Tom O'Neill CHAOS: Charles Manson, The CIA & The 60s 

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I'm not even 20. Tom spent more than the accumulated amount of time I've been alive writing this book, and it shows. It is packed to gills with information and it is written as entertainingly as a novel. Tom is the best.

Please, invite Mr. O'Neill back to your show! Everyone following this story is DYING for an update!!!

I've listened to every interview Tom has given, read the paperback, and listened to the audiobook several times. Can't wait for the next one!

The book is amazing and I wish that Tom O'Neil gets much more exposure and success for all his amazing work.... and that he releases a sequel.

Awesome interview! I knew Manson had been arrested a couple of times, but had no idea he had such a long laundry-list of federal offenses, and was still running loose! Thank you Tom, and thank you Eric! Would love to hear from Tom again if he gets a chance to come on.

FANTASTIC SHOW and GUEST!!! Can we have Tom back for UPDATES periodically? I have the book but this is so much better!!!

Eric I just found this other channel, I really enjoy America's Untold Stories5. Think of it as my morning commute station altho I'm now retired lol. I was 14 in 1968 living in Stockton CA. All of this made a huge impact on our lives. I'm grateful for Tom's dedication to bring out the truth.

Chaos is one of my fav books. It’s on audible as well if anyone likes to listen!

Great Book Tom! In Shane O’Sullivans book Who Killed Bobby, Jolly West is brought up with possibly being the radio man that Sirhan was meeting with. West was involved with Patty Hearst & the SLO. He saw Jack Ruby. Dig deep in books like Who Killed the King , James earl ray saw a hypnotist, the attempted assassin of Wallace saw a hypnotist. West was at the top of his game but their was more like West out their. Read the book who killed John Lennon. Russ Bakers masterpiece Family of Secrets about the bushes is a must Read. Another strange thing is that when the Manson Murders occurred Polanski was in England looking for a location to film a movie called the Day of the Dolphin. A movie about a dolphin trained to assassinate the president. In the nonfiction book The Search For The Manchurian Candidate it clearly states that their was a CIA doctor at that same time obsessed with training dolphins with hypodermic needles attached to them to kill enemy frogmen. ( I know off subject but strange) Has anyone ever wondered why the Author of the book Manson Files which is extremely expensive can’t find it cheaper then 200$ who opposes the CIA theory and Ed Saunders book called the Family because of the connection to the satanic church called the process avoids questions about Reece Whitson at all costs. Everyone needs to dig deep. Things like Manson mastered the highest level of Scientology in which it has been proven that Hubbard was in fact extremely close to Aleister Crowley who was working closely with the CIA for years. Even the fact that a big time la costa nostra (Mafia) member Carbo was very close with Manson is huge because the CIA has been working hand & hand with the Mafia since project underground and with Vito Genoese in Italy When Patton liberated it. The Mafia & the CIA again ran the drug trade together! Read Strength of the Wolf by Valentine. Labianca was a massive gambler in huge debts to the mafi. This rabbit hole is massive and these things just are not coincidental. Must reads are Acid Dreams, Operation Mind Control, Journey Into The Madness, The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, Cointelpro, The Secret Team, The Cult of Intelligence, The Devil’s Chessboard & Who Killed Bobby. I’m currently researching Jonestown & my podcast/Vlog is about to restart soon. Manson, Kennedy, Ruby, MLK, RFK, Malcom X, Lennon , Hoffa, assassination attempts on Wallace , the Pope ,Reagan by Hinckley ( friends with bush VP and former director of CIA after MK-Ultra was exposed) the connections are insane. Do the research the answers are there. Thank you Tom for your dedication, we look forward to the next book. In the CIA the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. They portray this image that they are constantly screwing up. That’s all part of espionage. You only know what they want you to know. Everyone should listen to MAE BRUSSELS old radio shows. She was ahead of her time and this was her masterpiece. She covered all this.

Just read the book. He raises a lot of questions about the investigation and motives. The lack of co-operation from various sources is disturbing. I'm sure there a few people still alive today who know "the complete story", but they aren't talking.

Tom looks younger since the rogan interview, seriously. He looks great.

Sad thing in 2023, the 'intel community' is even more sinister...today...

When Charlie in interviews says things like "that's your world, not mine, man, I can be what you want me to be," he's telling the truth.

