Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

by Tom O'Neill

macabre

ubiquitous.

certitude

Dionysian

litigate

trepidation,

dystopian

flummoxed.

eschatological

ad hominem.

opprobrium

reticent.

tangential—any

colluded

Smith may have had ulterior motives when he told Manson to move to Haight-Ashbury. As part of his criminology research, he’d been tapped to lead a study on amphetamines and their role in the violent behavior of Haight-Ashbury hippies. The National Institute of Mental Health funded this study, as they had the San Francisco Project. In 1976, a FOIA request forced NIMH to acknowledge that it had allowed itself to be used by the CIA