diff --git a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/graph/httpcore/ChaosHttpHandler.java b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/graph/httpcore/ChaosHttpHandler.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..69601d187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/graph/httpcore/ChaosHttpHandler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package com.microsoft.graph.httpcore;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
+
+import com.microsoft.graph.httpcore.middlewareoption.MiddlewareType;
+import com.microsoft.graph.httpcore.middlewareoption.TelemetryOptions;
+
+import okhttp3.Interceptor;
+import okhttp3.MediaType;
+import okhttp3.Protocol;
+import okhttp3.Request;
+import okhttp3.Response;
+import okhttp3.ResponseBody;
+
+/**
+ * DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION
+ * interceptor that randomly fails the responses for unit testing purposes
+ */
+public class ChaosHttpHandler implements Interceptor {
+	public final MiddlewareType MIDDLEWARE_TYPE = MiddlewareType.RETRY;
+	/*
+	 * constant string being used
+	 */
+	private final String RETRY_AFTER = "Retry-After";
+	/**
+	 * Denominator for the failure rate (i.e. 1/X)
+	 */
+	private final Integer failureRate = 3;
+	/**
+	 * default value to return on retry after
+	 */
+	private final String retryAfterValue = "10";
+	/**
+	 * body to respond on failed requests
+	 */
+	private final String responseBody = "{\"error\": {\"code\": \"TooManyRequests\",\"innerError\": {\"code\": \"429\",\"date\": \"2020-08-18T12:51:51\",\"message\": \"Please retry after\",\"request-id\": \"94fb3b52-452a-4535-a601-69e0a90e3aa2\",\"status\": \"429\"},\"message\": \"Please retry again later.\"}}";
+	public static final int MSClientErrorCodeTooManyRequests = 429;
+	
+	@Override
+	public Response intercept(Chain chain) throws IOException {
+		Request request = chain.request();
+		
+		if(request.tag(TelemetryOptions.class) == null)
+			request = request.newBuilder().tag(TelemetryOptions.class, new TelemetryOptions()).build();
+		request.tag(TelemetryOptions.class).setFeatureUsage(TelemetryOptions.RETRY_HANDLER_ENABLED_FLAG);
+		
+		final Integer dice = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(1, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+
+		if(dice % failureRate == 0) {
+			return new Response
+						.Builder()
+						.request(request)
+						.protocol(Protocol.HTTP_1_1)
+						.code(MSClientErrorCodeTooManyRequests)
+						.message("Too Many Requests")
+						.addHeader(RETRY_AFTER, retryAfterValue)
+						.body(ResponseBody.create(MediaType.get("application/json"), responseBody))
+						.build();
+		} else {
+			return chain.proceed(request);
+		}
+	}
+
+}
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diff --git a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/graph/httpcore/RetryHandler.java b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/graph/httpcore/RetryHandler.java
index 987f7bf7b..9478060e6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/graph/httpcore/RetryHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/graph/httpcore/RetryHandler.java
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ public Response intercept(Chain chain) throws IOException {
 		while(retryRequest(response, executionCount, request, retryOption)) {
 			request = request.newBuilder().addHeader(RETRY_ATTEMPT_HEADER, String.valueOf(executionCount)).build();
 			executionCount++;
+			if(response != null && response.body() != null) {
+				response.body().close();
+			}
 			response = chain.proceed(request);
 		}
 		return response;