A secondary thing about CHAOS that blew my mind is the fact that it was published by one of the major publishing companies. This has to be the first time a giant publisher releases a mass market book that factually debunks the old Helter Skelter©Myth and will open the door for others especially after the Bug ceased to exist and no longer able to (threaten to) sue the author and/or publisher.

History is repeating itself before our very eyes

Glad to hear you discuss hypnosis. I recently watched a video with actor danny trejo (machete, bad ass, dusk till dawn. Etc.), who told a story of being in jail, and meeting Manson, (long before Manson formed the "family", or anything else notorious) where they let Manson hang out, and granted him a bit of refuge, due in part to manson being able to hypnotize them to feel as though they were high, as if they had just smoke marijuana or even to feel they had just done heroin

In 1997 I visited Corcoran Prison in California and was given access to the Secure Housing Unit where Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan were on the same row and only a couple of cells apart. Charlie was very keen to talk, Sirhan was completely withdrawn and Pincushion Smith was the scariest guy I ever saw - I was not an inmate by the way.

Oh shit, didn't realize you'd interviewed him! I literally just finished his book yesterday! It's disturbing how much Google knows about me...

God Bless Tom for giving up his life for the TRUTH, that sets us FREE!!!! FREE=FAITH. "Perfect LOVE casts out all FEAR!" I John 4:18

So good to see Mr.O'Niel looking better and better with each presentation.

After Vince B. Supported the Oswald only childish theory, nothing about him need be taken seriously, or respected. Just remember, he was a government employee

I enjoyed this book. I was a little disappointed at the end because I thought there would some dramatic conclusion. In retrospect, I appreciate that Mr. O'Neill did not speculate. He simply reported what he knew and didn't embellish the facts to get more attention. The book provokes almost as many questions as it answers. The info on the Jack Ruby's shrink in Dallas (MK Ultra Doctor Jolly West) was shocking to me. This cannot be a coincidence.

His documentation of Manson's activities prior to the murders speaks for itself. Tom's book makes more sense than Buglosi's fictional "Helter Skelter".

Tom's experiences and take always from his dealings with Vincent Bugliosi confirms what many JFK researchers have said all along about the career opportunist Bugliosi was.

Reading Chaos right now so this interview was a must watch. Absolutely fascinating, thankyou for this Eric, much appreciated.

Great Interview. I am in the middle of the book. It is excellent!!!

The average American should know all about this guy and his information that he has dedicated his life to accumulating.

I thought I was done with this case, but this guy is intriguing me quite a bit!

Fascinating and disturbing.

I came across a bunch of stuff about Charles Manson, MK Ultra, Laurel Canyon, Entertainment, CIA, Kennedy about 10 years ago and Manson had a thing about “Race Wars” hmm 🤔

So much revelation here, and it's only an appetizer for Tom's book.

One of Tom O'Neill's chapter's of the book he is working on "MK-ULTRA" should be called "The Camarillo Club."

Tom has written a very accurate book on Charles Manson and the horrific murders.

It's always seemed odd that Manson although on parole never went to see his parole officer or get violated after being arrested a few times with some of the arrests we're felony gun charges, had that been anyone else they would've been violated immediately . Also it's kinda funny how the government had tried for a few years to shut down the counter culture without success but 3 girls and 2 guys brought it down in two nights

I was amazed and angered when I discovered what a bastard of a human being Vincent Bugliosi was. My sister was married to a wife beater, and to think that to this day many consider Bugliosi to be a hero.

The author of Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi, also penned a tome which essentially backs the Warren Commission report on JFK's killing? Had Allen Dulles still been alive, perhaps he'd have written the forward to it.

The hypnotist from Hawaii sounds like a prototype for Nexium. Keith Ranier.

It’s so sad that Sirhan’s parole was granted only to be denied by Newsom smh. I watched the documentary called ‘The Real Manchurian Candidate’ which demonstrates how he was hypnotized and mind controlled. It’s so sad, especially since he seems like such a genuinely nice person. I hope Tom writes his book on Sirhan because many have never seen or even heard of that documentary (it’s incredibly underrated) and Sirhan’s story desperately needs more attention!! ❤

Excellent interview. Very interesting👏💯

Thank you, Eric, for doing these important interviews!

I could imagine that the whole Polanski scandal in the pool also had to do with what O´Neill insinuates in his book. Did Polanski know too much. Did he find out what or who really killed his wife and unborn child. Did he have to be silenced..... I just wonder. This world is real bad. And it gets worse every day. I can imagine any mean operation by now.

