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Preston Guillory... Conspiracy Theory Central

*Former Deputy of LA Sheriff's Department

*Participated in 8/16/69 Raid on Spahn Ranch
*Testified during the Penalty Phase of the Manson Trial
*Left the Sheriff's Department around 1970 and became Private Investigator
*Best known for stating (in an interview with Paul Krassner)... that he was instructed to observe Manson and Co., but not arrest them (See Below)

Preston Guillory Stated to Paul Krassner:

We had been briefed for a few weeks prior to the actual raiding of Spahn Ranch.  We had a sheaf of memos on Manson, that they had automatic weapons at the ranch, that citizens had complained about hearing machine-guns fired at night, that firemen from the local fire station had been accosted by armed members of Manson's band and told to get out of the area, all sorts of complaints like this.

We had been advised to put anything relating to Manson on a memo submitted to the station, because they were supposedly gathering information for the raid we were going to make.  Deputies at the station of course started asking, "Why aren't we going to make the raid sooner?"  I mean, Manson's a parole violator, machine-guns have been heard, we know there's narcotics and we know there's booze. 
He's living at the Spahn Ranch with a bunch of minor girls in complete violation of his parole.

Deputies at the station quite frankly became very annoyed that no action was being taken about Manson.  My contention is this -- the reason Manson was left on the street was because our department thought that he was going to attack the Black Panthers.  We were getting intelligence briefings that Manson was anti-black and he had supposedly killed a Black Panther, the body of which could not be found, and the department thought that he was going to launch an attack on the Black Panthers.

Manson was a very ready tool, apparently, because he did have some racial hatred and he wanted to vent it.  But they hadn't anticipated him attacking someone other than the Panthers, which he did.  Manson changed his score.  Changed the program at the last moment and attacked the Tates and then went over to the LaBiancas and killed them.  And here was the Sheriff's Department suddenly wondering, "Jesus Christ, what are we gonna do about this?  We can't cover this up.  Well, maybe we can."

I bet those memos are no longer in existence.  The memos about what Manson was doing.  Citizens' complaints.  All those things I'm sure have disappeared by now. 
It shows the police were conscious of the fact that he had these weapons in violation of his parole.  You've got at least involvement here on the part of Manson's parole officer, on the part of the Sheriff's Department, probably the sheriff himself, and whoever gave him his orders.  Manson should have been [imprisoned] long before the killings, because he was on parole, period. 
He was living at the Spahn Ranch with an outlaw motorcycle gang.  I feel that, to say the least, the sheriff of Los Angeles County is an accessory to murder.

The raid was a week after the Sharon Tate thing, and the intelligence information was coming in for about three weeks prior to the raid.  They just didn't want any arrests made.  It was obvious they wanted the intelligence information we were gathering for some other reason.  Three days after they were arrested, 72 hours later, they were all released -- lack of evidence -- after this mammoth raid.  This raid involved two helicopters, 102 deputies and about 25 radio cars, and all the charges were dropped against everyone.

It appeared to me that the raid was more or less staged as an afterthought.  It was like a scenario that we were going through.  There was some kind of a grand plan that we were participating in, but I never had the feeling the raid was necessary or that it required so many personnel.  Now, if you were a police official and you were planning a raid on the Spahn Ranch, utilizing 102 deputies and helicopters and all that, one would think that with all the information coming out a month prior to the raid, wouldn't you have them under fairly close surveillance?  If you did have them under fairly close surveillance, wouldn't you see them leave the Spahn Ranch to go over and kill seven people and then come back?

So the hypothesis I put forward is, either we didn't have them under surveillance for grand-theft-auto because it was a big farce, or else they were under surveillance by somebody much higher than the Sheriff's Department, and they did go through this scenario of killing at the Tate house and then come back, and then we went through the motions to do our raid.  Either they were under surveillance at the time, which means somebody must have seen them go to the Tate house and commit the killings, or else they weren't under surveillance.

You have to remember that Charlie was on federal parole all this time from '67 to '69.  Do you realize all the shit he was getting away with while he was on parole? Now here's the kicker.  Before the Tate killings, he had been arrested at Malibu twice for statutory rape.  Never got [imprisoned for parole violation].  During the Tate killings and the Spahn Ranch raid, Manson's parole officer was on vacation, so he had no knowledge of Manson being incarcerated, so naturally Manson was released, but why wasn't a parole hold put on him?

It's like Manson had God on his side when all these things are going down, or else somebody was watching every move he made, somebody was controlling from behind the scenes.  Somebody saw that no parole hold was placed.  Manson liked to ball young girls, so he just did his thing and he was released and they didn't put any hold on him.  But somebody very high up was controlling everything that was going on and was seeing to it that we didn't bust Manson. 
Prior to the Spahn Ranch raid, there was a memo -- it was verbal, I would have loved to Xerox some things but there wasn't anything to Xerox -- that we weren't to arrest Manson or any of his followers prior to the raid.  It was intimated to us that we were going to make a raid on the Spahn ranch, but the captain came out briefly and said, "No action is to be taken on anybody at the Spahn ranch.  I want memos submitted directly to me with a cover sheet so nobody else can read them."

