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The CIA Spied On American Protestors. And They Still Do Today 2 · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: On August ninth, nineteen sixty nine, four assailants crept into
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  Speaker 1: a house on one zero zero five to zero Colo Drive.
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  Speaker 1: There they all five people currently spending the evening in
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  Speaker 1: the posh Los Angeles home, including eight month pregnant Sharon Taint.
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  Speaker 1: The murderers had been instructed by their leader, Charles Manson,
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  Speaker 1: to totally destroy everyone inside the house and do it
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  Speaker 1: quote as gruesome as you can, Manson's followers delivered. In
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  Speaker 1: their wake. They left dozens of gunshot and knife wounds
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  Speaker 1: and a crime scene that would become one of the
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  Speaker 1: most famous on earth. The following night, Manson's followers again
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  Speaker 1: bloodied their hands, this time the Labiancas in their Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles home. When the two crimes were finally connected, the
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  Speaker 1: extent of the Manson family's acid addult psychosis of murder
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  Speaker 1: and hippie living shocked the world. The Manson murders were,
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of many, the death knell of the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, a decade that had been defined by movements
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  Speaker 1: for racial justice, free love, and an end to war,
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  Speaker 1: a decade which came to a brutal and bloody lies.
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  Speaker 1: But while the Manson murders may have shut the door
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  Speaker 1: once and for all on hippie visions. They also underscored
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  Speaker 1: the violent current that had always driven the years of
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  Speaker 1: Flower Power the nineteen sixties, despite our nostalgic view of
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  Speaker 1: them or a turbulent critical period. The fight for civil
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  Speaker 1: rights came with riots and police crackdowns. Men and boys
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  Speaker 1: were in the jungles of Vietnam, and the United States
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  Speaker 1: watched as a beloved president was murdered in front of
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  Speaker 1: families and children in a gruesome display. It was a
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  Speaker 1: frightening time, and the American government wanted to know where
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  Speaker 1: the violence was coming from. How could a nation united
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  Speaker 1: through World War II and the dreams of baby boomers
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  Speaker 1: be descending into a state of violence and crime. This
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  Speaker 1: was a perplexing question that troubled the government so much
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  Speaker 1: that they were willing to cross the line to answer it. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we're investigating Operation Chaos, the secret government program that spied
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  Speaker 1: on Americans. I'm Colin Brown. All parties are presumed innocent
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  Speaker 1: until proven guilty in a court of law. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to check the references that we used to pull
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  Speaker 1: this episode together, they are linked in the show description.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere, and I don't want anything to
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  Speaker 1: happen to me in the near future, and without further ado,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into this episode of the Conspiracy Files. So
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  Speaker 1: Operation Chaos. This will be a shorter episode because to
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  Speaker 1: my knowledge, there isn't that much information publicly available about
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  Speaker 1: Operation Chaos beyond the realm of speculation. But from what
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  Speaker 1: we could gather, this is kind of a shorter rundown
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  Speaker 1: of an operation that I believe was deeply troubling and
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  Speaker 1: exposes some deeply concerning patterns of behavior within the government
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  Speaker 1: and desires that the government has held to encroach on
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  Speaker 1: the rights of civilians like you and I and to
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  Speaker 1: spy on us. I mean, you've seen the new push
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  Speaker 1: with Pallanteer, what's going on with that? And nobody should
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  Speaker 1: support that. Nobody from either political party should support that.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've read reports. If you look at Whitney Webb,
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  Speaker 1: who wrote a great series of books about Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and Robert Maxwell and the tenuous connections to organized crime
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  Speaker 1: and all these different organizations, it's a really enlightening series
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  Speaker 1: of books. She actually talks about Pallenteer, Peter Teel and
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  Speaker 1: his company and how some people believe that a company
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  Speaker 1: like that could have the potential to be able to
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  Speaker 1: not only you know, spy on people and get access
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  Speaker 1: to every ounce of your digital footprint, but a company
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  Speaker 1: like that could potentially plant evidence on somebody's phone like
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  Speaker 1: CP and get somebody arrested so they can get people framed.
