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Part Four: MKUltra: When The CIA Tried to Destroy Free Will

Behind the Bastards

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The History of the Charles Manson Murders

CIA director Richard Helms authorized an illegal domestic surveillance program codenamed chaos. Jade Gerhuva revived the FBI's dormant counterinsurgency program co-and-tell pro both agencies opened the first offices of their respective operations in San Francisco. Thanks to these two secret programs and their network of well placed informants, there was an all out war raging in California by the summer of 69.

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