"In the summer of 1967, in response to growing racial violence, President Johnson formed a National Advisory Commission on Civic Disorders to analyze causes of the unrest. He also ordered then-CIA Director Richard Helms to investigate any possible foreign role. Beginning with a focus on black extremist groups, CHAOS expanded to cover four additional targets: radical student and youth groups, antiwar groups, the underground press, and draft-evasion support groups. Over the next seven years, the office that ran the program would amass 13,000 files including 7,200 on American citizens; index 300,000 people and organizations in its computer; write 12,000 cables and 3,500 memos; send 3,500 more to the FBI, and prepare 37 reports for White House and other top officials."
Adjunct professors at the U of New Haven police program. John Dean worked with the CIA’s Richard Ober wrt Operation Chaos.
"In the summer of 1967, in response to growing racial violence, President Johnson formed a National Advisory Commission on Civic Disorders to analyze causes of the unrest. He also ordered then-CIA Director Richard Helms to investigate any possible foreign role. Beginning with a focus on black extremist groups, CHAOS expanded to cover four additional targets: radical student and youth groups, antiwar groups, the underground press, and draft-evasion support groups. Over the next seven years, the office that ran the program would amass 13,000 files including 7,200 on American citizens; index 300,000 people and organizations in its computer; write 12,000 cables and 3,500 memos; send 3,500 more to the FBI, and prepare 37 reports for White House and other top officials."
https://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2013/01/defending-chaos.html