But intelligence services discovered that they could condition their agents against revealing information under the influence of the drug by giving them doses of it themselves. Little information pertaining to the suicide of Frank OLSON was found in the collection of materials made available by DDS&T. Mrs. Gottlieb, incidentally, spent her childhood in India. 12.12 Mike Miniccino, an American businessman and historical researcher who has spent 25 years studying the MK-ULTRA programme and developing a database on its activities says that if Olson expressed doubts about MK-ULTRA and its work then he would have done so to William Sargant, the Harley Street psychiatrist, who had evaluated MK-ULTRAs work and who had been a close colleague of Olsons. He apparently worked for HumRRo. If the subject has been rendered unconscious by other wounds or drugs, either of the above methods can be used to insure death. I dont know whether Leonard had known the story before or not, but he followed the exchange between me and Grady with considerable interest. You couldnt help but be impressed.. Care is required to insure that no wound or condition not attributable to the fall is discernible after death. And the documentary evidence from 1953 demonstrates a concerted pattern of concealment and deception on the part of those persons and agencies most closely associated withand most likely to be accountable fora homicide most foul in the death of Dr. Olson. The New York district attorneys handling of the Olson case can light the way for the rest of government, but only if all of us refuse to forget the victims of undue risk. But were the confessions the truth? [39]Gottlieb mailed a monogrammed handkerchief doctored with brucellosis to Iraqi colonel Abd a-Karim Qasim[40]and he developed poisoned cigarettes intended for Jamal abd an-Nasir of Egypt. At the end of the meeting Gottlieb snapped to Eric, I can see youre still wrapped up in your fathers death. Actually it was not at all clear exactly what it was that the President and the CIA Director were apologizing for. It was still dark outside when two grim visitors arrived at the Olson house in Frederick, Maryland, two days after Thanksgiving. Olson who had stepped down to deputy chief of Special Operations joined six Army colleagues and three CIA men led by Sidney Gottlieb, the eccentric and powerful CIA liaison to Detrick. Exactly what kind of work Olson had been engaged in at the time of his accident wasnt a part of the mornings ad hoc grief counseling. While the above ground investigations proceeded, the exhumation was given the go-ahead. escort for psychiatric treatment, the employee jumped from a hotel window and died as a result. Forensic experts are hesitant to assert anything with complete certainty, but they said the death was not a suicide. higher-up Sidney Gottlieb, Ph.D., who was officially reprimanded for the handling of the Olson incident, had been involved in C.I.A. One of the top secret protocols documents a Russian agent being pumped full of medication. It was a very dim November pre-dawn, Eric said. And he makes an attempt to confide in his brother-in-law Art. Any drug that can induce schizophrenia might also, if used on a start-stop -start-stop basis, induce enough of a vibration in the lies of that schizophrenic wall to shake it and, conceivably, crack it. [Illeg] of Thailand and Augustus Caesar may have been the victims of safe, guarded and secret assassination. Bullshit. Everyone seemed to get high on the Frank Olson story. What he had in mind, take the man to a hotel room like in the Roosevelt and pitch him out from the top floor. The timing of the memo was interesting. The remaining four were CIA officers from the Technical Services Staff (TSS), commonly known inside the Agency as the dirty tricks department. The official purpose of the gathering was to discuss MK-NOAMI, a top-secret joint program of the SOD and TSS to develop germ weapons to infect enemy spies in the field. Of course their methods were not humane, they exerted a lot of pressure. At the time of his death my fathers colleagues at Detrick were informed that Frank Olson had been an unwitting participant in a drug experiment, and that this caused the psychological reaction that led to his taking his own life ten days later. This was reported in a January 19, 1995 AP story by reporter Deb Riechmann, the same reporter who had also found amysterious documentin Olsons personnel file. They were of Norman and Frank Olson, arm in arm, somewhere in the middle of Fort Detrick, circa 1953. The offensive bioweapons program was launched during World War II and ended by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969. I must check this. If special equipment is to be used, such as firearms or drugs, it is clear that he must have outstanding skill with such equipment. However, during the drive from National Airport back to