Tom O'Neill
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- Tom O'Neill is an award-winning investigative journalist and entertainment reporter. His investigative stories, such as the cut-throat battles among daytime talk-show producers (“Welcome to the Jungle”), the stalking and murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer (“Dangerous Minds”), and the unsolved slaying of a Hollywood starlet (“The Life and Death of Miss Hollywood”) have appeared in national publications like Us, Premiere, New York, The Village Voice, and Details. His exposé on sexism at Saturday Night Live (“The Incredible Shrinking Women of Saturday Night Live”) earned him an Exceptional Merit Media Award from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College in 1995. His book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, is the culmination of a 20-year investigation, which unearthed information about the murders, the murderers, the prosecutors who tried them, and the complex web of connections between Charles Manson, the CIA's MKUltra program, the counterculture movement, and other powerful individuals during the 1960s.
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Through years of research, I found something very strange was going on with Manson when he was released from Terminal Island prison in March 1967. We were told he wanted to get into the music business. A prison buddy of his even gave him some excellent contacts in Los Angeles, where all the big record companies were. A couple of days after Manson was released, there was a huge hippie “Love In” in LA with many local bands and music reps attending. But where does Manson go? Way up north to Berkeley, which wasn’t the heart of the music scene, it the heart of political unrest and FBI surveillance and informant activity.
What made me really suspicious was Manson telling a couple of friends privately that he’d been placed in some kind of “Federal Witness Protection Program” when he was released in March 1967. The FBI and DOJ reserved that program for basically two types of individuals… witnesses in a federal trial (which Manson was not) and C.I.s (Confidential Informants).
So I tried to get FBI files on Manson specifically for the year 1967 alone via a FOIA request. I was told “records potentially responsive to your request WERE DESTROYED.” That’s the FBI’s exact wording. They also said other records possibly relevant to my request were transferred to the National Archives (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, and they gave the file number. Tom O’Neill tried to get those files (after he was told they had been declassified). But when he got to NARA, these files weren’t in the location they were supposed to be in. I later asked someone I knew at NARA to track them down. They were eventually found, but they hadn’t yet been declassified. In order to get these files declassified, NARA has to review them (ie. redact them) for “sensitive information.” That’s what I was told. That process takes years because NARA is backlogged with requests. While I’m waiting, I’m trying to find out when the other potential “Manson 1967” files were destroyed. I’m curious to know if they were purged during the J. Edgar Hoover years, as many records were. All this could be why FOIA requests concerning Manson’s parole officer, Roger C. Smith have been met with the Glomar response (neither confirm nor deny). DOJ rules required the FBI to notify and coordinate with parole and probation officers of an arrangement between the FBI and parolees being used as Confidential Informants.
OMG! Thanks a lot to Mr. Rick Rubin for inviting such an amazing guest! Tom O'Neill is a beautiful storyteller
I'm in the process of reading Chaos and I love it. I love how Tom takes all of the cultural and political into account to tell the tale. That's necessary. Just found your channel today, Rick. Excellent! I've listened to Rogan's interview 3 or 4 times. I've listen to Danny's interview a few times, but this one tops both. Tom is such an excellent story teller. Thank you so much.
Thanks for the one Rick. Tom's book was eye opening, to say the least. Chaos paired with Jim Douglass' book JFK The Unspeakable should be required reading in schools to give kids a true understanding of recent American history. I think these two books and the events they detail are essential to understanding why we're in the predicament we are today.
100% agree. I would also add: Revolution's End: The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA
@@jcharleshansen Thanks for the recommendation, hadn't heard of it!
I'm amazed there aren't more views, likes and comments for this
Algorithm is throttling it, as it does with any inconvenient truth.
Thank you so much for using your position to be a voice for people like Tom! I in awe of the way these episodes / guests are curated. Heaven sent
Best book I’ve ever read. Really hope Tom and Dan write a second book. Great interview Rick.
Great interview. Tom's a fantastic story teller, not just a writer. 'Chaos' involves so many people, I found all his interviews most helpful.
I watch _lots_ of interviews and discussions, and one down side is that it gets boring to listen to even worthwhile speakers repeating material. But, just as you say, Tom is a magical low-key spellinder; even when he repeats comments from other interviews, it's still fresh and fascinating. 👍
@@LittleBrother55 Can't wait for the documentary film... and the second book!
