http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOSOPERATION CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!!
Operation CHAOS was the code name for a domestic espionage project conducted by the CIA. A department within the CIA was established in 1967 on orders from President Lyndon Johnson. The department came to be known as the Domestic Operations Division (DOD). The division's main function was to manage the direction, support, and coordination of clandestine operations and activities within the United States.
CIA director John McCone was assigned to the DOD in order to setup espionage operations on the uprising of college student protests against the U.S. government's Vietnam foreign policies. Two new units were set up to target anti-war protestors and organizations: Project RESISTANCE, which worked with college administrators, campus security and local police to identify anti-war activists and political dissidents; and Project MERRIMAC, which monitored any demonstrations being conducted in the Washington D.C. area. Local police departments also worked with the CIA by monitoring student activists and infiltrating anti-war organizations. Some of their assignments involved initiating staged burglaries, illegal entries (black bag jobs), interrogations and electronic surveillance.
When president Nixon came to office in 1969, all of these domestic surveillance activities were consolidated into Operation CHAOS. After the revelation of two former CIA agents’ involvement in the Watergate break-in, the publication of an article about CHAOS in the New York Times and the growing concern about distancing itself from illegal domestic spying activities, led the CIA to shut down Operation CHAOS. But during the life of the project, the Church Committee and the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (the Rockefeller Commission) revealed that the CIA had compiled files on over 13,000 individuals, including 7,000 US citizens and 1,000 domestic organizations. (On Jun. 27, 2007, the New York Times asserted that, while conducting Operation Chaos, "The agency compiled a computer index of 300,000 names of American people and organizations, and extensive files on 7,200 citizens."<1>)
CIA operations guidelines
Gather information on their immorality.
Show them as scurrilous and depraved.
Call attention to their habits and living conditions.
Explore every possible embarrassment.
Investigate personal conflicts or animosities between them.
Send articles to newspapers showing their depravity.
Use narcotics and free sex for entrapment.
Have members arrested on marijuana charges.
Exploit the hostilities between various persons.
Use cartoons and photographs to ridicule them.
Use disinformation to confuse and disrupt.
Get records of their bank accounts.
Obtain specimens of handwriting.
Provoke target groups into rivalries that resulted in deaths.
See also
Covert operation
ECHELON
NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
Project MERRIMAC
Project MINARET
Project RESISTANCE
Project SHAMROCK
COINTELPRO
External links
CHAOS, MERRIMAC, and RESISTANCE | PDF
Development of Surveillance Technology & Risk of Abuse of Economic Information | PDF
Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS
ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network
Operation Chaos: The CIA's War Against the Sixties Counter-Culture
Staff report: CHAOS and the office of security
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Categories: CIA operations | History of cryptography | CIA domestic surveillance operations | Espionage | FBI operations | Government databases in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS
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