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title: CHAOS Program
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- CHAOS Program
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created: 2026-05-17
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updated: 2026-05-17
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tags:
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- Program
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- CIA
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- Intelligence
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category: "Intelligence Operation"
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summary: "The CHAOS Program was a CIA domestic surveillance operation that purchased Washington D.C. real estate as cover for monitoring domestic political activities, distinct from but related to Operation CHAOS (MHCHAOS)."
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location: "Washington, D.C."
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The CHAOS Program was a highly secret [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operation. It involved the Agency's purchase of a [[Washington, D.C.]] trash collection company, which had contracts to pick up garbage at various Third World embassies, including the Israeli embassy. The trash was systematically sorted and analyzed for any possible intelligence. [[James Jesus Angleton]] was a sponsor of this program.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 11. |