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  Speaker 1: They can you know, make you say things online that
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  Speaker 1: you never said, or download or do things that you
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  Speaker 1: never did. It's deeply troubling and deeply disturbing stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: the recent news about Polunteer probably getting involved with the
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  Speaker 1: United States government getting in bed to create an even wider,
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  Speaker 1: more invasive surveillance state should deeply concern you, and it
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  Speaker 1: should alarm you to the absolute max. It is terrifying,
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  Speaker 1: spooky stuff. Even for me. It's like some people may
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  Speaker 1: think it's a joke and may laugh, but it's like,
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  Speaker 1: do you think that agents, especially when I come out
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  Speaker 1: with these documentaries and the documentaries serious that I've been
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  Speaker 1: working on, do you think that agents of the US
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  Speaker 1: government who were exposing, especially with the documentary film, are
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  Speaker 1: going to like that. Do you think that they're just
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  Speaker 1: going to watch the film and oh, one star, that
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  Speaker 1: movie sucked. No, it's gonna ruffle feathers and people are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be pissed. So when I see those things, and
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  Speaker 1: you are kind of an outspoken person, it's deeply alarming.
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  Speaker 1: But it really started with Operation Chaos, So let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Richard Nixon, we have to visit him for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Was a deeply troubled president. Even before the
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  Speaker 1: infamous Watergate affair forced his hand into resignation. Richard Nixon
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  Speaker 1: was struggling to come to terms with the state of
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  Speaker 1: the United States. In particular, he wanted to know where
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  Speaker 1: the passionate anti war sentiment had arisen from. And my
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  Speaker 1: close friend Nick Bryant wrote an incredibly well written book
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  Speaker 1: about Watergate and the real story of Watergate, which is
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  Speaker 1: not at all like the official story, and it involves
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  Speaker 1: you know, blackmail and sex rings. It's a really, really
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  Speaker 1: crazy book, so I'd highly recommend you go read that.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, Richard Nixon wondered why were so many Americans
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  Speaker 1: so violently opposed to the Vietnam War. Why was the
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  Speaker 1: newest generation so against the man? Why? In Nixon's own words,
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  Speaker 1: was quote a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the
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  Speaker 1: country like a prairie fire end quote in hindsight, It's
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  Speaker 1: easy to see why the Vietnam War was so controversial.
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  Speaker 1: The bloody conflict was a hell space of fear and
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  Speaker 1: death for not only American soldiers, but for a shocking
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  Speaker 1: number of Vietnamese civilians as well. But to Nixon, the
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  Speaker 1: protests were in stark contrast to the supposed support US
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  Speaker 1: war efforts usually garnered from citizens. Was it possible that
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  Speaker 1: this upticking anti war views came not from Americans but
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  Speaker 1: from foreign influences. The US at the time, keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: was still deep in the Cold War with Russia. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they were sowing descent. Maybe the Russians were planting these
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  Speaker 1: thoughts in American minds well. Following up on his suspicions,
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  Speaker 1: Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to compile a report on
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  Speaker 1: the possibility that a foreign power was building the violent
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  Speaker 1: movements in America. But Nixon wasn't the first president to
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  Speaker 1: request such a thing. His predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, who
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  Speaker 1: took office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, had
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  Speaker 1: also harbored similar views. In nineteen sixty seven, Lyndon B.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson was taken up back by both anti Vietnam War
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  Speaker 1: movements and race related violence. According to Thomas O'Neill, author
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  Speaker 1: of the book Chaos, Charles Manson, The CIA and the
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  Speaker 1: Secret History of the Sixties, Lyndon Johnson believed that the
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  Speaker 1: country was on the verge of a political revolution that
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  Speaker 1: could topple him from power. Johnson's requests to look into
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  Speaker 1: his CIA theory became Operation Chaos, a project that went
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  Speaker 1: on to violate one of the CIA's most important charters.
