Scientology, the Secret of NIMH, CHAOS
Sept 29, 2020 22:43:36 GMT -6
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That time Charles Manson came to Boys Town
In the old photo, a teenage boy smiles as he grips a judge’s hand.
“Charles Manson, 14, a ‘dead end kid’ who has lived in an emotional ‘blind alley’ most his life, is happy today,” reads the Indianapolis News story from March 1949. “He’s going to Boys Town.”
Today, few Omahans know that Manson, the infamous cult leader convicted of orchestrating the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others in California, spent a brief stint at Father Edward Flanagan’s children’s home. Details of his time here are scarce. Manson ran away after just a few days.
But Lawson McDowell, a 66-year-old local author and retired director of network operations at Union Pacific, spent more than a year corresponding with the imprisoned Manson, researching his historical fiction book, “Before He Became a Monster: A Story of Charles Manson’s Time at Father Flanagan’s Boys Town,” published in 2013.
On Sunday, McDowell will speak about Manson’s time in Omaha, the 1969 murders and subsequent trial as part of a presentation hosted by the Douglas County Historical Society.
“I write mainly for myself, but also to educate anybody that wants to learn,” he said. “I wanted to write about (Manson) just to let people know that he’d been here in town and left.”
McDowell’s book tells the story of how Manson came to stay at Boys Town and what happened during his time there, blending real and imagined events. The episode is shrouded in uncertainty, and Manson himself gave cryptic answers to some of McDowell’s questions.
What is certain is that Manson’s admittance to Boys Town was meant to turn his life around.
Manson’s mother was a heavy drinker and unstable caregiver, who at times found herself in trouble with the law. Her son spent much of his early life in one city or another, living with relatives or in group homes.
Eventually, he was caught stealing and ended up in the Indiana juvenile court system. In 1949, the Indianapolis News ran a story outlining the 14-year-old Manson’s troubled childhood. The boy, it read, had expressed a desire to become Catholic and had been daydreaming about the home in Omaha.
“I think I could be happy working around cows and horses. I like animals,” Manson told the court.
At his hearing, an Indiana judge encouraged him: “Maybe you’ll have that farm yet and be a real farmer, son. You just try hard and learn the things they teach.”
It wasn’t to be. Manson’s stay at Boys Town lasted all of three days, said Kara Neuverth, Boys Town spokeswoman. (In his book, McDowell writes Boys Town told him five days. Manson himself, he writes, couldn’t remember.)
Manson is not considered a Boys Town alumnus, Neuverth said. He never made it out of orientation.
“He took off and that was kind of the last of it,” she said.
In a letter to the Journal Star, a newspaper in Peoria, Illinois, Manson claimed he ran away from Boys Town, stole a car in Lincoln and continued to Idaho and later Peoria, where police caught him in more than one break-in.
But when McDowell heard from a friend that Manson had, in fact, spent time at Boys Town, he wanted to know more. So he decided to ask the man himself.
In 2009, McDowell began writing letters once a week to Manson in Corcoran State Prison, asking him if he’d be willing to talk about his time in Omaha. The letters went unreturned for more than six months, until McDowell began including photos of Union Pacific trains. Manson, McDowell learned, is interested in railroads.
One night, McDowell said, he received a call from a man who identified himself as an associate of Manson. McDowell explained what he wanted to know, and arrangements were made for him to speak with Manson through a telephone service for inmates.
Off and on for more than two years, McDowell chatted with Manson. They talked about Omaha, about Manson’s past and about the 1969 murders. True, McDowell wanted to know more about Manson’s experiences at Boys Town, but he also wanted to vet the inmate, who, for decades, has drawn attention for odd behavior.
“I was scared to deal with him because of his reputation and all,” McDowell said. “But he surprised me in how intelligent he is, and how thoughtful he is in some things.”
Manson remembered his time in Omaha fondly and vividly, McDowell said. He could recall, for example, the name of a nun who confiscated his cigarettes and specific architectural details about the Boys Town campus. Overall, McDowell said, Manson gave the impression that he appreciated what the children’s home had tried to do for him.
So why run away? McDowell asked, over and over. Manson, he said, never gave a clear answer.
After a while, McDowell grew tired of Manson’s phone calls. He wrote his book, piecing together what he learned from their conversations. He sent Manson a copy.
McDowell stopped taking Manson’s calls, ready to put the story behind him. He shifted gears after the Manson book, writing “Ginny Cooper’s War” about the construction of the Enola Gay at what is now Offutt Air Force Base.
Today, McDowell saves memories of his correspondence with Manson in a manila folder. It contains postcards addressed and signed in Manson’s messy handwriting, their envelopes stamped by the California prison.
Ask McDowell how he feels about Manson, and he’s clear: “I am not a Manson fan,” he said. He believes the man, now 82, is a career criminal who deserves to be in jail.
But, at McDowell’s presentation Sunday, he plans to share his take on Manson’s crimes, one he knows isn’t always popular with those convinced of the man’s guilt.
He thinks there’s more to the story.
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A documentary about the Franklin scandal which was made for Discovery Channel but pulled before release can be found here:
More on Bush Sr's connection here:
mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/
Connection could be nothing, but is worth noting
Most of Manson's prison time as an adult was on the federal level. Vincent Bugliosi, an adamant defender of the official Manson narrative, admits this is unusual in Helter Skelter (pic 1). In the 60s, federal prisons were a hotspot of CIA MK Ultra tests (pic 2)
theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/11/GettyImages-176423879-west-1574470252.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&w=768&h=1024
Dr. Louis Jolyon West in San Francisco, Calif., in 1976
“You can tell somebody to hurt somebody, but you call it something else,” Fischer explained. “Hammer the nail into the wood, and the wood, perhaps, is a human being.”
