Coyotenoia

[Thomas Eckhardt]

I did not mean to belittle Gorightly's book. I like his way of telling 
the story well enough. He focuses on some of the loose ends that Ed 
Sanders also pointed to, e.g. the drug connections of the beautiful 
people in the house on Cielo Drive, the pornographic movies allegedly 
found at Polanski's residence, the Process Church of the Final Judgment. 
These were quite probably not random acts of murder.

Where it gets speculative -- unavoidably, I might add -- is when 
Gorightly enters the twilight zone of programmed assassins, MK-Ultra, 
mind control, state-sponsored satanic cults, the LSD connection (Owsley, 
Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Stark, Leary) etc. This is very intriguing 
material but by its very nature based on few verifiable facts. I also 
feel that here less would have been more.

I go along with recommending Gorightly's book, along with Sanders' "The 
Family", as background reading for IV. Ellroy's "Blood's a Rover" covers 
some of the same territory, I sem to remember.

While we're at it: What strikes me again is that some persons repeatedly 
turn up near what Dale Scott terms "deep-political events". Ronald 
Hadley Stark gets involved with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love and 
later turns up in connection with Italian right-wing terrorism/Gladio? 
Mark Lane does early research on the assassination of JFK and later is 
present in Jonestown as the legal representative of the Peoples Temple ? 
Strange coincidences...

The cake, however, is taken by Oswald LeWinter, editor of Penguin's 
"Shakespeare in Europe" and poet, involved, presumably as a contract 
agent/disinformation specialist of the CIA, with the October Surprise, 
Gladio, Lockerbie, the assassination of Olof Palme as well as the death 
of Lady Diana.

The mind boggles:

http://www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt74.html

http://jclass.umd.edu/archive/newshoax/casestudies/idfraud/IDPoet.html

Sure enough, LeWinter turns up in the Manson saga as well. In the 2002 
edition of "The Family", Ed Sanders talks about meeting a millionaire 
interested in celebrity porn flicks found at the Polanski-Tate 
residence. Some thirty years later, Sanders learned that the man had 
been Oswald LeWinter and, at least in 1970, quite possibly a CIA agent. 
See Ed Sanders, "The Family", chapter 89, for a vivid description of the 
meeting.

Thomas


Am 22.12.2014 um 10:01 schrieb Mark Thibodeau:
> What aspect of this excellent book did you find to be "speculative",
> exactly? I thought it was one of the best researched and sourced works
> on the topic that I've ever read (and I've read a lot of them).
>
> Gorightly's book deserves a wide readership. I recommend it to any fans
> of Vineland and Inherent Vice.
>
> Jerky
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