Anyone watch Chaos on Netflix? Netflix Documentary Takes On Manson, Mind Control, and the CIA

[tulipsandroses]

Hell of a conspiracy theory but it does make you go hmmmm.....

The movie is credited as an adaptation of Tom O’Neill’s book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, a sprawling, occasionally off-the-rails investigation that eventually ties Manson to the U.S. government’s experiments in using LSD for mind control. Or, depending on how you read O’Neill’s evidence and whether you share his obsessions, places the two in close proximity without proving any real connection. According to O’Neill, the commonly accepted narrative of the Manson case—that Manson compelled his followers to murder actress Sharon Tate and six others in supremely gruesome fashion in order to start a race war and bring about the end of the world—was a convenient fiction concocted by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi to secure an easy conviction and set the stage for his book Helter Skelter, which went on to become the bestselling true-crime title of all time. While Manson’s followers—the “Family” composed of teenage runaways who he would keep high for days while preaching them his gospel—may have believed that story, O’Neill believes that Manson’s own motives were murkier, and that a concerted effort has been made to keep the truth hidden for years.

https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/charles-manson-murders-chaos-netflix-documentary-true-crime.html

[TommieMommy]

1. That was interesting. How easy it was for him to get total control over the girls