Vincent Bugliosi pre Reclaiming History

[Jan Klimkowski]

Has anyone read Nikolas Schreck's The Manson File?

I haven't, so I'm probably fudging some of this, but broadly I believe Schreck's hypothesis is that the Mob-Hollywood establishment closed ranks to protect its investment with Bugliosi and the LAPD presenting the cover story. These murders would have blown the lid off the sprawling decadence behind the scenes, with all sides known to each other and much cozier than anyone could admit. Watson and Manson were procuring for the likes of Polanski and Tate, Sebring and Frykowski were dealers, as was Rosemary LaBianca. At some point a war broke out. Schreck contends that Watson was actually invited to the Tate residence that night, but he intended to steal their supply. Tex was speeding, he freaked out, and the killings happened. Charlie went back with them to rearrange the scene in an effort to leave a false trail. The LaBiancas (I believe) owed them money, and the idea was to take Rosemary hostage. Things went wrong again.

Schreck spent a lot of time with Charlie (and compiled the book over some 25 years). He allows that Charlie had some native shamanic talent and is a true seeker on some level, but was fated to the life he ended up with. He says Charlie's a bad guy, sure, but Tex was the real deal.

Those Hollywood years were promising for a spell. Dennis Wilson (among others) was far more involved than we've been told, and his sad demise was driven by guilt. Official history tells us that Charlie's music career was a non-starter but it seems that a lot of people got behind the guy, and not just Dennis and Terry Melcher. Charlie's "career" actually had some gas. When the time came to anoint a patsy, Charlie was a natural, what with a personality like that and a basic criminal code of ethics that always prevented him from snitching.

I don't know if Schreck gives much or any credence to the intel-programmed-whatever angle; I think it's all just a big ol' criminal underworld massacre in his view, but it happened under the bright lights of America's entertainment industry, which threw a whole bunch of other weirdness into the picture. That said, there's no question that Charlie bumped up against some very suspect characters in his institutional journey. One other thing to note: Schreck, who is married to the daughter of Anton LaVey, dismisses the occult angle as sensationalism.

But no matter which theory compels the most, and returning to Jim's question... Helter Skelter is a lie.

It's in a bunch of different parts, but you'll find a fascinating three hour interview given by Nikolas Schreck to Tate Labianca Radio (TLB Radio) starting here (and again, apologies if I got some of the details wrong):

[video]https://www.youtube.com/user/TheNikolasSchreck?feature=watch[/video]

Yes, once again, Helter Skelter is a lie, and Bugliosi's garbage is a limited hangout.

The question is: How Limited was the Official Narrative?

There clearly was a Hollywood drug dealing and hardcore pornography element to the Manson family killings.

Paul Krassner talks in the foreword to Book Three of Levenda's Sinister Forces of corrupt LAPD detectives offering to sell hardcore reels of various Hollywood celebrities having sex, including allegedly Sharon Tate with A-List actors, to "private collectors".

Dennis Hopper allegedly flogged (ie whipped) a drug dealer who had reneged on a deal, in front of guests at a Hollywood party, just weeks before the LaBianca-Tate slaughter. Hooper didn't have to look very far inside himself to find the Frank character from Blue Velvet.

Manson's abandoned film lot base in the desert, Spahn Ranch, had an arsenal of automatic weapons and Class A drugs. Numerous allegations of statutory rape of minors were also made to the LAPD. Who took forever to bust the ranch. Go figure.

For me, it's a given that the Manson family provided a lot of services to certain circles in Hollywood. They also represented a wild, uninhibited, primal behaviour that parts of Hollywood probably found very attractive.

Sharon Tate's father was army intelligence and undertook his own investigation into this world.

See: Naval Intelligence, MKUltra and the Hippie Movement

However, I think the criminal, drug and sex-obsessed elements are the surface glint of these events.

There are too many loose ends around Charlie, such as his ONI drug connection and the Process Church of the Final Judgement, and around the Manson family with their Manchurian Patsy presidential assassins, for me to consider sex, drugs and rock n' rock to be the whole story.

I believe the mindset that Levenda calls The Manson Secret is the key to this.

Another name for it is the Grotesque.

The lust for knowledge of how to create and control obscene murderous behaviour.