Yes dude! So true! And weird thing is that a lot of the most interesting young wildcat "characters" that emerged in Cali around the period did have family or prior institutional ties to military or intelligence lol.

Thinking about this stuff, two other things occur to me as essential to dig on. The proven involvement of MK-Ultra doctors working out of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic and Manson & family's regular presence there. My personal thought is that it's likely the clinic was acting as altogether: a clinic, an MK experimental reporting facility, as well as a wholesale outlet for CIA acid, amphetamine, and god knows what else.

The other thing to look at is a bit later, the bewilderingly dominant figure of Jim Jones in SF and the state. Seeing it as an outsider in time and place I say even if he didn't become a deeply funded, CIA connected, off-shore prison camp operating, mass murdering mind-control wizard; even excluding all that, it would still be a completely absurd level of power, influence, status, and access that Jones enjoyed in California for him to not have been also operating in some other capacity undisclosed to the public. Interesting how, as the local culture moved on so did jones and his operation.

I really think these are the two nearest surface level major focal points of what I suspect was a CIA operated "cultural revolution". Would surely be in contention if not ensured to be the most amazing psyop ever perpetrated.