Chaos
by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring · first published 2019
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An investigative journalist chronicles his twenty-year obsession with the 1969 Manson murders and describes how he discovered evidence of a cover-up, carelessness from police, misconduct by prosecutors, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents.
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…Chancellor, about how the current financial everything bubble came to exist and how it's always the same story. The World for Sale by Blas, about the history of commodities traders in the past century. Chaos by O'Neill, 20 year investigation about Manson murders finds ties to government agencies. I read about 10 other books but they were all terrible. It's becoming more and more a needle in a haystack. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight…
on “Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?” ↗This is an also interesting take on that era: https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Charles-Manson-History-Sixties/... It's too bad that so much of the records have been destroyed. As with the CIA torture program it is hard to hold those accountable and prevent future abuses when everything…
on “How US Intelligence Agencies Hid Their Most Shameful Experiments” ↗If you think that's horrifying, let me introduce you to Dr. Jolly West and the Jimmy Shaver case: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon... Highly recommend Tom O'Neill's 'CHAOS' for some of the new details he dug up on MKULTRA. The rumor mill has it that he is working on a new book exploring its potential ties to the RFK assassination, the Grateful Dead, and the Jonestown massacre.…
on “The Black Vault: A FOIA obsessive’s UFO-filled empire” ↗Having just read the great book, “CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties” by Tom O’Neill, I must say I get a little suspicious when reading about psychedelics research centres in the USA. Hopefully this one isn’t…
on “UC Berkeley Launches Psychedelic Research Center Through Anonymous Funding” ↗Tom O'Neill's 'CHAOS' is a good read along the lines of "they haven't stopped." So is Dave McGowan's "Programmed to Kill" but that's an even more brutal read.
on “The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'” ↗