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Part IV: The Manson Murders

Chapter 11: What really happened?

In 1968 J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI developed a masterplan to discredit one of the leading forces opposing the Vietnam War: rock musicians in general and John Lennon and the Beatles in particular. The plan was to groom a human voodoo doll of Lennon—Charlie Manson was the perfect choice—and manipulate the voodoo doll and several hippies into committing mass murder; at least make them the patsies. The primary murder victim would be the Gentile wife of a famous Jew who aired his people’s dirty laundry. The Jew in question was Roman Polanski. His crime was making Rosemary’s Baby, a movie that depicted Jews as witches who practiced blood libel, the sacrifice of Christian children in black magic rituals.

Several orthodox rabbis were apparently involved in developing the masterplan because it contains numerous ritualistic, albeit sadistic, symbols. An example is having Sharon Tate murdered at a house where the Beatles stayed several times while touring California. Another example is leaving a carving fork protruding from Leno LaBianca’s stomach and a knife in his throat to match the lyrics of the Beatles’ song, Piggies. Aside from being a gruesome display, it is particularly satanic because the symbol was directed at John Lennon. The song, Piggies, was written by George Harrison, but Lennon helped write the following lines about forks and knives: "Everywhere there's lots of piggies living piggy lives. You can see them out for dinner with their piggy wives, clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon."

The following is a summary of the ten-step masterplan:

Step One: Alert informants in the recording industry—with connections to the Beatles—to find a patsy, a mirror image of John Lennon. Terry Melcher is given a detailed psychological profile and bio of John Lennon and is advised to find someone with genuine talent and charisma who matches Lennon’s profile. Melcher selects Dennis Wilson’s friend, Charlie Manson. Melcher is friends with Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor, who provides inside information about the Beatles which is passed on to the planners.

Step Two: Begin subjecting Manson Family members to subliminal forms of mind control using sexual manipulation while under the control of LSD and other mind-altering drugs. An unnamed forty-five year-old woman befriends Manson and gives him a standing invitation to the Spiral Staircase, a party house in L.A. where the most devious forms of satanic practices and mind control are performed on unsuspecting victims.

Step Three: Flood the commune with informants. Manson’s small commune rapidly grows. Many are young kids (18 to 25) sewing their wild oats, looking for a good time, and generally trying to find themselves. Many others are FBI informants pretending to be hippies. Suspected FBI informants are T.J. Walleman, Nancy Pitman (Brenda), and biker Danny DeCarlo. Walleman supplied Manson with the gun used to shoot Bernard Crowe, then started the rumor that Crowe was a Black Panther.¹ Pitman allowed Tex Watson to eat poisonous telatche/belladonna plants which caused him to loose control of his mental faculties. DeCarlo gave the LAPD and Vincent Bugliosi incriminating testimony about Manson shooting Crowe.² Record producer Terry Melcher was apparently an FBI informant as well. The reason he gave for backing away from Manson’s record deal was because Manson was "involved in shooting some Negro." (Bernard Crowe)³ How did he know that? No one else seemed to know anything about it, not even the police. As it turned out, Crowe was not dead.

Step Four: Send in two mentally compromised mind control subjects. The FBI sends Susan Atkins (aka, Sadie) and Charles "Tex" Watson to join Manson’s Family. Neither Atkins or Watkins realize they are being manipulated by the FBI, but both have undergone extensive mind-control processing through sexual manipulation, LSD and other mind-altering drugs, hypnosis, and a battery of mind-control programs. The reason for sending in Atkins and Watson is because they can receive and execute detailed mind-control messages much easier than the other less processed commune members.

Step Five: Sheep-dip Manson. Sheep-dipping is an intelligence process in which a person’s image is changed for a desired effect. If someone is going to become the fall guy for a murder, he or she must be tricked into doing incriminating things that can later be used against him or her. Four stages of sheepdipping are used on Manson. First, send subliminal messages to Manson telling him to move deeper into the desert. This is used against him later as part of the bogus Helter Skelter scenario. (Start a race war then hide in the desert.) Second, send subliminal messages to Manson repeating the words "Helter Skelter" and some iteration of the words "race mixing" in a manner associated with moving to the desert. The message is something like this: "Go to the desert; get away from race riots and racial mixing; avoid chaos and helter skelter." Later when Manson explains to his friends why they should move to the desert, he mentions racial issues and uses the words "helter skelter." Third, stage the bogus shooting of Bernard Crowe, then spread the word that he was a Black Panther. The objective is to cause Manson to panic and publicly tell the commune to beware of sniper attacks from Black Panthers and other hostile blacks. Fourth, stage a drug-deal gone bad which results in the murder of drug manufacturer Gary Hinman.

