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A journalist’s twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to “gobsmacking” (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI’s involvement in this “kaleidoscopic” (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader’s every order — their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history’s most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia — or dystopia — was just an acid trip away.
Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O’Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the “official” story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi — prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter — turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O’Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions:
- Who were Manson’s real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties?
- Why didn’t law enforcement, including Manson’s own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him?
- And how did Manson — an illiterate ex-con — turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers?
O’Neill’s quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco’s summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA’s mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.
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R. Rajen –
Very informative.
Cynthia Hc –
Lo compre para regalar a mi esposo y le encanta
Robert Castro –
Well written book and it will open your mind great reading boring in the beginning, but it’s well worth it towards the end
Lana –
A gripping and eye-opening read. Highly recommended. Five stars!
Amazon Customer –
I happened upon this book and didn’t expect much from it. Not being a big conspiracy theorist nor having big interest in American history, I was blown away. I could not put this book down. Between wanting to complete it quickly and not wanting it to end, I was fascinated. I see this book as a “must read ” , especially for the times of days we are in now. I highly suggest this book, both full of knowledge and investigation but easy to read. You wont regret it.
William –
Tan divertido y fácil de leer. Es un libro grande con mucha información, pero el escritor hace que su lectura sea divertida. Definitivamente recógelo.
Levana –
This book greatly contributes to clarifying the missing piece in the Manson puzzle – his being mind-controlled or mind-manipulated. Whether it was an experiment gone wrong, or an experiment that reached its purpose, remains the unanswered question.
In terms of proof, it gets as good as it can ever get – bar an official admission; but the age of congressional committees that managed to extract admissions seems long gone. And Manson died without revealing anything in this connection – not that I would believe he was necessarily aware what was going on with and around him.
So – great research. I could not put the book down – read it in one (long) sitting.
Chapeau bas to the author for bearing through those long ‘conversations’ with Bugliosi – not too surprising, there are other books revealing his less than innocent role in the case – but it must have been hard to just sit through the pompousness and diatribes.
I only regret that this book was not out by the time Peter Levenda finalized his Secret Forces — it would have been a great contribution.
Jason W Miller –
An enjoyable read with some interesting new information that really makes you think about the official narrative and how accurate it was. However O’neill went off into way too many directions over the years and it seems like at the end, because none of them ultimately gave him some a-ha! type answer, he attempted to tie all 1,000 of them up into this book. Don’t get me wrong, it’s engaging and goes pretty well for about 1/2 of the book, but then starts falling apart, fracturing and then ultimately ends up miles off the road in CIA territory. As soon as the JFK murders were tied in I had to kind of give up. One thing he failed to do which really baffled me, for all his thousands of hours of interviews and research, was to simply go directly to the people involved in the murders and get new interviews from them about all this alternative info he stumbled upon. He did talk to Manson one time, but pretty much blew his ability to get anything out of Manson because he immediately presented himself as what Manson would consider a “snitch” and garden variety reporter looking for a way to sell a new book.
What’s really frustrating is that at some seeming really crucial moments during interviews and where he was about to break through to something really big he appeared to have an uncanny ability at completely just BLOWING the interviews with some rookie journalist mistakes – this was documented over and over and he would plainly admit to his stupidity each time. This was incredibly annoying because it either means he was just too naive and stupid to get what he wanted from the subjects or it’s just him trying to cover his butt. In any case it makes you want to throw the book against a wall.
Ultimately I was left with a feeling of having travelled away from the Bugliosi narrative and asking alot of questions right along with O’neill but then just feeling lost in some aborted thread or into CIA/JFK conspiracy territory, which is what he attempted to use to hint at an ultimate narrative cohesion to explain many of his contradictory and new findings in the cases. About the only thing I am convinced of after the read is that there are almost surely more unsolved Manson murders. If O’neill wants me to believe that Manson was turned into a CIA drone/operative in MKULTRA experiments in creating murder zombies, sorry bud but I can’t go there. For all Manson’s charms we have to realize that sociopathy was his prison education. It is not far fetched at all to think that with a criminally charming personality, seriously damaged and very young influential girls, and drugs at his disposal he was able to create a cult and convince people to kill for him. As for the Helter Skelter theory, every bit of it is absolutely possible especially cosidering that the Family devolved into speed abuse toward the end which would have been the perfect recipe not only for paranoid delusions with a ridiculous basis but as enabling factors for the shocking violence that they engaged in.
I would probably still recommend this read because there is some interesting research and new factoids, but ultimately it totally lacks narrative cohesion and leaves you slightly annoyed with the author for devoting 20 years of his life to a topic and bestowing this as it’s ultimate record.
Kevin C –
A well written, and eye opening, account of what was going on behind the scenes in the sixties, and no doubt is still going on. An excellent book! Well done Tom O’Neill!
Todd Dockerty –
This was a fascinating read. I wouldn’t consider myself a conspiracy theorist at all. I’ve never had much interest in a deeper dive into the Manson murders but the book came as a recommendation. The first 200 pages of the book are a deep dive into the Manson murders and Charles Manson. It was interesting but not spellbinding. The second half delivered more than I was expecting. It’s filled with many interesting connections beyond the Manson murders. I was constantly looking different things up online because I was just shocked that I hadn’t heard much of the information before seeming that is was quite relevant. I think this book has made me into a conspiracy theorist or more accurately, made me question everything. Understanding, as written in the book, the amount of work and research that was done for this book to be written, I think it was written well. I couldn’t put it down once I made it to the real rabbit hole. More people need to read this and start asking questions.
Max Kaufman –
Dude, you won’t believe the rabbit hole I went down reading “Chaos” by Tom O’Neil. This book is like a conspiracy theory jackpot – it’s insane! So, I’m totally into all things conspiracy, and this book had me hooked from the get-go.
O’Neil goes deep into the whole Manson Family murder scene, right? But here’s the kicker – he starts connecting these dots to the freakin’ CIA’s MK Ultra program. Can you believe that? The government messing with our minds, dude!
The research in this book is next level. O’Neil dives into declassified documents, interviews, and all that crazy stuff. He lays out this whole idea that maybe there’s more to these murders than what we’ve been told. And let me tell you, it’s messed up to think that our own government could be involved in such dark stuff like mind control experiments.
Reading “Chaos” legit had me on edge, man. The thought that we might not even know the full extent of what’s happening behind the scenes? That’s some scary stuff. I mean, I always suspected that there’s more to the story, but this book took it to a whole new level.
I’ve gotta say, though, that while “Chaos” is totally mind-blowing, it can get a bit heavy with the conspiracy theories. It’s like, you’re reading it and thinking, “Is this for real?” But hey, that’s the nature of the beast when you’re diving into these kinds of topics.
Bottom line, if you’re into conspiracy theories and you’re cool with having your mind blown wide open, “Chaos” is totally worth a read. Just be ready to question everything and maybe sleep with one eye open, man. It’s crazy to think the CIA could be messing with our heads like this!
Sofya Yershova –
Love the way this book was written. I felt like I was inside Tom’s mind. However, nothing he wrote was surprising at all. Kind of a given.
Great read, recommend everyone read it at least once in their life.
Evgeny Tkachev –
Just proves how much of what is the public knowledge is really a lie fabricated by our Governments. This book Is not an easy read, but super important and fascinating.