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  Speaker 1: You see, though the CIA is only supposed to conduct
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  Speaker 1: counterintelligence on overseas targets, Chaos turned its attention to American citizens, instead,
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  Speaker 1: deeply violating their privacy and rights. The goal of Chaos
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  Speaker 1: was to discover proof that the dissident movements, ranging from
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  Speaker 1: civil rights to women's liberation, were being radicalized and funded
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  Speaker 1: by foreign countries. At its height, Operation Chaos involved fifty
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  Speaker 1: two different agents, and their activities were almost entirely isolated
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  Speaker 1: from review by the counterintelligence staff. In other words, no
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  Speaker 1: one was checking in to see what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: There was no oversight, no records of what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: The CIA deployed Chaos agents to universities where they infiltrated
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  Speaker 1: left leaning groups and attempted to learn more about their
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  Speaker 1: leaders and connections. They joined clubs and attended meetings, pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be students with like minded views, but in reality
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to sniff out any possible ties between
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  Speaker 1: the student groups and countries like Russia. Eerily enough, Operation
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  Speaker 1: Chaos agents collected the names of more than three hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand Americans that they considered noteworthy into a computerized index.
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  Speaker 1: That's three hundred thousand Americans being investigated by a government
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  Speaker 1: agency that was supposed to have their eyes exclusively on
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  Speaker 1: other countries, not its own citizens. It was illegal for
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  Speaker 1: the CIA to be operating here in America, and yet
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  Speaker 1: they did. And out of those three hundred thousand Americans,
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  Speaker 1: about seven thousand, two hundred of them had substantial files
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  Speaker 1: open on them. Through Chaos, the CIA also collected info
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  Speaker 1: from its Male Intercept program, which read correspondences between United
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  Speaker 1: States citizens and Russians. Operation Chaos was looking under every
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  Speaker 1: rock that it could and was quote most concerned about
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  Speaker 1: foreign influence inside the loudest civil unrest movements end quote
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  Speaker 1: That included the Black Panther Party, Women Strike for Peace,
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  Speaker 1: and Students for a Democratic Society. Operation Chaos also targeted
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  Speaker 1: high profile individuals for surveillance like Reverend Martin Luther King
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  Speaker 1: Junior and his wife Loretta. In total, the CIA investigated
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  Speaker 1: roughly won thousand different groups, and they compiled six thorough
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  Speaker 1: reports for the White House. But at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: after breaching America's privacy over and over again, they had
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  Speaker 1: little to show. CIA Director Richard Helms himself wrote a
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  Speaker 1: top secret report titled Restless Youth, in which he argued
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  Speaker 1: that radicalism sprang from political and social alienation at home,
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  Speaker 1: not from foreign influence. In other words, Russian spies weren't
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  Speaker 1: convincing students to riot or call for an end to war.
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  Speaker 1: Americans were simply growing tired of racism, sexism, and senseless violence.
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  Speaker 1: For what it was worth, it does seem like some
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  Speaker 1: in the CIA were unhappy with the tasks they had
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  Speaker 1: been given, and they blamed the White House for the
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  Speaker 1: misuse of power. In fact, Helms wrote to then Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State Henry Kissinger, one of the most evil men
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  Speaker 1: on Earth, expressing his views that the CIA shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been investigating students in the first place, saying, quote, this
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  Speaker 1: is an area not within the charter of this agency,
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  Speaker 1: so I need not emphasize how extremely sensitive it makes
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  Speaker 1: the paper. Should anyone learn of its existence, it would
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  Speaker 1: prove most embarrassing for all concern end quote. Former CIA
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  Speaker 1: staffer and Chaos member Frank refle Alko stated quote, each
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  Speaker 1: time we reported that there was no evidence of foreign
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  Speaker 1: control within the domestic student and black militant groups, the
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  Speaker 1: White House reaction was one of skepticism. It was back
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  Speaker 1: to the drawing board each time, and each time we
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  Speaker 1: had to expand our horizons to reach further and look
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  Speaker 1: at every dissident to try and detect any foreign contact
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  Speaker 1: and what that contact meant. In the end, we were
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  Speaker 1: trying to defend our conclusion. We were trying to prove
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  Speaker 1: a negative end quote. Despite Chaos going against the CIA's
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  Speaker 1: charter and despite finding no evidence to support its mission,
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  Speaker 1: the program lasted until Nixon's presidency in the year nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy four. It began in nineteen sixty seven and ran
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  Speaker 1: for roughly seven years. In December of that year, the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times broke the story to the American public
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  Speaker 1: for the first time, sending further shockwaves into a nation
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  Speaker 1: already grappling with the unfolding events of Watergate. Today, Operation
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  Speaker 1: Chaos remains largely unknown to the public. Nostalgia makes everything
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  Speaker 1: seem better in hindsight, and it's easy to look back
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  Speaker 1: on the nineteen sixties that way. But the truth is
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  Speaker 1: that for every ounce of positivity the decade provided, it
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  Speaker 1: gave back just as much in violence, upheaval, and secrets.
