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LOS ANGELES--A SIX-MAN TEAM OF POLICE DETECTIVES TODAY PROBED TWO MACABRE MURDER CASES WHICH BORE STARTLING SIMILARITIES--SENSELESS, SAVAGE STABBINGS WITH ALMOST RITUALISTICVOVENTONES POLICE MAINTAINED THERE WAS NO DIRECT CONNECT THE STABBING DEATHS OF A MIDDLE-AGED COUPLE SUNDAY AND THE MASS MURDER SATURDAY OF ACTRESS SHARON TATE AND HER FOUR GUESTS AT A SECLUDED ESTATE.
BUT AN OFFICER SAID, "IT IS UNUSUAL TO HAVE THE SAME TEAM ON TWO/CASES UNLESS THERE'S AN INDICATION THE CASES ARE LINKED THE SOLE SUSPECT IN THE TATE MURDERS, WILLIAM GARRETSON, CARETAKER AT THE BENEDICT CANYON HOME LEASED BY THE AGRESS, WAS RELEASED YESTERDAY.
AFTER HIS ONLY SUSPECT WALKED OUT OF POLICE HEADQUARTERS, INSPECTOR HAROLD YARNELL SAID, THERE IS NOT SUFFUCIENT EVIDENCE TO HOLD GARRETSON. IS NO REASON SUSPECT HIM. BETONIVESHERDAY LEANED TOWARD THE THEORY THE STABBINGS SUNDAY OF
MARKET OWNER LEON LA BIANCA AND HIS WIFE ROSEMARY IN THEIR HOME MIGHT COPY BY A NEW ASSAILANT OF THE EARLIER MURDARS
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Intelligence in Public Media
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill with Dan Pepenbring (Little, Brown and Company, 2014), 521 pages, plates and illustrations, bibli ography, indes
Reviewed by Leslie C.
Authors, or their agents and publishers, secem unable to resunt using the word "secret" to modify that apparently pedestrian word "history is use promeses simething the finished work imariably fails to deliver, implying as it does access to the eldritch of the goustic, when the rodity a ofien more mundane Such a forer is at work in Tim O'Neill's Chaos Charles Manson the CLA and the Secret Hanary of the Staties
The hook has its origins in a magarme article O'Neill was commissioned to write marking the 30th anniversary of the Tone-LaBianca murders Charles Mansun, a sam literate drither and purported cult leader, and members of his "Family" were cotvicund of the killings The episode tranafixed the American pablic and suggested the feces unlashed by the social sides of the sixties, not least the anti-war and youth movements, had duk if not violent undernes O'Neill never finished bus article. The theuads he uncovered while doing his research led him instead a 20-year odyssey that croned the line into whexion, he awitched edaurs and publishers, hortowed money from relatives, and diud anything che required to unearth the truth about Mu
Chans is a momanent to O'Neill's determination to get the story and a narrative of his efforts to nack dow relactant withemes, obtain firgetion of bhuried documen tary evidence, and pull the pieces in a coberunt picture Chasis at least not in the way its the suggests "secret honary of the sixties With its fascinating all sions to a host of Southern California characters from Cans Elliott to the Beach Boys, mory Once Upon A Time In Hollywood than Manchurun Candidate. This review will not summarize O'Neill's theories, though it will touch on them insofar as they are gurman to t primary quantion for this audience, which in, of course, itur dal Charles Manson have to do with the CIA thut first, some housekeeping
Over the course of August 8-10, 1961 M lowers, at his urging, mardeed eight people during twe bome invano at the home of actress Sharon Tate
Chaos
and the director Roman Pulanok, and two at the home of Lano and Koumary Lalanca Marsson believed the kill ings would trigger a race war, and his followers-sang the victims blood blood-left behind graffiti meant to suggest the Black Panther Party was respomilife. A four-month investigation, spurned by the jailhouse confession of a member of the Fandy nad in the amed of M and his accomplices Vincent Baghis, the Los Angeles Angeles dutuiet attorney who tried the case and secured the Cite a book about the crimes. Titled Helur Skrbe after a fheatles sung Mamon used a code word for the race war went on to became the bon-sulling "True crime" book in the history of American publishing
All of this is straightforward. However, O'Neill's research uncovered a litary of problems and urunowered questions about the conduct of the investigation th might, had they been brought to lighter, have justi fied a re-trad, according to one of Buglin's ansiciates in the DA's office Int in O'Neil's stelling, Baglioni emerges as a villain who served his chance so prodit in the wake of a terrible crime and who spent the sequent docades comsciously fading any effort to questions thethods o outume of the investigation. O'Neill's scrapulmas cat lague of the mynad omissions in Huglioni's case certainly paints an unflattering picture of the entire process and of many of those involved
Manson's responsiblity for these crimes question. OF Neill's actions of many secondary playen, together with the g Manan continues to hold on the American imagination Most people were horrified yet fancouted by the bru tality of the killings, though thers saw them different light The leftut radical Remandine Dahem of the Wauther Undergrad infiammanly slevated Mamon to a evolu tonary hero. New Left chronicler Todd Galin was more reasonable, and closer to the mak, when he observed that "For the mass media, the acidhead Charles Manson was readymade at the monster lurking on the heart of every longhair, the rough breast shouching to Beverly Hills to be