Step Six: Prepare for the hit. Hire real assassins, then use mind control and the power of suggestion to convince the subjects they are guilty of committing mass-murder. This requires a few things happening simultaneously. First, send detailed kill messages to mentally compromised "robots" Susan Atkins and Charles "Tex" Watson. The messages must contain details that match the actual crime scenes. Second, send general kill messages to the others. They don’t need details because they will follow the leads of Atkins and Watson. Third, send in the real assassins to kill the victims. The true assassins must not kill anyone until the patsies are at the crime scene. Fourth, send extremely intense kill messages to the patsies at the same time the murders are occurring. The patsies must see the dead bodies in order to believe they committed mass murder.

Step Seven: Make reality match the cover story. This is done by getting Atkins and Watson—the mentally compromised robots—to repeat the cover story over and over. Since the cover story matches the crime scene it further convinces the patsies that they committed the murders. Of course reality is really an illusion.

Step Eight: Get a couple of the informants to testify against the others. Linda Kasabian and Paul Watkins (Little Paul) were the DA’s primary witnesses. Together they repeated the cover story and linked Family members to the crime scene.

Step Nine: Find an extremely dishonest district attorney to prosecute the Manson Family. Vincent Bugliosi is the perfect choice.

Step Ten: Instruct the media to demonize Manson and his followers before the trial begins.. In addition, the media constantly pushes the cover story. This makes Bugliosi’s job much easier.

Two months after the notorious "Manson Murders," a bizarre rumor circulated that Paul McCartney was dead. In October of 1969, Russell Gibb, a radio Disc Jockey in Detroit, announced on the air he had received information that Paul McCartney had died several years earlier and it had been covered up with a look-alike. Gibb further claimed the Beatles had placed "clues" in their songs, movies, and album artwork. Newspaper and television reporters picked up the story and Gibb’s rumor quickly spread across America. According to Gibb, McCartney was killed in a car accident three years earlier, in 1966. Understanding the ramifications of such news, the surviving Beatles hatched a cover-up plan. A Paul McCartney look alike contest was held. William Campbell won first place, but the results were never announced. Campbell's prize was to be made a clone of Paul for photos, videos, movies, etc. Plastic surgery was used to smooth out the minor differences. They failed to fix a scar on Campbell's upper lip; this is how you can tell authentic McCartney photos from the Campbell ones.⁴ This is all Gibb’s theory, of course, not mine.

Today, the Paul is Dead rumor seems ridiculous, but in 1969, many Beatle fans took it seriously. Years later, the Beatles’ producer, George Martin, reflected on the incident:

Looking back, it seems quite possible that the Paul is Dead rumor was yet another form of harassment by the FBI. The message they were sending was this: "We can take any of you guys out any time, spread any story we want, and the world will believe whatever we tell them."

Ray Coleman wrote that John Lennon suspected his immigration problem was part of a plot to weaken the "unity of youth," and prevent future gatherings like Woodstock. The following is an excerpt from Coleman’s book, Lennon: The Definitive Biography:

A few years later, John’s instincts about a plot were validated by Senator Frank Church, who revealed an FBI-led plot against people like Hendrix, Morrison, and Lennon. Rock stars were not specifically identified in the renowned Church Committee’s voluminous reports, but they certainly fit the profile of the FBI’s targeted leftist groups, namely black militants and peace activists against US involvement in the Vietnam War. Hendrix was both an antiwar activist and a supporter of the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King. Morrison was one of the most militant anti-Vietnam anarchists of the 1960s. As for Lennon, he "met them all to find out where it’s at."

In the mid-1970s, Idaho Senator Frank Church conducted a broad investigation of US intelligence agencies. The formal name of the investigative body was the "Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities," more commonly known as the "Church Committee." Although the committee is widely known for uncovering misconduct within the entire US intelligence community, particularly the CIA, a close examination of the Committee’s reports reveal enormous corruption within the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, who served as the Bureau’s director for 48 years, from 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972.

