True to its title, Guffey’s book camouflages itself in bouts of obsession and incredulity, recounting an episode of American insanity that weirdly implicates the Department of Homeland Security, the NCIS, and the state of American welfare, among other parties. By turns exuberant, resourceful, hilarious, dubious, and emotionally affecting, Chameleo thrives on the contact high of the possible, much like the twin arts of paranoia and conspiracy, from which it takes its manic energy. More shocking still, Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its newest technologies on a number of American citizens.The below excerpt comes from Robert Guffey’s Chameleo, a breathless true story of “invisible spies, heroin addiction, and homeland security,” out now from OR Books.

Department of Defense and deployed on American soil. Hallucination? Perhaps - except Robert Guffey, an English teacher and Dion's friend, tracked down and interviewed one of the scientists behind the project codenamed 'Chameleo,' experimental technology which appears to have been stolen by the U.S. Subsequently, he believed himself under intense government scrutiny - and, he suspected, the subject of bizarre experimentation involving 'cloaking'- electro-optical camouflage so extreme it renders observers practically invisible from a distance of some meters - by the Department of Homeland Security. He was released from jail after a six-day-long Abu-Ghraib-style interrogation. The fact that Dion had absolutely nothing to do with international terrorists, smuggling, Top Secret military equipment, or Camp Pendleton didn't seem to bother the military.

Dion found himself arrested (under the ostensible auspices of The Patriot Act) for conspiring with international terrorists to smuggle Top Secret military equipment out of Camp Pendleton. Marine who'd stolen night vision goggles and perhaps a few top secret files from a nearby military base.

Dick, Chameleo is a true account of what happened in a seedy Southern California town when an enthusiastic and unrepentant heroin addict named Dion Fuller sheltered a U.S. “A mesmerizing mix of Charles Bukowski, Hunter S.

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