly, they were already arrested and
that’s proof they don’t work for secret service, and not only that,
they didn’t collaborate with cops when they faced many years of
prison, therefore, you can trust them, about other people who
never Spent time i jai, you should bé careful with whom you

lan to break the law. in any case, not all anarchists want o

reak the law, many anarchists have no problems with cops and
spies. if you want to break the law, be careful with whom you do
it, can the}{ accept many years of prison and refuse to talk to cops
to get smaller sentence? as I know, greek and italian guerrilla
anarchists (and communists) never collaborated with cops to get
smaller sentence, ifyou getidea to attack politicians, you should
do it or alone or only with former prisoners, if you damage
property, you can do it without problem, spies don’t give'a shit,
just be creful that cops don’t arrest you when you do it. one more
thing about anarchists, if you are well known anarchists like
alfredo bonnano, you will be followed by spies even if you change
country, it means if you rob a bank in ofher country like bonnano
in greece, spies will send cops to arrest you because spies
folfowed you and they saw what you did, bonanno was the reason
anarchists were arrested during robbery in greece (I don’t blame
him, Tjust say you must escape from spies before you make
robbery), if you are not well known anarchists, spies will not
inform spies in other country to follow you, you can change
country and break the law. but don’t forget when you change the
country, when you connect with anarchists, they are spied by
their local spies, and you will be spied, 1 was spied in denmark
evendidn't gef contact with local anarchists, simply, some
people reportéd me to spies, and they followed me sevéral years,
in the end, they decided to deport me back to my country by
misusing cops to arrest me for something what I did before 7
years. I got only 10 months of prison but they wanted just to kick
me out of denmark and to ban me to come back many years
because I didn’t come to look for job like other immigrants than I
mixed myself in (against danish colonial) politics.

now to say something more about secret service, what is not
connected with anarchists but they have the same behavior about
all targets, what they do to others; they will do to you if they put
you ort thelr list of targets.

illegal immigrants and not only anarchists are also target of
spics,differcit people are spied by spies and we shotld stay
together: anarchists, communists, anti war activists, anti nato
activists, ecological activists, immigrants and especially
Muslims (becatise of war for oil that can produce counter attacks
of Muslim militants), military spies are also busy with industrial
espionage in europe and in your country the cia makes industrial
espionage, the cia and military spies secure and expand business
of rich people, in other countries also, if you want to know how
secret service work, you should read published documents
cointelrpro (FBI against martin luther king) and FBI war on black
America, I followed also several years american news portal the!
imercspt, they have a lot of text about mass espionage, they
made database of FBI producing (750) terrorist cases and
everything is about profit, spies demand more money from the
budget when there are more terrorist cases. they produce
lnSEC‘urllxllAD ‘make profit, spies talk with weak person to .
convince him to put a bomb somewhere, after several months if
e accept to doit; they arrest him, make media propaganda and
demand more money from the government. securifyand
insecurity is just a business in capitalism, spies don’t give a shit
for society, politicians also misuse threats and insecurity to
make biggt repression against whole society, to keep people
under control in order to prolong their staying in high positions
to secure their privileged life. for example in etrope, spies says
there is threat from terrorism and that's the excuse to politicians
to make bigger control at the borders in several countries since
2018 and there should be no borders in shengen in europe,
politicians are crazy against immigrants and they misuse
terrorism to stop immigrants to come to west europe. asylum
seekers are also coming from war region and that’s the excuse of
spies to spy them, asylim seekers are checked and spied to see if
they support talibans and al qaeda or they support west euroj
therefore spies infiltrate groups that help to Immigrants an
‘medical workers also help to immigrants but they also collect
information about every immigrant, job of infiltfator/snitch in
elp group s to get trust o target/fimigrants n order (0 see
who 1% militant ot against western (colonial) politics. when spies
get information you'are not good for colonial wars, lheg put you
on the list of extremists (the same they do about anarchists,
‘martin luther king and so on) and after that they are not ONLY
observing target as author of zine said, spies first step is to
isolate their lar%et from others to stop him to have influence on
other people and to prevent him to get help from other people,
the next step of spies is to sabotage activities of target and his/
her private life, to do that, they visit every person t6 convince
them to stop to be in contact with target, they include their
collaborators/snitches in your group/organization to support
you in order to get your trust to be able to collect information
about your way of thinking and ifsnitch (fake supporter) get
information you will break the law, snitch will inform spiés and
then spies decide if will arrest you, as I said, they will not arrest
you for burning cars, but don’t think they don’t know who burn
cars, I must tell you communists and anarchists are infiltrated
‘more than 30 years, you can see that there are anarchists and
communists who make propaganda against militants, spies want
to keep us under control and they use Fheir collaborators to
convince us that we should not break the law and “we should
condemn militant anarchists, we should just spread anarchist
idea”. if you didn’t see, there are mostly anarchist communists
who make propaganda against miltantanarchists, I tell you they
are anarchists but they also collaborate with the secret service.
therefore, don’t let anybody to keep you under control, you can
not stop people to collaborate with secret service, but you can
understand what's happen and don’t et anybodyto keep you
good for ruling class. bé wild, do whatever you want, don’t wait
Tevolution 50 years, damage ruling class how much you can, how
‘much you are ready to sit if the prison. we should open all fronts
of fight, there is not “one the only correct way” of fighting
against the state and capitalists, militants must accept that not

anarchists are ready to sit in the prison, if you attack don’t
expect from other people to follow your actions (communists
guertillabelieved other people will follow their atacks and more
people will attack capitalists, that’s far away from reality),
anarchists who are not militant must accept there are anarchists
‘who will attack and damage ruling class how much they can.
everybody has a choice, diversity of anarchists is proof that we
are not under control.

my advice to militants, don’t speak to other people you are
breaking the law, make anonymous publishing about your
actions, break th aw only together with peoplé you know many
years, if you can, choose former prisoners to break the law
together with them, I trust to the people who were some period
in the prison and they didn’t collaborated with cops. As I said, I
will try to be short, if you want to know more details how spies
work, just read mentioned documents about FBI against martin
luthet king and FBI war on black america. they even tried to
destroy marriage of martin luther king and his body guard got
his trust obviously, but he worked for FBL. spies are not just
observing target as author of zine said, they want to destroy your
private life and sabotage your politicalactivities, they want to
Isolate you and they will organize problems for you in the prison
after they arrest you, you will get problems with guards and with
criminals who work for secret service, they can g6 so far even to
poison your food, spies have scientist who work for them, the cia
used psychiatrists o know more about torturing Muslims in abu
ghraib and guantanamo prisons, spies are rying fo brealc
personality/mind of prisoners, they also poison their food, they

ow what to l:}l:ll in your food to make you aggresslve,
depressive or they can produce heart attack. don’t be surprised if
you get different health problems when you are in the prison,
and you will see doctor will call you 3 weeks after you asked for
doctor and when you get him, he will convince you, you imagine
you have pain and your are sick and Everylhmfi is oKay with you.
that's how they behave in danish prisons with immigrants, they
can do the samie to anarchists, but you should be clear,
anarchists are not the only target of spies, as I said, you are
living in america, you should read what FBI did agdinst martin
luther king and against black panthers and other african
americans, read news from intercept about FBI today and CIA in
guantanamo and abu ghraib. last sentence, to finish: I will repeat
What croatian girl toldme ~ we should stay together, we should
not avoid other people because they can be spied because we are
spied, we must accept repression as part of ourlfe and we
should not let ruling class to isolate us from the others, therefore
it is also important fo write letters to anarchists in the prison and
help them how much we can, the aim of imprisonment is to
isolate anarchists and to make problems for them in the prison
and eventually to damage their health...

now I can not sleep anymore, but I am not sorr%, there is not
everyday topic about spies and I had to write what I know about
them. but to know more, you must read published documents
about FBI and african americans. but you should not become
paranoid, repression should not stop you to assoclate and fallin
ove with'people around you, just avoid to tell to the people that
you broke the law, they don’t need to know, for example I broke
the school when I was 18 years old, my frienids told me, surel
you was the one who did it, but I didn’t want to tell them that I
did it simply people can bé artested in the future, when they get
beaten by cops 3 days, they will say everything they know about
other people, dor't expect from people (o be stper umans and
to survive 3 days torture, they will have to say something about
other people, cops are not just kicking in the face, they use
baseball sticks and other sticks against your kidney and other
parts of body where don’t stay traces of torture, they also
produce pain in your testicles, I was in police station 12 hours
they beat 3 people in 12 hours, you can imagine how many people
one cop torture during 30 years of work as g cop: you don’t need
to be anarchist to hate cops and without political standpoint,
clear mathematics tell you cops break the law and produce bigger
damage for society than any criminal. criminals don’t beat 6
Deoplé every day and they don’t kill so many people like military,
state departments ate bigger problem than any criminal. that’s
the fact. if you are white class in america and you are not beaten
by cops, I am sure they beat latino and african americans and
they even shoot them. when coli_s killed black panthers in
america, you should know that FBI is behind cops, cops are not
working alone, they are sent by spies and they assist to FBL Dka\ll
it is time to finish writing, 1 explained enough in one text, be wild
and accept repression as part of ourIife,if ou think you are
followed, first escape from spies after that break the law, if you
don’t want that you and your friends get arrested like bonanno in
greece for bank robbery. how can you See that you are followed?
Simply the same thing happens around you more times every
day, spies have schema how they follow target although they
exchange themselves every kilometer, you can see that the same
thing repeat, you can try to stay 20 minutes in the middle of the
night in park for example when it is strong raining and wait to
seé if anybody will come there, sometimes spies even don’t hide
they hate you, they start to walk behind you when you walk
beside them, Sometimes they do stupid things like standing at
every corner of the street around your house pretending they
read newspapers, in any case, they are not professional, when
they follow you longer time, you will see they follow you. if they
call'you openly for informative talk in their offices, you will see
they ask stupid questions or they just talk anything to prolon;
time, the point is they called you to take your phone during talk,
they talk one hour to get time to use software to unlock your
phone and extract information (cellbrite software from israel)
and then they install spying software, spies use different
software in every country. don't bing phone with you when you
0 to protest or when youl go to break the law, they can even ise
istory of phone location to proof that you was in the place
where and when crime happened. even if phone is not registered
on your name, when they arrest you, they can check locafions of
that phone in period of crime. one more advice: don’t use
anarchist emails to talk abouf something against the law, use tor
email to hide your IP address and use gpg t6 encrypt messages,
when you use internet everyday, your internet provider has DNS
servers that translate domain into IP addresses and this servers
also record every website you visit, you should find dns servers.
you can trust and change it in internet connection (router but
mostly DN settings in your laptop/phone/computer), if you use
VPN software, your DNS will be changed to VPN DN servers but
youmust find which VPN company you can trust, many hackers
recommend mullyad vpn from sweden, you can pay with cash or
bitcoins and swedish administrator doesn’t know your identity.
if you visit every day anarchists websites, I recommmend you to
use VBN or Tor oftuare but f you use T6r, website can black
you, some anarchists are stupid (or mafibe even honeypot) and
they use cloudflare company and cloudflare spy visitors o
‘website and block visitors who have tor IP address. if you use
VPN, websites will not block you. if you break the law, keep
monty in bitcoins, i cops find cash, they will take everything,
and the judge can also take all your morey from capitalist bank,
better save foney to have it after prison o rent apartment until
you find job, keep money n bitcoins, for example portable
electrum in encrypted USB device. cops will not loose one month
to break password for your USB device and they will not
understand what means 12 words on the paper which you can use
to recover electrum wallet after many years of prison during
‘which can happen that you forgot gassword from before 5 years
to decrypt USH device. with 12 words,eve fyou forgot password,

ou can install electrum and 12 type words and youwill get your

itcoin wallet ready for use. that’s important for me because I
don’t have famil%where I can sleep after prison, if  don’t have
money, Iam on the street. I must take care that police don’t find
money!

all the best to all anarchists, I wish us all in this new year one
new anarchist guerrilla group in europe that will fight against
ruling class, we don’t have it since 2018.

rebel from childhood, anarchist since 2001, supporter of every
type of guerrilla sincé 1997, spied and sabotaged and poisoned in
more countries from 1998 'to 2024 with the result of 10 months
prison in denmark and 4+1 years of prison in my country, it is
not possible to change anl ing in capitalism without violence
and surely it s not possible to abolish the state and capitalism
without violence, our fight continue whole life, repression s part
of our life, befriend with everybody but don’t speak to everybody
that you break the law and leave your phone at home when you
golo break the law or to protest and don't forget to write some
etters to anarchist prisoners. ciao.

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