The Church Committee revealed that in 1967, the FBI launched a campaign to weaken black nationalists. The following is an excerpt from the Committee’s report entitled Intelligence Activities and Rights of Americans - Domestic Covert Action:

The Church Committee further revealed that in March 1968, the program against black nationalists was expanded from twenty-three to forty-one FBI field offices, which were instructed to prevent the rise of a black "messiah" who could "unify and electrify" the movement, specifically naming Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Elijah Muhammed. Field offices were also directed to prevent black nationalist groups from "recruiting young people." The Black Panthers were hit especially hard. FBI field offices were instructed to develop "imaginative and hard-hitting counterintelligence measures aimed at crippling" the Panthers. The Church Committee further revealed that during 1967 through 1971, FBI headquarters approved 379 proposals for counterintelligence actions against "black nationalists."⁸

The Bureau labeled anti-war activists as the "New Left" and rationalized that "some of these activists were urging revolution and calling for the defeat of the United States in Vietnam." (AUTHOR’S NOTE: Certainly John Lennon fit the FBI’s definition of the New Left since he wrote a song entitled "Revolution" and staged two bed-ins opposing the Vietnam War.) The following is an excerpt— from the previously mentioned Church Committee—describing how the FBI dealt with the New Left:

Elliot Mintz was John Lennon’s publicist for several years; he is still the publicist for Yoko Ono, David Crosby, Bob Dylan, and others. Mintz was born February 16, 1945.¹² (He is 59 as of this writing, nearly five years younger than Lennon.) Mintz was probably a colleague of Terry Melcher’s. Both Mintz and Melcher had direct connections with the Beatles. They also had direct connections with the Byrds. Both Mintz and Melcher lived in Los Angeles.¹³ As previously stated, Melcher produced the Byrds’ first two albums.¹⁴ Mintz is the publicist for David Crosby, a founding member of the Byrds.¹⁵

I have never read that Mintz and Melcher were close associates, or even friends, but given that they both worked directly with members of two of the biggest rock bands in the Sixties, the Beatles and the Byrds, and given they both lived in LA, it is plausible that they may have known each other quite well. I don’t know this absolutely, but the likelihood is quite strong. Ironically, Lennon’s career began to fade as soon as Mintz came became his publicist in 1972. Although John and Yoko apparently trusted Mintz completely, others hold a different opinion. In 2000, Michael Gray published a biography of Bob Dylan, Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan, which was extremely critical of Mintz. Gray quoted Paul Zollo who interviewed Dylan in 1991 for Songtalk magazine. Zollo said Mintz not only sat in on the entire interview, but tried to control the questions asked beforehand and censor Dylan’s answers afterwards. This is what Zollo said about Dylan and Mintz:

After quoting Paul Zollo’s description of how Elliot Mintz interfered with the 1991 interview of Bob Dylan, Michael Gray went into what can only described as a rant against Mintz. Here is an excerpt:

Earlier I asserted that dark forces—someone within Lennon’s inner circle—may have been at play, manipulating events in Lennon’s life as part of a satanic ritual that ultimately ended with his slaying on December 8, 1980. Michael Gray and Paul Zollo gave a damning description of Mintz that make him the prime suspect as Lennon’s number one backstabber. Mintz was Lennon’s publicist for eight years—from 1972 through 1980—but Lennon was in self-imposed retirement for five of those eight years. Mintz may have been an FBI informant assigned to keep Lennon internally confused, on drugs and booze. If so, Mintz was successful for a time in the seventies—during the infamous Lost Weekend—but Lennon triumphed and returned to the public eye in 1980 drug-free, physically fit, and in better emotional and mental condition than ever before.

Mintz maneuvered his way into Lennon’s inner circle by flattering and befriending Yoko Ono. The following is an excerpt from Lennon, by Ray Coleman, which describes how this was accomplished:

It appears that Mintz won Lennon’s confidence in two ways: first, by flattering his wife about her book, Grapefruit; and second, by getting fired from KLOS radio station for playing Lennon’s entire album Some Time in New York City. Let’s step back for a moment. Is it believable that a popular LA disc jockey would get fired for playing a new John Lennon album hot off the presses? Granted, the album was highly political, but John Lennon was a superstar. It doesn’t seem believable that a radio station would fire a rising disc jockey because he played a newly released Lennon album, regardless of the content.

Ray Coleman portrays Elliot Mintz in a positive light. But if we are to believe Paul Zollo and Michael Gray, who painted a darker picture of Mintz, then it is quite possible that Mintz was never fired at all. It is plausible that he made up the entire story about being fired in order to win Lennon’s confidence and ultimately become part of his inner circle, which is precisely what happened.

