Erin ’s Reviews > Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties > Status Update

Manson fantasized about the Beatles ordaining him their musical equal.

The CIA saw mind control as a natural extension of communism.

MKULTRA was so "need to know" that when Dulles step down as CIA director in late 1961, his successor John McCone was not informed of its existence.

The word "Brainwashed" didn't appear in English before 1950.

The delegation of 5 women (girls) Mary Brunner, Susan Atkins, Ella Jo Bailey, Stephanie Rowe, and Patricia Krenwinkel used sex and drugs to lure young men into the Family.

With Roger Smith as Manson's parole officer, crimes had no consequences.

The Tate - LaBianca murders have often been called the death knell of the 60s.

Some believed that Polanski and Frykowski were Polish spies committed to subverting American democracy.

Charles Manson sincerely believed that the Black man's sole purpose on earth was to serve the white man.

"I was starting to figure out that Bugliosi had sifted so many stories out of Helter Skelter to make his narrative easier and cleaner."