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020			_a9781447294733 (hardcover)
040			_aKABLIB _beng _cKABLIB _erda _dKABLIB
082	0	0	_a327.1209045 SWE _223
100	1		_aSweet, Matthew, _eauthor. _912871
245	1	0	_aOperation Chaos : _bthe Vietnam deserters who fought the CIA, the brainwashers, and themselves / _cMatthew Sweet.
250			_aFirst Edition.
260			_aNew York : _bHenry Holt and Company, _cc 2018.
300			_axvi, 351 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCentral Intelligence Agency _xHistory. _912872
650		0	_aIntelligence service _zUnited States _xHistory. _912873
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _xDesertions _zUnited States. _912874
653			_aOperation CHAOS _aOperation MHCHAOS
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