'OPERATION CHAOS' FILES ORDERED HELD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100170029-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: June 16, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/22 : CIA-RDP90-01208R000100170029-4
'Opera:tion Chaos' Files Ordered Hell
"Operation Chaos" files compiled by presidential
order on hundreds of thousands of dissident Americans
in the- pail ::; years cannot be destroyed at pros -rt, ac-
Cording to a ederal court ruling.
U.S. District Judge June Green ordered CIA Direc-
tor George Bush not to destroy the files gathered by
the CIA at the request of Presidents Lyndon Johnson
and Richard Nixon, who feared extensive foreign
influence on domestic unrest.
Green granted an appeal that the files be "protect-
ed" pending outcome of civil action by the Americaa
Civil Liberties Union demanding the material be made
public.
The ACLU wants those in the Chaos files to pet the
information the CIA collected on them.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/22 : CIA-RDP90-01208R000100170029-4