Operation Chaos
08 March 2018Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment – the bizarre and untold story of how the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of US military deserters during the Cold War.
Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They’re young, they’re radical, and they want to start a...
Details
08 March 2018786 minutes
Steve West
9781509897056Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
Very well-informed and effortlessly funny.Independent
Matthew Sweet's curiosity and sense of fun pulls back the heavy baize curtains on what we thought we knew about the war.Linda Grant
Operation Chaos is a wild ride—a deeply reported and gracefully written account of a fascinating piece of contemporary Cold War history.Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night, and Rin Tin Tin
From his book’s opening pages, Matthew Sweet lured me into a looking-glass world of deserters, radicals, spies, and cultists, following them from Vietnam to Sweden to America, with many improbable stops along the way. Operation Chaos tells an American story that had been lost to history, one where people are not always who they seem to be and suspicions have a hard time keeping pace with reality.Bryan Burrough, author of Days of Rage and Public Enemies