Tom, I have listened to the audiobook at least 10 times, Fascinating discovery even if you didn't find the answer you uncovered so much new information.

One of a few things I don’t understand is why did Reeve Whitson feel the need to call Hatami. ? 90 minutes before the maid arrives and discovers the bodies? Why did he do that?

While I don't care for Tom's "proclivity" towards the male sex, I have utter respect for him & how he worked beyond "so hard" to get the info for his book. He is an animal for information, focused and absolutely impressive. Tom, I doff my cap to you, good sir.

Man I want to read that next book. Please write it Tom.

How this interview hasn't reached higher views, is unbelievable. RU-vid must be shaving the count...

I'm halfway through this and sad to say, I still haven't heard from you what exactly you guys are talking about. At least give an overview! A basic story line, something!

One of the most interesting books I've ever read, I actually got it originally to read the bits about Jolly West which are of course adjacent to understanding the JFK assassination but it told me a lot more about pop culture of that time that I was very ignorant on. I'm curious as to what Mark Groubert thinks about this book but a friend of mine just gifted me "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon", this book seems very similar to Chaos albeit less well researched but there are some dots there.

Giving the children to the state was a death ticket. What happened to Susan Atkin's kid?

Eric and his guest's leave me wanting to hear more.

Thank you for writing your book Tom. I couldn't put it down.

This is great Tom. Glad for your success, what a story! ..... looking for a secretary? Mets sends her love.

nice interview. Tom is a hero...

EXCELLENT

I am amazed at how much hard work and time went into doing Tom's book. He spent something like 23 years of his life researching, writing and promoting this book!

This explains why Charlie Manson felt he could commit any crime, and would be impervious to paying for it. An Anti-Social with carte blanche to commit any crime he wanted, no matter how rotten.

Fascinating book! Get the hard back! The photos make it come alive! I loved it!

They we're successful on a mass scale Cointelpro 2.0

Eric I found and listen to you and Yiddish dude I love you guys on Americans untold story's I just found your page today I'm A us army infantry vet also great work love your work Huntley

Fantastic interview! Thank you Eric Huntley and Tom O'Neill. At 40:12, I'm glad conjugal visits were stopped. Too bad the governor is trying to let everybody out of prison.

the beatles were manufactured by the tavistock institute.

Re: the mind control research it reminds me of the book Frankenstein. Who is the real monster? The patient programmed or the doctor programmer?

I read the book twice. Just awesome. 20 years, what a journey, and plenty to show for it. Another book..."even better". I can't wait!

The MK Ultra file is so deep and thick We have Ann Diamond in Montreal Canada who was “sold”as a child for this program and said that an older boy had saved her life at one point and that guy was part of the program and his name is Leonard Cohen. So the artistic /music community is also a involved -

I've read the book multiple times and re read it the last 2 weeks and did catch one mistake where he just put the wrong name lol funny he mentioned he had a few random errors that didn't really affect the story. Might get the paperback too, why not

Great Show !!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🥤🍿

In August 1978 I found a paperback written by a guy who was in the family but he escaped right before the murders. Charlie tried to track him down in the mountains. This guy was being protected by a prospector/rosicrucian who had psychic powers which he used to create a " psychic wall " to block Charlie. It was a fascinating book. He had a simple name like Bobby. I've never seen anything about this guy. It's real because I bought the book. Someone must have got it too.

Fantastic interview!

The death penalty was banned by federal law in the 70’s, as cruel and unusual punishment.

Great episode!

Every second comment i type on YT seems to get removed for some reason ( regardless of what I'm talking about) so not sure if it's worth saying anything...but for what it's worth, this was fascinating. One more book to add to my list! There are so many really interesting books about that whole era and the weird sh!t that was going on. P.s. what was that jingling noise going on throughout this? Some digital thing, or was somebody's pet playing with a toy in the background?

Awesome interview!

Great Podcast! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏽

just dont end up like danny casalero, tom.

Manson did dozens of interviews in prison. After reading O’Neil’s book I watched all I could to see if he ever mentioned anything relating to MKUltra. He didn’t. Could be because he wasn’t asked or he didn’t know he was being groomed in the 50’s and 60’s. Makes me wonder

excellent book. great info. though sad to learn bugliosi such awful crazy duplicitous negative energy since i liked some of his talks on c span. great book and lot of credible information, author did great interview with shaun attwood a few months ago too.