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  Speaker 1: And in between the show stopping stories like the Manson
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  Speaker 1: murders and the war in Vietnam, quieter crimes were at work,
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  Speaker 1: Crimes like Chaos, the secret spy program that shows just
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  Speaker 1: how far the government would go, even at the expense
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  Speaker 1: of the trust of its own citizens. Now we could
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  Speaker 1: speculate all day on exactly what Chaos was, what the
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  Speaker 1: motives of Chaos were, and the things that they did
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  Speaker 1: that were never disclosed. I can't imagine the full scope
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  Speaker 1: and extent of what Chaos was doing, how they operated,
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  Speaker 1: the things that they did, and what they used that
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  Speaker 1: database for, Like did they disappear any of the people
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  Speaker 1: on that database? Who did they take out? Why were
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  Speaker 1: they collecting this data? Cause, I mean, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, you have to remember that when these
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  Speaker 1: government programs are exposed, for the most part, we're still
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  Speaker 1: getting a lot of the details from the government itself.
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  Speaker 1: That's why even with FOYA disclosures on big cases, there
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  Speaker 1: are so many FOYA disclosures and documents that have come
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  Speaker 1: out that have been useful, that have been really interesting,
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  Speaker 1: And yet you have to remember the person supposedly telling
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  Speaker 1: you the truth is the person that lied to you
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. So who knows. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking about Charles Manson and the CIA and the connections
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  Speaker 1: with MK Ultra and Chaos and everything more thoroughly in
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  Speaker 1: a video, but I just wanted to hop on here
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  Speaker 1: and talk specifically about Operation Chaos for a moment, you know,
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  Speaker 1: before we get into that whole series, because it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: wild stuff. This entire operation was conducted illegally above the law,
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  Speaker 1: and these agents and the leaders were like gods. They
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  Speaker 1: were pretty much untouchable. They could do anything they wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: And then you think about that list of three hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand American citizens, What was that used for? Who or
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  Speaker 1: what countries was that list provided to, Why did people
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  Speaker 1: need that list, who was using that list, and for
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  Speaker 1: what reasons? And that's when your mind can really start
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  Speaker 1: going in circles and speculating and entering the realm of
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  Speaker 1: true conspiracy because if there's one thing you can trust
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  Speaker 1: in life, it's the goddamn government. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: that now, and I'll tell you that on the day
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going to die. I will always believe in that,
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  Speaker 1: not only from personal experience, but from researching this stuff
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  Speaker 1: so heavily and working with my team to create this show.
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  Speaker 1: There's so much that we could talk about. We could
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  Speaker 1: make an episode every day for four hundred years and
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  Speaker 1: you would never run out of content or lies that
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  Speaker 1: government officials have told. So anyways, y'all, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: tuning in this week. I'm sorry this was a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a shorter episode. I'm actually gonna be on vacation,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just preparing for my vacation right now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: heading with my family to a beach house, so it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be like a really nice trip outside of this
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  Speaker 1: dark dingy it's not really dingy. This is just my
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  Speaker 1: spare bedroom, but it's a studio in my house. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: want to see more. If you want to see the
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  Speaker 1: Charles Manson series that's coming soon, that's incredibly thorough I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank Amelia GP for helping bring this script
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  Speaker 1: to life. And yeah, every engagement on these posts helps.
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  Speaker 1: So likes, commns, shares, subscribes, all that stuff helps so much. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: y'all keep that tinfoil hat on, always stay suspicious, question everything,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll see y'all next week