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed int strued as asserting or implying US government endorsement of its factual statements and antepretations should be con
Studies in Intelligence Vol 65, No. 3 (Extracts. September 2021)
born for the new millennian O'Neill reaches a similar conclusion, which brings us to the main puin, which a the CIA's alleged role
It as Gitlin suggests, Munson embodied for moet Americans the darkness hard wired in the counterculture then how did the US US garvernment benefit benefit O'Neill adves atto the FIM'S COINTELPRO and CIA'S CHAOS, domes tic surveillance programs designed to infiltrate, decredit and neutralize civil righes, stalent, and anti-war orga zutions that first Lyndon Johnson and then Richard Nixon regarded an versive. These programs, which in the case of CIA violated its charter, were ultimately exposed and triggered congressional bearings in the mid-1970s, which the lonelligence Community held to acconan
And this is where O'Neill afmately falls shert Despite what his title implies, he cannot document any compelling funk between these programs and Manion This was not for lack of effort Extimive research and a slew of FOLA requests did not produce a umeking gin mach beyond the shadowy, al-explained presence around these events of Reeve Whitson, an alleged "intelligence operative O'Neill abe examines de CIA program MKULTRA, which may have gotten han choser to has goal-but not much. Conceived by Richard Helms and mahorized by Allen Dulles in 1953, MKULTRA mind control, one possible path to which was hallucine drugs
The standard histories of the subject indicate that the CIA, through MKULTRA, spent comiderable effort to undentand the use and effects of LSD and other sub stances, and contracted with a number of researchers to that end. One wan De Louin Jalyon West, who is the chasest O'Neill gets to tyng Manson se the CIA. West purportedly at the behest of the agency, opene opened an office in San Francinen, the purpine of which wan "stady ing the hippies in theit native habitat", Haight Ashbury Manson had, at the same time, been a denizen of the Haight before moving the "Family" un Los Angeles, aut he liberally dosed his followers with LSD, which was one of his tools for bending them to his will indeed, defense attumeys unsuccessfully attempted to use this as a mitigating factor during the tral
methods in control his "Family" he cannot link Mansen to De West. There is evidence the two ever net, or that Manson was in what OF Neill admits is the most "f-end theory the product of an MKULTRA effet le create a would kill on command" (430) His chios about CHAOS ich are less relevant to hic theory of the case than MKULTRA-He describes a program that kay tab 300,000 poole sharing airtelligence with FIII, the Department of Justice, and the White Houne, but he then claimeitwatso wall-hidden within CIA that even thine at the top of in conanterintelligence division were clueless (233) And yet, when the program was exposed and Director William Cally admitted sol in in existence, existence, James Angleton, the long tume head of contentelligence and presumably no stranger to such efforts was the official resigned
O'Neill also makes the occasional odd statement. One example will illustrate the post. In untangling the wh connections surrounding the Manson care, O'Neill links une firee to former Ar Force Chucf of Staff Genen Curtis Leht, whe, he senten "tried so organe a coup against Kennedy among the Joint Chieti of Stuff during the Cuhan Mimile Crisis (83) This was news, the standard Cold War history fuls to mention it, at de Latay's biographer Lalay did forcefully advocate Sot military action against the musile stri-and he wa famerasdy satirized in Stanley Kubrick's De Strangelove hut a coup? Presumably if his advocacy had reached even the level of significant inubordination Kennedy would have semined him. There was, after all, precedent
O'Neill's currative is never utereting His research has rained legitimate puntions about the investigation and pensecution of these notorious crimes, and the actions of a mumber of poople, from the district attorney's office to the sheriff's departansociates and relatives of the victims to the perpetrators. However compelling bus determinatum to follow every last theeal, O'Neill has not written a "secret history of the 1960s, unless the secrets are those certain individuals wished to kangple their ov reason. The author cannot definitively the Mans MKULTRA or CHAOS, he can only imply it on circum-stantial evidence. At least, in the ond, he has the grace to ackowwledge i
While O'Neill bust unreasonably asks hur a baraly educated criminal like Mamon could une sophisticated
The reviewer Leslie C. in a CIA operations officer
68
Studies in Intelligence Vol 66. No. 3 (Extracts, September 2021)
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Intelligence in Public Media
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill with Dan Pepenbring (Little, Brown and Company, 2014), 521 pages, plates and illustrations, bibli ography, indes
Reviewed by Leslie C.