From Hollywood Gossip Reporter to Investigative Journalist. WOW! This is making my head spin. Maybe you CAN make a silk purse from a sow’s ear

One of my best friend's is the 2nd cousin of Charles Manson. His Father's mother was the sister of Charlie's mom Ada. I've heard many stories about Charlie's mom and her family that she ran away from. Most people have no clue about anything. I'm glad I know part of the Maddox family. They are some great people. 😊

Nobody sued you Tom because your right 👍

Big Tom O’Neill fan❤

Hopefully to be taken as good natured constructive criticism: these guests who know of the underworld, it would be good if you guys put the info in a contextual framework, otherwise the convo just sounds like names, dates, some associations, etc. I think it would help the presentation of this kind of info to sketch out things like "this was the backdrop" - "this wss what the press or official story was" - "this is what was really going on and my evidence of that" - "these might be the motives for Mr. X to do such and such" - "The FBI/CIA other deep state were wanting this to happen". I want to be interested or enthralled by the behind the scenes story, but if it just sounds like scattered notes of various bits and associations - it ultimately doesn't tell me any story and it doesn't highlight whatever facts or evidence your guest is trying to share in a cohesive way. Take a tip from Mark Bowden and try to tell a story. Thanks for your podcast. Hope that didn't come off as harsh.

Tom is still alive! Reached out few days back.

Having a life long interest in this case, there's a lot that can be said, but ultimately my grumble with Tom's book is, on the one hand he doesn't draw any clear conclusions in the book and invites readers to draw their own conclusions, but on the other he often says he left out a lot in the book for one reason or another, so how, I ask, can we draw our conclusions when we don't know all he knows, has proven, and suspects about the case. I was over joyed when I heard the book was coming out, was delighted at the dot connecting that Tom did in the book, but then it just ends, no conclusions, no speculation about serious possibilities, and worst of all, no call for further action, like the full release of all government files on the case. So, I got to the end and just went, 'duh!' - where the rest? It was frustrating. I also think all that Jack Ruby stuff was a distraction. Focus on the fraudulent trial, the covert programs at the time, and links between the cult, the victims, the celebrities, and the legal malfeasance. Dragging up the other stuff just allowed people to cry conspiracy theory. It didn't help.

I must admit the 'family' was very strange especially the girls, in interviews now they say that Manson simply paid attention to them; he told them they were beautiful and things they were dying to hear; and they felt many for the first time in their life that someone cared about them. how that morphs into becoming a mindless killer is indeed a mystery.

Here's a thought; after watching the Nic Shreck interviews, maybe the reason there has been so little argument over O'Neill's book is the powers that be were happy to see him go off on a direction that lead away from the truth. Just a thought.

This is a crock. Charles was and never has been crazy or under any type of control. What nobody understands is he was very smart. He knows very well how to manipulate people. There are so many people who've put that information out. Charles had a bunch of people fooled. This is exactly why people can't understand Charles. Every single interview they never just let him talk. Charles has no problem telling anyone what happened. But Charles has never said anything like this. You can count on using it if it was true. People shut him down all the time. If Charles knew anything like this he would have used it. Not to mention those who actually committed the crimes their Attorneys would already have them out of jail. This is all bullshit.

Nice but for chaos you need Maxwell smart, agent 86. Right chief.

Ol' Charlie was definitely MK Ultra'd. It's the only rational explanation. CIA hated The Beatles for copying their dress code at Shea stadium, then they all grew moustaches like Allen Dulles...

We must have all the CIA/FBI/MANSON documents released.

Tom ~ We’re still waiting for your follow up book, tv series, etc.

The Church commission hearings and Musk's Twitler revelations make nice book ends for Chaos.

One of the best books I’ve ever read. ☕️🐇

Great interview, yet another book I want to read.

There is no one left to really question or hold responsible especially after the passing of Vincent Bugliosi Has Tom ever looked into the Phoenix Program? Always s great interview when Tom is On(pun intended).

Bazed Lit Analyzer did a great 3 hour review of the book.

I would like to know his view on rob zombies doc about manson. Its interesting and explores the possibility that manson may not have ordered any actual killings.

Didn't Manson also read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carinegie?

How come this video doesn't have a date?

Amazing book!!🎉