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On 8 August 1969, Charles Manson ordered members of his hippie cult "the Family"[1] to murder Wojciech "Voytek" Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, and Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski. No. O'Neill cannot convincingly demonstrate that Manson interacted with West or participated in CIA-supported mind control experiments. Searching for further CIA connections, O'Neill focuses on Manson's life in San Francisco following his March 1967 release from prison, where he first encountered LSD and established the Family during the Summer of Love. [Extracted from the article]

Kinzer's I Poisoner in Chief i and Staal and Harvey's I Operational Psychology i both describe histories of psychology's application to national security. A CURRENT LOOK, BUT ACTUALLY A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Now to Mark Staal and Sally Harvey's coedited I Operational Psychology. i The title denotes applying psychology, namely clinical, forensic, social, and industrial/organizational, in a consultant role to authorities entrusted with achieving national security objectives. For years a foreign correspondent/bureau chief with the I New York Times i and now a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Public Affairs at Brown University, he concentrates on psychiatrists, psychologists, and ancillary personnel in national security projects sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). National Security Applications of Psychology: Helping and Hurting People: Stephen Kinzer: Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. [Extracted from the article]