{"id":192388,"date":"2019-07-31T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192388"},"modified":"2019-08-04T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T07:20:14","slug":"the-manson-murders-jfk-9-11-and-the-psychopathy-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192388","title":{"rendered":"The Manson Murders, JFK, 9\/11, and the Psychopathy of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Barrett \u2013 The Unz Review July 29, 2019<\/h1>\n

\u201cWith Alan Scheflin, a forensic psychologist and law professor who\u2019d written a book on MKULTRA, I laid out a circumstantial case linking (CIA mind control guru Jolly) West to Manson. Was it possible, I asked, that the Manson murders were an MKULTRA experiment gone wrong? \u2018No,\u2019 he said, \u2018an MKULTRA experiment gone right.\u2019\u201d (<\/i>CHAOS , p. 369)<\/i> <\/span><\/h5>\n

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I moved out of Southern California in the summer of 1969. I was ten years old, and my parents were fleeing decadence and depravity in favor of the more wholesome Midwest.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Before our move, a story had circulated about some local (Newport Beach) high schoolers who had \u201cgone on an LSD trip\u201d and gotten caught by police. As I understood it, the teenagers had \u201ctaken LSD\u201d and started leaping from rooftop to rooftop, \u201ctripping\u201d all over the neighborhood and waking people up to the sound of thundering hoofbeats overhead. At the time I wondered whether LSD conferred a miraculous leaping or flying ability, since the houses in Lido Sands, though rather tightly clustered, were mostly spaced perhaps eight or ten feet apart, which seemed like a long way to jump.<\/span><\/h5>\n
I vaguely recall this \u201cLSD-fueled teenage midnight horsemen of the apocalypse\u201d story having something to do with my parents\u2019 decision to move back to Wisconsin. Southern California circa 1969, a few years after the hippie movement had peaked and turned into a bad trip, didn\u2019t seem like a good place to send your kids to high school. (Little did my parents know that the 60s would hit Wisconsin high schools ten years late, putting me and my siblings directly in the path of the psychedelic hurricane.)<\/span><\/h5>\n
Years later, as an \u201cexperienced\u201d (in the Jimi Hendrix sense) subversive teenage wannabe intellectual, I would read about the Manson murders and notice how convenient they had been for the Establishment. From the moment Charlie Manson\u2019s grinning, demonic face started leering from every front page and TV screen in America, the whole hippie-antiwar thing had seemed a whole lot scarier. I read the official version of the Manson myth, Vincent Bugliosi\u2019s Helter Skelter<\/i><\/a><\/span>, and thought: This is too crazy to be true. None of the Wisconsin hippies I know are even remotely like these characters. Maybe it\u2019s something they add to the fluoride in the Southern California water.<\/span><\/h5>\n
By 1975 I had seen Mark Lane\u2019s presentation of the Zapruder film and knew that America had experienced an unspeakably evil coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in 1963<\/a><\/span>. In 1979 I read John Marks\u2019 The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control<\/i><\/a><\/span> and discussed it with William S. Burroughs, who told me he had been aware of such activities for many years before they were publicly revealed by the Church and Rockefeller Commissions: \u201cThe thing about these secrets is they\u2019re not all that secret.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
Well, maybe not, Bill. But if you had proclaimed in 1960 that the CIA\u2019s most heavily funded program aimed at turning people into killer zombies, you would have gotten blank stares at best. Rumors whispered in bohemian demimondes, blown up into dystopian parody in books like Naked Lunch<\/i>, are hardly threats to national security secrecy.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Looking back, it seems doubtful that America ever recovered from the bad trip of the 1960s. Indeed, one has to wonder whether potential recovery wasn\u2019t intentionally forestalled. The Kennedy assassinations, along with the killings of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and so many others, were a national nightmare. So was the pointless carnage in Vietnam. The protest movement that rose up against the nightmare, seeking to awaken the nation and return it to sanity, collapsed into the drug-fueled promiscuity and bloody chaos whose avatar was none other than Charles Manson. Now, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Manson murders, we must wonder whether Manson was also an avatar another kind of CHAOS: the CIA\u2019s ultra-secret, ultra-illegal domestic counterinsurgency program.<\/span><\/h5>\n
That notion isn\u2019t entirely new. In 1993, while researching my first book, A Guide to Mysterious San Francisco<\/span><\/i><\/a>, I heard rumors that Manson was a CIA mind control slave. But since this was just hearsay, unsupported by citable sources, I left it out of the book, and consigned it to the relatively short list of major conspiracy theories that might actually not<\/i> be true.<\/span><\/h5>\n
