The government explained to the family that even though the body had been embalmed, it was badly disfigured from the fall. The voice on the other end replied, ''That's too bad.'' The Eighty Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Historys Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals. cit., page 9, [66]Joint hearings; Select Committee on Intelligence & the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, U.S. Senate, Appendix A, page 69 August 3, 1977, [67]Jim Hougan interview with author, January 25, 2001, [68]Testimony of Admiral Stansfield TurnerandAppendix B:Documents Referring to Discovery of Additional MKULTRA Material, Select Committee on Intelligence & the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, U.S. Senate, 1977, [69]Letter to Michael Edwards from Kathryn Dyer, Information and Privacy Coordinator, Central Intelligence Agency, June 26, 2000. Detective James Ward initially referred to the case as a possible homocide in his report. The forensic investigation in 1994 confirmed the familys worst suspicions. He even recruited a well-known New York magician, the late John Mulholland, to prepare a top-secret manual on techniques for surreptitiously slipping LSD and other drugs into the drinks of unsuspecting persons. Our motto was Harolds Club or Bust. All you had to do was just keep going and follow the road. Saracco and Bibb decided to interview William Colby, Vincent Ruwet, Robert Lashbrook, and Sidney Gottlieb. In trying to distract my fatherthey were taking a risk: the same techniques that ultimately might quiet him could also, if he detected what was going on, increase his anxiety and fear.[64]. One interesting detail links White to the 1953 case of Dr. Frank Olson, and Army employee who was working with the CIA at Camp Detrick, Md. Was the big secret that Olson was a CIA employee? Yet when Olson phoned Alice that night, he said that he felt ''much better'' and ''looked forward to seeing her the next day.'' Today we want want to try to give you some idea of what this journey has been like, and tell you something about the unfamiliar American territory we have discovered. Cold War legend dies at 80, To view these articles on the WorldNet site go toWorldNet Dailyand enter Olson and CIA in the WND search box at left side of the page. Five of the attendees were SOD men from Camp Detrick, including Olson and his boss Ruwet. Hypnosis, electronic brain implants, microwave transmissions, and parapsychology also received intense scrutiny. Why Mulholland was going to Chicago for the Agency remains uncertain, although there is some evidence that he was going to take part in secretly assessing the claims of Andrija Puharich claims that related to electronic systems and telepathy. University of Virginia At the end of the meeting Gottlieb snapped to Eric, I can see youre still wrapped up in your fathers death. Olson said he was going to Europe to meet with a CIA team led by Dr Gottlieb. Why people are visiting the . Adam Cray. In short, here are instructions in deception.[31]. on December 7, 1953 speaks of Olson having exited through a closed window. And what if that scientist has been drugged destabilized by his own colleagues? Link to Stephen Endicott website, Co-author with Edward Hagerman of: However, he said it was recommended that he obtain treatment for some newly emergent behavioral problems he was having. Heavily censored documents I have already received under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that my father was under intense surveillance by the FBI and the CIA in 1960 and 1961, because he was planning to visit China and Cuba, in violation of US passport restrictions. Under this cover story, MK-ULTRs research team was nothing but a bunch of ineffectual eccentrics. Was the former concentration camp doctor expected to lend his experience for their own planned experiments on human beings? In California, Olson and his team drive up the Pacific coast in a yellow convertible to prepare an experiment to take place over San Francisco Bay. Liu, N. & Olson, E. N., Jun 10 2022, In: Circulation research. Eric Olson believes his father who developed misgivings about his work and tried to resign was murdered by government agents to protect dark government secrets. During the ensuing uproar, the scientist was identified as Frank Olson. In fact, the only death that clearly resulted from the program was that of Frank Olson, one of its senior officers. I believe that he wanted out.. In exhumations, no stone should be left unturned for there will probably be no future opportunity to revisit an exhumation once the remains are reburied. In the late 1940s Frank Olson joined the CIA where he specialized in the field of information retrieval. This was the ARTICHOKE program, which we already knew was the operational context in which Frank Olson was working. 