Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
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Kevin Stillwell
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As featured on The Joe Rogan Experience
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Chaos written by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring, read by Kevin Stillwell.
A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI’s involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history.
In 1999, when Tom O’Neill was assigned a magazine piece about the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Weren’t the facts indisputable? Charles Manson had ordered his teenage followers to commit seven brutal murders, and in his thrall, they’d gladly complied. But when O’Neill began reporting the story, he kept finding holes in the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s narrative, long enshrined in the bestselling Helter Skelter. Before long, O’Neill had questions about everything from the motive to the manhunt. Though he’d never considered himself a conspiracy theorist, the Manson murders swallowed the next two decades of his career. He was obsessed.
Searching but never speculative, CHAOS follows O’Neill's twenty-year effort to rebut the ‘official’ story behind Manson. Who were his real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn’t law enforcement act on their many chances to stop him? And how did he turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O’Neill's hunt for answers leads him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from the Summer of Love to the shadowy sites of the CIA’s mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with cover-ups and coincidences.
Featuring 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 Stephen Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. In those two dark nights in Los Angeles, O’Neill finds the story of California in the sixties: when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia-or dystopia-was just an acid trip away.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Tom O’Neill and Dan Piepenbring (P)2019 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
‘Riveting … Sensational revelations … True crime fans will be enthralled.’ PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'[Full of] scandalous findings … to me it seems only too plausible. O’Neill's intricately sinister ‘secret history’ often sounds incredible; that doesn't mean that it's not all true.' OBSERVER
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- 19-10-2023
wow!! just, wow
holy shitballs!! this is a crazy story!! sad, gut wrenching, eye opening. amazing!! a must listen
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- Anonymous User
- 09-05-2020
The truth behind the Manson Family killings.
It is refreshing to hear the truth about the Manson family. Most people know when they’re being bullshitted to, you get a gut feeling that something is not right and we’ve been bullshitted to about the Manson family for too long.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-09-2023
Fantastic and intriguing
Great history lesson. Big eye opener. Tom O’Neill has done a fantastic job bringing these amazing historical events to light.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-08-2024
the depth
I wish it went longer, I wish there were concrete answers. But there won't be
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- peter
- 11-05-2020
Dark parallels
Surprising rabbit holes that make this all the more intriguing. Everything you thought you knew about manson turned on its head.
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- John Drakopoulos
- 06-12-2022
Utterly Gripping
This was such a thorough example of investigative journalism. Wish there was more content!
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- Anonymous User
- 18-04-2020
Brilliant!
Thanks for the deep dive Tom and all your hard work over the years. can't wait to the next book.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-04-2023
Fascinating book
A well read and fascinating (audio) book.
The sheer tenacity of the author’s relentless investigations deserves 5 stars alone.
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- Trisha
- 11-03-2024
connection with CIA and Manson family
amazing read. could not wait to finish. chapter by chapter he gets closer to the truth such a incredible book to listen
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- Peter Shelton
- 17-08-2024
Great story well read
Thank you Tom I hope you have found a worthy challenge for your adventurous appetite. This was well worth my time I got through the whole thing in 3 days. That strange novel Manson used as a life script very clever for you to let the reader figure out how Charlie came upon it and how he came to be so attached to it. Thank you for your commitment to uncovering the truth well the most relevant truth in any case.
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