Comments on: CHAOS was born of Lyndon Johnson’s neurosis

By: John L. McCormack

John L. McCormack — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:36:15 +0000

O’Neill accurately dates the genesis of CHAOS/COINTELPRO to 1967 and LBJ. The headline in the 1974 NY Times, however, refers to something that happened “in Nixon Years.” And of course, Colby, who kept his job through this period and had been in the CIA since 1947, was in the dark about CHAOS while Nixon was somehow the real mover behind that program.

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:15:40 +0000

He ordered the CIA to prove that the nation’s dissidents, and especially its antiwar movement, had their origins abroad.

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“Huge CIA Operation Reported in U.S. Against Anti-War Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years.”

Again, the very same thimble-riggery as with McCarthy crusade against “infiltration” and much more recent “infiltration” by the Church of Xenulogy. And we see the same thing feebly pushed today.

Any domestic forces falling out of favor anymore are suddenly “discovered” to be some alien Cthulhu inserting its dirty tentacles into pure innocent USA government.

As a matter of curiosity, having a lot of suckers desperate to buy it no matter how hopeless the case is not at all an unique phenomenon. Alexander Zinoviev in his autobiography described NKVD officers hilariously at a loss as to why a few Soviet people could just one day decide to try and assassinate Stalin (for realsies, that is). It went «uhh… Maybe Mr. John Bull told you?»

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:57:14 +0000

Both the CIA and the FBI were criminal organizations from their founding, and still are.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:56:26 +0000

In a memoir, former CIA director Colby later claimed that President Gerald Ford fired him for refusing to help Rockefeller sabotage his own investigation. According to Colby, CHAOS was so highly classified that even he, the director of the CIA, didn’t have access to it. “I found it impossible to do much about whatever was wrong with [CHAOS],” he wrote. “Its super-secrecy and extreme compartmentalization kept me very much on its periphery.”

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