=?Windows-1252?Q?IV-related:_"Chaos_---_Charles_Manson, _the_CIA_and_the_S?= ecret History of the Sixties" by Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"New program," shrugged the other cop, "you know how it is, another excuse for paperwork, they're calling it Cultwatch, every gathering of three or more civilians is now defined as a potential cult." The rookie was making checkmarks on a list attached to the clipboard. "Criteria," the other cop continued, "include references to the book of Revelation, males with shoulder-length or longer hair, endangerment through automotive absentmindedness, all of which you folks have been exhibiting."
   "Yeah, man," Denis put in, "but we're in a Mercedes, and it's only painted one color, beige---don't we get points for that?"
   Doc noticed for the first time that both cops were ... well, not trembling, the police wouldn't tremble, but VIBRATING for sure, with the post-Mansonical nerves that currently ruled the area." (p. 179)

+ ... The CIA becomes involved when O’Neill starts to wonder why Manson’s parole officers were so lax in the years before 1969, allowing him to decamp to San Francisco. It turns out that while living in the psychedelic gulch of Haight-Ashbury, Manson may have been used as a guinea pig or lab rat by a bent doctor who recommended LSD to the government as a means of mind control that could penetrate the heads of informants or prepare so-called Manchurian candidates for service abroad as spies or assassins. Back in Los Angeles, did Manson employ the same methods to programme his murderous surrogates? ... +

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/07/chaos-charles-manson-cia-secret-history-sixties-tom-oneill-dan-piepenbring-review