Operation Chaos operation
also: C-Chase, C-H, CHAOS, CHAOS operation, CHAOS program, CHAOS project, chess, CIA Operation Chess, CIA's CHAOS program, CIA's "Operation CHAOS", MH Chaos, Op eration CHAOS, Operation CHAOS, the CHAOS program
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Claims (31)
Richard Nixon linked_to
Operation Chaos documented
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“The excessive suspicions of Presidents Johnson and Nixon that anti-war dissent was controlled from abroad led to the CHAOS program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.137
Operation Chaos operated_in
United States documented
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“This was done for example in the use by Operation CHAOSof agents being provided with radical credentials for use in "Project 2, a foreign intelligence operation abroad…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.317
William Colby dissolved
Operation Chaos documented
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“In March 1974 Director Colby formally terminated the CHAOS program and promulgated new guidelines for future activity abroad involving Americans which in effect transferred such responsibilities to the Department of Justice.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.320
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation Chaos documented
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“On its face this language appears overly permissive and might be read to authorize a repetition of the CHAOS program in which Americans were targeted for surveillance because of their participation in international conferences critical of t…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.322
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation Chaos documented
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“Operation CHAOS whose purpose was to determine whether or not domestic political dissidents including students were receiving foreign support resulted in the Agency's collection of information on thousands of Americans…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.95
CIA covered_up
Operation Chaos reported
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“the last thing in the world the CIA would have done was to disclose to the Bureau that they were working on their turf…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.39
G. Gordon Liddy headed
Operation Chaos reported
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“He himself as the task force director advocated it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.43
James Jesus Angleton supervised
Operation Chaos documented
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“it is correct to say that Operation CHAOS was under your supervision…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.77
Lyndon B. Johnson linked_to
Operation Chaos documented
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“The excessive suspicions of Presidents Johnson and Nixon that anti-war dissent was controlled from abroad led to the CHAOS program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.137
Office of the Inspector General spied_on
Operation Chaos documented
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“In the most striking example the Inspector General was precluded from even reviewing Operation CHAOS files.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.302
CIA funded
Operation Chaos documented
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“Some 300,000 individuals were indexed in a CIA computer system and separate files were created on approximately 7,200 Americans and over 100 domestic groups during the course of CIA's Operation CHAOS (1967 1973).…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.22
CIA funded
Operation Chaos documented
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“the intelligence gathering which culminated in CIA's "Operation CHAOS" followed the general pattern of broadening in scope and intensity…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.112
CIA founded
Operation Chaos documented
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“Under White House pressure the CIA developed its own program Operation CHAOS as an adjunct to the CIA's foreign counterintelligence activities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.115
Richard Helms founded
Operation Chaos documented
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“Former CIA Director Richard Helms testified that he established the program in response to President Johnson's persistent interest in the extent of foreign influence on domestic dissidents…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.116
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
Operation Chaos reported
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“Former CIA Director Richard Helms testified that he established the program in response to President Johnson's persistent interest in the extent of foreign influence on domestic dissidents…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.116
Trump administration ordered_assassination_of
Operation Chaos documented
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“Under White House pressure the CIA developed its own program Operation CHAOS as an adjunct to the CIA's foreign counterintelligence activities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.115
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
Operation Chaos documented
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“In 1969 President Nixon's White House required the CIA to study foreign communist support of American protest groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.116
CIA funded
Operation Chaos documented
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“Once again the use of elastic words in mandates for intelligence activity resulted in overbroad coverage and collection In addition to their intelligence activity directed at Americans abroad CHAOS undercover agents while in the United Stat…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.117
Trump administration funded
Operation Chaos documented
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“Rather the White House continued to ask for more information and continued to urge the CIA to confirm the theory that American dissidents were under foreign control.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.117
CIA founded
Operation Chaos documented
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“The CIA's extensive CHAOS program which compiled intelligence on domestic groups and individuals…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.183
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation Chaos documented
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“the CIA conducted Operation CHAOS a large scale intelligence program involving the gathering of data on thousands of Americans and domestic groups to determine if they had "subversive connections"…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.186
