MH CHAOS/Operation CHAOS became the International Terrorism Group

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and underwent an operational description change from political dissidents to international terrorists on 12-5-72. 17 days later Richard McGarrah Helms and Thomas Karamessines resigned from the CIA.
(Source:12-24-74 NYT article leaked to Seymour Hersh).

Operation CHAOS was the illegal involvement of the CIA in domestic operations, but, in fact, this only grew imho and life experiences.

This is important for all American citizens to discuss today, openly.
Many individuals and groups have "files" containing complete rubbish about them-these need to be corrected.

Here are a couple of links about this sinister criminal domestic operation that has concrete linkage to the events of today.

http://democracyunbound.com/lyon.html

http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Operation%20Chaos.html

I know a little bit about how some of these programs worked, it sounds unbelievable at first hearing-but it is true.
Anyone else ever targeted back in the late 60's through mid 70's?

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1. Richard Armitage/CACI kick

Scary subject, no?
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

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3. Richard Armitage, the current deputy US secretary of state, sat on CACI’s

But these soldiers aren’t simply mavericks. Some accused claim they acted on the orders of military intelligence and the CIA, and that some of the torture sessions were under the control of mercenaries hired by the US to conduct interrogations. Two “civilian contract” organisations taking part in interrogations at Abu Ghraib are linked to the Bush administration.
California-based Titan Corporation says it is “a leading provider of solutions and services for national security”. Between 2003-04, it gave nearly $40,000 to George W Bush’s Republican Party. Titan supplied translators to the military.
CACI International Inc. describes its aim as helping “America’s intelligence community in the war on terrorism”. Richard Armitage, the current deputy US secretary of state, sat on CACI’s board.
No civilians, however, are facing charges as military law does not apply to them. Colonel Jill Morgenthaler, from CentCom, said that one civilian contractor was accused along with six soldiers of mistreating prisoners. However, it was left to the contractor to “deal with him”. One civilian interrogator told army investigators that he had “unintentionally” broken several tables during interrogations as he was trying to “fear-up” detainees.
Lawyers for some accused say their clients are scapegoats for a rogue prison system, which allowed mercenaries to give orders to serving soldiers. A military report said private contractors were at times supervising the interrogations.
Kimmitt said: “I hope the investigation is including not only the people who committed the crimes, but some of the people who might have encouraged the crimes as well because they certainly share some responsibility.”
Last night, CACI vice-president Jody Brown said: “The company supports the Army’s investigation and acknowledges that CACI personnel in Iraq volunteered to be interviewed by army officials in connection with the investigation. The company has received no indication that any CACI employee was involved in any alleged improper conduct with Iraqi prisoners. Nonetheless, CACI has initiated an independent investigation.”
However, military investigators said: “A CACI investigator’s contract was terminated because he allowed and/or instructed military police officers who were not trained in interrogation techniques to facilitate interrogations which were neither authorised nor in accordance with regulations.”

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:LGgQIc6IKxoJ:southafrica.indymedi ...

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5. Well he made his Friday contribution with the statement that he COULD

resign real soon. I saw that on Yahoo an hour ago.
Did you read the Mae Brussell article (2nd link in opening post)that focused on musicians?
Ever hear of the band Clockwork Orange? I was the drummer in that tragic Milwaukee band.

We got hit by Operation CHAOS and that PSYOPS crew around Col. Michael Aquino-ala the Charles Manson model, simultaneously-the summer and fall of 1969.

All because I was associated with SDS.

You can take that to the bank.

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6. Former CACI Director Armitage Center Stage in Kashmir Dispute

http://www.caci.com/homeland_security/armitage.shtml


Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who recently brokered a reduction in the tensions between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir, was a member of CACI’s Board of Directors from December 1999 to March 2001. He served the company with distinction, providing valuable guidance on CACI’s strategic growth plans and the federal government and Defense Department markets.

In little over a year with the State Department, Armitage has become point man for Secretary of State Colin Powell on a number of critical missions. On June 6 he flew to Islamabad to negotiate with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as both Indian and Pakistani forces amassed along their borders. Remarkably, Armitage convinced Musharraf to agree to a permanent end to Pakistani-sponsored incursions in Kashmir. When he delivered this message to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayjee, according to a Washington Post story on June 24, there was some disbelief that Musharraf would offer such a sweeping concession — but Armitage made it clear the U.S. was vouching for the Pakistani president. The Indians accepted Armitage’s assurances and began taking steps to normalize diplomatic relations. The U.S. has agreed to stay involved with both sides to bring a lasting and equitable peace to the region.

