The Manson Murders May Have Something to Do With CIA Mind-Control Experiments
Journalist Tom O’Neill’s book CHAOS uncovered undeniably bizarre facts — and high-profile lies — about the 1969 murders that we still can’t stop thinking about.
“I think there is a good likelihood that Manson is a product of MKUltra, whether he was knowledgeable about it or not.”
Jacobin
Let’s say you’re at a dinner party full of people skeptical of anything that smacks of “conspiracy theory” — and yet they want to know what your book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties was about. How would you even begin to prepare people for the things you uncovered while researching the Manson murders?
Tom O'Neill
I don’t talk about it at dinner parties. There’s no way to have that conversation in under five minutes; it’s just too complicated.
The easiest thing for me to do is just say that I found a lot of evidence that challenges the official narrative and present it in the book, but I leave readers to draw their own conclusions because I didn’t feel, despite twenty years of reporting, that I’d proven definitively one way or the other how something — and why something — happened.
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