#Operation_CHAOS
6 entries tagged Operation_CHAOS.
People (4)
- James Jesus Angleton James Jesus Angleton (1917-1987) was the CIA's director of counterintelligence from 1954 to 1974, overseeing the Israeli intelligence liaison (KK MOUNTAIN) and Operation CHAOS before being fired by DCI Colby following the Hersh exposé of illegal domestic CIA activities.
- Richard Helms Richard Helms (1913-2002) served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973, initiating Operation CHAOS, ordering destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records in 1973, and being convicted in 1977 of lying to Congress about CIA involvement in destabilizing Allende's Chile.
- Richard Ober Richard Ober (c.1921-2001) was a CIA counterintelligence officer who served as director of Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS) from its creation in August 1967 through its formal termination in March 1974. He reported to James Jesus Angleton, was given a covert White House office with access to Nixon administration principals, and was seconded to the National Security Council after CHAOS was exposed. His papers are held at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
- William Colby William Egan Colby (1920-1996) served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1973 to 1976, dismissing James Angleton, cooperating with the Church Committee, revealing the Family Jewels, and earlier directing the Vietnam-era Phoenix Program.
Programs (1)
- Project MERRIMAC Project MERRIMAC was a CIA Office of Security program (approximately 1967-1974) that infiltrated antiwar and civil rights organizations in Washington D.C., feeding intelligence to Operation CHAOS through the CACTUS pipeline before exposure by Seymour Hersh and the Church Committee.
Events (1)
- Church Committee The Church Committee (1975-1976) was a Senate investigation that documented systematic CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS abuses including Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, assassination plots, and illegal mail opening, producing the foundational primary source (S. Rept. 94-755) for post-WWII U.S. intelligence oversight.