Was Charles Manson a CIA lab rat?
The cult leader brainwashed his followers using the same techniques MKULTRA was trying to perfect.
13 min readDec 10, 2019
In 1999, freelance journalist Tom O’Neill accepted what he thought would be a simple assignment: He was tapped to write a story about the Manson Family’s lasting impact on Hollywood to mark the 30th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders. It…