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. Eric was born here, but he never liked Frederick and he never liked this house. In 1975 the White House advised us that they were concerned that if we went to court we might lose and not obtain what the White House regarded as appropriate compensation. He considered himself a terribly loyal and patriotic person. The Cold War A professor investigating the death of Dr. Frank Olson, I gently responded. At best it would motivate some energetic journalist to take the challenge and find an unequivocal smoking gun that proved Frank Olson was pushed out of the window. files still available, that his associate Dr. Margaret Ferguson was still alive in 1993. The rifle shold be a wll made bolt or falling block action type, handling a powerful long-range cartirdge. Then when she died in 1994 he decided to test the official story of his fathers death. ABZUG: It may very well have been a State offense if there was foul play. engaged in sinister and clandestine research activities of a biochemical nature. operatives may have slipped the LSD into his fathers drink to get him talking, and once they saw his reaction, decided to get him to New York where the suicide could be faked convincingly. In the years after World War II the United States was busy learning what it could from the two powers it had just defeatedinformation it would then employ in its new battle against the Soviet Union. After years of government silence on the subject of Frank Olsons death, the family had finally achieved recognition and, most importantly, a promise of full disclosure. The sub-machine gun is especially adapted to indoor work when more than one subject is to be assassinated. But people who are far from wild-eyed conspiracy theorists accept the plausibility of Frank Olsons death as an execution. MK-ULTRA? It all began because the CIA knew the Russians had this LSD shit and they were afraid the KGB was using it to brainwash agents, Feldman told me. Following the rubrics of positivism, they believed that good and evil are fictions. On the morning after the incident, he learned from his fathers government boss, Colonel Vincent Ruwet, that his father had died in a work-related accident that had occurred in a hotel. Even the nails are clipped or retained in full. 9.59 We turned our attention to the head. For myself, however, the likelihood of Dr. Abramsons direct involvement in the death of Dr. Olson is less plausible than that it was the outcome of the C.I.A.s own calculated misdeeds. That is only reasonably explainable as having occurred by reason of his being shall we say silenced, being rendered unable to defend himself, so that he could be tossed out of the window.. The trains swishing by would get it airborne., The SO Divisions report concluded that similar covert attacks with a pathogenic agent during peak traffic periods could be expected to expose large numbers of people to infection and subsequent illness or death.. On June 26, 2000, the Agency responded with explicit written confirmation that John Mulholland indeed had a contractual arrangement with the CIA relating to the operational uses of the magicians skills. What are you talking about? Eric asked them, crossly. Nobody was home, so I spent half an hour looking in the windows, taking pictures, trying to imagine what might have occurred there those many years ago. Did his superiors fear he might turn whistleblower, exposing dangerous knowledge about America adopting the killing techniques of German and Japanese war criminals? In the early morning of November 28, the CIA official who had shared the hotel room with Frank Olson did not tell Dr. Gibson that he was awakened by the sound of crashing glass when his roommate went through the window. What Meachum doesnt say is that The Manchurian Candidate has been a large part of the problem. Author Robert Kaiser echoed that doctors conclusions in his book, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Martin Luther King, also had a known fascination with hypnosis, and, more recently, British lawyer Fenton Bressler has assembled circumstantial evidence to support a theory that Mark David Chapman, slayer of John Lennon, was subject to CIA mind control. When last-minute plans were being made on the afternoon of November 27, 1953 to hospitalize Frank Olson a call was placed to a young admitting psychiatrist in Maryland named Robert Gibson. These cases usually involve distance betweeen the assassin and the subject, or comparative physical weakness of the assassin, as with a woman. As with the originalWashington Poststory that had led us in 1975 to recognize our fathereven though he was not namedthe fit between what the manual says about this technique and what is known about Frank Olsons death is stunningly precise. Little by little one entered unknown terrain. She knew that he had been going through some kind of crisis. It proposed strategies and tactics to fit the needs of female agents. [15]Mulholland letter to subscribers ofThe Sphinx, June 29, 1953,op. No would-be A students in any of my classes in law or forensic science were game to be guinea pigs in such an experiment. 