Authors, or their agents and publishers, secem unable to resunt using the word "secret" to modify that apparently pedestrian word "history is use promeses simething the finished work imariably fails to deliver, implying as it does access to the eldritch of the goustic, when the rodity a ofien more mundane Such a forer is at work in Tim O'Neill's Chaos Charles Manson the CLA and the Secret Hanary of the Staties
The hook has its origins in a magarme article O'Neill was commissioned to write marking the 30th anniversary of the Tone-LaBianca murders Charles Mansun, a sam literate drither and purported cult leader, and members of his "Family" were cotvicund of the killings The episode tranafixed the American pablic and suggested the feces unlashed by the social sides of the sixties, not least the anti-war and youth movements, had duk if not violent undernes O'Neill never finished bus article. The theuads he uncovered while doing his research led him instead a 20-year odyssey that croned the line into whexion, he awitched edaurs and publishers, hortowed money from relatives, and diud anything che required to unearth the truth about Mu
Chans is a momanent to O'Neill's determination to get the story and a narrative of his efforts to nack dow relactant withemes, obtain firgetion of bhuried documen tary evidence, and pull the pieces in a coberunt picture Chasis at least not in the way its the suggests "secret honary of the sixties With its fascinating all sions to a host of Southern California characters from Cans Elliott to the Beach Boys, mory Once Upon A Time In Hollywood than Manchurun Candidate. This review will not summarize O'Neill's theories, though it will touch on them insofar as they are gurman to t primary quantion for this audience, which in, of course, itur dal Charles Manson have to do with the CIA thut first, some housekeeping
Over the course of August 8-10, 1961 M lowers, at his urging, mardeed eight people during twe bome invano at the home of actress Sharon Tate
Chaos
and the director Roman Pulanok, and two at the home of Lano and Koumary Lalanca Marsson believed the kill ings would trigger a race war, and his followers-sang the victims blood blood-left behind graffiti meant to suggest the Black Panther Party was respomilife. A four-month investigation, spurned by the jailhouse confession of a member of the Fandy nad in the amed of M and his accomplices Vincent Baghis, the Los Angeles Angeles dutuiet attorney who tried the case and secured the Cite a book about the crimes. Titled Helur Skrbe after a fheatles sung Mamon used a code word for the race war went on to became the bon-sulling "True crime" book in the history of American publishing
All of this is straightforward. However, O'Neill's research uncovered a litary of problems and urunowered questions about the conduct of the investigation th might, had they been brought to lighter, have justi fied a re-trad, according to one of Buglin's ansiciates in the DA's office Int in O'Neil's stelling, Baglioni emerges as a villain who served his chance so prodit in the wake of a terrible crime and who spent the sequent docades comsciously fading any effort to questions thethods o outume of the investigation. O'Neill's scrapulmas cat lague of the mynad omissions in Huglioni's case certainly paints an unflattering picture of the entire process and of many of those involved
Manson's responsiblity for these crimes question. OF Neill's actions of many secondary playen, together with the g Manan continues to hold on the American imagination Most people were horrified yet fancouted by the bru tality of the killings, though thers saw them different light The leftut radical Remandine Dahem of the Wauther Undergrad infiammanly slevated Mamon to a evolu tonary hero. New Left chronicler Todd Galin was more reasonable, and closer to the mak, when he observed that "For the mass media, the acidhead Charles Manson was readymade at the monster lurking on the heart of every longhair, the rough breast shouching to Beverly Hills to be
All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed int strued as asserting or implying US government endorsement of its factual statements and antepretations should be con
Studies in Intelligence Vol 65, No. 3 (Extracts. September 2021)
born for the new millennian O'Neill reaches a similar conclusion, which brings us to the main puin, which a the CIA's alleged role