Dr. Louis West, an air force psychiatrist and intelligence community psywar legend, once said that “prisoners in the local stockade” would make perfect MK Ultra guinea pigs
theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/
Notorious Irish-American mobster Whitey Bulger was part of such tests (pic)
Roger Smith became Manson’s parole officer while studying criminology at UCLA Berkeley. Smith and others in his research group adopted a “participant observer” method, embedding themselves among seedy elements of the counterculture to see how drug use affected violent criminals
According to O’Neill, by 1967, “Roger Smith was regarded as an expert on gangs, collective behavior, violence and drugs.”
Roger Smith was appointed as Manson’s parole officer through a rehabilitation program dubbed “the San Francisco Project.” Smith suggested Manson move to Haight Ashbury
When a group of Manson's girls got into some trouble for seducing a minor, it was Smith who they called.
Smith and his wife convinced the court to let them have temporary custody of one of the girls infant son.
Despite the girls being in violation of parole, charges are dropped
O'Neill writes:“
As part of his criminology research, he’d been tapped to lead a study on amphetamines and their role in the violent behavior of the Haight Ashbury hippies.”
This project was funded by the the National Mental Health Institute, revealed later as a CIA front
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Mental_Health
villains.fandom.com/wiki/National_Institute_of_Mental_Health
The National Institute of Mental Health ("NIMH" or "N.I.M.H." for short) is the Big Bad of the 1971 children's book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien,
and the overarching antagonists of the Secret of NIMH movie series based on the book. It was based on the American federal research institute of the same name. Being a medical research institution, they often experimented on animals, often showing little regard for the welfare of their subjects. That said, how evil they are depends on how the viewer considering their experiments did result in animals developing human-like traits.
and the overarching antagonists of the Secret of NIMH movie series based on the book. It was based on the American federal research institute of the same name. Being a medical research institution, they often experimented on animals, often showing little regard for the welfare of their subjects. That said, how evil they are depends on how the viewer considering their experiments did result in animals developing human-like traits.
Roger Smith ran the Amphetamine Research Project out of the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic.
(HAFMC) would tell Manson that they could simply meet there instead of Smith’s office all the way in downtown San Francisco.
The early Family had an apartment right around the corner.
David Smith (no relation to Roger) moved to the bay area in 1960 to study at UC Berkeley.
After some initial resistance, Smith fell into the hippie lifestyle after quitting alcohol and picking up LSD.
Smith opened the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in 1967. O'Neill writes:
It shouldn’t be surprising that, according to some of David Smith’s academic papers,
much of the research conducted at the HAFMC was funded by the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)
Dennis Wilson met Charles Manson at a crossroads in his life (Beach Boys on the wane, Dennis in the middle of a divorce).
It started as Dennis Wilson pick'ed up two girls hitchhiking one night: Patricia Krenwinkle & Ella Jo Bailey,
“I told them about our involvement with the Maharishi and they told me they too had a guru, a guy named Charlie who’d recently come out of jail after 12 years. His mother was a hooker, his father was a gangster, he’d drifted into crime when I met him I found he had great musical ideas. We’re writing together now. He’s dumb, in some ways, but I accept his approach and have learnt from him. He taught me a dance. The Inhibition. You have to imagine you’re a frozen man and the ice is thawing out. Start with your fingertips, then all the rest of you, then you extend it to a feeling that the whole universe is thawing out.
“I told them about our involvement with the Maharishi and they told me they too had a guru, a guy named Charlie who’d recently come out of jail after 12 years. His mother was a hooker, his father was a gangster, he’d drifted into crime when I met him I found he had great musical ideas. We’re writing together now. He’s dumb, in some ways, but I accept his approach and have learnt from him. He taught me a dance. The Inhibition. You have to imagine you’re a frozen man and the ice is thawing out. Start with your fingertips, then all the rest of you, then you extend it to a feeling that the whole universe is thawing out.
Patricia Krenwinkle & Ella Jo Bailey proceed to invite the whole Family, including Manson, to Wilson's home
Allegedly when Wilson arrived at his house to find it dominated by the Family, Charles Manson charmed him by dropping to his knees & kissing Wilson's feet.
The two became quick friends. There's a lot to go into re: Wilson + Manson so I'm going to post an abridged version here
Wilson, in an interview with Rave magazine, said,
“Sometimes the Wizard frightens me…the Wizard is Charlie Manson”
Manson wrote a song while he was trying to parlay his friendship with Wilson into a career which the Beach Boys later released as a B-Side
(with rewritten lyrics, and Dennis kept the royalties as repayment for the lost $100,000 the Family cost him in 1968 )
Dennis Wilson's Ferrari ( after being wrecked by Charles Manson in downtown LA) -
3 months later Steve "Clem" Grogan & Tex Watson flipped Dennis Wilson's Ferrari on Santa Suzanna Road
(history)
www.ferrari275gtbc.com/accident.html
Never Learn not to Love (aka Cease to Resist ) (remastered)
Dennis Wilson would say: “I know why Charles Manson did what he did, someday I’ll tell the world.”
In 1983, Dennis Wilson supposedly drowned after drunkenly diving from his boat.
www.nytimes.com/1983/12/29/obituaries/beach-boys-dennis-wilson-drummer-drowns-at-marina.html
www.amazon.com/Chaos-Charles-Manson-History-Sixties/dp/0316477559
According to CHAOS author Tom O'Neill, Manson tagged along with Terry Melcher (pic) to his home, to the house on Cielo Drive where the Tate killings would later be carried out, after a party both attended.
Rudi Altobelli, Melcher's landlord, spoke extensively with O'Neil regarding Melcher+Manson
When Tom O'Neil asked Terry Melcher about details of Dean Moorehouse, and the guest House , Terry Melcher had snapped and said,
“Vince was supposed to take care of all that and now it’s resurfacing!”
www.mansonblog.com/2014/12/dean-moorehouses-mendocino-county.html
www.cielodrive.com/updates/minister-moorehouse/
www.cielodrive.com/updates/the-guesthouse-house-guests/
In June of 1968, Dean Moorehouse and Brooks Poston left Ukiah, California, driving south on Highway 1, heading for a place called the Spiral Staircase house in Topanga Canyon.
