The Waverly Drive/La Bianca murders do not get the attention the Cielo Drive/Tate murders get. Leno La Bianca was a wealthy supermarket president. His wife Rosemary possessed a considerable fortune. It may have been a “cover crime”, to distract and confuse motive for the Sharon Tate murders. The Son of Sam murders contain random killings meant to hide motive for some of the slayings. [1]
The Charles Manson “family” murders had far deeper motives than originally believed. “Manson,” said one of Maury Terry’s informants, “was a puppet.” [1]
Pic Dawson, occasional boyfriend of Mama Cass Elliot, was believed by British police to be involved in a major drug-smuggling operation. “Pic” was “the jet-setting son” of a U.S. State Department official. State Department is joined at the hip to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Gary Webb, an American investigative journalist working for the San Jose Mercury News, examined the origins of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles and claimed that members of the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua had played a major role in creating the trade, using cocaine profits to finance their fight against the government in Nicaragua. He also stated that the Contras may have acted with the knowledge and protection of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). [1][2][3]
If he was a CIA,
Selling dope and making hay…
(“Ballad of John Sinclair”, John and Yoko Lennon)
Webb died by “suicide” on December 10, 2004. He was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the head. [3]
At the crime scene for the Tate murders, someone wrote “Pig” in blood on the wall. Except it may have been “Pic”, as in Pic Dawson. [4]
Actor Dennis Hopper stated that the folks at Cielo Drive were into kinky sex and made videos of same. Three days prior to the August 9, 1969 carnage at Cielo (meaning “Heaven” in Spanish), a “happening” was held: twenty-five people were invited to attend a mass whipping of a drug dealer who had sold bad dope. [1]
The true motive, said Charles Manson, had to remain secret else a major scandal would erupt. Involved in the investigation were the FBI, Israeli intelligence, and the California Beverage Control Board. [1]
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[1] The Ultimate Evil, by Maury Terry (Updated edition). Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2021.
[2] “Mama Cass in London: drugs, towels, Michael Caine and Charles Manson”, April 8, 2014. https://greatwen.com/tag/pic-dawson/
[3] “Gary Webb”, Wikipedia. Accessed June 25, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
[4] Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, by Tom O’Neill, with Dan Piepenbring. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019.