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CASE #XRXAM3 · 3 entities · 6 connections
Operation CHAOS
For nearly a decade, the CIA ran an illegal domestic spying program against American anti-war activists — inside the United States, which is explicitly outside the agency's legal charter.
Operation CHAOS was a CIA domestic surveillance program, run from 1967 to 1974, that spied on American anti-war and civil rights activists despite the agency's charter explicitly prohibiting domestic operations. The program's existence was confirmed by the 1975 Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee investigations.
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Quick facts
- →The CIA's own founding charter explicitly prohibits the agency from conducting domestic intelligence operations against American citizens.
- →Operation CHAOS compiled files on over 300,000 American citizens and organizations over its roughly seven-year run.
- →The program was launched at the direct request of President Lyndon Johnson, who believed foreign governments were funding the American anti-war movement.
- →Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh's 1974 reporting first publicly exposed the program, prompting the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee investigations.
Entities on file
CIA (organization)
Central Intelligence Agency; alleged by some theories to have had a role in the assassination, without documentary proof.
Also appears in: Operation Ajax, The October Surprise Theory, JFK assassination, MKUltra, The Iraq War WMD Claims
→ possibly connected to death of → John F. Kennedy~speculative
→ employed to run MKUltra → Sidney Gottlieb✓documented
→ employed the officer who led → Kermit Roosevelt Jr.✓documented
→ ran, despite its own charter barring domestic operations → Operation CHAOS✓documented
→ produced the central intelligence assessments behind → Iraq War WMD claims✓documented
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Operation CHAOS (event)
CIA domestic surveillance program (1967-1974) that illegally compiled files on over 300,000 American anti-war and civil rights activists.
No outgoing connections on file.
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Seymour Hersh (person)
Investigative journalist whose 1974 reporting exposed Operation CHAOS.
→ exposed → Operation CHAOS✓documented
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