When the pair arrived in Los Angeles, they drove up to a semi-abandoned house on Topanga Lane, where they were greeted by redheaded girl named Lynn Fromme.
“Dean Moorehouse said he was looking for Charlie and she said, ‘Okay,’ and she jumped in the car and she took us to Dennis Wilson’s House on Sunset,” said Poston.
Charlie had become a regular at Dennis Wilson’s Sunset Blvd house ever since the Beach Boys drummer had picked up Manson family members Ella Jo Bailey and Patricia Krenwinkel hitch-hiking.
“There were a number of people in and out of the house,” said talent scout and music publisher, Gregg Jakobson. “I was living there. A couple of girls were living there. Dennis was living there on and off. [Charlie] wasn’t living there; he would come by, swim, visit.”
Moorehouse and Poston eventually move into one of the back houses, taking on the landscaping duties around the property.
“Moorehouse was an ordained minister. He had a great working knowledge of the bible,” said Jakobson. “So Dean could interpret and lend the bible to support Charlie’s philosophy, which he did at all times, because Dean Moorehouse was really a student of the bible.”
Later that June, Dennis Wilson himself was hitch-hiking down Sunset when he was picked up by Charles “Tex” Watson.
“When we got to his house in Pacific Palisades he invited me in,” said Watson. “Rolling up the long driveway to what had once been Will Rogers’s mansion, I played with the idea of what it would be like to tell my brother about the time one of the Beach Boys had me in for coffee.”
rxstr.com/dennis-wilsons-house/
Throughout that summer, Tex Watson became a fixture at Wilson’s house, and by August he had moved in.
“[Tex] was like a friendly puppy dog,” said Greg Jakobson. “In the sense that there is nothing a dog wouldn’t do for you, you know; you throw the stick, he’ll go get it. He tried to please.”
At Dennis Wilson’s house, Tex Watson became friends with Charlie Manson and the girls. As well as spending a lot of time with Dean Moorehouse, even though the balding minister was twice his age.
“Dean Moorehouse took me on my first acid trip,” remembered Watson. “Now it wasn’t just the external world I saw differently. It seemed the LSD opened me up to what was inside me as well.”
Through Wilson and Jakobson, Tex met Doris Day’s son, television and record producer, Terry Melcher. At the time, Terry was living at 10050 Cielo Drive, a secluded hilltop home in Benedict Canyon.
Melcher could remember at least six times Watson had been to his Cielo Drive home that summer.
“Tex Watson was a friend of Dennis Wilson’s and Greg Jakobson’s and was often tagging around with either or both of those men,” remembered Melcher, “so often when they would drop by Tex Watson would be with them.”
By 1968 summers end, the party at Dennis Wilson’s Will Rogers house was over. Dennis was going back out on tour and the lease on the house was set to expire. Dennis’ manager told everyone to leave.
In late August 1968 , Dean Moorehouse borrowed Terry Melcher’s Jaguar XKE and drove to Ukiah, CA to go on trial for a LSD arrest back in May. Tex had nowhere to go, so he accompanied Moorehouse for the trip up the coast. The trial lasted two days and resulted in a hung jury. Despite objections from the District Attorney, Dean Moorehouse – who showed up to court barefoot – was released on his own recognizance. Tex and Moorehouse spent a few weeks in Mendocino before returning to Los Angeles, showing up at the Spahn Ranch.
“[Charlie] gave us a tent and told us we could stay down by a creek below the ranch itself,” said Watson. “The Family let us eat with them occasionally, and once or twice Charlie and the girls came down to our tent in the evenings and sang.”
After New Years of Jan 1, 1969, Terry Melcher and his girlfriend, actress Candice Bergen, moved out of the house at 10050 Cielo Drive. The property was vacant for a month-and-a-half before Roman Polanski signed the extended lease on February 12th , 1969 .
For years, many have said Gregg Jakobson arranged for Dean Moorehouse to live in the guesthouse of 10050 Cielo Drive between the time Melcher and the Polanski’s live there. Supposedly, Tex Watson was to have spent much time at Cielo Drive during this time.
But according to Jakobson, it never happened.
But not only did it never happen. It never could’ve. On Tuesday, December 17, 1968, a Mendocino Superior Court jury found the 48-year-old Dean Moorehouse guilty of selling $50 worth of LSD out of his trailer in Redwood Valley. Two weeks later, on Thursday, January 2, 1969 – the day after Melcher moved out of 10050 Cielo Drive – Dean Moorehouse was sent to a California state prison to begin serving his time.
When the pair arrived in Los Angeles, they drove up to a semi-abandoned house on Topanga Lane, where they were greeted by redheaded girl named Lynn Fromme.
“Dean Moorehouse said he was looking for Charlie and she said, ‘Okay,’ and she jumped in the car and she took us to Dennis Wilson’s House on Sunset,” said Poston.
Charlie had become a regular at Dennis Wilson’s Sunset Blvd house ever since the Beach Boys drummer had picked up Manson family members Ella Jo Bailey and Patricia Krenwinkel hitch-hiking.
“There were a number of people in and out of the house,” said talent scout and music publisher, Gregg Jakobson. “I was living there. A couple of girls were living there. Dennis was living there on and off. [Charlie] wasn’t living there; he would come by, swim, visit.”
Moorehouse and Poston eventually move into one of the back houses, taking on the landscaping duties around the property.
“Moorehouse was an ordained minister. He had a great working knowledge of the bible,” said Jakobson. “So Dean could interpret and lend the bible to support Charlie’s philosophy, which he did at all times, because Dean Moorehouse was really a student of the bible.”
