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Chapo Trap House

Bonus Interview: Tom O'Neill and Chaos

Chapo Trap House

Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We talk to journalist Tom O'Neill about his book uncovering new theories on Charles Manson, MKUltra, the CIA, and the war against counter-culture & the left in the 1960's. Featuring special guest host Noah Kulwin, an editor at The Outline.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, it's Shapo here with a special bonus episode for you.

0:06.3

We've got a hot interview for you that I think will serve as a really good companion piece

0:12.3

to our recent JFK episode and our ongoing Epstein-Induced Mania.

0:20.6

We're talking with a journalist Tom O'Neill about his book Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA

0:25.8

and the secret history of the 60s.

0:28.3

And this is a book that I think totally reconfigures everything that we think we know about

0:34.9

the Manson case.

0:36.3

And without providing any definitive bulletproof, conclusive proof, begins to point towards

0:44.0

a story that is really about the secret wars that the CIA and FBI were waging in the

0:50.4

60s against the left and the counterculture.

0:54.0

Also as a special treat, we have a guest co-host.

0:57.7

It's Noah Cohen back again.

0:59.6

Hi everybody.

1:00.6

Noah, you're here because you've actually read the entire book.

1:03.0

I am.

1:04.0

Like a fucking nerd.

1:05.0

Yes.

1:06.0

And I loved it.

1:08.9

It's the background to this book is also fascinating.

1:13.0

And he goes very deep into it in the book, which is that this story that he initially was

1:21.2

going to write about Charles Manson began as a magazine article for Premiere Magazine, a

1:26.9

Hollywood trade publication in 1999 for the 30th anniversary of the Manson, of the Manson

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