James Schlesinger dissolved
Operation Chaos documented
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“prompted the termination or limitation of a number of programs which were in violation of the Agency's mandate notably the CHAOS project…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.303
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation Chaos documented
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“As the Committee has learned from its study of the CIA's CHAOS operation in the process of gathering information about the international travel and contacts of Americans the CIA acquired within the United States a great deal of additional i…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.317
Cord Meyer headed
Operation Chaos documented
“He's also part of Project Foo Belt. What's Operation Foo Belt? Going after Chile's President Allende? Yep. And, of course, Cord Meyer is involved in all that, and he leads the Operation Chaos, also known as MH Chaos, which was the covert do…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 1:04:28
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation Chaos documented
“which is a CIA program initiated in 67 that amassed files on over 300,000 American citizens. Wait, we're not supposed to operate in America, are we? And conducted warrantless domestic surveillance against anti-war dissidents, violating the …”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 29:29
Seymour Hersh exposed
Operation Chaos book_quoted
“And I stressed it repeatedly to my editors. New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh's 1974 expose of Operation Chaos, a massive illegal CIA domestic spying operation, had brought on attacks from the Washington Post. They said he had no hard p…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 24 @ 16:47
CIA carried_out_attack
Operation Chaos documented
“CIA Detachment A took over from Detachment B and started flying U-2 flights over the Middle East. They continued this from 1955 through 1967, quote, to study movements in the River Euphrates over time, end quote. While these operations were…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:25:12
CIA directed
Operation Chaos documented
“said the clandestine operation in Cambodia was directed from South Vietnam by the CIA. The mission was known as Operation Cherry. It involved McCarthy working undercover as a member of the Khmer Seri. According to the same New York Times ar…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs,Oil and War Part 12 @ 35:48
Seymour Hersh exposed
Operation Chaos documented
“So we first find out about it in 1973, when CIA director William Colby shares some information with journalists. Here we are in the early 70s. We had all kinds of CIA scandals coming out. And in 1974, there's a New York Times article by Sey…”
▶ The Shadow State 63 Operation Mockingbird @ 29:00
CIA funded
Operation Chaos book_quoted
“Let's look at some of the false flags or what he referred to as deep events that has happened in America. So you obviously JFK's assassination was one of them. And, you know, we know that there's lots of ties to the CIA associated with JFK'…”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 30:02
Operation Chaos carried_out_attack
Junta in Argentina host_asserted
“Operation Charlie. It describes a little bit about that was the junta in Argentina. And basically, we've talked about we're going to do a segment on Argentina because it's the grossest of all gross. But that'll give you a little heads up re…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 1:12:55
Mentions (13)
▶ 30:02
Let's look at some of the false flags or what he referred to as deep events that has happened in America. So you obviously JFK's assassination was one of them. And, you know, we know that there's lots of ties to the CIA associated with JFK'…
▶ 1:12:25
was awarded a Legion of Merit for murdering people. I got mine for doing a good job. And that, it just floored me. There's many other things like this thing called Operation Charlie. Click on that and just read a little bit about what they …
▶ 1:12:55
Operation Charlie. It describes a little bit about that was the junta in Argentina. And basically, we've talked about we're going to do a segment on Argentina because it's the grossest of all gross. But that'll give you a little heads up re…
▶ 16:47
And I stressed it repeatedly to my editors. New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh's 1974 expose of Operation Chaos, a massive illegal CIA domestic spying operation, had brought on attacks from the Washington Post. They said he had no hard p…
▶ 35:48
said the clandestine operation in Cambodia was directed from South Vietnam by the CIA. The mission was known as Operation Cherry. It involved McCarthy working undercover as a member of the Khmer Seri. According to the same New York Times ar…
▶ 52:28
For example, starting in 1950, the CIA researched and experimented with mind-controlled drugs and other chemical, biological, and radiological stimuli on both willing and uninformed subjects. These programs were aimed to investigate whether…
▶ 1:24:10
On the CIA U-2 flights over Israel, excuse me, a guy I used to know a long time ago used to fly U-2 flights, and he referred to, he would never say anything about where or when or anything. The only thing he ever said about it was chess.…
▶ 1:24:43
What is what? So chess, as in, you know, the game, board game chess. So I looked up CIA Operation Chess. What I found was interesting. On the CIA.gov website, it states, the CIA never officially named the activities, but in 1955,…
▶ 1:25:12
CIA Detachment A took over from Detachment B and started flying U-2 flights over the Middle East. They continued this from 1955 through 1967, quote, to study movements in the River Euphrates over time, end quote. While these operations were…
▶ 29:00
So we first find out about it in 1973, when CIA director William Colby shares some information with journalists. Here we are in the early 70s. We had all kinds of CIA scandals coming out. And in 1974, there's a New York Times article by Sey…
▶ 29:29
which is a CIA program initiated in 67 that amassed files on over 300,000 American citizens. Wait, we're not supposed to operate in America, are we? And conducted warrantless domestic surveillance against anti-war dissidents, violating the …
▶ 1:04:28
He's also part of Project Foo Belt. What's Operation Foo Belt? Going after Chile's President Allende? Yep. And, of course, Cord Meyer is involved in all that, and he leads the Operation Chaos, also known as MH Chaos, which was the covert do…
▶ 31:52
in Tampa for the money laundering case, which they, the one we were just talking about that they busted, that operation was called C-Chase. So Awan tells Bloom that BCCI secretly owns First American Bank. He was the first one that tipped Bl…