Memories of the Eighties,Screen,1982). Alice Olson roused her nine-year-old son, Eric, from bed and led him into the living room. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care; MultiPlan * Please verify . These cunts all thought I was a racketeer, Feldman explained. Two possibilities attracted attention. Its not an easy theory to wrap your mind around, concedes Nils Olson, 53, Eric Olsons brother. View Details. A few weeks later, at Kransberg Castle north of Frankfurt, the scientific elite of Nazi Germany is arrested and questioned by American officers. The commission found all three practices unsavory, but reserved its harshest language for the drug tests. Reading this passage at the kitchen table in Frederick, Eric realized that the word he had been looking for all his life was not ''fallen'' or ''jumped'' but ''dropped.'' This was one of Gottliebs MK-ULTRA subprojects and it was concerned with toxic delirium, uremic coma and cerebral toxicity from poisoning. Cancer and diabetic patients were given chemical compounds in order to study the eff ect on mental function of large doses of the compound. The document, which has heavy deletions, does not specifically mention LSD as the drug in these tests, but a former CIA official familiar with this particular program said privately that it couldnt have been anything else.. Disappointed, Eric found it difficult acquiring another attorney to take the lead. As with edge weapons, blunt weapons require some anatomical knowledge for effective use. 43.48 And he has a clubfoot, but loves all the same to square dance. December 23, 2001. He had contacts among C.I.A. If the window shade was Venetian blinds it would have been a virtually impossible scenario. Suppose the grand jury does in the end find that the evidence that Olson was murdered and that the perpetrators were other CIA officers, there will still remain a major barrier to an eventual convictionwhat was the motive? As he put it, he had been taken in by the reports he received that this death was an uncomplicated out-and-out suicide. You stopped taking any initiative, you stopped gathering evidence., For Eric, the D.A.s dumping of the Frank Olson case was yet another in a long line of betrayals by the state. Bluebird scientists began experimenting on North Korean prisoners of war and others. Chair of the behavioral Sciences Department there, Dr. Levisky is a quiet and unassuming scientist with a lively interest in historical cemeteries in the York county arena. Immediately afterward, Pastore asked the hotel operator if shed overheard any calls from Room 1081A. Eliot writes: This is a moment like that, a moment when the circle closes. Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Well, Hugo, theres a good case to be made for declining even to talk about quandaries like that. Only geniuses need applyhow did they ever miss you? (ii) Dr. Olsons job is so sensitive that it is highly unlikely that we would submit relevance to the court on the issue of his duties. Was that the CIA agent reporting that he had solved the Frank Olson problem in the Hotel Pennsylvania? When the end of the war revealed that the Nazis had been carrying out similar experiments23 German doctors were convicted at Nurembergthe Western intelligence community suddenly became very interested in Camerons work. John Marks chapter, combined with the spin that was put on the story of my fathers death by the CIA in 1975, formed the basis for the publics belief that Frank Olson committed suicide after being drugged with LSD in a secret CIA experiment. THE PARENTS HOME DOCTOR (with lan D Hudson, Vincent Pippet) The commission did not say who ordered the files destroyed or why such an order was given. He has nothing else to say. The Cold War Happily the extraction process had hit no snags. The drug had important strategic advantages. Additionally, documents reveal: Marrazzi indicated in his trip report that while he was in New York he prevailed on one of the New York City Medical Examiners with whom he was well acquainted to place all the records (regarding Blauer) in a confidential file in the medical examiners office. He and his wife were both fun people, recalls Curtis B. Thorne, a Detrick veteran who pioneered anthrax studies at the University of Massachusetts. A Gottlieb memo in 1953 stated that MK-ULTRA Subproject 6 is designed to develop a reliable source of lysergic acid derivatives within the U.S., as opposed to our present complete depen upon [DELETED I sources, and in addition, it aims to extend the isolation and testing program of the hypnoti c nat- products from the Rivea species of plants obtained from [DELETED].. A Cold War context in which unethical research was being absorbed and sponsored was bound to see extreme forms of discipline and sanction applied to those who raised ethical questions or who might be likely to do so. Olson tried to tell Pastore something, but his words were too faint and garbled to be understood. The question is a cover-up of what? To maintain absolute secrecy, the participants had been instructed to remove all Camp Detrick tags from their automobiles, and to adopt the occupational camouflage of sports journalists. The language of the manual had to sound like a simple magic text without any words or examples that would connect it to its true clandestine use. Yes, absolutely! As he spoke my mind raced with a stream of unvoiced questions. As George White once told me, Ike, your best information outside comes from the whores and the junkies. Later, it will be said the