Vincent Bugliosi pre Reclaiming History

[Jan Klimkowski]

I have been hard at work on a new book coming out this fall.

It is a much expanded and revised version of my "Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and Bugliosi's Bungle" multi part series. I will be adding several chapters to it and altering and dropping others.

But I have been doing a lot of research on Bugliosi's early career.

Everyone knows he made his reputation and name and riches off of the Tate/La Bianca murders case.

I had never read Helter Skelter before this. When I did, I was kind of confused. Because I didn't buy the overall thesis. The whole thing about the race war etc as a motive for the murders.

So I went to some web sites out there about that case. I got a big surprise.

Many, many experts on that case do not buy Bugliosi's book AT ALL!

Get this: One guy actually called it a novel!

So now, I am reading other books on that case and its all very interesting. I think I may have made a new chapter for my book: Something like "Re-evaluating Helter Skelter"

Its a very questionable book today.

Helter Skelter and the whole "Charlie's Race War" hypothesis was a scam which provided a very convenient narrative for MSM, enabling Manson to be labelled "the Man who killed the Sixties".

Helter Skelter was as spookily false as an L Ron Hubbard novel.

Bugliosi's chosen narrative omitted everything from the very connected The Process Church of the Final Judgement through to the possibility that Manson had an ONI handler providing a narcotic (not LSD) designed to permit the subject to be controlled in an MK-ULTRA field trial framework.

There are several DPF threads discussing this. For instance:

Naval Intelligence, MK-ULTRA and the hippie movement

The alleged ONI handler (now dead as far as I can establish) sued Rolling Stone and Paul Krassner.

There's a lot of good material in the thread here, as well.