If you havent read Tom’s book “Chaos” , read it, you wont regret it, its really fantastic. Thx Tom & Rick!!!!
I came to Tom through Tim Dillon and War Mode podcasts. He is fascinating everytime. 👏 could listen to him for hours
War Mode hell yeah
Love the podcast Rick!
Fantastic interview!
That area that he’s talking about in Chatsworth, where Spahn Ranch and Santa Susana labs (fmrly rocketdyne) is, also had another cult that preceded and coexisted with the Manson family just down the road. The fountain of the world cult, headed by a half Jewish half Mormon dude turned yogi named Francis pencovic or as he was later called Krishna Venta. He was assassinated via dynamite by his own followers for sleeping with wives of members. Another crazy fact, is although a yogi he pretty much preached the same Helter skelter race war theory as Manson. I mean down to the details. In fact, some think Manson picked it up from Venta’s followers who were still in the area after Venta died. Personally, I think Venta and Manson got it from somebody else.
Damn. I didn't think I needed any more stories about the CIA and Manson or JFK, and then comes this. Unreal.
This is the one book to read. It's seminal.
Great interview Rick Rubin!!
About 58:00 into the interview, Tom references a book by Emmett Grogan of the Diggers. That book is called "Ringolevio" and is a very good book (in my opinion). While it does cover a lot of vague and specific historical moments and is based on real people, many liberties were taken with details and many people "who were there" remember the story differently. Just a small disclaimer...still a great book and a very worthwhile read.
Looking forward to the next book
Glad this book took time. Most of the players with authority & secret missions are all gone. They seem more evil than the actual people they manipulated. Thank you Tom, for your hard work. (Sharon Tate attended the elementary school down the street in Pasadena Texas. Her father happened to be stationed at Ellington). My husband happens to work there now.
Hey Rick my friend! Could you release the subtitles for all the videos on your CZcams channel "Tetragramaton"?
You should get Dana Gould since you both have old radio/commercial interludes on your podcasts
Wow! As I was listening, I thought "this reminds me of Tarantino's novelization of his recent masterpiece." I'd really like to see QT focus his last project solely on the Manson family through the MK Ultra CIA lens pulling more heavily on this source material. The narrative he developed about the trance like state Manson induced in his followers was phenomenally well written.
of all the CM interviews the ‘97 parole hearing for me shows the real man.
“There’s not enough tears in the ocean” when they ask if he has remorse.
O’Neill is a treasure as is Rubin.
Will closed captioning be available ?
If the suspect in one woman's murder can get away with it, as Tom talks about in the beginning, imagine the lengths of cover up that happened in the Tate-LaBianca cases. Cheers to Tom as he continues researching.
this story is increíble but it's totally insane that any of this stuff happened. unreal
This has me thinking so much about what the truth really is behind the re-legalizing of hallucinogenics like LSD and psilocybin for therapeutic use. I myself have been microducing psilocybin for about 6 months now and have seen great improvement but now I'm getting paranoid LOL
Psilocybin while it is a disassociating drug does not cause visionary hallucinations unless in ridiculously high doses. It resets the brain wiring, frontal cortex allowing different rates for the writing that many get in cyclical thinking creating a o of circular thinking it was ur brain t recircuit itself lifting obsessive thinking, freeing people from a negative circuit cycling in a persons mind rendering the person unable to see their life from a objective view. It frees the brain in being able to view their life from a different persopective. Cyclical obsessive thinking can cause depression. Or does depression cause the cyclical obsessive thinking. Chicken or the egg. Psilocybin is weak when compared to LSD and under a knowledgable psychiatrist this drug can help. Micro dosing psilocybin is a safe way to lift cyclical obsessive thinking thus lifting depression if the depression is caused by obsessive thinking. I’d prefer that drs oversee microdosng because when dealing with our brain chemistry is no easy thing for a novice.
Rick suggesting to Tom O'Neill that he check out the podcast "Disgraceland" is like talking to Anthony Bourdain and saying "Hey have you ever eaten wax lips? One of my favorite meals!"
Victor Wilde, a high ranking Procession and expert leather worker, made Mansons fringed outfit from a deer the family brought him. The clothes he was famously arrested in. They knew each other.
Brings existencial to the slience..
Good stuff:)
Anyone recall the name of the podcast Rubin referred?