Later that June, Dennis Wilson himself was hitch-hiking down Sunset when he was picked up by Charles “Tex” Watson.
“When we got to his house in Pacific Palisades he invited me in,” said Watson. “Rolling up the long driveway to what had once been Will Rogers’s mansion, I played with the idea of what it would be like to tell my brother about the time one of the Beach Boys had me in for coffee.”
rxstr.com/dennis-wilsons-house/
Throughout that summer, Tex Watson became a fixture at Wilson’s house, and by August he had moved in.
“[Tex] was like a friendly puppy dog,” said Greg Jakobson. “In the sense that there is nothing a dog wouldn’t do for you, you know; you throw the stick, he’ll go get it. He tried to please.”
At Dennis Wilson’s house, Tex Watson became friends with Charlie Manson and the girls. As well as spending a lot of time with Dean Moorehouse, even though the balding minister was twice his age.
“Dean Moorehouse took me on my first acid trip,” remembered Watson. “Now it wasn’t just the external world I saw differently. It seemed the LSD opened me up to what was inside me as well.”
Through Wilson and Jakobson, Tex met Doris Day’s son, television and record producer, Terry Melcher. At the time, Terry was living at 10050 Cielo Drive, a secluded hilltop home in Benedict Canyon.
Melcher could remember at least six times Watson had been to his Cielo Drive home that summer.
“Tex Watson was a friend of Dennis Wilson’s and Greg Jakobson’s and was often tagging around with either or both of those men,” remembered Melcher, “so often when they would drop by Tex Watson would be with them.”
By 1968 summers end, the party at Dennis Wilson’s Will Rogers house was over. Dennis was going back out on tour and the lease on the house was set to expire. Dennis’ manager told everyone to leave.
In late August 1968 , Dean Moorehouse borrowed Terry Melcher’s Jaguar XKE and drove to Ukiah, CA to go on trial for a LSD arrest back in May. Tex had nowhere to go, so he accompanied Moorehouse for the trip up the coast. The trial lasted two days and resulted in a hung jury. Despite objections from the District Attorney, Dean Moorehouse – who showed up to court barefoot – was released on his own recognizance. Tex and Moorehouse spent a few weeks in Mendocino before returning to Los Angeles, showing up at the Spahn Ranch.
“[Charlie] gave us a tent and told us we could stay down by a creek below the ranch itself,” said Watson. “The Family let us eat with them occasionally, and once or twice Charlie and the girls came down to our tent in the evenings and sang.”
After New Years of Jan 1, 1969, Terry Melcher and his girlfriend, actress Candice Bergen, moved out of the house at 10050 Cielo Drive. The property was vacant for a month-and-a-half before Roman Polanski signed the extended lease on February 12th , 1969 .
For years, many have said Gregg Jakobson arranged for Dean Moorehouse to live in the guesthouse of 10050 Cielo Drive between the time Melcher and the Polanski’s live there. Supposedly, Tex Watson was to have spent much time at Cielo Drive during this time.
But according to Jakobson, it never happened.
But not only did it never happen. It never could’ve. On Tuesday, December 17, 1968, a Mendocino Superior Court jury found the 48-year-old Dean Moorehouse guilty of selling $50 worth of LSD out of his trailer in Redwood Valley. Two weeks later, on Thursday, January 2, 1969 – the day after Melcher moved out of 10050 Cielo Drive – Dean Moorehouse was sent to a California state prison to begin serving his time.
Tom O'Neil interviewed Dean Moorhouse
www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Helter%20Skelter%20Holes%20Chaos_HCtext4P.pdf
Moorehouse said he’d really lived at Cielo “off and on” throughout the summer of ’68, when Melcher lived there. “Terry was a
good friend,” he explained, “and when I first met him at Dennis’s,
he said, ‘If it’s okay with you I’ll send my chauffeur down one of
these days and have you come up to my house.’ ” Melcher “took me
in and showed me a bedroom and said, ‘This is your bedroom, you
can stay here anytime that you want.’ So I was staying there off and
on, whenever I felt like it.” He also confirmed a detail from Ed
Sanders’s The Family: that Melcher had let him borrow his Jaguar
for the long drive to Ukiah. “I drove the Jaguar up there with Tex
Watson,” he said. Melcher “gave it to me to use on this trip and he
gave me his credit card to use for gas and anything that happened
to the car.”
good friend,” he explained, “and when I first met him at Dennis’s,
he said, ‘If it’s okay with you I’ll send my chauffeur down one of
these days and have you come up to my house.’ ” Melcher “took me
in and showed me a bedroom and said, ‘This is your bedroom, you
can stay here anytime that you want.’ So I was staying there off and
on, whenever I felt like it.” He also confirmed a detail from Ed
Sanders’s The Family: that Melcher had let him borrow his Jaguar
for the long drive to Ukiah. “I drove the Jaguar up there with Tex
Watson,” he said. Melcher “gave it to me to use on this trip and he
gave me his credit card to use for gas and anything that happened
to the car.”
Vincent Bugliosi claims that Charles Manson had ordered the killings at Cielo to spook Melcher, a producer, for snubbing his recording deal.
But Manson knew full well that Sharon Tate and the others had no connection to Terry Melcher beyond the house.
Furthermore, Manson had Melcher’s new address in Malibu
According to testimony from Danny DeCarlo of the Straight Satans, a biker gang which Manson hung around with, to Vincent Bugliosi which O’ Neil uncovered via Sandi Gibbons, Melcher visited the Spahn Ranch to speak with Manson thrice AFTER the murders. Bulgiosi’s notes state:
stevehodel.com/2019/07/28/los-angeles-times-publishes-major-retrospective-for-50th-anniversary-of-manson-murders-interviews-da-steve-kay-and-veteran-journalists-sandi-gibbons-and-linda-deutsch-three-la-heroes/
Sandi Gibbons
Terry Melcher claimed under oath in his trial testimony that he had never visited Manson at the Spahn Ranch after the murders.
