in fact, diana phillip was not a real person. false identity used by black cube. >> according to farrow, the deception didn't end there. he said there were additional operatives. in a contract signed by a lawyer, black cube agreed to hire an investigative journalist to conduct interviews and propertily reported the results. the journalist contacted rose mcgowan, saying to farrow, it scared me that harvey was testing to see if i would talk. just last week, she came out alleging in the 1990s, after driving her home, weinstein forced his way into her apartment, held her down and raped her. several journalists were allegedly targeted by weinstein himself, including farrow. >> what did she say? >> she was working on a women's empowerment initiative and wouldn't i as a male advocate. i did not respond. >> they tried stop a publication in new york magazine. which included aggressive human intelligence operations around one of the reporters of that magazine. detailed psychological profiles of the editor of that magazine. a profile of the

rose mcgowan was shocked to find out this woman diana phillip of ruben capital partners was a fictionality lying to her all of that time and surreptitiously recording audio of all of this conversations and sending it to her alleged attacker. >> and they were also reaching out to journalists. >> that's another dimension for people to understand. anyone reporting on that issue against zwun -- at "new york" magazine who actually was targeted in a similar human intelligence capacity by this woman using a completely different identity meeting with him with an emotional story suggesting she had an allegation against harvey weinstein. >> she was actually posing possibly as a victim of harvey weinstein? >> exactly right. at the same time harvey weinstein was aggressively going after that journalist's editor, add some moss of "new york" magazine and repeating to moss very specific questions their publication secretly they thought was asking to sources. >> the involvement of david boies, probably best know as arguing the merit of the proequality case. >> liberal, lawyer. >> he was working for har

diana roos gets the honor of as lifetime. "early today" starts right now. >> good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera.go the official word came down. charles manson is dead. the infamous serial

diana roos gets the honor of as lifetime. "early today" starts right now. >> good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. we begin with breaking news. a few hours ago the official word came down. charles manson is dead. the infamous serial killer had been in failing health and hospitalized from time to time the past few years. he was the sinister hippy cult leader who dubbed himself the devil. manson was pronounced dead at 8:13 pacific time last night and was believed to have died from natural causes. nbc' gat ee schwartz takes a look. >> reporter: his wild jail house interviews unforgettable. >> i'd take this book and beat you to death with it and i wouldn't feel a thing. it would be just like walking to the drugstore. >> reporter: charles manson, the mass murderer who came to represent a dark side of a generation. >> maybe i should have killed four or 500 people then i would have felt better. >> reporter: manson started committing armed robberies at the age of 13. later telling nbc's tom snyder, most of his early years were spent behind bars. >> i was raised up in here. >> reporter: in 1967 he begged t