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Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment
- the bizarre and untold story of how the CIA tried to infiltrate a
radical group of US military deserters during the Cold War.
Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters
are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They're young, they're
radical, and they want to start a revolution. The Swedes treat them
like pop stars - but the CIA is determined to stop all that. It's a
job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies -
agents who know how to infiltrate organizations and destroy them
from inside. Within months, the GIs have turned their fire on one
another, and the group dissolves into interrogations and
recriminations. When Matthew Sweet began investigating this story,
he thought the madness was over. He was wrong. Instead, he became
the confidant of an eccentric and traumatized group of survivors -
each with his own intricate theory about the traitors in their
midst. All Sweet has to do is discover the truth . . . and stay
sane. Reminiscent of Jon Ronson's The Men who Stare at Goats and as
compelling as Ben McIntyre's Agent Zigzag, in Operation Chaos
Matthew 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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