Did Charles Manson work with the CIA?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Years after his death, Charles Manson remains one of the most infamous cult leaders in US history. While the mainstream public seems pretty satisfied with the official narrative, people still struggle to understand how Manson could have held such an iron grip on the minds of his followers. To some researchers, he wasn't acting alone. Instead, he had help from some world-class experts in mind control -- the CIA.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:07.0	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of I-Heart Radio.
0:17.0	Hello. Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. Our pal Noel is still on an
0:29.1	adventure, but we'll be returning shortly. They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our guest super producer.
0:35.7	You know him, you love him.
0:37.6	It's Max, the Freight Train Williams.
0:39.3	Most importantly, you are you, you are here and that makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:45.0	We're diving back into something that has fascinated both of us and hopefully you fellow
0:51.8	conspiracy realist playing along at home nearly seven years after his death
0:56.8	Charles Mills Manson remains one of America's most well-known madman, cult leader, would be music star, best known not for his association with the Beach Boys.
1:08.0	Correct. His music, by the way, I was kind of rocking some of it while we were doing research this week and
1:15.3	I don't hate it man I mean I don't I don't love it but I don't hate it I kind of I kind of feel what he was was doing. It's tough to make it in the world of entertainment.
1:25.8	And that's, you know, that applies to Charles Manson as well as everybody else,
1:30.8	all the independent musicians in the crowd this evening.
1:35.1	Manson is best known for running a cult, loosely called the family,
1:40.3	than the Manson family in the late 1960s for a relatively short period of time.
1:45.0	They are known to have committed at least nine murders in California and decades later,
1:50.0	people still wonder whether there's more to the story so our question is this and
1:55.4	hear us out could Charles Manson have been connected to the CIA.
1:59.8	Definitely we'll be right back.
2:01.8	AI might be the most important Definitely we'll be right back.
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