O’Neil states that when DeCarlo testified on the witness stand he also left out Melcher’s visits to Spahn.
In Bulgiosi’s notes these sections were crossed out
Little Joe Torrenueva apprentice to Jay Sebring (pictured here with Bruce Lee), claims within days of after the TLB Murder weekend, he received a phone call from mobster and casino exec General Charlie Baron long before mainstream media had any idea who committed the murders in which Baron stated:
“''Joe, I know you're worried. Listen, you're a good guy, you never hurt no one. No one's gonna hurt you.'"
www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/magazine/message-in-a-shampoo-bottle.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baron
Charles "Babe" Baron was an organized crime figure in Chicago, Illinois. He owned a successful Chicago new car dealership ( Charles Baron Ford) as well as holding the rank of Brigadier-General in the Illinois National Guard. He was involved in illegal gambling as a handbook operator for the Chicago Outfit.
Along with Dave Yaras and Lenny Patrick, Charles "Babe" Baron served as a protégé to Democratic Party ward boss Jacob Arvey.[citation needed]
Charles "Babe" Baron was also a close associate of Patrick Hoy, a Henry Crown employee of General Dynamics who was later able to arrange a job for Sidney Korshak at the Hilton Hotels (Las Vegas).[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baron
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Crown
Henry Crown (June 13, 1896 – August 14, 1990) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Among other things, he founded the Material Service Corporation, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. At the time of his death, he was a billionaire. Henry Crown and Company, of which he is the namesake, is an investment firm that owns or has interests in a variety of business assets.[1] From 1951 to 1961, he was the owner of the Empire State Building.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics#Management_churn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Patrick
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Korshak
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Special_Committee_to_Investigate_Crime_in_Interstate_Commerce
Charles "Babe" Baron was Twice arrested for murder, including that of bootlegger James Walsh, whom he shot and killed following a prize fight in 1929, and of North Side Gang financier 'Smiling' Gus Winkler, on October 9, 1933.[1] Baron was identified as an associate of John Roselli during the Kefauver Hearings, in the 1950s.[1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Winkler
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roselli
Charles "Babe" Baron as former general manager of Meyer Lansky's Havana Riviera in pre-revolutionary Cuba, was one of the first to be granted a gaming license by the Gaming Control Act, in 1960,
and served as the official greeter of the Sands Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, under Joseph "Doc" Stacher.[
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_Hotel_and_Casino.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_Hotel_and_Casino
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baron
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Habana_Riviera
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stacher
Charles Baron & JFK / RFK Assassinations
educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/10724-curtis-lemay-and-john-f-kennedy/page/2/
www.crimemagazine.com/frank-sinatra-and-mob
erenow.net/biographies/the-outfit-the-role-of-chicagos-underworld/16.php
In their groundbreaking study of the history of Nevada’s gambling regulation, The Black Book, University of Nevada professors Ronald Farrell and Carole Case found that the “social control” exerted by the board was but a thinly veiled attempt to wrest control of the lucrative (albeit essentially immoral) gambling industry from those who had created it. The authors’ inspection of the licensing record was especially telling. Among those approved for licensing in the board’s first year were:
• Frank Soskin, who had a record of illegal gambling.
• Lincoln Fitzgerald, a functionary of the Michigan gambling syndicate, with a criminal record for tax evasion, gambling, bribery, and conspiracy to run a gambling operation.
• Sanford Waterman, a convicted bookmaker who had worked for Meyer Lansky.
• Morris Lansburgh, who the board was informed was fronting for “notorious hoodlums.”
• Ike “Cheesecake” Berger, a convicted bookmaker.
• Charles “Babe” Baron, convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, and twice arrested for murder.
• Frank Soskin, who had a record of illegal gambling.
• Lincoln Fitzgerald, a functionary of the Michigan gambling syndicate, with a criminal record for tax evasion, gambling, bribery, and conspiracy to run a gambling operation.
• Sanford Waterman, a convicted bookmaker who had worked for Meyer Lansky.
• Morris Lansburgh, who the board was informed was fronting for “notorious hoodlums.”
• Ike “Cheesecake” Berger, a convicted bookmaker.
• Charles “Babe” Baron, convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, and twice arrested for murder.
Torrenueva's testimony states that Charlie Baron also knew Air Force General Curtis LeMay
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay
(Sen. Barry Goldwater's running mate in 1964 Presidential election)
LeMay, an unapologetic hawk, attempted to organize what was essentially a coup against John F. Kennedy among the Joint Chiefs, arguing that the military should bomb the Soviet missile silos in Cuba even if it meant initiating direct war.
Next, I am going to go over some of the occult elements of the Manson story. First up is Manson's association with Scientology.
According to a document (pic 1) from the Church of Scientology's "Guardian's Office" Manson underwent 150 hours of "auditing"
www.shipbrook.net/jeff/CoS/docs/manson.html
templeofxenu.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/scientology-and-charles-manson/
If these "auditing" sessions did in fact occur (while Manson was in federal prison at the same time that MK Ultra experiments proliferated in such institutions) it would put Manson's later association with The Process Church of the Final Judgment (The Process) in a strange light
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
The Process was started in the United Kingdom by Mary Ann Maclean & Robert De Grimston. The group started as a breakaway organization from the London Church of Scientology, where Maclean had been an auditor. The Process opened US chapters in '67, including one in San Francisco
Ed Sanders notes in his book "The Family" that, “Around March 10, 1968, a convoy of seven Process automobiles containing thirty people and fourteen Alsatian dogs journeyed toward Los Angeles.”
