Echoes of Laurel Canyon 17 - Charlie Manson And The Plutonium Factory
Manson Dune Buggies Presided Over Nuclear Release 350 Times Worse Than Three Mile Island - Some Say 459 Times Worse
Readers of Tom O’Neill’s book, “Chaos,” about the Manson Family, are always shocked to read how the Charles Manson Family patrolled the most essential strategic military pass on the West Coast with a fleet of high-tech dune buggies.
The Mason dune buggies in the book “Chaos” are right out of “Dune” or “Mad Max”, and maybe even seem to have inspired those “dune buggy war’ or “road cop” movies.
But Tom O’Neill, who has written the most comprehensive book on the Manson murders “Chaos,” never seems to have considered where Charlie Manson or his family had a garage with tools, parts, and expertise to convert Volkswagen cars into dune buggies. The “road cop” dune buggies the Manson Family used to intimidate Santa Susana Pass hikers and gold miners appear magically from the sand, like a spontaneous generation scene from “Dune.”
Still, instead, the dune buggies magically appear at the Santa Susana Pass with Manson Family drivers armed to the teeth, ready for use with Manson’s armed patrols. O’Neill also doesn’t seem to question how Manson and Family members found an arsenal of weapons and ammunition either.
Where Manson sourced all the rifles and ammunition is never pursued much in the investigations or Tom O’Neill’s Chaos book. However, following weapons and ammunition are the first traces a law enforcement investigator would undertake in any standard investigation, or at least in the type of investigations that our international research group does.
Manson openly threatened law enforcement officers that he had professional snipers training their beads on the police who visited them. Think back to your traffic stops with police and think how many times you told the officer who pulled you over that your snipers had a bead on them. Also, O’Neill neglected to say to you in his “Chaos” book that this same Santa Susana Pass was the location of a plutonium bomb factory, a small but significant detail.
https://media.nbcnewyork.com/assets/editorial/national/legacy/national/KNBC/la-nuclear-secret/
Santa Susana was nothing less than a test track for the Cold War to see who would win the billion-dollar contracts.
It would also be the battleground for industrial espionage, which would destroy a pioneer in North American aviation and put the profits of the espionage in the hands of the same Chicago Outfit started by Al Capone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
A total of no less than ten nuclear reactors capable of using and making plutonium were at Area IV at the Santa Susana Field Lab, eating the dust of the Manson dune buggies in 1968 and 1969.
And no less than four meltdowns occurred less than thirty-five miles from downtown Los Angeles, with the 1959 meltdown being estimated at 330 to 459 times worse than the much more famous Three Mile Island accident that occurred in 1959.
Again, I had fun with this idea of a spectacular omission of the Manson Family guarding a nuclear bomb factory. Since no other authors have bothered to show what the Manson Clan was really guarding with their dune buggies, why leave the Plutonium Bomb Factory out of the picture?
Suppose the truth is told about the Santa Susana plutonium reactors. In that case, you will find it is the brainchild of one General, Curtis LeMay, who openly entertained the idea of limited nuclear warfare in both Korea and Vietnam. In the early Cold War, when the Santa Susana Field Lab was created, supersonic missiles and aircraft to penetrate Soviet air defenses were being developed by North American Aviation, General Dynamics, and Douglas Aircraft Corporation.
North American Aviation, the same Columbus, Ohio company taken out by henry Crown of General Dynamics and the Chicago Outfit, was the early leader in this speed race.
Douglas Aircraft in nearby Santa Monica also had a proposal in the high speed penetrator race with its D-684 proposal. Douglas Aircraft founder Donald Douglas had an ace in the hole in Santa Monica though, the government think tank RAND Corporation with Douglas founded.
RAND Corporation engineers could literally make a thirty minute drive to see competitive tests of various rocket and hypersonic jet engines being tested. But somewhere along the way, the production of plutonium bombs was added.
RAND cofounder Donald Douglas was extremely close to RAND Project life giver General Curtis LeMay. LeMay considered massive nuclear warfare a viable option for Cold War conflicts, and LeMay remains the prime suspect for starting plutonium bomb research at the Santa Susana Field Lab SSFL).
Consider also that General Curtis “Bombs Away” LeMay worked for Networks Electronic, an explosives manufacturer in nearby Chatsworth. Was LeMay continuing Plutonium bomb research at Rand Corporation at Santa Susana? We know he commissioned Sam Cohen at Rand to look at the “neutron bomb”, so other variants are reasonable.
Network Electronics seems like the front to continue the research after LeMay left the Air Force in 1965 and his move to March AFB near Riverside California.
The Networks Electronic name is known as a “commercial cover,” in this case, the commercial cover was for a plutonium bomb-making factory.
If you reverse the name of LeMay’s commercial cover company, Networks Electronics, you get the rage of the day at DARPA, Electronic Networks. Networks Electronic sold cables in its fake salesroom but arranged for bomb-making in its lower and hidden reaches.
LeMay’s Networks Electronic really worked as an explosives manufacturer that employed ex-Nazi assassination squads led by Otto Skorzenzy, who had a close relationship with General Curtis LeMay. You may remember our frequent posts about Reeve Whitson consorting with ex-Nazi Otto Skorzeny along with the CIA, FBI, and LAPD Intelligence Units. Using an intermediary to protect the actual people who are calling the shots, like General Curtis LeMay, is standard practice in intelligence agencies.
You quickly get the impression that General LeMay’s snipers and assassins were waiting in the bushes to provide security for LeMay’s secret project at the Santa Susana Pass, not Manson’s. North American Aviation, the contractor for this Plutonium Bomb Factory, was the same company Henry Crown shipped almost lock, stock, and barrel to Israel.
We need to do more research to see if Israel was going to be the proxy Air Force for dropping LeMay’s “baby nukes”, with Henry Crown of General Dynamics providing the company needed for the technology transfer in General Atomics and General Dynamics. For instance, Henry Crown’s Atlas Rocket competed with North America’s Navajo missile. The Atlas Rocket was also tested at the Santa Susana Field Lab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-64_Navaho
Howard Hughes factory in El Segundo made the Falcon air-to-air missile, which could not deliver a nuclear warhead. Hughes’ missile business sold to Raytheon in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-4_Falcon
Henry Crown and Sidney Korshak would have wanted both missiles for the Israeli Air Force, but the North American Aviation Navajo missile was tested at Santa Susana Field Lab, making it the most accessible by Curtis LeMay.
Our research group visited two of the most likely ports these missiles were shipped out of in Los Angeles - Howard Hughes and Robert Mahue’s ’ El Segundo port, used by his missile factory, and Hughes and Mahue’s Long Beach port, used by his oil drilling company.
We have covered how Howard Hughes was entrapped and extorted by Mossad for essential military secrets with the use of a woman named The Black Dahlia and with the help of the CIA’s Robert Mahue in a previous substack. General Curtis LeMay seems to fall in a similar category, but ego rather than sexual dalliance appears to be General LeMay’s Achilles Heel.
In all probability, Charlie Manson and the “Family” was just the first line of defense for General Curtis LeMay’s Santa Susana Plutonium Bomb Factory. If you got through Manson’s first line of dune buggies and horse patrols, snipers probably awaited you as you climbed toward the Plutonium Bomb Factory.
But you already get the idea that none of the books like “Helter Skelter” ever covered these crucial details about the Plutonium Bomb Factory. I took the liberty of spoofing the idea that just Charlie Manson and his Family would be the only defense for a Plutonium Bomb Factory, which I call the Plutonium Thunderdome.