Armitage’s role was unquestionably pivotal and his ability to win compromises from both sides was a critical factor in avoiding a nuclear showdown. Prime Minister Vajpayjee, quoted in The Washington Post, said, "If Pakistan had not agreed to end infiltration, and America had not conveyed that guarantee to India, then war would not have been averted."

In April 2001, soon after Armitage left CACI’s Board of Directors to become Deputy Secretary of State, he was thrust onto the global stage as a key U.S. negotiator in a diplomatic confrontation with the Chinese. When a Navy EP-3E Aries II surveillance plane collided with a Chinese F-8 interceptor over the South China Sea, the Chinese detained the downed U.S. plane and aircrew. Armitage and Powell held high-level meetings with Chinese officials, including Chinese Ambassador Yang Jiechi, who met with Armitage on several occasions, to negotiate the successful release of the U.S. aircrew.

more
http://www.caci.com/homeland_security/armitage.shtml


spent those early years up close to Lake Michigan only a couple hours south of you. Did you ever make it down that way? It was a fast moving time I may have seen you. Forgive me the memory is a little foggy. We did get to Milwaukee. Did you lose one of your band members? Am I thinking of the same guys?



something bizarre internally, but appearing natural, human, and normal on the surface

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7. Yes, Clockwork Orange came to an end in December 1970 when

our bass player was shot and killed and our guitarist shot and wounded in what was ruled "death by misadventure".

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12. I need first to acknowledge that tragedy bob

I don't remember details but it must have been a very difficult time.


Richard L. Armitage former director of CACI guits to join Bush team

Civilian accused of killing ‘doing fine job’

MICHAEL SETTLE, Chief Political Correspondent May 06 2004

Executives from Virginia-based CACI International complained that they had still not been informed by their client, the US defense department, that their employee, working for the CIA as an interrogator, was involved in the abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad.
Jack London, CACI president, said: "The fact remains we are simply not able to confirm in any fashion any CACI employee was involved in the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison."
Ken Johnson, the company's president of US operations, added: "The employee questioned is still on the site and still performing the duties there and, by all accounts from our understanding, is doing a damn fine job."
It has been suggested the CIA contractor could escape any prosecution because US Army jurisdiction does not extend to American private contractors in Iraq.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/15501.html


Contractors act as interrogators

Control: The Pentagon's hiring of civilians to question prisoners raises accountability issues.

Founded in 1962 as a small consulting firm, CACI now has more than $1 billion in annual revenue. It specializes in information technology but also has branched into every corner of the Defense Department to become "essentially an odd-jobs provider for the federal government," according to Tim Quillin, an analyst for the investment banking firm Stephens Inc.

More than 90 percent of CACI's business comes from its main customer - the Pentagon - and other federal agencies, according to reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Among the company's former directors is Richard L. Armitage, who resigned in 2001 to accept an appointment from President Bush as deputy secretary of state.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.contractors04may04,0,7348149.s ...


CACI is among an elite group of Washington area companies that do classified work for the federal government. The company, formed in the 1960s, first caught the government's eye with a computer language it developed that could be used to build battlefield simulation programs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5677-2004May5_2.html

- Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State is president and partner of Armitage Assoc. LLP, was a Boeing consultant, a Raytheon consultant and an advisory board member. Armitage was also President Bush's special emissary to Jordan's King Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. Armitage has also worked in the past for Halliburton.
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=45246&group=webcast

From March 1992 until 1993, Armitage as ambassador, funneled U.S. dollars into the new independent states of the former Soviet Union. In January 1992, the Bush Administration's desire to cozy up to the NIS (and their oil) resulted in Armitage's appointment as Coordinator for Emergency Humanitarian Assistance.

During this time Armitage took on the other international patronage projects that normally follow war, accommodating the assuagement of the European Community, Japan and other donor countries.

Armitage owns Electronic Data Systems stock worth $250,001 to $500,000 (EDS is the 49th largest defense contractor, and lobbies the Defense Dept. over various appropriations issues), General Electric stock worth $500,001 to $1 million, Merck & Co. stock worth $100,001 to $250,000 (Merck lobbied the Defense Dept. over the Biological Weapons Convention implementation protocol), and Verizon Communications stock worth $250,001 to $500,000.