Frederick, Maryland, Olson purportedly grew alarmed. By a great biographical irony, I had already come to know Henry Murray quite well at Harvard in the early 1970s, before I knew anything about the role of the CIAor the alleged role of LSDin my fathers death. Did the Technical Services Staff find itself with a man who knew so much and yet was so ill that he was a threat the MKULTRAs secrecy? A week after the case was reopened, William Colby, a key witness, vanished. Living there is worst at Thanksgiving, the time of his death. They called it dirty tricks. In the meantime, Sidney Gottlieb had already reported up the chain of command. The Birth of BLUEBIRD Most of his historical foot-notoriety, however, stems from his freelance work using prostitutes to lure unsuspecting johns to a CIA safehouse in San Francisco, where the unwitting pleasure-seekers would instead be dosed with MK-ULTRA acid. Qasim survived. And why, when he went out the window, had Lashbrook failed to summon help or even notify the hotels staff? For years, Feldman had ducked reporters. Some victims are asphyxiated, which results from cutting off oxygen to the brain. One question is why Lashbrook (or Abramson if that was who the caller was) would have called to arrange hospitalization, possibly to begin as early as that same night, if the intention was to kill the patient. The CIA report offers no more details about Olsons doings on that Friday. The film, which chronicles Luthers struggles against moral corruption in the Catholic Church and his ultimate break with Catholicism, greatly upset Olson. Before Richard Helms left his post as CIA director in 1973, a large portion of the agencys records of its mindcontrol program was ordered destroyed But a good deal of the story is detailed in Congressional testimony and thousands of pages of documents released in recent months under the Freedom of Information Act. November 1953. The body of Dr. Frank Olson has been exhumed and is undergoing an autopsy. However, in the fall of 1999 the A&E cable television network aired a program that reiterated previously broadcast doubts about the official story and also offered the most comprehensive alternative theory yet presented. In a nuclear age, Eisenhower could not risk telling the Russians or the Chinese that were willing to go to all-out war to get our prisoners back, Mr. Santoli said. An expert in germ warfare, during World War II he had designed clothing intended to protect Allied soldiers from possible German biological attacks during the Normandy invasion. At the first level there are the reports of the New York city policeman who came to the scene after a call from the Statler Hotel around 4 a.m. on 28th November as well as comments by two New York city detectives. It is now known that similar agency tests with LSD led to the suicide of an army employee, Frank Olson, and are alleged to have permanently damaged a group of unsuspecting psychiatric patients at a Canadian clinic whose director was working under CIA contract. MK-ULTRA was secret, shocking and incredibly dangerous. Raji heard him, but Raji was the boss. But the report is also a selfindictment on moral and ethical grounds. Mr. Deakins sent out two corps of engineers, each without knowledge of the other grroup, to survey the best land in this section that contained 600 acres. So that those documents would not be misunderstood, he answered. Frank Olsons moral crisis culminated in his decision to quit his job during the weekend following the drugging, a fact which, again, is not mentioned in the Colby documents. Specific poisons, such as arsenic or strychnine, are effective but their possession or procurement is incriminating, and accurate dosage is problematical. It is in the best interests of the Agency to extend this time limit and obtain the best possible manual rather than hold Mr. Mulholland to the six-month period. The person who puts the spin on the story controls it from the beginning. The New York Times See? said Eric. Functional correction of dystrophin actin binding domain mutations by genome editing. Kind of a truth cocktail. What is that?. Early in July, after months of negotiation, the two government departments gave in and agreed that the grand jury should hear Saraccos team examine Lashbrook at Venture County Courthouse during the week beginning 24 August. Saracco and Bibb decided to interview William Colby, Vincent Ruwet, Robert Lashbrook, and Sidney Gottlieb. Early in the morning of November 29, Frank Olson went through the window of the hotel room he was sharing with colleague Robert Lashbrook. Moreover my prior interview with Lyman Kirkpatrick, a long-time manufacturer of window shades, left me with little doubt that a shade of the type fitted to the window of room 1018A would not snap back to its housing if a body had struck it full-tilt. 4.55 Medicating Dr. Olson with two interacting central