That list keeps getting shorter. Tom O\u2019Neill\u2019s CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties<\/i><\/a><\/span> makes a convincing, thoroughly documented case that the official Vincent Bugliosi rendition of the Manson murders<\/a> <\/span>is as blatantly bogus as Bugliosi\u2019s \u201cOswald acted alone\u201d version of the JFK assassination<\/span><\/a>. Though O\u2019Neill doesn\u2019t quite come right out and say so, his evidence suggests that CIA mind control maniac Louis Jolyon \u201cJolly\u201d West and\/or his acolytes brainwashed a psychopathic prisoner named Charles Manson, gave him a CIA get-out-of-jail-free card, set him up next door to Jolly\u2019s safe house in the Haight-Ashbury hippie district of San Francisco, and taught him how to control human minds using drugs and hypnosis. The CIA\u2019s Operation CHAOS, it may be plausibly surmised, first weaponized the Manson family for use against the Black Panthers, then finally turned Manson into the ultimate TV commercial against the antiwar counterculture. When Manson and one of his CIA handlers, Reeve Whitson, rearranged the Tate murders crime scene before anyone else got there, they were literally setting the stage for the upcoming theatrical production.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Tom O\u2019Neill\u2019s twenty years\u2019 research definitively demonstrates that a massive cover-up of the truth about the Manson murders is no longer a hypothesis, it is established fact. Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, as well as the courts and big media, have been effectively corrupted and muzzled. But the truth, or at least enough of it for us to get the picture, is tucked away in the documents they forgot to shred. Though the most important Manson-related documents have either \u201cmysteriously disappeared\u201d from various archives or are being stubbornly withheld for undisclosed reasons, O\u2019Neill\u2014an obsessively persistent journalistic gumshoe\u2014managed to get his hands on enough of them, and to find and interview enough witnesses, to turn the conventional picture of the Manson family upside-down and inside-out.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The whole story, in its multilayered complexity of detail and documentation, is beautifully told in O\u2019Neill\u2019s book. Like many authors with mainstream publishers, O\u2019Neill generally refrains from speculating about the big picture; instead, he lays out the hard facts and invites the reader to connect the dots. So let\u2019s accept his invitation and consider the the CIA\u2019s Operation Manson in historical perspective.<\/span><\/h5>\n

Political Demonization and the Creation and Maintenance of Public Myth<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The Manson op was an exercise in demonization. Manson, an ordinary psychologically-disturbed small-time criminal with psychopathic tendencies, became, under the expert tutelage of Jolly West & Co., an avatar of the demonic second only to Hitler in the mass mediated popular imagination. Manson\u2019s long hair and scraggly beard became an icon of pure evil, as Hitler\u2019s mustache had before, and as Bin Laden\u2019s beard would later. In literally demonizing Manson, Jolly and The Company (wasn\u2019t that a \u201860s Bay Area band? No, you\u2019re thinking of Big Brother) figuratively demonized the antiwar counterculture that was giving the Establishment fits.<\/span><\/h5>\n
By demonizing Manson, the CIA \u201cskunked\u201d the antiwar counterculture\u2019s message of \u201cpeace, love, freedom\u201d by associating it with an image of violence, hatred, and extreme authoritarianism. After all, the people behind such operations know that the best way to discredit a message is to put it in the mouth of an unpleasant spokesperson. That\u2019s why criticism of the world\u2019s worst crime syndicate, the international bankster cartel, has come to be associated with Hitler\u2019s evil mustache. In like fashion, resistance to Zionism and other Western assaults on the Islamic world has come to be associated with Bin Laden\u2019s big black beard. These associations didn\u2019t just happen by accident. They were engineered.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Philip Zelikow, effectively the sole author of that work of fiction known as the 9\/11 Commission Report<\/i><\/a><\/span> (which he completed in chapter outline before the Commission even convened) is a history professor and self-styled expert in \u201cthe creation and maintenance of public myths.\u201d Zelikow defines public myths as \u201cbeliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community.\u201d The public myths he is most interested in are those that most powerfully shape political perception and behavior; the first example he gives is the myth of the dastardly Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, which transformed America from an isolationist republic to an interventionist empire.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Anyone who has studied the alternative literature on such events as Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassinations, and 9\/11 knows that any overwhelmingly powerful mythic event that changes public perceptions and, in so doing, changes history, ought to be greeted with profound suspicion and subjected to the most painstaking scrutiny. As Philip Zelikow wrote in a 1998 Foreign Affairs<\/i> article<\/a><\/span>, a catastrophic terror attack on America, such as the destruction of the World Trade Center, would be a \u201ctransforming event,\u201d a \u201cwatershed event in American history\u201d that would, \u201clike Pearl Harbor\u2026divide our past and future into a before and after.\u201d The \u201cafter\u201d would feature \u201cdraconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force.\u201d Zelikow\u2019s 2001 false flag operation would achieve all that and more. It succeeded in demonizing opposition to Zionism and empire, and to tyranny in general, by associating resistance with the fearsome image of a scary looking guy sporting an easily-identifiable villain\u2019s beard.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Indeed, bearded heavies like Bin Laden and Manson seem to come straight out of central casting. They remind us of neoconservative guru Leo Strauss\u2019s advice to Machievellian operators<\/span><\/a>: Make your operation like a B-grade Hollywood Western: slap a big white hat on the good guy and a big black hat on the bad guy. And if you don\u2019t have a real enemy to play the villain\u2019s role, invent one.