Bugliosi notes in Helter Skelter that in "1968 and 1969, the Process launched a major recruiting drive in the United States. They were in Los Angeles in May and June of 1968 and for at least several months in the fall of 1969.”
Another Manson connection to the occult comes in the form of his disciple Bobby Beausoleil. Beausoleil had his own celebrity patron in the form of experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger who gave Beausoleil the lead role in his film "Lucifer Rising".
Lucifer Rising (1972)
Lucifer Rising's 1st appearance of the "ANKH"
www.thethird-eye.co.uk/happy-summer-solstice-from-the-third-eye/
"The ankh – symbol of transformation, alchemy and eternal life – in the temples of ancient Egypt in Luxor."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh
Modern use
of the ANKH
Much more recently, the ankh has become a popular symbol in modern Western culture, particularly as a design for jewelry and tattoos.[15] Its resurgence began when the counterculture of the 1960s stirred a greater interest in ancient religions. In the 21st century it is the most widely recognized symbol of African origin in the Western world, and it is sometimes used by people of African descent in the United States and Europe as a symbol of African cultural identity. The ankh also symbolizes Kemetism, a group of religious movements based on the religion of ancient Egypt.[35] The sign is also popular in the goth subculture, being particularly associated with vampires, because an ankh pendant appears prominently in the 1983 vampire film The Hunger.[36]
of the ANKH
Much more recently, the ankh has become a popular symbol in modern Western culture, particularly as a design for jewelry and tattoos.[15] Its resurgence began when the counterculture of the 1960s stirred a greater interest in ancient religions. In the 21st century it is the most widely recognized symbol of African origin in the Western world, and it is sometimes used by people of African descent in the United States and Europe as a symbol of African cultural identity. The ankh also symbolizes Kemetism, a group of religious movements based on the religion of ancient Egypt.[35] The sign is also popular in the goth subculture, being particularly associated with vampires, because an ankh pendant appears prominently in the 1983 vampire film The Hunger.[36]
Jay Sebring's Salon - with Steve McQueen - note the ANKH symbol on the door
366weirdmovies.com/102-lucifer-rising-1981/
Curiously, the original star of Lucifer Rising was intended to be a literal child by the name of Godot Paulekas
esquire.com/uk/culture/news/a5483/kenneth-anger/
Godot was the child of Vito Paulekas, the man who, along with his gang of "Freaks", helped define the aesthetic of the counterculture ( were a fixture on Sunset BLVD for every Zappa & Mothers Shows
Vito Paulekas (pic 1) arrived in LA in 1946, linking up with a younger man by the name Carl Franzoni(pic 2)
around 1963 (what Vito did in the interim is unclear). Carl claimed his father was a stone carver who was brought from Italy to “cut the stone for the monuments" of the USA
Vito and Carl began to assemble a "dance group" that would come to be known as "the Freaks" not long after they met. Around 1964, new clubs began to open on the Sunset Strip & many old clubs were rebooted.
Owner of the Whiskey au-Go-Go Elmer Valentine (pic is him in old age) was at this renaissance's head
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Valentine
Elmer Valentine (June 16, 1923 – December 3, 2008) was the co-founder of three famous nightclubs on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California: the Whisky a Go Go, The Roxy Theatre and the Rainbow Bar & Grill.
Before opening the Sunset Strip Whiskey-A-Go-Go, which would would become one of the most famous music venues in history, in 1964, Valentine was a corrupt beat cop in Chicago.
An obituary for Valentine in the LA Times (pics) quotes him as saying to Vanity Fair,“ ‘I left Chicago [in 1960] because my wife dumped me, and I was flipped out” But, as LA Times and VF note: "he was also having a bit of trouble on the job: He was on the take from the Mob."
Various figures have credit Vito & his Freaks with kickstarting the hippie "movement." Barry Miles, in "Hippie": “The first Hippies in Hollywood, perhaps the first hippies anywhere” “Carl and those guys were way ahead of everyone on hippiedom fashion.”-former Byrd Chris Hillman
John Hartmann of the Kaleidiscope Club (Former Ciro's - now the Comedy Club) said, “They were really hippies and so we had to have them.
They got in free pretty much everywhere they went...They validated you.
If they’re the essence of hippiedom and you’re trying to be a hippie nightclub, you need hippies.”
We have here a man with ties to organized crime (which by the 60s was balls deep in the intelligence community) opening THE club which would help launch the Sunset Strip renaissance in the 60s & "Freaks" more than willing to populate these clubs & basically invent hippiedom.
The Freaks have direct ties to Manson as well. In Laurel Canyon, a property controlled by Frank Zappa known as "the Log Cabin" (really a large house rumored to have tunnels beneath it) allowed Vito & the Freaks to live in a "treehouse" in the adjacent land.
The Whiskey a Go Go
Frank Zappa and the original Mothers of Invention at The Whiskey 1967
Arthur Lee and Love 1967
Cream at Whiskey a Go Go September 1967
In late 1968 the Manson family, after leaving the Haight & before settling at Spahn, would temporarily reside in one of the caves on the property. According to Carl Franzoni: “Manson came there because he heard about Vito but Vito was gone”
t.co/oqGPRJ1uzd?amp=1
So Manson was searching for Vito & Beasoleil would later star in a role originally intended for Vito's son. What happened to Godot's part in Anger's film anyway? Well Godot died after supposedly "falling" through a skylight when he was only five. Why do I put "falling" in quotes?
