Operation Chaos
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Operation Chaos

The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

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  2. English
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Operation Chaos

The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves

About this book

An untold Cold War story: how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of U.S. military deserters, a tale that leads from a bizarre political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment
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. Some of them even want to take the fight to America. 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. Then the interrogations begin—to discover who among them has been brainwashed, Manchurian Candidate-style, to assassinate their leaders.
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 theory about the traitors in their midst.
All Sweet has to do is find out the truth. And stay sane. Which may be difficult when one of his interviewees accuses him of being a CIA agent and another suspects that he's part of a secret plot by the British royal family to start World War III. By that time, he's deep in the labyrinth of truths and half-truths, wondering where reality ends and delusion begins.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Who’s Who in Operation Chaos
  6. Introduction: Deep Snow
  7. Chapter 1: The High Road
  8. Chapter 2: The Committee
  9. Chapter 3: The Translator
  10. Chapter 4: The Jerum Affair
  11. Chapter 5: Petunia
  12. Chapter 6: The Birth of Chaos
  13. Chapter 7: The Split
  14. Chapter 8: The Infiltrators
  15. Chapter 9: Out of Love
  16. Chapter 10: The Next Step
  17. Chapter 11: Beyond Psychoanalysis
  18. Chapter 12: The Brainwashers
  19. Chapter 13: The Zombie Army
  20. Chapter 14: Operation Destruction
  21. Chapter 15: The Believers
  22. Chapter 16: The Assassins
  23. Chapter 17: The End of the World
  24. Chapter 18: Cliffhanger
  25. Notes
  26. Photos
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Index
  29. Also by Matthew Sweet
  30. About the Author
  31. Newsletter Sign-up
  32. Contents
  33. Copyright