Operation Chaos tells the real-life thrilling story of a group of US military deserters who found asylum in Sweden during the Vietnam War - one of the great untold tales of the Cold War, where the facts are wilder than any work of fiction.

The thrilling untold story of how the CIA infiltrated a radical group of American soldiers in one of the world's most infamous wars. In 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, an exodus begins. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters escape the brutal fighting for the calm shores of Stockholm. These defectors are young, radical and want to start a revolution. The Swedes treat their new guests like rock stars - but the CIA is going to put a stop to that. It's a job for the deep-cover men of Operation Chaos and their allies - agents who know how to invade radical organizations and crush them from the inside. And within a few months, the GIs have turned on each other, - and the interrogations and recriminations begin. A gripping espionage story filled with a host of extraordinary and unbelievable players, Operation Chaos is the extraordinary true account of the men who left the war, how they betrayed each other and how they became lost in a world where anything seemed possible - even the idea that the CIA had secretly programmed them to kill their friends..

'As weird and darkly comic a story about Vietnam as you'll read' Daily Mail

Matthew Sweet's curiosity and sense of fun pulls back the heavy baize curtains on what we thought we knew about the war.