1. FILE NAME: MHCHAOS (OPS/ITG)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000800070057-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2001
• Sequence Number: 57
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release 2 02/01/02 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000800070057-8
Category nactivej
1. File Nane: `MHC_L-:WS (OPS/ITG)
of foreign direction , control, fundz xt g, or training.
and subversion, particularly with respect Lo any evzcl.ence
2. Description: The III-',OS prograir-. was originally
set up as a sensitive, high priority operation. concerning
foreign contacts with.U.S. individuals and organizations
of the Radical Left to discover the extent to which the
Soviets, CHICOIS, Cubans, and other comraunist countries
.were exploiting our. domestic problems in terms o:== espionage
contain two types of files:
The CHAOS holdings
Personality: There are 9771 per's onality.'files;
8328 of these. are on. U.S. citizens. - However, - these. 832.a
files refer . to only 7238 individuals, since'. CHAOS created
more than one. type of file..'. The files breakdown. by
pe a_ Eollo s:. (1) 6246 201-files; (2) 1471 so-called
t
y
files (but do not. have 201 numbers assigned) except they
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and are- not retrievable through IF/Files 9 (5J e.L.L sore
files - these were originally maintained, by individual
analysts assigned:to the CI-l40S unit as working : iles;
-again these files are not retrievable through. IP/Fi.lee-s e.
Subjecta:' The '923 subject files" break down into
b. `
.
(z.)
the same- three categories as the. personality files:
116 subject. files retrievable through IP/Files; (2) 564.
sensitive files; (3) 243 soft files. It should, be noted:
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that many of these. 'Liles are quite. voluminous
c : All of ..the above files can be retrieved..
through the CHAOS computer .system...
d. - There has been no input into CHAOS files.
since 1973.
4. Frequency and Purpose of Current Use:- The only
Agency.-
requests (Congressional), usually related in some way to
FOIA/PA, such as requests from the 0CC for information
concerning FOIA/PA appeals cases or litigation against the
current use is to service FOIA/PA requests: and. -other specia.
S. Retirement/Destruction Plans: It is planned to
eliminate the CI-LkOS file system as a separate entity as
soon as -)ossible. The Rockefeller commission and Congressional
investigittions during the past year into the AgencyTs conduct-
precludecl- any action to dispose of the CHAOS -records system.
All records will be reviewed and those not meeting present
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will be integrated into the DDO records system.. -
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