In a mixed review, Kirkus Reviews called the book "overlong", praising "the author's confessions of the many dead ends and blank spots he encountered" but largely criticizing O'Neill for exploring too many theories. " Greg King of The Washington Post wrote, "There’s plenty of new information that makes Chaos a worthwhile addition to the canon of Manson literature, even if it ends without a unified theory of the crimes and their motivations.". O’Neill's intricately sinister 'secret history' often sounds incredible that doesn’t mean that it’s not all true." Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Stephen Phillips deemed that O'Neill did "yeoman's work filling out an aging narrative straitjacketed by the exigencies of its author’s legal strategy. Publishers Weekly wrote that "True crime fans will be enthralled." The Guardian 's Peter Conrad wrote, "As admits, the loose ends are still not tied up and with so many of the culprits dead they probably never will be. CHAOS is the product of twenty years of meticulous research, hundreds of interviews, and falling-outs with publishers that led to financial and legal repercussions for O'Neill. O'Neill missed his deadline but continued to investigate the murders. ![]() In 1999, entertainment reporter Tom O'Neill accepted a three-month assignment from the film magazine Premiere to write about how the Tate–LaBianca murders changed Hollywood. ![]() The book's title is a reference to the covert CIA program Operation CHAOS. O'Neill questions the Helter Skelter scenario argued by lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi in the trials and in his book Helter Skelter (1974). The book presents O'Neill's research into the background and motives for the Tate–LaBianca murders committed by the Manson Family in 1969. ![]() CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties is a 2019 non-fiction book written by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring.
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