October 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am. From the beginning, LSD was lauded by military and intelligence scientists working on chemical warfare compounds and mind-control experiments as the most potent mind-altering substance known to man. Objective: to make Mr. Mulholland available as a consultant on various problems, TSS and otherwise, as they evolve. They had started with the active ingredient in marijuana and moved on to more dangerous drugs, like LSD once the program directors decided that informed subjects could not give authentic results, agents had administered LSD in large doses to unsuspecting soldiers at the Edgewood Arsenal and to unconsenting civilians in hospitals. Among the prisoners at Kransberg Castle is rocket scientist Professor Hermann Oberth, who collects autographs from his colleagues. Henry Murray, Professor of Psychology at Harvard, played a key role in CIA psychological experimentation going back to his involvement with the OSS during World War II, as this chapter explains. Injuries are generally categorized as blunt-force trauma, gunshot, and sharp-force trauma. Under this cover story, MK-ULTRs research team was nothing but a bunch of ineffectual eccentrics. When Gottlieb revealed to the uproarious group that hed laced the Cointreau, Olson suffered a psychotic snap. (TV Guides movie review database gives Martin Luther 2/5 stars and says, It is not entertainment in the usual sense of the word. Lashbrook had also given Lt-Col Ruwet the impression that Olson was coming to New York to see a psychiatrist. 30.04 Dr. Frank Olson had worked for the US Armys biological weapons laboratory for exactly ten years when he died in New York in the wee hours of November 28, 1953. His talk there, wrote Forrest Robinson, featured a highly literary rendering of a psilocybin trip that he took with Timothy Leary a year earlier. Once perfected, the dart gun astonished those who saw it in action. Olsen Lab. With this information in hand, Saracco and Bibb prepared to see him. Hamlet has become like a friend to me. Sweden gave me a great deal of distance from the whole CIA business, he explained. Copyright 2003. by Alston Chase. However, on this particular day Dr. Gibson checked the waiting list and found that all those on it had removed their names, so that one bed was in fact available. Uncovering this story has been a decades-long agony for us as well. Now the bizarre story had a face and a name, and journalists flocked to the event. It may seem superfluous for us to have labored to identify the remains from the grave, marked by a toe tag as Frank Olson, as those of Frank Olson, but such are the intrinsic necessities of a scientific investigation. The family decision not to file suit, made in deference to Alice Olsons desire to bring the 22-year ordeal to closure, would prove to be a mistake. Allen Dulles, the man who approved MKULTRA, died three decades earlier. His diaries show that Gottlieb and Lashbrook met him at the Bedford Street apartment. In fact, Eric told me, tomorrow would be the first time anyone had ever publicly charged the CIA with murdering an American citizen. And their motif was HAROLDS CLUB OR BUST! Lincoln said, Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness? Fifteen percent collaborated fully with the Chinese, and only 5 percent refused to cooperate with them at all. I realized I could not go on forever and for the past several years I have been searching for some individual, or group, qualified to take over the editing and publication ofThe Sphinxand maintain its standards. to assassinate particular individuals. In the year before his death in 1953 my father, a biochemist, was acting chief of the Special Operations Division (essentially an off-campus CIA BW lab) at the Armys center for biological warfare at Camp Detrick, Maryland. The evidence suggested that someone had knocked Olson over the head either while he slept or during a struggle, and then tossed him out the window. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. But if so, what was the motive for such a nefarious deed? 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. His library housed some 4,000 volumes related to conjuring. The () team would enjoy the opportunity of applying Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. But the sensational notion of LSD administered by the CIA served wonderfully to conceal this gap. Even if they were all released, their sheer bulk is sufficient to fend off even the most dedicatedor obsessedinvestigator. Historians of the Korean War have suggested that the Eisenhower Administration chose not to make public much of its intelligence on the issue of missing Americans for fearing of whipping up a war hysteria among Americans who would have demanded that the prisoners be returned home. Charlottesville, Va. 22908. The ominous nature of such mind-control research was exposed to public view in the Hollywood movie The Manchurian Candidate, starring the late Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey. White used to send me to the air-port to pick up Sidney and this other wacko, John Gittinger, the psychologist. A length of rope or wire or a belt will do if the assassin is strong and agile. After six months, in March 1953, Olson reverted back to his former position at his own request. They became regulars at Detricks officers club. I regret everything. Later, it would be learned that the Soviets didnt use drugs at all to accomplish this. But he did not explain what he meant any further. 