American investigative journalist — author of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties — who spent 20 years investigating the Manson murders and found evidence suggesting CIA involvement and law enforcement cover-ups.
Creates the most thoroughly documented challenge to the official Manson narrative — O'Neill's Chaos documents (through 20 years of FOIA requests and interviews) that Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter narrative was strategically constructed and that Manson's parole violations were deliberately overlooked, suggesting institutional complicity.
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