Reply #17: Nixon + Hoover + Helms + CHAOS = Legalized Treason [View All]

Aren't the president, FBI and CIA supposed to UPHOLD the Constitution of the United States? And since when is asking the question treason?

THE PROPAGANDA WAR: THE CIA'S DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

OPERATION CHAOS

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In July 1968, CIA Director Helms decided to consolidate all CIA domestic intelligence operations under one programme and title; this was called Operation CHAOS. The Agency's domestic activities greatly expanded from then on, at the urging of both President Johnson and his main White house advisers Dean Rusk, Walt Rostow and Tom Charles Huston, who were staunch anti-Communists and wanted the Agency to establish the involvement of foreign intelligence agencies in the anti-war movement in the U.S.

After Richard Nixon took office in January 1969, Operation CHAOS became one of the largest and most pervasive domestic surveillance programmes in the history of the United States. The CIA went to great lengths to conceal the operation's existence from the public, while Nixon, like Johnson, exploited CHAOS for his own political ends. Helms recommended that computer networks be used to "share information about American dissidents between the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency and military intelligence units." Using a computer system called HYDRA, the CIA gathered information on individuals and groups from all of these intelligence organisations. The Agency also employed satellites to monitor anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.

Many of the CHAOS agents received several weeks of assignments and training overseas to establish their covers as radicals. Once they returned to the US and enrolled in colleges and universities, they had the proper "credentials." The CHAOS unit periodically drew up reports "on the foreign aspects of the anti-Vietnam War, youth and similar movements and their possible links to American counterparts" and collected files on over 300,000 individuals in the United States.

In 1970, Richard Helms joined with others in recommending to President Nixon "an integrated approach to the coverage of domestic unrest," which came to be known as the Huston Plan. The CIA
"recruited or inserted about a dozen individuals into American dissident circles" In order to "establish their credentials for operations abroad." These agents "submitted reports on the activities of the American dissidents with whom they were in contact." This information was kept in CIA files and passed on to the FBI.

In June 1970, Nixon met with Helms, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, NSA Director Admiral Noel Gaylor and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) representative Lt. General Donald V. Bennett, and told them that he wanted an even more concentrated and coordinated effort against domestic dissenters. To that end, Nixon created the Inter-agency Committee on Intelligence (ICI), chaired by Hoover. The first ICI report, in late June, recommended new efforts in "black bag operations", wiretapping and mail-opening; within a month these recommendations had been accepted by the White House.

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http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/propaganda4.htm



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