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According to Colby, CHAOS was so highly classified that even he, the director of the CIA, didn’t have access to it. “I found it impossible to do much about whatever was wrong with [CHAOS],” he wrote. “Its super-secrecy and extreme compartmentalization kept me very much on its periphery.”53
Rockefeller’s commission failed to reveal that “between 150 and 200 CIA domestic files on Black dissidents had been destroyed,” the Times reported. “The CIA conducted at least two major programs involving the use of American blacks, when the Panthers, organized by young blacks in the mid-60s, were publicly advocating revolutionary change … Just how successful the CIA was in those alleged activities could not be determined.”