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The official version of the Manson myth is told by its self-aggrandizing, profiteering hero, Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor who put the bad guy behind bars. In somewhat similar fashion, the official version of the 9\/11 myth, ventriloquized by Zelikow, seems told by a sort of Greek chorus representing the heroic victims, the American people. But in both cases, the ostensibly heroic narrator is the real villain. In the case of 9\/11, Zelikow must be suspected of involvement in writing the script for the 9\/11 false flag operation itself, and then plagiarizing that script for his Report<\/i>. And in the case of Bugliosi, it\u2019s clear that he consciously crafted a big lie for the jury that he later adapted for his bestseller, committing numerous crimes, including subornation of perjury, in the process.<\/span><\/h5>\n
As for the villains, both Manson and Bin Laden were manufactured by the CIA. As O\u2019Neill\u2019s evidence suggests, Manson was Jolly West\u2019s golem, taught by Jolly how to manufacture more golems\u2026preferably 14-year-old female ones. Bin Laden, for his part, was created by the CIA and its Saudi assets as a front man for the CIA-Saudi war to expel the Russians from Afghanistan. Originally assigned the hero role for an audience of Muslims, Osama was later transferred to a different movie in which he played the villain for an audience of Americans.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Though the official Manson narrative demonizes hippies, O\u2019Neill\u2019s revisionist account shows that the worst decadence and depravity was located not at the corner of Haight and Ashbury, but in Hollywood and the entertainment industry; Los Angeles, as Faulkner famously said, is \u201cthe plastic asshole of the universe.\u201d The movie and music business, O\u2019Neill shows, was (and presumably remains) infested by gangsters, intelligence agency criminals, and an astonishing variety of perverted human vermin. (There is considerable overlap between those three categories.) The worst part is that these people, the scum of the earth, literally run the show. Real power and authority is invested not in elected officials and the courts, but in supermob<\/a> gangsters and their intel agency partners in crime. The cops, courts, and media are terrified of such people, and basically do whatever they\u2019re told.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The Manson murders and the JFK assassination, two nightmarish crimes, bookended \u201cthe 1960s\u201d: that brief period from 1964 to 1969 that witnessed the meteoric rise and fall of youthful idealism, whose chief expressions were the civil rights and antiwar movements. Like 9\/11, the JFK assassination divided time into a more innocent \u201cbefore\u201d of wholesome family sitcoms and a less innocent \u201cafter\u201d of protests, violence, and social breakdown fueled by pills, especially of the psychedelic and birth control varieties. Between JFK and Manson, youthful idealism looked like it might win the day. After Manson, America entered a \u201cwhole new world\u201d of extreme disillusionment.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The JFK and Manson murders aren\u2019t just linked in the American mythic imagination; they also intersect by way of a certain already-mentioned CIA mind-control psychopath, Dr. Jolly West. O\u2019Neill\u2019s Chaos<\/i> presents evidence that Jolly West brainwashed and rendered mad two key figures in the respective dramas, Charles Manson and Jack Rubenstein a.k.a. Ruby. We have already seen how West made a madman of Manson. As for Ruby, it seems he was very likely programmed to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, just as Sirhan Sirhan was later programmed to fire in the general direction of Robert Kennedy. And though there is no hard-and-fast documentation proving West mind-controlled Ruby, O\u2019Neill does document West\u2019s suspiciously quick and intense post-assassination interest in Ruby, which culminated in West getting a private audience with the gun-smuggling cop-bribing Mickey Cohen organization hit man. Prior to West\u2019s closed-door no-witnesses one-on-one with Ruby, the latter had been perfectly sane, though puzzled about being accused of a crime he had no memory of committing. From the moment West stepped out the door of Ruby\u2019s cell, Ruby was stark, raving nuts.<\/span><\/h5>\n
America has real enemies, people like Jolly West and his bosses, psychopathic vermin who have infested the highest echelons of power. In the wake of their murder of JFK, they understandably feared exposure. The biggest threat was coming from honest, idealistic, politically-engaged citizens, most of whom leaned toward the political left in general, and the civil rights and antiwar movements in particular. To neutralize that threat, they flooded the civil rights and antiwar communities with LSD and amphetamines (as well as Cointelpro and CHAOS agents provocateurs). After several years of this, they administered the coup de grace by immortalizing the iconic evil hippie, Charles Manson, in a mass mind-control operation that sounded the death knell of the 1960s and set the stage for the age of dystopian neoliberal authoritarianism that followed.<\/span><\/h5>\n
The takeaway is that our real enemies conceal themselves by fabricating ersatz enemies and elevating them to mythic, iconic status. Their controlled mainstream media summon us daily to engage in the obligatory Orwellian two minutes of hate. When will we wake up and learn to hate not the cartoon figure on the screen, but the psychopath behind the curtain?<\/span><\/h5>\n

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