In 1971, John and Yoko moved to New York City to find Yoko’s eight-year-old daughter, Kyoko, from a previous marriage to filmmaker Anthony Cox. Yoko’s ex-husband had suddenly disappeared with their child, thereby denying Yoko legal access to her daughter. Sadly, Yoko missed Kyoko’s entire childhood and the two were never reunited until January 2001, twenty-one years after John’s death, thirty years since Yoko last saw her estranged daughter.²⁰ The following is an excerpt from Ray Coleman’s biography, Lennon, which describes John and Yoko’s search for Kyoko, a pursuit that ultimately led them to New York:

John and Yoko moved into the Dakota, in Manhattan, in June 1973, less than four years after the Tate-Labianca-Hinman murders, five years after Roman Polanski’s movie Rosemary’s Baby was released, and one year after Lennon hired Elliot Mintz as his publicist. Within three or four months after moving to the Dakota, Yoko asked John to move out; they remained separated for 15 months.²² It would appear that both John’s association with Mintz and moving to the Dakota were both ominous events, quickly turning his life in a negative direction.

Before moving to the Dakota, John was feeling the wrath of America’s Big Brother and was quite aware that the FBI was keeping tabs on him and tapping his phones. The following is Fenton Bresler’s state of mind when he and Yoko moved in the Dakota in June 1973:

Bresler’s description of the Dakota as Lennon’s "last and happiest permanent home" is somewhat misleading. Technically the Dakota was John’s permanent residence for seven and a half years, from June 1973 until his death on December 8, 1980; but he left the Dakota and Yoko, at her request, for 15 months—living in Los Angeles—shortly after he moved to the Dakota, hardly the "happy permanent home" which Bresler depicts. In addition, John and Yoko’s decision to move to the Dakota was quite odd, given that Roman Polanski’s movie, Rosemary’s Baby, was filmed there. It’s as though John was made a sacrificial lamb in a sick game played by a satanic cult group. How could have been manipulated in such a manner? This sort of treachery is best pulled off if spies are sent in to befriend the targeted individual. The spies work together without the target’s knowledge, enabling them to move get desired actions from the target at will. There were four suspicious characters in John and Yoko’s respective lives who might have manipulated them into moving to the Dakota as a contingency plan for assassination. They were Yoko’s second husband, Anthony Cox; a hypnotist friend of Cox’s named Don Hamrick; primal screaming therapist, Arthur Janov; and Lennon’s publicist Elliot Mintz.

Anthony Cox reportedly belonged to The Walk, a religious cult involved in psychic and borderline occult practices.²⁴ Prior to disappearing with Kyoko, Cox got along with John and Yoko. John told Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone Magazine, 1970) Cox had arranged for Don Hamrick to hypnotize Yoko and himself in order to help the couple stop smoking.²⁵ Arthur Janov conducted primal screaming sessions for John and Yoko in 1970-71. John carried a lot of emotional baggage from his traumatic childhood—early separation from his father Freddy, the losses of his mother Julia, his Uncle George, his best friend Stu Sutcliffe, followed by sudden fame as a young adult. Janov conducted the first few sessions at John and Yoko’s home in England in Tittenhurst Park. Later, they continued the sessions for four months at Janov’s Primal Institute in California. The acclaimed rock couple rented a house in Bel Air—the area where Sharon Tate was murdered—so they could easily attend the Primal Institute sessions.²⁶ As previously stated, Elliot Mintz became Lennon’s publicist mainly by flattering Yoko. And Mintz also lived in Los Angeles.

It is not beyond the realm of possibility that all four individuals—Cox, Hamrick, Janov, and Mintz—were FBI informants working out of the satanic house at Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles which Charlie Manson and his friends nicknamed the "Spiral Staircase." Manson described the diverse types of people who attended parties at the Spiral Staircase as people "who lived in the mountain communes, practicing things that would not be tolerated in the cities…nationally respected celebrities…some of the influential and wealthy, and on occasion, some who wore the cloth and preached the word of God."²⁷ Based on Manson’s description of the Spiral Staircase, Cox, Janov, and Mintz certainly fit the profiles of people who attended parties there. With Cox, Hamrick, Janov, and Mintz manipulating Lennon’s life, it’s easy to understand how he might have been maneuvered into moving to the Dakota. A contingency plan for John’s assassination was likely established in 1965 after the Beatles’ unprecedented performance at Shea Stadium before 55,600 hysterical fans. It was apparently decided that the Beatles had become too powerful. The following year, 1966, the FBI began its assault, and John Lennon was the primary target. The following is a likely scenario of how the Bureau’s assault was carried out.