So deputies were submitting memos on information about the Spahn Ranch that other deputies weren't even allowed to see.  We were to submit intelligence information but not to make any arrests.   Manson was in a free fire zone, so to speak.   He was living a divine existence.   We couldn't touch him....
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-krassner/the-mystery-behind-the-ma_b_255394.html
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It seems Cats at TOTL, will be airing a New Podcast Interview with Preston Guillory very soon.
http://truthontatelabianca.com/threads/truth-on-tate-labianca-podcast-preston-guillory.4871/
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"Click" below for a full BIO of Paul Krassner.

He's as bizarre, strange and controversial, as he is impressive.

Paul Krassner calls himself an investigative satirist. Don Imus labeled him “one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century.” And, according to the Los Angeles Reader, “Krassner delivers 90 minutes of the funniest, most intelligent social and political commentary in town.”

On the other hand, a couple of FBI agents went to one of his performances and stated in their report, “He purported to be humorous about government policies.” His FBI files indicate that after Life magazine published a favorable profile of him, the FBI sent a poison-pen letter to the editor, complaining: “To classify Krassner as a social rebel is far too cute. He’s a nut, a raving, unconfined nut.”

“The FBI was right,” says George Carlin. “This man is dangerous – and funny; and necessary.”

ABC newscaster Harry Reasoner wrote in his memoirs, “Krassner not only attacks establishment values; he attacks decency in general.” So Krassner named his one-person show Attacking Decency in General, receiving awards from the L.A. Weekly and DramaLogue. He is the only person in the world ever to win awards from both Playboy (for satire) and the Feminist Party Media Workshop (for journalism).

When People magazine called Krassner “Father of the underground press,” he immediately demanded a paternity test. Actually, he had published The Realist magazine from 1958 to 1974. He reincarnated it as a newsletter in 1985. “The taboos may have changed,” he wrote, “but irreverence is still our only sacred cow.” The final issue was published in Spring, 2001.

His style of personal journalism constantly blurred the line between observer and participant. He interviewed a doctor who performed abortions when it was illegal; Krassner then ran an underground abortion referral service. He covered the antiwar movement; then co-founded the Yippies with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin (writing a few animated re-enactment scenes for the documentary “Chicago 10” four decades later). He published material on the psychedelic revolution; then took LSD with Tim Leary, Ram Dass and Ken Kesey, later accompanying Groucho Marx on his first acid trip.

He edited Lenny Bruce’s autobiography, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, and with Lenny’s encouragement, became a stand-up comic himself, opening at the Village Gate in New York in 1961. Ten years later – five years after Lenny’s death – Groucho said, “I predict that in time Paul Krassner will wind up as the only live Lenny Bruce.” He was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award in the Album Notes category for his 5,000-word essay accompanying a 6-CD package, Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware. Krassner rarely works the comedy-club circuit, preferring to perform on campuses, at theaters and in art galleries.

He has been a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher; on Air America Radio with Janeane Garofalo and on with Marc Maron. He hosted his own radio call-in show in San Francisco.

Paul is an occasional contributor to the Huffington Post. His articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy, Penthouse, Mother Jones, the Nation, New York, National Lampoon, Utne Reader, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. Weekly, New York Press, High Times and Funny Times.

His venues have ranged from the New Age Expo to the Skeptics Conference, from a Neo-Pagan Festival to the L.A. County Bar Association, from a Swingers Convention to the Brentwood Bakery, where members of the audience were each given a free pastry of their choice. Over the years, he has built up a cult following that has steadily been edging into mainstream awareness.

His reviews have been highly complimentary. The New York Times: “He is an expert at ferreting out hypocrisy and absurdism from the more solemn crannies of American culture.” The Los Angeles Times: “He has the uncanny ability to alter your perceptions permanently.” The San Francisco Chronicle: “Krassner is absolutely compelling. He has lived on the edge so long he gets his mail delivered there.”

He was head writer for an HBO special satirizing the 1980 presidential election campaign, did on-air commentary for the Fox network's Wilton-North Report, and — a decade after poking fun at Ronald Reagan — was a writer on Ron Reagan's syndicated late-night TV talk show.

Mercury Records released his first two comedy albums, “We Have Ways of Making You Laugh” and “Brain Damage Control.” Artemis Records released his next four: “Sex, Drugs and the Antichrist: Paul Krassner at MIT,” “Campaign in the Ass,” “Irony Lives!” and “The Zen Bastard Rides Again.”

His autobiography, Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture, published by Simon & Schuster, sold 30,000 copies. An expanded edition is now available on Paul's website and also as an e-book on Kindle.

His other books include:

The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race: The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner, with an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut

A trilogy of anthologies: Pot Stories For the Soul, with an introduction by Harlan Ellison, Psychedelic Trips For the Mind and Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: From Toad Slime to Ecstasy

Sex, Drugs and the Twinkie Murders: 40 Years of Countercultural Journalism

Impolite Interviews

Murder At the Conspiracy Convention and Other American Absurdities, with an introduction by George Carlin

One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist, with a foreword by Harry Shearer and an introduction by Lewis Black

In Praise of Indecency: Dispatches From the Valley of Porn

Who's to Say What's Obscene: Politics, Culture & Comedy in America Today, with a foreword by Arianna Huffington.

In May 2004, Krassner received an ACLU Uppie (Upton Sinclair) Award for dedication to freedom of expression. At the 14th annual Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, he was inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame – “my ambition,” he claims, “since I was three years old.”

And in December, 2010, the writers' organization PEN honored him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. “I'm very happy to receive this award,” Paul concluded in his acceptance speech, “and even happier that it wasn't posthumous.”