nervous system depressants had the real potential of killing him, as columnist Dorothy Kilgallen learned to her fatal distress. A condition of complete simplicity Interestingly, the belief that ones psyche is being invaded by radio transmissions or electrical implants is considered a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. We now were able to clearly formulate a motive, a means, and an opportunity for the murder of Frank Olson, and to provide an account of the death that was more convincing than anything we had been told by the government. Eric was nine years old at the time. Mr. Olson represents clients in commercial disputes before state and federal courts, in international litigation and arbitration . into naive subjects to study changes in their subjectivity. And in 1960, even as the Multiform Assessments on Kaczynski and his classmates were underway, Murray had, according to Leary, given his blessing to the latters testing psilocybin, an hallucinogen derived from mushrooms, on undergraduates. The Men Who Stare at Goats Despite the findings of a Senate committee headed by Ted Kennedy that U.S. mind-control research was a big silly failure, and even though Markswhose approach is fairly conservativeacknowledges that he found no record to prove it, the project may have indeed succeeded. After my book was published, I continued to meet with Dr Sargent. Nevertheless, the report described how on November 19, 1953, Gottlieb or someone acting at his behest had slipped the drug into Olsons glass of Cointreau at Deep Creek Lodge. Housing a possibly deranged and desperate man in a hotel room high above Seventh Avenue was not a regrettable error of judgment. Japanese global apparel retailer UNIQLO introduces its UT Skater lineup through an exclusive Skater Event last February 22, 2023. I am assured that because of the highly unusual circumstances of your fathers death, the details have remained on file with several of the above-mentioned agencies, specifically the Mossad. Was the government afraid Frank Olson might reveal state secrets? Standing in the tiny room, Eric was struck by the physical impossibility of the official scenario. They were not C.I.A. Recently a theatre director approached Eric for his permission to turn the Frank Olson story into an opera about defenestration, but Eric declined, explaining that this was a complex enough tale anyway even without having the facts sung at an audience. program as a way to lure people into their LSD experiments. The consequences of military confrontation could well be global thermonuclear war. Experts later told Eric that a man would have to be running more than thirty miles per hour to crash through such a window and the hotel room was too short for even an accomplished athlete to accomplish it. In an attempt to preempt foreign attacks and even wage its own assaults, the CIA funded a group of renegade agents to experiment with ways to derail a human being. A contra-coup hemorrhage is the consequence. In other words, had the hematoma been caused by hitting the sidewalk, there would have been much more damage to the skull than we found. Regis makes no mention of the fact that this extremely unlikely story derives only from the CIAs uncorroborated version of events. He became one of the guinea pigs, but his reaction to the LSD spelled disaster for him. The distance from the sidewalk to the windowsill of Room 1018A was about 173 feet as determined by triangulation made by Geologist George Stephens and myself from actual measurements we made onsite. According to the official CIA version of events, made public in 1975, Olson became increasingly despondent and paranoid. Evidence in support of that can be found in Frank Olsons passport. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly, Editors note: In 1998, WorldNetDaily first reported on the CIAs secret behavior-modification program MK-ULTRA, which included experimentation with LSD on unsuspecting subjects. Hoch, along with associates Dr. Harold A. Abramson and Dr. Max Rinkel, was among an elite group of five private researchers and six U.S. Army physicians who began quietly conducting LSD experiments in the U.S. in 1949. That investigation is continuing. There was a local journalist asking Eric, as the coffin was hauled noisily into the back of a truck, Are you having second thoughts about this, Eric?. Theirs was a world in which everyone knew each other, and many worked for the CIA. He had entered a world of covert operations, espionage, mind control, drugs, and even death. On May 4, he drafted a Memorandum for the Record spelling out what Mulholland was to do: 1. Ruwet was a close friend of the Olson family, he had been in contact with Olson daily since June 1953 and had been with Lashbrook and Olson in New York until the previous day. The guiding force behind MK-ULTRA was Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who