171. Did the CIA Help Create Charles Manson?

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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Resources:

• 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 

Intro and Outro by Jahred Gomes: https://instagram.com/jahredgomes_official 

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