There is evidence that he was being sexually abused by Vito & the Freaks. A witness recalls: "That was their thing about 'introducing him to sensuality.' That was well known. I
t was billed as something you could do.”
source: archive.is/mFE9z#selection-525.429-525.551
(pic is Vito/Carl in old age)
Bobby Beausoleil says, in John Gilmore's book "Garbage People" that Kenneth Anger —“had this contact with this group called The Process.” Anger himself was obsessed with Aleister Crowley who, as some may not know, worked extensively with British intelligence agencies
Occultism became such an influential force in American pop culture in the 60s as a byproduct of US intelligence pillaging Nazi occultists & their theories in the post-WW2 Ratline/Paperclip ops then salting them in various cults as part of MK Ultra/COINTELPRO
There's a remarkable similarity between LaVeyan Satanism, the Manson Family, the Process Church, and the various weird quasi-Satanic biker gangs that Manson hung around with and the GLADIO-sponsored neofascists. I don't think this is a coincidence
Interesting quote from LaVey, arguably the most mainstream of the 60s occultists,
"Now it’s not so much a case of avoiding fascism, but of replacing a screwed-up, disjointed, fragmented and stupefying kind of fascism with one that is more sensible and truly progressive.”
I of course have to note the potential role of the FBI's COINTELPRO & the CIA's CHAOS in the Manson counter-narrative we are building here. Obviously this is more or less an abridged version of O'Neill's work. here we go
Spahn Ranch was raided by LAPD 6 days after the Tate-LaBianca killings. Everyone in the Family was arrested by a huge fleet of police. This raid had nothing to do with the killings, but instead was the result of evidence that Manson was converting stolen cars into dune buggies
The entire Family was released just days after raid. Former detective Preston Guillory, to O'Neill: “At Malibu’s LASO station…Manson’s lawlessness was something of an open secret.” Guillory says his station had orders from “on high” to "take no police action" toward the Family
Guillory, in a later interview with Paul Krassner,( of the newspaper "The Realist") says,
“It appeared to me that the raid was more or less staged as an afterthought.” He also speculates that LASO hadn’t touched Manson because, “our department thought he was going to attack the Black Panthers.”
In 1968, one year before the Tate-LaBianca killings, Governor Ronald Reagan established a "Riots & Disorders Task Force" with a mission to "study urban unrest."
Reagan appointed to the task force a man by the name of William Hermann, who has numerous ties to military/intelligence
www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt73.html
Disinformant #2: Arms dealer William Herrmann
He took part in the Iran-Contra affair,
but lied to the Palme Investigation Group
about his background when he for two years
played his disinformation game.
The Security Police stated:
"Nothing is known about William H"
He took part in the Iran-Contra affair,
but lied to the Palme Investigation Group
about his background when he for two years
played his disinformation game.
The Security Police stated:
"Nothing is known about William H"
Hermann revealed to London Observer that he had a “secret plan” to stop revolution in the USA. To “split off those bent from destroying the system from the mass of dissenters; then following classic guerilla warfare theory to find means which will win their hearts and minds.”
A June 2002 San Francisco Chronicle series exposed that Governor Reagan had secret deals with both the FBI and the CIA. At the time of the Tate-LaBianca slayings, the district attorney of Los Angeles was a man named Evelle Younger who had worked in both the FBI and CIA.
Evelle Younger
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_J._Younger
Younger's 2nd in command was named Buck Compton.
web.archive.org/web/20160110100823/http://www.bandofbrothers.uphero.com/bevrijding-eindhoven/bevrijding01.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Compton
Compton was the lead prosecutor in the trial of Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Palestinian known as the alleged assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
Buck Compton
Five months before the Tate-LaBianca murders, Compton wrote a letter to Hermann which thanked him for, “obtaining good advance intelligence…on subversives and militants."
By 69, the FBI's COINTELPRO & CIA's CHAOS efforts were well underway. The former is a resurrection of an earlier FBI attempt to attack unions & communists. J. Edgar Hoover stated the intention of, “preventing Black Nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability..."
Hoover added: "they must be discredited to the white community, both the responsible community and to the ‘liberals’ who have vestiges of sympathy for militant black nationalists simply because they are Negroes.” A Nov '68 memo (pic) reveals an effort to target Hollywood liberals
Keep in mind that the Tate house had become a high-profile party spot for liberal Hollywood, including Jane Fonda, Cass Elliott,& Abigail Folger, the coffee heiress who would be slain by the Family the same year she campaigned for the first black candidate for the mayor of LA
Briefly, let's remember Hollywood/Laurel Canyon stars with ties to the military & intelligence community.
Of course Jim Morrison's father was Admiral George Morrison, commander of the Carrier Division of the Bon Homme,
one of the ships supposedly targeted in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Morrison was in command of the Carrier Division during the controversial Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964, which resulted effectively in the true beginning of the Vietnam War by President Lyndon Johnson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephen_Morrison
Frank Zappa's father, Francis Vincent Zappa, was a chemist & mathematician who worked in the defense industry.
At one time Vincent Zappa worked at the Edgewood Arsenal, where experiments similar to MK Ultra were carried out.
www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zappa-francis-vincent-frank
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experiments
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_Proving_Ground#Edgewood_Arsenal
Mama Cass
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Elliot
Mama Cass's bandmate John Phillips is the son of a US marine corp captain who married Susie Adams, a daughter of wealth who is a direct descendant of John Adams.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Phillips_(musician)
1967 Monterey Pop Festival
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival
montereyinternationalpopfestival.com/pages/the-history
The impetus behind the staging of the Monterey International Pop Festival evolved one night in 1967, at Mama Cass Elliot’s house. Paul McCartney, John and Michelle Phillips, Cass and Lou Adler were discussing, along with other highly inspired issues, the general perception of Rock ‘n’ Roll…and that although jazz was considered an art form … Rock ‘n’ Roll on the other hand…was continually viewed as a fad, a trend … both were American born musical genres.
The actual idea for the Monterey International Pop Festival initially came from Alan Pariser, who had attended the 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival. John Phillips and Lou Adler were approached by Alan Pariser and his partner, a promoter named Ben Shapiro who wanted to hire the Mamas and The Papas to headline a blues and rock concert at the Monterey Fairgrounds…and as the story goes … later that night actually three o’clock in the morning John and Lou had decided, influenced by some heavy California Dreamin’ that it should be a charitable event…and with six weeks to go the Monterey International Pop Festival; a three-day non-profit event was about to become a reality.