Armitage also worked as a consultant to Halliburton. Armitage is a former co-chairman of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. He was instrumental in the reconstruction of the emerging economies of the former Soviet republics, after the fall of the Communist empire; along with Condi Rice, who rode herd on the Bush cabal's bid for U.S. control of the Caspian oil.
http://www.ifpafletcherconference.com/army2000/bios/armitage_rt.htm
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/outside/commentary/2002/0204oil_b...

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11. Armitage with a topless Vietnamese nightclub owner Nguyen O'Rourke

RICHARD ARMITAGE QUIETLY CONFIRMED
AS DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE

FTW - On March 23, after being recommended in a unanimous 18-0 vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former Vietnam-era covert operative and Contra-era figure Richard Armitage was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of State in a voice vote on the Senate Floor. The unchallenged confirmation of a figure who had previously been investigated by President Reagan's Commission on Organized Crime (1984) for alleged links to gambling and prostitution was totally ignored by the major American media. Armitage has already begun work at the State Department and is deeply involved in negotiations over a US spy plane recently captured by the Chinese government.Armitage, who was denied a 1989 appointment as Assistant Secretary of State because of links to Iran-Contra and other scandals, served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan years. U.S. Government stipulations in the Oliver North trial specifically named Armitage as one of the DoD officials responsible for illegal transfers of weapons to Iran and the Contras. But Armitage's dirty past goes much deeper.

A Vietnam veteran and graduate of Annapolis, Armitage's roots have been thoroughly intertwined with the likes of CIA veteran Ted Shackley, Richard Secord, Heine Aderholt, Elliot Abrams, Dewey Clarridge, Edwin Wilson and Tom Clines. All of these men have been directly linked to CIA covert operations, the drug trade, the abandonment of U.S. prisoners of War after Vietnam and/or Iran-Contra. Armitage has also been routinely discussed in FTW as a Bush-era covert functionary who has been linked to covert operations, drug smuggling and the expansion of organized crime operations in Russia, Central Asia and the Far East.

In 1986 a private dispute between POW activist Ross Perot and Armitage went public as photos of Armitage with a topless Vietnamese nightclub owner Nguyen O'Rourke brought allegations of gambling and prostitution close to Armitage's doorstep. The stories went public when TIME and "The Boston Globe" wrote lengthy stories on the feud in 1986 and 1987. That scandal arose as a result of 1984 investigations by President Reagan's Commission on Organized Crime in which the photo and documentation of gambling charges and prostitution led to direct Armitage's close association with O'Rourke. Then LAPD Assistant Chief Jesse Brewer, a former Commanding Officer of this writer, served on the Reagan Commission.

The 1992 best-seller "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" by former "60 MINUTES" producer Monika Jensen-Stevenson details Armitage's role as Reagan point man on Vietnam POW-MIA issues and describes why Armitage has earned the enmity of many POW activists. However, in a 1995 interview with "The Washington Post", Colin Powell referred to Armitage as his "white son." This, notwithstanding the fact that the 6 foot, balding, power-lifter, now 56, can still bench press 300 or more pounds and reportedly "enjoys killing."

William Tyree, Special Forces Veteran who has provided much reliable information and documentation to FTW in the past said, "Armitage used to 'sit ambush' on the trails in Laos and Cambodia. He liked it. Now when Powell, 'the dove,' sits down at a table with Armitage 'the killer' beside him the message will be that Armitage can reach across the table and deal with the other party on the spot." That message will not go unheard.

more
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/politics/armitage_SS.html

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2. You're pretty schmart, Schmart!

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4. Aw shucks, (Dean's List, High Honors) I'm just a white boy out of the

projects. Really, lol.

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8. Back to the general topic, here are some more MH CHAOS

links-plus note that Richard Ober, who ran MH CHAOS and the International Terrorism Group, was rumored to have been Deep Throat.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CensorsBooks_SecretsCIA.html

http://www.cia-on-campus.org/surveil/chaos.html

I'll bet that some other DUer's were targeted through the years too.

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9. Projects SHAMROCK MINARET RESISTANCE MERRIMAC

While the NSA was busy snooping on US citizens through Projects SHAMROCK and MINARET, the CIA got into the domestic spying act by initiating Operation CHAOS. President Lyndon Johnson authorized the creation of the CIA's Domestic Operations Division (DOD), whose purpose was to "exercise centralized responsibility for direction, support, and coordination of clandestine operations activities within the United States...."