The Process lost the lawsuit Ed Sanders in England. They love talking about how they won, but they only won in the USA. The missing chapter of The Family is available for free online.
Great book.
You're dope as s it! One day you said you were married. Then, I held off. Lemme know, mo Hollywood stuff...a very heightened match. Al the best to you and yours...the program is Golden. Peace.
The Process Church was not 'communal free secks." They were mainly celibate and even chemical free except when the 2 main leaders, Bob and Maryann, organized orgeeze which they didn't participate in but did film. They placed straight men and women with other straights and made these surprise events as humiliating as possible. One ex member wrote a book and said he still has horrible flashbacks. He expired shortly (a few years) after his book came out.
Today they are known as Best Friends and famous for their obsession with dangerous fight breed dogs. Human fatality by dog has risen 700 percent since 2004, and esp escalated after 2009, when they began lobbying to secure equal rights, their words, for pit bulls. They transport them in an out of Canada, Mexico, and through the USA. Same group in charge as TPC. The current CEO used to wok in DC, and she is the 30 yr younger wife of the last CEO, an original founder and inner circle Processean. If anyone neeeds some investigating, it's this crew.
I recommend the book Xtul by Sabrina Verney and Love Sex Fear Death by Tim Wiley. Also Apocalypse Culture by Feral House has a good chapter on a Process witch who boiled her boyfriend because he teased her cat. Human life is inconsequential to TPC.
Dr Smith wasn't fired for embezzling. He quit and the guy in charge of finance for the clinic was pinched for embezzling over 700K. The clinic shut down because another non profit had taken over that was more fiscally minded and they had other offices in places that weren't so expensive. Alan Rose got roger smith to take mansons son because he didn't want the boy to get swallowed by the system. Roger and his wife ran a speed detox out of their house so manson and them coming there was no big deal. Lots of tweaks and embellishments. Also the rat experiment was with amphetamines not LSD. The killers were high on speed which was what killed the Hippy movement in the haight. And Mike Brunner is not roger smiths. He did 23 and me and linked to mansons family in west Virginia. And then he talks about the brother mike found.
Paul, have you read the book, "Love Needs Care"? It was written by Dr. David Smith and John Luce. It goes into length about the drug research being done up in Mendocino, similar in nature to the research being done at the HAFMC at the same time (both NIHM funded). It was probably a giant coincidence that Charlie sent his witches 500+ miles north to Mendocino to "recruit" new members. Alan Rose must have been very sympathetic to the witches, he got them the best legal representation available. Susan's attorney was a former CA State Senator...Hey Rick, Krush Groove is a classic!
What's with the creepy ads format ?
Not at all, it is clever and called nostalgia. Go look up adds from the 40's 50's and 60's then you might understand better.
@@MimiYouyu Something about the commercials voice, Rick's basso non-emotional clinical voice, the Manson info combined into a creepy languid taffy goo.
I was just thinking the same thing. Am I being brainwashed?
Rick - please have author Nickolas Schreck on your podcast to more fully paint this picture. Thanks for doing what you do.
Nik Shreck is a Nazi Occultist. That's a fact. And it only takes inch deep research to find this out with authority. No thanks.
M. Shreck has a lot of research under his belt ,I believe the Tate killing was a drug burn turned murder due to Watson being out of his mind on speed. I believe the LaBianca killing was a hired hit that Manson was hired although his minions he sent there after tying the Labiancas up then left for Watson , krenwinkle, Leslie were sent in. Manson left leaving the three to hitch hike back. Watson owed Manson for the lotsa poops ordeal to free the girl lotsa poops was holding in lieu of money and or drugs to be delivered by Manson but Watson involved Manson to shot lotsa poops to free the girl Manson believed he killed lotsa poops but he didn’t die and Manson felt due to lotsa poops association with straight satans would come after Manson and his gang . That’s why Manson accepted the Tate and LaBianca shake down to get cash to pay off the satans for the drugs they were supposed to get from Hinman and Poppa shooting. The extent of the drug angle this creation of helter skelter motive to hide drug angle reached high levels of drug enforcement, movie industry, celebrities that bought drugs from Frykowsi and Sebring . If drugs had been introduced at mansons trial then so much would’ve been revealed Manson and his gang I believe didn’t involve brain washing, they were criminals and criminal code is you don’t squeal off fellow criminals ,. That’s why Manson didn’t put on a defense.