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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters who fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves. By Matthew Sweet. New York NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2018. Photographs. Endnotes. Index. Pg. xvi, 365. $30.00. ISBN: 978-162779463-3
This country is in the process of looking back, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Vietnam War's most tumultuous year, to that incredible time in America's history. Consequently, there are books being published on any number of subjects related to that era; Operation Chaos is one of them.
The book's title suggests that it is an account of Operation Chaos, the CIA's illegal program primarily directed at domestic opposition groups within the United States. Actually, it's not exactly that. Instead, as the subtitle indicates, it is, to a larger degree, about some of the 1,000 or...