Operation CHAOS
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Operation CHAOS
| Project Name : | The Phoenix Program |
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Does the CIA conduct their intelligence-gathering efforts domestically? The short answer is “yes,” and it doesn’t begin and end with Operation CHAOS. This specific project, however, focused its efforts between the years of 1967 and 1974, in part as a reaction to the growing anti-war movement at home. The wheels of Operation CHAOS were initially put into motion by President Lyndon B. Johnson after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but it was under President Nixon where CHAOS truly reigned. CIA spying efforts focused, but weren’t limited to, targets such as the Black Panthers and the B'nai B'rith, developing case files on over seven thousand American citizens.
