CHAOS: Manson, CIA, Secret 1960s

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, the 1960s

Authors Tom O'Neill and Dan Piepenbring have 4.6 out of 5 stars with an amazing 11,941 ratings. This secret history is a #1 best seller in intelligence and espionage.

A journalist's 20-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.

Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young ["hippie"] followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, at that time eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order.

CIA creation Charlie Manson, LSD narcissist

Their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of [the hippies' great counterculture reputation and] the 1960s. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away.

(Jimmy Dore Show) Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular w/ Tom O'Neill

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the Manso murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including

• police carelessness,
• legal misconduct, and
• potential surveillance by intelligence agents.

When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi -- prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions:

• Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood?
• How far would they go to hide their ties?
• Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him?
• And how did Manson, an illiterate ex-con, turn a group of peaceful hippies into senseless and remorseless killers?

O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control [MKUltra] experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences.

Quentin Tarantino says CHAOS is best book ever on Manson | Joe Rogan

At Charlie's L.A. hangout (Margaret Qualley)

The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders.

This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Official narrative of Tate murders doesn't add up: Tom O'Neill | Joe Rogan

• Joe Rogan Experience #1459 - Tom O'Neill
• (Danny Jones Clips) How Charles Manson destroyed Hollywood | Tom O'Neill: Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, after Hollywood Q married a Jew and moved to Israel

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