VACAVILLE, Sept. 26 – Infamous multiple murderer Charles Manson was clamped back into supertight security in Vacaville’s California Medical Facility last week, shortly after the world was told he had been allowed to mingle with other prisoners, the Reporter has learned.

Manson tried to smuggle a letter out of CMF to “a girl friend,” using another inmate as an intermediary, prison spokesman Roger Schaufel told the Reporter Wednesday.

The bizarre cult leader’s letter was discovered in an unrelated search of the other inmate’s cell Thursday, Schaufel said. Manson’s freedom within the prison was reduced immediately, and his contact with other inmates was limited more strictly “as a precaution,” he stated.

Manson remains in CMF’s Sequin Unit as a “psychiatric management case,” the spokesman said.

There was “nothing dramatic” in Manson’s letter, which was simply “a way of making contact with the person,” Schaufel told the Reporter. He declined to name either the person to whom it was addressed or the inmate what was to have helped Manson smuggle it out.

Earlier last week, prison officials had confirmed that Manson had progressed from the “S3” intake section of Sequin Unit to the slightly more relaxed “S2” section, where he had some contact with other inmates.

Manson has been in CMF since March 20 serving a life sentence for the ritual murders of actress Sharon Tate and six other persons.