From a political cult to the heart of the Washington establishment – the bizarre and untold story of the way the CIA tried to infiltrate a radical group of US army deserters during the Cold War.

Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to flee the war in Vietnam. They’re young, they’re radical, plus they want to start out a revolution. The Swedes deal with them like pop celebrities – however the CIA is set to stop all that.

It’s a job for the deep-cover men of about Procedure Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves Procedure Chaos and their allies – agencies who learn how to infiltrate organizations and destroy them from inside. Within weeks, the GIs have turned their fireplace on one another, as well as the group dissolves into interrogations and recriminations.

When Matthew Nice began investigating this story, he thought the madness was over. He was wrong. Instead, he became the confidant of an eccentric and traumatized band of survivors – each with his own complex theory about the traitors in their midst.

All Sweet has to do is discover the truth . and stay sane.

Similar to Jon Ronson’s The Males who Stare in Goats so that as compelling as Ben McIntyre’s Agent Zigzag, in Operation Chaos Matthew Sweet’s amazing journey of discovery sheds new light using one of the fantastic untold tales from the Cool War, where the fact is wilder than any work of fiction.