First, the Bureau gets Capitol Records to release an unauthorized album, Yesterday and Today (released, June 15, 1966), which has a grotesque cover photo of the Beatles wearing butchers’ smocks and holding dead babies (mutilated dolls). This is intended to frighten and harass the Beatles, but it doesn’t phase them. Their hectic schedule doesn’t allow enough time to obsess over how Capitol Records is managing the release of their recordings thousands of miles away in America. Second, the Bureau advises Capitol Records to eliminate three of John’s five songs from the version of Revolver released in America on August 5, 1966. His apparent lack of productivity will hopefully diminish his artistic stature in the eyes of American Beatle fans. Third, the FBI gets Paul McCartney to walk out on She Said She Said, one of John’s two songs that will appear on the American version of Revolver. Paul’s non-cooperation is intended to demoralize John and hopefully get him to produce inferior work; however, the plan is foiled because She Said She Said turns out great with George Harrison playing bass and singing Paul’s backup harmony part. Fourth, the Bureau gets informants (probably Derek Taylor and his cohorts) to give John LSD which eventually causes him to have "bad trips." John told Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone Magazine, 1970) that he received a message while on LSD telling him to "destroy your ego, and I did"²⁸ Fifth, the FBI stages the Manila incident to put the fear of God into the Beatles and further demoralize them. Fifth, the FBI stages the "bigger than Jesus" controversy by waiting for John to make an unusual public statement, then misinterpret it in the most negative, damaging manner possible. Sixth, the FBI has one of its informants toss an exploding fire cracker on stage during a Beatles’ concert in Memphis on August 19, 1966. Everyone in the Beatles’ entourage thinks John has been shot. As a result, the Beatles stop touring in 1966.

After the Beatles’ touring stopped, John lived abroad under close security, a superstar unable to walk the streets without being mauled by adoring fans. Once John came to New York City in 1971, his fame had subsided somewhat and he was out of the cocoon. A tighter contingency plan for assassination was apparently activated. The plan was further intensified in June of 1973 when the couple moved to the Dakota; however, his vast influence was diminishing, so assassination was no longer a top priority. Nevertheless, the satanic symbols were all in place. Lennon was living in the place where Roman Polanski filmed Rosemary’s Baby. When a green light was finally given for assassination, the orthodox rabbis must have had a field day helping with the plot to kill him, making sure he was gunned down at the entrance of the Dakota where Adrian Marcato—the fictitious martyred witch in Rosemary’s Baby—was killed by an angry mob for conjuring up the living devil. Apparently the more fanatic Jews had placed a curse on Lennon. They seemed to take great pleasure in making him the object of their sadistic, satanic games: first by making a human voodoo doll of him (Charlie Manson), then by matching his death with a scene from Roman Polanski’s cursed movie, Rosemary’s Baby. How dare Lennon achieve such fame without their permission. Who was this man—a rock star, nonetheless—from the dirty port city of Liverpool to voice opposition to America’s foreign policy, to mock the Holocaust as he did in How I Won the War? John was safe as long as he remained a recluse, but when he decided to be a celebrity again, his days were numbered.

About a year after befriending Mintz, John and Yoko separated; Mintz was right in the middle of the entire separation although he didn’t appear to have a romantic interest in Yoko. In the autumn of 1973, John and Yoko began a separation that continued for fifteen months.²⁹ Amazingly, Mintz talked to the John and Yoko nearly every day, more than they spoke to each other during their renowned separation. Here is an excerpt from Ray Coleman’s book, Lennon, describing Mintz’s odd relationship with the famous couple during their period of estrangement:

The entire separation was very odd and was never been fully explained until 1998 when Yoko wrote several articles for a booklet which accompanied the Lennon Anthology, a collection of unreleased Lennon recordings in a box set of CDs. The following is Yoko’s explanation of why she and John separated:

So that’s Yoko’s version of why they split up for fifteen months. I suppose many women reading this must think John was a real cad because he had sex with another woman practically in front of his wife. Sure, he was wrong to do that, but let’s examine the story further because there are several interesting points. First, John’s adulterous sexual encounter—as improper and uncouth as it was—was not exactly the act of a homosexual or bi-sexual, as several writers claim he was. Frankly, getting an erection while one is extremely intoxicated, then having sex with female stranger is quite a physical feat. Shortly after John’s murder, the propagandists began writing books and articles claiming he was secretly homosexual. I presume this is why Yoko’s story about John adulterous tryst has been suppressed. It undermines the cover story that he was secretly gay or bi-sexual.