When Johnson ordered CIA Director John McCone to use the DOD to analyze the growing college student protests of the Administration's policy towards Vietnam, two new units were set up to target anti-war protestors and organizations: Project RESISTANCE, which worked with college administrators, campus security and local police to identify anti-war activists and political dissidents; and Project MERRIMAC, which monitored any demonstrations being conducted in the Washington D.C. area. The CIA then began monitoring student activists and infiltrating anti-war organizations by working with local police departments to pull off burglaries, illegal entries (black bag jobs), interrogations and electronic surveillance.

Morton Halperin, Jerry Berman, et. al., The Lawless State (Penguin: New York, 1976) p. 146..


After President Nixon came to office in 1969, all of these domestic surveillance activities were consolidated into Operation CHAOS. After the revelation of two former CIA agents' involvement in the Watergate break-in, the publication of an article about CHAOS in the New York Times
Seymour Hersh, "Huge CIA Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces," New York Times (December 22, 1974), p. 1.


and the growing concern about distancing itself from illegal domestic spying activities, the CIA shut down Operation CHAOS. But during the life of the project, the Church Committee and the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (the Rockefeller Commission) revealed that the CIA had compiled files on over 13,000 individuals, including 7,000 US citizens and 1,000 domestic organizations.

The Lawless State, p. 153; US Commission on CIA Activites within the United States, Report to the President (US Government Printing Office: Washington DC, 1975), p. 144n3.

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10. In solidarity with the protestors in our nation today kick

because they all have "files" now in Total Information Awareness and Homeland Security and their local police "special units".

:dem:

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13. Cruel Science The Long Shadow of CIA Torture Research

By ALFRED W. McCOY

From 1950 to 1962, the CIA led massive, secret research into coercion and consciousness that reached a billion dollars at peak. After experiments with hallucinogenic drugs, electric shocks, and sensory deprivation, this CIA research produced a new method of torture that was psychological, not physical--best described as "no touch torture."

The CIA's discovery of psychological torture was a counter-intuitive break-through--indeed, the first real revolution in this cruel science since the 17th century. In its modern application, the physical approach required interrogators to inflict pain, usually by crude beatings that often produced heightened resistance or unreliable information. Under the CIA's new psychological paradigm, however, interrogators used two essential methods, disorientation and self-inflicted pain, to make victims feel responsible for their own suffering.

In the CIA's first stage, interrogators employ simple, non-violent techniques to disorient the subject. To induce temporal confusion, interrogators use hooding or sleep deprivation. To intensify disorientation, interrogators often escalate to attacks on personal identity by sexual humiliation.

Once the subject is disoriented, interrogators move on to a second stage with simple, self-inflicted discomfort such as standing for hours with arms extended. In this phase, the idea is to make victims feel responsible for their own pain and thus induce them to alleviate it by capitulating to the interrogator's power.


more
http://www.counterpunch.org/mccoy05292004.html

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14. The CIA's LSD and Frank Olson

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/

Later the CIA had about 100,000,000 hits of acid to lay on the people.

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15. Gimme Some Truth The John Lennon FBI Files

The CIA released one of its Lennon documents in September 1984-a teletype dated February 8, 1972, reporting on Lennon's plan for a "caravan of entertainers who will follow U.S. primaries and raise funds for local radical groups along the way" (see p. 157). About half of it was blacked out under the national security exemption, but one word in the heading was released: "MHCHAOS."

Rosenbaum and Marmalefsky agreed that the word rang a bell, and since I was the historian, I was dispatched to the UCLA Research Library reference room. The news indices there were clear: "MHCHAOS" was a secret, illegal CIA program of surveillance of domestic political dissent, a violation of the CIA charter that had been revealed in 1976. "MH" was a CIA code indicating worldwide area of operations. The CHAOS program had been launched in August 1967, under Director Richard Helms, by James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's chief of counterintelligence, and headed by Richard Ober, a counterintelligence specialist in the Directorate of Plans, Harvard '43. Ober's tasks had already included developing CIA strategy to respond to the revelation by Ramparts magazine in February 1967 that the CIA had been secretly funding the National Student Association for fifteen years. Under the CHAOS operation, the investigation of Ramparts was expanded to cover the entire underground press and given "highest priority." To keep the illegal activity from being leaked by CIA employees, the operation was housed in the basement of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in specially shielded vaults that blocked electronic eavesdropping.