Alan Pariser would stay on as a co-producer along with Peter Pilafian. Chip Monck would come on to handle lighting and staging. Derek Taylor, who had worked with Brian Epstein and The Beatles, became the publicist. Tom Wilkes was hired as art director, David Wheeler as head of security… A Board of Governors was established that consisted of: Donovan; Mick Jagger; Paul McCartney; Jim McGuinn; Terry Melcher; Andrew Loog Oldham; Alan Pariser; Johnny Rivers; Smokey Robinson; Brian Wilson, John Phillips and Lou Adler. It was agreed that the line-up of acts would represent all genres of the immediate past, the present, and the future of contemporary music, and that all the acts would be treated the same and have first-class travel and accommodations. The Monterey International Pop Festival production offices were in West Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. housed in the old Renaissance Jazz Club building. The festival’s office had a real buzz going through it … David Crosby and Stephen Stills hanging out…Procol Harum’s yet to be released ‘Whiter Shade Of Pale’ being played over and over…Michelle Phillip’s was on the phone selling ads…John and Lou on the telephone talking to managers and potential acts … A whirlwind of excitement, of gentle strong-arming, calling in every chip imaginable, dealing with the concerns of the San Francisco group’s managers, charming the Monterey City Council and Police Department and getting it all done… for charity…giving something back.
The actual idea for the Monterey International Pop Festival initially came from Alan Pariser, who had attended the 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival. John Phillips and Lou Adler were approached by Alan Pariser and his partner, a promoter named Ben Shapiro who wanted to hire the Mamas and The Papas to headline a blues and rock concert at the Monterey Fairgrounds…and as the story goes … later that night actually three o’clock in the morning John and Lou had decided, influenced by some heavy California Dreamin’ that it should be a charitable event…and with six weeks to go the Monterey International Pop Festival; a three-day non-profit event was about to become a reality.
Alan Pariser would stay on as a co-producer along with Peter Pilafian. Chip Monck would come on to handle lighting and staging. Derek Taylor, who had worked with Brian Epstein and The Beatles, became the publicist. Tom Wilkes was hired as art director, David Wheeler as head of security… A Board of Governors was established that consisted of: Donovan; Mick Jagger; Paul McCartney; Jim McGuinn; Terry Melcher; Andrew Loog Oldham; Alan Pariser; Johnny Rivers; Smokey Robinson; Brian Wilson, John Phillips and Lou Adler. It was agreed that the line-up of acts would represent all genres of the immediate past, the present, and the future of contemporary music, and that all the acts would be treated the same and have first-class travel and accommodations. The Monterey International Pop Festival production offices were in West Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. housed in the old Renaissance Jazz Club building. The festival’s office had a real buzz going through it … David Crosby and Stephen Stills hanging out…Procol Harum’s yet to be released ‘Whiter Shade Of Pale’ being played over and over…Michelle Phillip’s was on the phone selling ads…John and Lou on the telephone talking to managers and potential acts … A whirlwind of excitement, of gentle strong-arming, calling in every chip imaginable, dealing with the concerns of the San Francisco group’s managers, charming the Monterey City Council and Police Department and getting it all done… for charity…giving something back.
David Crosby was the son of military intelligence officer & also a descendant of three ancient American families: Van Cortlandt, Van Schuyler & Van Rensselaer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crosby
Around the time the Process was active in SF,
Crosby was known to wear a black cape similar to the cult's
Colonel Paul James Tate (1922–2005),
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate
It should be noted that Sharon Tate's father was also from the ranks of military intelligence. Colonel Paul Tate was a military intelligence officer who went to LA after the murders.
O'Neill claims a LASO officer told him, "that “Colonel Tate appeared to be running the LAPD”
One final note before moving on: Dennis Hopper claims his father was, "in the OSS. He was in China, Burma, India" whereas Peter Fonda's father, Henry, was a decorate naval intelligence officer before getting into show business.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper
So we have white Hollywood liberals at the end of the 60s with sympathies (cynical or otherwise) to the Black Power movement & also connections to intelligence, & a memo stating that they should be made to feel they will be "put up against the wall". Then what happens?
In August of 1967, the same month that the FBI restarted COINTELPRO, CIA director Richard Helms launched Operation CHAOS on behalf of Lyndon Johnson.
At its peak 52 different agents were working under CHAOS, most of them penetrating antiwar and black power groups
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_CHAOS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO memo proposing a plan to expose the pregnancy of actress Jean Seberg, a financial supporter of the Black Panther Party, hoping to "possibly cause her embarrassment or tarnish her image with the general public". Covert campaigns to publicly discredit activists and destroy their interpersonal relationships were a common tactic used by COINTELPRO agents.
https:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program
CHAOS was launched one year before the CIA's Phoenix Program in Vietnam. The CIA itself has described Phoenix as, “a set of programs that sought to attack and destroy the political infrastructure of the Viet Cong.” O'Neill describes the Phoenix Program in the pic below:
One of the more grotesque moments in the Phoenix Program:
Other Phoenix Program operations involved finding individuals or groups, particularly if they were unstable or violent, who were resentful of the Communists & unleashing them on the country as a whole (including civilians) for purposes of destabilization
Thus a domestic CIA program was operating at the same time as one in Vietnam which sought to use violent renegades to put an end to a popular communist movement & discredit its leadership. Is it beyond the realm of possibility that the Family was a domestic Phoenix asset?
One last thing to note is that the CIA was coordinating it's CHAOS operations with the State Dept & the FBI. The various attempts to smash the legitimately radical part of the counterculture was a moment of class solidarity among the ruling class.