had just become chief of the Chemical Division of the CIAs Technical Services Staff. ''When it is over. Blunt weapons The CIA would purchase all of Sandozs potential output of LSD. Eric spent a weekend at Normans house in Connecticut. His ability to keep this part of his life secret for so long may well have been his greatest magic trick. Whos there? came a gruff and uninviting male voice. Without declaring it. , Yes, one more thing, I said. Well, White said,thats why we have to test these drugs, to find out if they can be used to brainwash people. He says, If we can find outjust how good this stuff works, youll be doing a great deal for your country.. Mine was in history, his in clinical psychology. Once perfected, the dart gun astonished those who saw it in action. Eric Olson, a Maryland clinical psychologist, began to spend every spare moment trying to get at the true story of what had happened to his father. Enhancer is the focus of his Transcription factor research. Through Gordon Thomas, a British journalist and author of numerous books on intelligence matters, Eric learned that during a trip to London his father had apparently confided in William Sargant, a consultant psychiatrist who advised British intelligence on brainwashing techniques. Center for Open Science: Charlottesville, Virginia, US. In 1949 and 1950, he worked briefly on Operation Harness, a joint US-British effort to spray virulent organisms so-called BW antipersonnel agents around the Caribbean, decimating untold thousands of plants and animals. Talk about shutting off curiosity!!! There are receipts for books with suggestive titles: The Assassins, The Enemy Within, Dictionary of Poisons. He had a bad dream. The only organizational exit is a horizontal one. Dr. Frank Olson was an expert for anthrax and other biological weapons and had top security clearance. This is the question of timing: why were arrangements for hospitalization made so late in the week, and so late in the day? Dr. Gibson affirmed that Lashbrook had said he awakened to find Olson standing in the middle of the hotel room. He had been a C.I.A. The time consuming part of writing this section will be in developing the adaptations and modifications of the best existing (methods) to fit new requirements. His reaction to the glare of the rising suns blinding me like an interrogation lamp causing me to seek to move to another chair out of the suns bright light had C.I.A. Surprised and curious, I invited him to tell me more about it, and so he did, putting me on notice of the circumstances of Frank Olsons death. The connections between MK-mind-control experiments, the proliferation of the drug culture, Mob/CIA assassination plots, and the emergence of new, lethal viruses go on and on. He also directs the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine and the Wellstone Center for Muscular Dystrophy Research. Vice President Municipal Advisor Multifamily, Single Family, Quantitative Services. Sources F.W. To solve the mystery of their fathers death. That day in July 1975 we sat at this table and read afamily statement. Endowed Title There (is) the possibility that it might be necessary to disclose highly classified national security information in connection with any court suit or legislative hearings.. Yet in the aftermath of that ill-fated Thanksgiving weekend in 1953, and for a numbing 22 years afterward, the Olson family had been given no explanation at all for Frank Olsons mysterious death. The confluence of scientific fact and investigative fact points unerringly to the death of Frank Olson as being a homicide, deft, deliberate and diabolical. The same narrow focus on value-free science that led Nazi concentration camp doctors to commit atrocities encouraged many of these well-meaning scholars to cross ethical lines. . He recalls this strange night now as a revelation. After Whites death, his widow donated his papers, including diaries, to an electronic surveillance museum. Indeed the principal forensic investigator who had exhumed the body viewed it in exactly that way. When Pastore went up to the stranger's room -- 1018A -- with the police, they found a man who gave his name as Robert Lashbrook sitting on the toilet with his head in his hands. Refine Your Search Results All Filters 1 Eric Rodney Olson, 56 Resides in Las Vegas, NV Lived In Dundee IL, Ypsilanti MI, Chula Vista CA, San Diego CA The code name for this operation: Artichoke. I found him sitting at the bar nursing a Coca Cola. This attitude is regarded as typical by persons at Detrick who are acquainted with him., Olson is violently opposed to control of scientific research, either We used to get intelligence reports telling me what my Russian counterpart was doing, Walter said. For 23 years, I have editedThe Sphinxas a labor of love and without financial reward. 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