Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to “gobsmacking” new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this “kaleidoscopic” 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. 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. A tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi—prosecutor of the Manson Family—turned a friendly source into a nemesis. O'Neill’s research revealed troubling questions: Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood? Why didn’t law enforcement act on chances to stop him? How did an illiterate ex-con turn peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's pursuit of truth led him through celebrities, spies, the Summer of Love, and the CIA’s mind-control experiments. Based on two decades of reporting, hundreds of interviews, and previously unseen documents, Chaos challenges everything we believed about a pivotal moment in American history.

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