Hello, world. In 1999, entertainment reporter Tom O'Neill accepted a three-month assignment from a film magazine to write a story about the infamous Charles Manson Tate La Bianca murders that changed Hollywood.

Tom missed his deadline, but continued to investigate the murders, falling down a 20-year investigative rabbit hole that birthed his new book, Chaos,

which is the product of those two decades of meticulous research,

hundreds of interviews, and falling out with publishers that led to financial and legal repercussions for Tom.

Tom's book, Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the 60s, presents his research into the background and motives of the Tate La Bianca murders committed by the Manson family in 1969.

The evidence Tom has uncovered blows massive holes in the official narrative of the Charles Manson story and exposes corruption and cover-ups and Manson's connection to the CIA's MK Ultra LSD testing

and psychological warfare mind control programs.

Tom's book is the holy grail of true crime,

and on this episode, Tom tells some shocking stories that had to be left out of the book.

So without further ado, buckle the fuck up and enjoy this terrifying episode with Tom O'Neill.

Mr. Tom O'Neill, thank you.

Thank you so much for coming out here, man.

I really appreciate you being

new. So your book, Chaos, what a fascinating journey this has been for you, a 20-year journey to create

this thing. 20 years, it's actually came out two years ago this past week, two-year birthday. Oh, wow.

I've never stopped continuing to report on the same subject.

Really? Did you think you'd be able to just kind of wash your hands of it afterwards?

Well, I knew I wouldn't be able to do it entirely, but I hoped to. And I think I didn't work for like

two days after it came out, and then it was just all of a sudden going right back to the open-ended

stuff. And the good thing is I get lots of people that reach out to me with

information once the book came out and, you know, you get a lot of nuts too. But one out of ten

is somebody with good information. A lot of people, once they saw that I was a legitimate,

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