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If the CIA wanted a presence in the Los Angeles DA’s office, Younger didn’t strike me as someone who’d put his foot down. Nor did his second in command, Lynn “Buck” Compton, who’d been an LAPD detective before getting his law degree and joining the DA’s office. Compton was the lead prosecutor in the trial of Sirhan B. Sirhan for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. And he’d been a World War II hero—his exploits with the parachute infantry regiment, the Easy Company, were chronicled in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
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Tom O'Neill (Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties)