171. Did the CIA Help Create Charles Manson?

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What if Charles Manson wasn’t just a crazed cult leader—but part of a secret government experiment? In this episode, we’re going to talk about the shocking revelations from CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill. From missing parole files to CIA mind control programs like MKUltra, we’ll go through the connections between Manson, U.S. intelligence, and a potential cover-up designed to destroy the 1960s counterculture. Was Manson’s violence allowed—or even… engineered?

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CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill: https://tinyurl.com/4udsef3b
Audio and Video for CHAOS: https://tom-oneill.org/audio-video-for-chaos/
CIA.gov - MKULTRA: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06760269 and https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01070R000301530003-5.pdf
CIA.gov - Project Mockingbird: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/PROJECT%20MOCKINGBIRD%5B15770719%5D.pdf
Dr. Louis Jolyon West: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84j0hcd/ | https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/09/us/louis-j-west-74-psychiatrist-who-studied-extremes-dies.html | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West
Book review on the CIA website: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Review-Chaos-CharlesManson-25-Sep.pdf

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