Second, in numerous books it has been reported that Yoko insisted John have a female companion during their separation, so he selected his secretary, May Pang, a twenty-two-year-old woman born in New York of Chinese parents. This story, however, does not match Yoko’s version. Yoko disclosed several personal details about the separation, but she never mentioned May Pang. While there is no question that May Pang was John’s companion, was it really Yoko’s idea for him to have a female companion, or was it someone else’s? Frankly, that story has never seemed completely believable to me.

When John and Yoko separated in the fall of 1973, he was about 33 and she was about 41. It goes against human nature for a 41-year-old woman who loves her 33-year-old husband to send him away accompanied by a 22-year-old chick. In addition, it’s interesting that Yoko sent John to LA, where Mintz lived. The following is Lennon biographer Ray Coleman’s version of John and Yoko’s separation and John’s 22 year old female companion, May Pang:

Mintz’s description of John as a "totally helpless" babe in the woods does not ring true. I have read transcripts of various John Lennon interviews and listened to numerous taped interviews of him as well. He never came across as being "totally helpless" as Mintz described. His celebrity status made it difficult to do a lot of mundane things that most of us take for granted, but it wasn’t because he was helpless.

According to Paul Zollo and Michael Gray, Elliot Mintz is extremely manipulative and controlling. Yoko may have sent John away, but I suspect John’s living arrangements were set up completely by Mintz. He probably said things to Yoko like, "Johns’s a great man, a musical genius, but I have to tell you as a friend, his stardom and his personality are suffocating you. It would be good for both of you to separate. Don’t worry, just send him to LA. He’s still a little boy. He needs to grow up. He’s be fine. I’ll keep an eye on him. I love the guy like a brother. But he’s a handsome man, and an ex-Beatle. Women will be throwing themselves at him, and he’s only human. To keep him from straying too far, you should send that cute little secretary, May Pang, to keep him company and handle his business affairs. That way, he’ll be sexually satisfied but he won’t run around. I know it’s a tough thing for a woman to do, but it will be better for both of you. John really loves you."

I don’t know for certain that such a conversation took place, but I know that it is unnatural for a 41 year-old woman to turn her 33 year-old husband loose with a 22 year-old woman. Many people say Yoko did it because she’s sophisticated, because she’s Japanese, and so on. Sorry, but that just isn’t believable. Another thing that has always bothered me about Mintz is his conduct the night John was killed. Mintz moved in with Yoko and stayed for two months, although there is no evidence that they were romantically involved.³³ This always struck me as pushy behavior. Some might call his conduct chivalrous; others would call it taking advantage of a grief-stricken woman. Obviously I hold the latter opinion.

Third, recall how earlier in this chapter we referenced the Church Committee’s report on dealing with the New Left. It stated that FBI agents "were instructed to gather information on the New Left’s ‘immorality’ and the ‘scurrilous and depraved’ behavior, ‘habits, and living conditions’ of the members of the targeted groups."³⁴ It appears that the FBI may have manipulated or tempted John to have sex with another woman right in front of Yoko as a means of creating division. Keep in mind John and Yoko were more than a married couple. They were a political team who ran circles around the FBI and ultimately turned public opinion against US military involvement in Vietnam. Getting John to commit adultery and get caught by Yoko would break up their marriage and destroy their political partnership as well. John’s drunken lapse in morality was a win-win situation for the FBI.

According to Yoko, John’s sexual liaison happened in Jerry Rubin’s apartment in Greenwich Village. In Chapter 2, it was suggested that Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were Jewish/FBI provocateurs. John said in an interview that Rubin and Hoffman latched on to Yoko and him as soon as they arrived in New York in 1971. "I landed in New York City," he said, "and the first people who got in touch with me were Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman."³⁵ By 1975 John had apparently caught onto Rubin’s and Hoffman’s tricks. "I never hear from them," he told an interviewer. "They vanished into the woodwork…Jerry was been nothing but trouble and a pain in the neck since I met him. I decided, as he didn’t lead the revolution, I decided to quit answering the phone."³⁶

It’s easy to blame people like John for committing acts of immorality when we’ve never walked in his shoes. Vast fame can unleash a dark side of a person, a side that would never be revealed had he/she not achieved such fame. The FBI’s stated mission against the New Left was essentially to cause such human weaknesses to surface, thereby causing the targeted individual(s) to self-destruct. It’s ironic that the man who initiated this policy, J. Edgar Hoover, was himself homosexual and a transvestite.

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