If you want to have black in your paint box, be sure to only use it on your mailbox." - CFW
Charles Francis Winans
Charles Winans vs. Krassner and Rolling Stone
"In '75, Krassner wrote an article for Rolling Stone titled "My Trip With Squeaky" which included a paragraph about **** ****, and ****'s alleged association with Tex Watson. As a result of this article, **** sued Rolling Stone for libel to the tune of $450 million - because, as he claimed, he had never been with Naval Intelligence - which required Krassner's sources to give depositions. The neighbor who said she has seen Tex Watson at ****'s house was now in a state mental hospital.
Eventually, the **** case was settled out of court by Rolling Stone, and Krassner published a letter of retraction. Nowadays, Krassner writes off the whole **** incident as a "paranoid freak-out" he suffered after dipping his head too deeply in the conspiratorial morass. In contrast, Mae Brussell felt that Krassner sold out when he began to fear for his life, in much the same way that Ed Sanders went into hiding, and that is why his follow-up to The Family - titled The Motive - never saw the light of day. "
"I recently bought a complete set of Audio and Video DVD's of Mae Brussell radio and TV broadcasts. I zeroed in on one numbered #316, which was the broadcast before Mae announced that she was scheduled as a witness in the trial brought by a Texan named Charles Winans as plaintiff (Melvin Belli of California was his attorney) against Rolling Stone and Paul Krassner, author of an article stating that Winans had coordinated an attack using Charles Denton "Tex" Watson to manipulate or set up Charles Manson and his girls to kill Sharon Tate and others, operating under Naval Intelligence." - Linda Minor
Mae Brussell Radio and TV Broadcasts
http://www.worldwatchers.info/
That tape (#317) is available in MP3 #317 4/16/78 30 min.
http://www.worldwatchers.info/admin/78-04-16_DC_317.mp3
Interview with Paul Krassner
"I ended up investigating the Manson case instead. In my Manson research, I thought I had uncovered the guy who was an agent in naval intelligence who was posing as a hippie artist and had orchestrated the Manson murders. It turned out to be a false lead, I learned, after I had written about it in Rolling Stone." - Paul Krassner
Identity Theory
http://www.identitytheory.com/paul-krassner/
"I had hoped to get confirmation of the heaviest lead in my research. I'd been tracking down the path of Charles Winans, an individual in Navy intelligence who had posed as a hippie artist, orchestrating the scenario of violence and witchcraft in meetings with Tex Watson, who then fulfilled the prophecy of this agent provocateur with all that shooting and stabbing. Manson had merely instructed his ladies to go and do whatever Tex told them. But Squeaky, Sandy and Brenda had never heard of Winans."
Paul Krassner
'My Trip With Squeaky: Just
One of Charlie's Girls'
By Paul Krassner
Rolling Stone, October 23, 1975
http://www.angelfire.com/home/freelynettefromme/media/krassner.htm
Notes:
And, of course, GrandMa's Tea House, the mother of all the local Head Shops. On Broadway near Hung Fong. My friend Charles Winans, RIP, opened it in around 66 or so.
Find a Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=102111404