29.17 After his release from questioning at the 14th Precinct station, Lashbrook went to the Medical Examiners office to officially identify Olsons body. A few weeks later, at Kransberg Castle north of Frankfurt, the scientific elite of Nazi Germany is arrested and questioned by American officers. Baltimore Sun Staff 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. He assigned the case to Stephen Saracco and Daniel Bibb, seasoned prosecutors on the cold cases unit. The Search for The Manchurian Candidate.New York: Norton, 1991. While I didnt find it entirely unlikely that someone would want to see what was about to happen to him, I did think it unlikely that such a suicidally-minded person would have his arms at his sides, as Jack Frosts opinion suggested, with his head taking the brunt of the collision with the window. I think a journalist is making a big mistake in trying to get somebody to talk over the phone.. Already on July 11, 1975just one day after our press conferencethe White House was outlining a strategy to handle our case, a strategy that would ensure that we did not request pertinent information regarding what had actually happened to Frank Olson. A suspect weapon may or may not be available, but if it is, then the wound patterns may be connected to the instrumentality causing them, described as a pattern-type injury. Most of it is documented now, said Philadelphia lawyer David Rudovsky, who was a roommate of Eric Olsons in the 1970s and has assisted him with the case over the years. Where needed, application of the data given in section 1 would be supplied. This report was filed, was uncontested, and as such, became the official record. At the third level are memoranda by Dr. Howard Abramson and Lt. Today five decades after it was written the tricks and approaches set forth in this manual are still classified top secret.. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated. In the early hours of 28 November 1953, Armand Pastore, the night manager of the Statler Hotel, New York, was startled to hear a crash of breaking glass and then a sickening thump on the pavement outside his hotel. They were of Norman and Frank Olson, arm in arm, somewhere in the middle of Fort Detrick, circa 1953. 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?. He is a former foreign correspondent of the New York Times and also covered the CIA in Washington for the Times. What Colby did not tell them -- did not reveal until he published his memoirs just three years later -- was that Frank Olson had not been a civilian employee of the Department of the Army. While the family enjoys summertime at the lake, Frank retreats into his own world. Whenever a group of lab monkeys died upon completion of a successful experiment, Olson had come home depressed and withdrawn. Albarelli, a writer-researcher with contacts among retired C.I.A. $1 Million - $5 Million. A 1975 CIA document written by Technical Services Inspector General, Donald F. Chamberlain, reads: The Army Inspector General informed me that the Armys Special Operations Division, Fort Detrick (the unit that Frank Olson was in) had a contract for two years with the Psychiatric Institute (1952-53) to test various mescaline-related and other drugs [including LSD] that the Army was interested in. 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. 00.50 Voice of Eric Olson When Eric asked him why, Gottlieb explained that his ecological sensitivity had made him aware of the dangers of paper overflow. He delivered a prepared statement and admitted to having destroyed perhaps one set of files. Then there were some films Frank Olson had shot himself during a trip to Europe a few months before he died. A few thoughts on the many questions this raises: The idea of placing one thing near another and then asserting (explicitly or implicitly) that the one has nothing to do with the other of course suggests Freuds comments about negation, where, due to the fact that the unconscious cannot represent a negative relationship, denial always implies affirmation. Fuck them, Feldman said. The Olson family had been advised against an open casket funeral cemetery on the advice of Dr. Olsons superiors who had represented that his injuries were too gruesome to behold. To say the least, it was an odd prescription for a man who already believed irrationally or not that the CIA was trying to drug him. The one scientist who probably knows the full history, Sidney Gottlieb, revealed little in an appearance before Senator Edward Kennedys Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research in September. 1 would be supplied the air-port to pick up Sidney and this other wacko, John,... 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