Manson Charles - Sinister forces : a grimoire of American political witchcraft. Volume 3, The Manson secret

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Sinister Forces

A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft

Book Three:

The Manson Secret

Peter Levenda

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Sinister ForcesA Grimoire Of American Political Witchcraft: The Manson Secret
Copyright 2006 Peter Levenda. All Rights Reserved.

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Levenda, Peter
Sinister ForcesA Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft: The Manson Secret / Peter Levenda ; with forword by Paul Krassner 1st ed. p. cm.
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1. Political CorruptionUnited States. 2. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)MK-ULTRAOperation BLUEBIRD. 3. Behavior Modicfica tion United States. 4. OccultismUnited StatesHistory. 5. CrimeSerial KillersCharles MansonSon of Sam. 6. Secret SocietiesUnited States.
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For Judith McNally

1947-2006

The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

FOREWORD

CHARLIES DEVILS

by Paul Krassner

The history of civilization is the history of warfare between secret societies.

Ishmael Reed

I n 1971, I began to write an article, The Rise of Sirhan Sirhan in the Scientology Hierarchy, for my satirical magazine, The Realist . Then, in the course of my research, a strange thing happened. I learned of the actual involvement of Charles Manson with Scientology. In fact, there had been an E-Meter at the Spahn Ranch where his family stayed. Suddenly, I no longer had any reason to use Sirhan Sirhan as my protagonist. Reality will transcend allegory every time. So, although I had announced that I was going to publish that article, I started investigating the Manson case instead. Nevertheless, Scientology sued me for $750,000 for just those nine words whoops, there goes the whole petty cash accountbut I chose to fight them on 1st Amendment grounds, and they eventually dropped the suit.

I corresponded with Manson, visited his female killers in prison andin a classic example of participatory journalismtook an acid trip with family members Squeaky Fromme and Sandra Good. Ed Sanders book, The Family, mentioned that Los Angeles police had discovered porn flicks in a loft at the crime scene, the home actress Sharon Tate shared with her director husband, Roman Polanski (in London at the time of the murders). And yet, the prosecutor in Mansons trial, Vincent Bugliosi, denied in his book, Helter Skelter , that any porn flicks had been found. It was possible that the police had in fact uncovered them but lied to Bugliosi.

I learned why when I consulted San Francisco private investigator Hal Lipset, whose career had been the basis for The Conversation , starring Gene Hackman. Lipset informed me that not only did Los Angeles police seize porn movies and videotapes, but also that individual officers were selling them. He had talked with one police source who told him exactly which porn flicks were availablea total of seven hours worth for a quarter-million dollars. Lipset began reciting a litany of those porn videos. The most notorious was Greg Bautzer, an attorney for financier Howard Hughes, together with Jane Wyman, the former wife of then-Governor Ronald Reagan. There was Sharon Tate with Dean Martin. There was Sharon with Steve McQueen. There was Sharon with two black bisexual men.

The cops werent too happy about that one, Lipset recalled.

There was reportedly a video of Cass Elliot from The Mamas and The Papas in an orgy with Yul Brynner, Peter Sellers and Warren Beatty. Coincidentally, Brynner and Sellers, together with John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas, had offered a $25,000 reward for the capture of the killers. I always felt these executioners had a prior connection with their victims. I finally tracked down a reporter who had hung around with police and seen a porn video of Susan Atkins with one of her victims, Wojciech Frykowski. When I asked Manson about that, he responded: You are ill advised and misled. [Victim Jay] Sebring done Susans hair and I think he sucked one or two of her dicks. Im not sure who she was walking out from her stars and cages, that girl loves dick, you know what I mean, hon. Yul Brynner, Peter Sellers...

Manson was abandoned by his mother and lived in various institutions after he was 8 years old. He learned early how to survive in captivity. When he was 14, he got arrested for stealing bread and was jailed. He was supposed to go to reform school, but instead went to Boys Town in Nebraska. He ran away from Boys Town and got arrested again, beginning his lifelong career as a prison inmate, and meeting organized crime figures who became his role modelsand future contacts. He tossed horseshoes with Frank Costello, hung out with Frankie Carbo, and learned how to play the guitar from Alvin Creepy Karpas. Eventually, he was introduced to Scientology by fellow prisoners while he was at McNeil Island Penitentiary. He needed less deconditioning than his cellmates, who had spent more time in the outside world. One of his teachers said that, with Scientology, Charlies ability to psych people out quickly was intensified so that he could zero in on their weaknesses and fears immediately. Thus, one more method was now stored in his manipulation tool chest.

When Manson was released in 1967, he went to the Scientology Center in San Francisco. Family member Little Paul Watkins, who accompanied him there, told me, Charlie said to them, Im Clearwhat do I do now? But they expected him to sweep the floor. Shit, he had done that in prison. In Los Angeles, he went to the Scientology Celebrity Center. Now this was more like it. Here he could mingle with the elite. I managed to obtain a copy of the original log entry: 7/31/68, new name, Charlie Manson, Devt., No address, In for processing = Ethics = Type III. The receptionistwho, by Type III, meant psychoticsent him to the Ethics office, but he never showed up.

At the Spahn Ranch, Manson eclectically combined his version of Scientology auditing with post-hypnotic techniques he had learned in prison, with geographical isolation and subliminal motivation, with sing-along sessions and encounter games, with LSD and mescaline, with transactional analysis and brainwashing rituals, with verbal probing and the sexual longevity that he had practiced upon himself for all those years in the privacy of his cell. Ultimately, in August 1969, he sent members of his well-programmed family off to slay Sharon Tate and her unborn baby, hairstylist and dealer to the stars Jay Sebring, would-be screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and his girlfriend, coffee heiress Abigail Folger. Revenge for a drug deal gone sour.

Ed Sanders wrote, In the days before his death, Sebring had complained to a receptionist at his hair salon that someone had burned him for $2,000 worth of cocaine and he wanted vengeance. On Friday evening, just a few hours before the massacre took place, Joel Rostauthe boyfriend of Sebrings receptionist and an intermediary in a cocaine ringvisited Sebring and Frykowski at the Tate house to deliver mescaline and coke. During the Manson trial, several associates of Sebring were murdered, including Rostau, whose body was found in the trunk of a car in New York.