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Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Each Other (Paperback)
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Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Each Other (Paperback)
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October 1967 during the height of the Vietnam War Craig Anderson,
John Barilla, Michael Lindner and Rick Bailey, deserted the US
Intrepid; smuggled from Tokyo to Sweden via Moscow with the help of
a Japanese anti-war group, a draft-card-burning Buddhist priest
from Nebraska, and the staff of the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. Their
act of defiance made them headline news around the world as the
Intrepid Four, and inspired other disillusioned young conscripted
soldiers to follow their escape to Sweden. Operation Chaos tells
the true story of this group of U.S. military deserters who found
asylum in Sweden during the Vietnam War and how in falling in
league with the American Deserters Committee and its mysterious
founder Michael Vale they became a thorn in the side of the US
government during the Cold War. Travelling widely to Paris,
Stockholm, North Carolina, Washington and New York visiting
protected archives and meeting with the original agents and
dissidents Matthew Sweet here uncovers their life underground, how
the US government waged a determined campaign to discredit
deserting soldiers, the story behind the secret scheme code named
Operation Chaos, how the CIA tried to infiltrate this radical
political group, an international game of cat and mouse and
spiraling series of events winding all the way to the Manchurian
Candidate scare of 1973/4, and the hunt for the victims of "the
brainwashing institutes of Sweden". Sweet's fascinating journey of
discovery sheds new light on one of the great untold tales of the
Cold War, where the facts are wilder than any work of fiction.
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