It as Gitlin suggests, Munson embodied for moet Americans the darkness hard wired in the counterculture then how did the US US garvernment benefit benefit O'Neill adves atto the FIM'S COINTELPRO and CIA'S CHAOS, domes tic surveillance programs designed to infiltrate, decredit and neutralize civil righes, stalent, and anti-war orga zutions that first Lyndon Johnson and then Richard Nixon regarded an versive. These programs, which in the case of CIA violated its charter, were ultimately exposed and triggered congressional bearings in the mid-1970s, which the lonelligence Community held to acconan
And this is where O'Neill afmately falls shert Despite what his title implies, he cannot document any compelling funk between these programs and Manion This was not for lack of effort Extimive research and a slew of FOLA requests did not produce a umeking gin mach beyond the shadowy, al-explained presence around these events of Reeve Whitson, an alleged "intelligence operative O'Neill abe examines de CIA program MKULTRA, which may have gotten han choser to has goal-but not much. Conceived by Richard Helms and mahorized by Allen Dulles in 1953, MKULTRA mind control, one possible path to which was hallucine drugs
The standard histories of the subject indicate that the CIA, through MKULTRA, spent comiderable effort to undentand the use and effects of LSD and other sub stances, and contracted with a number of researchers to that end. One wan De Louin Jalyon West, who is the chasest O'Neill gets to tyng Manson se the CIA. West purportedly at the behest of the agency, opene opened an office in San Francinen, the purpine of which wan "stady ing the hippies in theit native habitat", Haight Ashbury Manson had, at the same time, been a denizen of the Haight before moving the "Family" un Los Angeles, aut he liberally dosed his followers with LSD, which was one of his tools for bending them to his will indeed, defense attumeys unsuccessfully attempted to use this as a mitigating factor during the tral
methods in control his "Family" he cannot link Mansen to De West. There is evidence the two ever net, or that Manson was in what OF Neill admits is the most "f-end theory the product of an MKULTRA effet le create a would kill on command" (430) His chios about CHAOS ich are less relevant to hic theory of the case than MKULTRA-He describes a program that kay tab 300,000 poole sharing airtelligence with FIII, the Department of Justice, and the White Houne, but he then claimeitwatso wall-hidden within CIA that even thine at the top of in conanterintelligence division were clueless (233) And yet, when the program was exposed and Director William Cally admitted sol in in existence, existence, James Angleton, the long tume head of contentelligence and presumably no stranger to such efforts was the official resigned
O'Neill also makes the occasional odd statement. One example will illustrate the post. In untangling the wh connections surrounding the Manson care, O'Neill links une firee to former Ar Force Chucf of Staff Genen Curtis Leht, whe, he senten "tried so organe a coup against Kennedy among the Joint Chieti of Stuff during the Cuhan Mimile Crisis (83) This was news, the standard Cold War history fuls to mention it, at de Latay's biographer Lalay did forcefully advocate Sot military action against the musile stri-and he wa famerasdy satirized in Stanley Kubrick's De Strangelove hut a coup? Presumably if his advocacy had reached even the level of significant inubordination Kennedy would have semined him. There was, after all, precedent
O'Neill's currative is never utereting His research has rained legitimate puntions about the investigation and pensecution of these notorious crimes, and the actions of a mumber of poople, from the district attorney's office to the sheriff's departansociates and relatives of the victims to the perpetrators. However compelling bus determinatum to follow every last theeal, O'Neill has not written a "secret history of the 1960s, unless the secrets are those certain individuals wished to kangple their ov reason. The author cannot definitively the Mans MKULTRA or CHAOS, he can only imply it on circum-stantial evidence. At least, in the ond, he has the grace to ackowwledge i
While O'Neill bust unreasonably asks hur a baraly educated criminal like Mamon could une sophisticated
The reviewer Leslie C. in a CIA operations officer
68
Studies in Intelligence Vol 66. No. 3 (Extracts, September 2021)