Whenever humans commit acts of tremendous violence, we're often left asking the same question.

Why? Why bomb a building? Why kidnap a child? Why kill your spouse?

Much of the time, the why of violence is simple. People kill for money, power, self-satisfaction, so many different reasons.

But there are some crimes whose heinousness is matched only by the perplexity of their motives. And in the summer

of 1969, Americans were universally asking themselves the same question. Why had Charles

Manson and his followers brutally murdered five people in their California homes? For many, the

doomsday ramblings of Charles Manson and his cult weren't enough of an answer.

Because not only had Manson ordered the murders, but he'd also managed to twist the minds

of his followers enough to commit them for him.

Young women with no history of violence, perfect examples of the free love and communal

thinking of the hippie movement had followed Manson's commands to brutally slaughter for seemingly no reason at all.

But what if there is a different reason,

something that connects Charles Manson

to some of America's darkest government secrets?

What lies at the center of the tangled web of drugs,

torturous science experiments,

sex and government programs?

Join me today on this episode of The Conspiracy Files as we look for the answers about

Charles Manson through the lens of the top secret MK Ultra Mind Control program.

As always, if you want to see where I got the information for this episode, check out

the resources document posted in the description of the show.

I don't want to go anywhere or do anything to myself, and that's never going to happen.

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