The CIA sent Operation CHAOS domestic intelligence reports on political dissent first to President Johnson and later to Nixon, as well as to Henry Kissinger and John Dean, counsel to the president. Under Nixon, the CHAOS program was expanded to sixty agents, who, according to Angus MacKenzie, "became the Nixon administration's primary source of intelligence about the antiwar leadership."17

CIA Operation CHAOS was revealed in 1976 by Representative Bella Abzug's House Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights. The CIA director at the time was George Bush, who conceded in congressional testimony that "the operation in practice resulted in some improper accumulation of material on legitimate domestic activities." He defended the agency, declaring that "only a very small fraction of reporting on the activities of American citizens in the US was done by the CIA." Abzug proposed that individuals who had been targets of Operation CHAOS be notified by the CIA and given a chance to review their dossiers. Bush replied that notification was unworkable and proposed instead that the CIA "destroy . . . all the information which was improperly collected under the so-called CHAOS program." Because of congressional insistence, Bush agreed that the FOIA would make Operation CHAOS files available under the Act.18 Thus the appearance of the CHAOS memo here (see p. 157).

more
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8721/8721.ch01.html

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16. kick for a thread to learn by nt

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17. Chaos And Political Terrorism In America

Homeland Insecurity by Douglas Valentine


Part Three

Chaos And Political Terrorism In America

But COINTELPRO failed to neutralize America's Anti-War and Civil Rights insurgency, and by 1967, President Johnson and the FBI were sensing the presence of foreign intelligence agencies. And the mere fear that the KGB was directing the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements provided the FBI with the pretext to enlist the CIA in domestic intelligence operations. The precipitating event was a February 1967 expose in Ramparts magazine, which revealed that the CIA had suborned the leadership of the National Student Association. The exposure of this illegal CIA domestic activity prompted even moderate students to join and support radical, alternative organizations like the Students for a Democratic Society. The Anti-War movement blossomed like never before.

The Ramparts revelation, and the resulting surge in anti-establishment activities, was deemed to be a Soviet provocation, and confirmed the FBI's suspicions that foreign agitators were fueling the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, so Johnson ordered the CIA to investigate Robert Scheer, the author of the Ramparts article. Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms gave the job to veteran CIA officer Richard Ober, a Harvard graduate (1943), World War II veteran, and member of the CIA's counter-intelligence staff. And thus came Operation Chaos--which, with its counterpart organizations in the Justice Department and White House, enabled the CIA and political ideologues to get involved in "internal security" operations such as will be conducted by the OHS. 5

Ober's Counter-Intelligence, Special Operations Group (CI/SOG), codenamed MHCHAOS, was created in August 1967, concurrent with the Phoenix Program (and for a similar purpose), and existed until March 1974. Its initial mission, ostensibly on behalf of the FBI, was to collect intelligence information on radical domestic political groups, to discover if they were being manipulated by foreign intelligence agencies.

To coordinate Chaos and COINTELPRO operations, Johnson's attorney general, Ramsay Clark, created the Interdepartmental Intelligence Unit (IDIU) within the Justice Department's Internal Security Division. Ober became the CIA's representative on the IDIU, which (like the OHS) was managed by senior members from the White House staff. In other words, from its inception, CIA intelligence information on dissidents was reported to people whose primary interest was in politics, not internal security.

Upon assuming office in January 1969, President Nixon immediately grasped the partisan political potential of the IDIU, which he moved under the Civil Rights Division. In June 1969, through his advisor on Domestic Affairs, John Dean--and Dean's youthful assistant, Tom Huston--Nixon directed Ober to engage Chaos in covert actions against dissidents. Ober was assigned a deputy and a case officer whose names remain secret until today. The deputy and the case officer moved into Ober's suite of offices in a vault in the basement at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Among the rooms was a library where files were kept and where slides of suspects and potential recruits were viewed. Several female CIA officers managed the precious, super secret Chaos files.

more
http://www.counterpunch.org/homeland3.html

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18. Most of this stuff was privatized, of course. Imagine a voice-to-skull

communicator in the hands of a renegade Hell's Angel given carte blanche to eliminate domestic political problems by RW criminals that hide within national security-that's how this tech stuff was developed and field-tested btw.

That was part of MH CHAOS too, testing out all sorts of drugs and prototype non-lethal weapons and other systems and techniques on innocent US citizens that had wound up on some accountable to no one's list of political enemies or targets and this just snowballed as the IT market grew.

Here are some tangible results, "benefits" of MH CHAOS, the Non-Lethal arsenal from USAF/INSS (a neo-con think tank)
I'll never forget when some of this stuff was used on me in 1969.
http://www.adacomp.net/~mcherney/nonlethal.html