Charles Manson was the evil behind the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and at least eight others — but a new documentary speculates that Manson and his "family" of followers may have been influenced by ...

Unwitting men became test subjects in a covert operation that fused seduction with psychedelics—under the watchful eye of ...

David Chase is going from the New Jersey Mafia to the inner workings of the CIA. Chase, creator of “The Sopranos,” is ...

That's the argument posed by author Tom O'Neill in his 2019 book, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. It's a dizzying but lucidly-written takedown of Manson ...

One of America's more famous documentarians, Errol Morris, was intrigued by Tom O'Neill's Chaos, a 2019 book delving into the mysteries around the murders committed in 1969 by people associated with ...

In the late 1950s, the CIA was obsessed with mind control—what it was, how to weaponize it, and how to keep it out of Soviet hands. But instead of toiling in the lab to find the answers, the agency ...

Conspiracy beliefs often take hold because it is easier for our brain to comprehend one explanation, one villain, or one horrific theme, rather than a multitude of competing theories, which can be ...