CIA was conducting a kind of self test but without the knowledge of the participants. Dr. Gibson wanted me to understand that this was not and had never been the case. We are exploring the mechanisms whereby pluripotent stem cells become committed to different muscle cell lineages. Even with full jacket ammunition, this will be absolute lethal is the burst pattern is no larger than a man. Among the stipulations was a commitment to total secrecy. In a success-obsessed society like this one, whats the best rock to hide something under? But then came the suggestion that perhaps I meant the Railey Cabin. I had gotten the name from the old typewritten 1953 Deep Creek Rendezvous invitation. And you dont get justice with a secret state murder.. I wont say anything more than that. Armond D. Pastore But he said its fine with him if the dark lessons of Fort Detricks early days are lost forever. (Costing not less than everything), T.S. Why was Olson in John Mulhollands office on November 25? US Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld have been sensationally accused of covering up the murder of a former army scientist. It could fry my kishkes if read by the wrong eyes. Despite Lashbrooks pathetic attempts to deflect blame by trumping up a bogus psychiatric history for Olson, CIA Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick officially (but secretly) concluded that Olsons suicide had been triggered by the LSD dosing. 43.31 Voice of US Air Force Pilot (Prisoner of War in North Korea): But the Manhattan D.A., while probably agreeable to immunity for Albarelli's sources in Florida, has not pursued the confidentiality releases. The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject. But the condition of the body meant that precise identification was impossiblemaking the area a conspiracy blackspot. If the sheep jumped, that meant people were going to jump, too, said Pannier, now living a quiet life tending his flowers and shrubs in Frederick. At the same time, DiMaio told reporters that he had been told nothing in 1953 about Olson being given LSD or having been brought to New York to see a physician. In June 1994, 41 years after Frank Olsons burial, Eric watched as a steam shovel began to dredge up the earth at his fathers grave. This memorandum proved persuasive. Eric Olson, PhD Stephan Kimbel Olson Nils Olson, DDS Lauren Olson Kristin Olson. The day before the reburial, the surviving Olsons held one last backyard press conference. He was also helping the Technical Services Staff design devices to carry this out. What are they trying to do with me? But even the worst setbacks can be instructive. He obviously knew, however, that lysergic acid monoethylamide can be isolated from Rivea seeds and turned into LSD. Dick Russell, author of a recent book on the Kennedy assassination titledThe Man Who Knew Too Much,uncovers new evidence to support the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was a product of MK-ULTRA. President Truman announced that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb. 11.07 He would do virtually anything if he believed it to be in the American interest. They will also be affected by whether or not the assassin is to be killed with the subject. 10.55 Lashbrook and Gottlieb hastily made arrangements for Olson to see Dr. Harold Abramson, a New York M.D. Jeff Kercheval rolled the mummified palmar surface of the finger pads after having in fused them with a saline solution to puff up the flesh of the finger pads, and I mikrosiled (a silly putty type of material) cast them, both with splendid results, in the hope that ante-mortem fingerprints of Frank Olson in his military records might be retrieved for comparison purposes. (p. 502), Chapter 3, of tacitly acknowledged that it had committed a sin against the order that holds citizens in allegiance to their government. They are the very opposite of the dictum that gentlemen do not read each others mail. However, CIA spokesman Paul Nowack insisted: The CIA fully cooperated in allowing the truth to surface. 43.19 Chapter One of: Dr. Jack (James) Frost, a West Virginia Medical Examiner, agreed to perform the autopsy at the Hagerstown (Md) Community College, arranged through the contacts made by Jeff Kercheval, a criminalist with the Hagerstown police lab, who served on the team. Bonnie K Olson Age 66. Actually it was not at all clear exactly what it was that the President and the CIA Director were apologizing for. Lee, Martin, and Bruce Shlain. On June 13, experiments are conducted with Patient No. So, how much is Eric Olson worth at the age of 60 years old? (Gibson went on to a very distinguished career in medicine: he became director of Shepherd-Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, and President of the American Psychiatric Association.) Collecting the facts has been difficult enough, but there has been something even harder. I suppose its this LSD shit.. And in 1961 he spoke at the International Congress of Applied Psychology in Copenhagen, which, thanks to Leary and Huxleys presence, turned into a virtual psychoactive circus. (Before you get too pissed off, recognize that I mean it.) agents, men now in their 70's and 80's, are about to come forward unless they are released from their confidentiality agreements with the agency. Quick now, here, now, always Write this down. If anybody with bad intentions got hold of the things we had, it would be disastrous., By Thomas OTooole This would not stop the CIA or other branches of the United States Government from