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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the
Secret History of the Sixties
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A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders
brings shocking revelations about the most infamous crimes in
American history: carelessness from police, misconduct by
prosecutors, and even potential surveillance by intelligence
agents. What really happened in 1969? In 1999, when Tom
O'Neill was assigned a magazine piece about the thirtieth
anniversary of the Manson murders, he worried there was
nothing new to say. Weren't the facts indisputable? Charles
Manson had ordered his teenage followers to commit seven
brutal murders, and in his thrall, they'd gladly complied. But
when O'Neill began reporting the story, he kept finding holes in
the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's narrative, long enshrined in
the best-selling Helter Skelter. Before long, O'Neill had
questions about everything from the motive to the manhunt.
Though he'd never considered himself a conspiracy theorist,
the Manson murders swallowed the next two decades of his
career. He was obsessed. Searching but never speculative,
CHAOS follows O'Neill's twenty-year effort to rebut the
"official" story behind Manson. Who were his real friends in
Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why
didn't law enforcement act on their many chances to stop him?
And how did he turn a group of peaceful hippies into
remorseless killers? O'Neill's hunt for answers leads him from
reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from the Summer of
Love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control
experiments, on a trail rife with cover-ups and coincidences.