spending enormous resources over the next three decades to explore the possibilities of parapsychology and remote viewing. In addition, we learned that the nature and thickness of the window glass, although altered at the time of our on-scene investigations, was identical to that of a window in an upstairs unit at the hotel. LSD, it was soon learned, was a much more effective way to loosen the tongue than alcohol was. Of course, they assigned me to him I guess they figure we have something in common. The effects of LSD-25 appear to be specific and are not related to any of the factors mentioned above. THEY GOT BACK 23.56 In it, under a section headed The Testing of Behavior-Influencing Drugs on Unsuspecting Subjects Within the United States, the suicide of an unnamed man who jumped from a New York hotel after being given LSD without his knowledge while he was attending a meeting with CIA personnel working on the drug project was briefly mentioned. Frank Olson's specialty, it turned out, had been the development of aerosols for the delivery of anthrax. Baltimore Sun, Frank Rudolph Olson died on November 28, 1953, when he fell from the 13th floor of Manhattan's Hotel Statler. operative stating only that he was gone? Box 348 Health Sciences Center Shes the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries. The field of psychoactive drugs, it seemed, was yet another defense-related area in which the Nazis had been ahead of the Allies. Yet nothing had been seen thus far to account for the large hematoma to Olsons head. The most candid discussion I have seen of this general problem with reference to the values of a democracy (though murder of a fellow citizen is not mentioned) occurs between two CIA officers in William Buckleys novelSpytime: Esterhazy was solemn in his reflection. On the other hand both versions deflected attention from the most troubling issue inherent in the conduct of the kind of BW and mind-control research in which my father and his colleagues were engaged. Like the documents released to John Marks in 1977, these files were heavily though inconsistently redacted. The latter seems overwhelmingly likely. The investigator had interviewed William Sargant, the English psychiatrist and consultant to British intelligence (and author of an early book on brainwashing). The symptoms observed appear to be identical with those observed in groups of non-addicts or for different composition with respect to race, age, social and economic status, and personality types. Problems with the conventional story Now, it seemed to Eric Olson, that apology had been a cynical lie. Sure enough, the Deep Creek Bridge, a key landmark for finding the old cabin, was just a few miles beyond. Frederick/Maryland. Meanwhile, ex-CIA man Robert Lashbrook fought the New York D.A.s attempts to interview him; he eventually submitted to a deposition. It is built on the premise that the psychic wall which schizophrenia builds to close off communication between opposite parts of the personality is composed of an immense number of lies, and the truth is encysted behind it. In this context thememoprovided by Gordon Thomas takes on special significance. Total sales exceed 45 million copies. He told me he could never forget that call although so many years had passed because he was also the recipient of a second phone call the next morning from Dr. Lashbrook stating that Dr. Olson had died in New York City and, therefore, he would not be coming to Chestnut Lodge Hospital. At the end of this story ones mind is inevitably drawn back to thatWashington Postarticle which, under the ironic headline Suicide Revealed, reported the anonymous suicide of an Army scientist. Clearly the intent was that Frank Olson was an MIA who should remain forever nameless. As one CIA doctor put it, We lived in a never-never land of eyes only memos and unceasing experimentation.. Gottlieb had learnt the art of sleight-of-hand from a Broadway magician called John Mulholland. Among these were members of the former team of doctors already wanted by the U.S. Army war crimes unit for having conducted the ghoulish high-altitude (oxygen and pressure deprivation) experiments on Dachau inmates that killed at least seventy. We used that information to assist in a reconstruction. 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. But if there was foul play in the death of Frank Olson what was the motive? And among these fellow travelers would be Professor Murray Throughout this undeclared conflict he continued to serve, albeit quietly, Americas defense efforts. According to the documents Colby had given the family, Olson spent an agonized night wandering the streets of New York, discarding his wallet and identification cards. A secret his father knew, too? Last autumn, after nearly 25 years of our lives going in different directions, I went to see Eric in Frederick. Lacking a Siberia to which the reluctant could be sent, extreme security measures in the US took a more complex form. The report added that Dr. Hearing this, Dr. Gibson inquired about the reason, asking whether the plans had been changed. Mercury News reporter Frederick Tulksy said: In 1993, Eric Olson arranged for his fathers body to be unearthed and examined by James Starrs, a forensic scientist. 25.03 To generate such an intimidating volume of paper must have taken considerable time and effort. men, they say, but contract killers associated with the Trafficante mob family hired by the C.I.A. He holds The Robert A. 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