5. (Senate hearings, pg 6). Eric hoped his press conference would, at least, change the language of the reporting of the story. In all safe cases where the assassin may be subject to search, either before or after the act, specialized weapons should not be used. A blunt force injury comes from impact with an object, lacking sharp edges, like a gun butt, a hammer or, in this instance, the 7th Avenue sidewalk. A couple of young girls, tourists, wanted to have their picture taken with Feldman. POISONED SKY, Screenplays: He and Nils would reach the goal San Francisco by small continuous increments of motion along a single strand. This was in Erics mind a test-run for another goal he would one day reach in an equally fastidious way: the solution to the mystery of what happened to his father in that hotel room in New York at 2am. Erics father was and there is no pleasant way of putting this a pioneering torturer, or at the very least a pioneering torturers assistant. But now, having reached what we were now convinced was the truth about the murder, how could we ever learn the truth about the renewal of the coverup in 1975? Enhancer is the focus of his Transcription factor research. Lashbrook also told police that Olson had journeyed to Manhattan to be treated by Abramson for depression related to an ulcer.. I must say, he messed up. Armond D. Pastore Eric Olson. And Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, gave a talk to his Princeton alumni group in which he said Mind warfare is the great battlefield of the Cold War, and we have to do whatever it takes to win this.. And it put forth techniques that could be used by teams of men working in tandem. The Skeletons decimated our ranks; the High Holies, if not excised, will cut us right out of the map. The death of Frank Olson on November 28, 1953 was a murder, not a suicide. Had he found out something he was not supposed to know? (For an article that raises this issue empirically, though not philosophically, Mid-century deaths all linked to CIA? It is understandable that he might fail to remember any executions; for admitting a role in such killings could well lead to arrest and prosecution for conspiracy to commit murder in Europe, if not in the United States itself.*. And for quite a long time, possibly ever since my father began working at Detrick, the whole business about the monkey dying was a very delicate matter for him. Gottlieb proposes I be CIA consultant and I agree. White wrote in his diary June 9, 1952. And at that point my fathers colleague looked at me as if to say read-my-lips: it wasnt all brainwashing.. These telling results left no further doubt that the remains we had autopsied were those of Dr. Frank Olson to the exclusion of anyone else. By Eric Olson. Before a priest and an ambulance arrived, Olson died in Pastores arms. Here, for example, a soldier was expected to assemble a rifle while under the influence of the hallucinogen. 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. 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. When East Bloc officials who were suspected of working in biowarfare labs traveled abroad, U.S. agents secretly swabbed their clothes so the SO Division could test for germs. When he would come home for lunch and have a certain kind of expression, she would immediately know that this meant that this morning all the monkeys had died, which meant that the experiment had been a success.. Should the perpetrator be accused and the case come to court, the government in Washington might be forced to reveal what Eric Olson believes is top secret information about illegal research on biological weapons, about the use of anthrax in the Korean War and about his fathers murder. When Starrs raised the lid, he was surprised to find Frank Olsons body remarkably well preserved. He grew anxious that someone might have tampered with the beverage, a not entirely paranoid concern given his earlier secret LSD dosing. Im seeing this! Eric shot back. In Stockholm, he read intensively, exploring the connection between his spatial, collage-based theory of the mind and linguistic accounts of mental processes. Allen Dulles, the man who approved MKULTRA, died three decades earlier. What transpired between Lashbrook and Abramson? Elvis first visited a recording studio, and Bill Haleys Rock Around The Clock gave the world rock and roll, and subsequently the teenager. This tragedy stayed with me as did my questioning the reason for the fate that had saved me. These figures compare quite favorably with Cohens estimates for patients in psychotherapy: 1.8 psychotic episodes per thousand patients, and 1.2 attempted suicides and 0.4 completed suicides per thousand. The Olson family threatened to sue the government, were granted an Oval Office audience with President Ford, served a stately luncheon by then-DCI William Colby at the CIAs Langley, Va., complex, and were generally placated with a pile of heavily redacted documents pertaining to Olsons suicide and by a 1976 congressionally approved settlement in the amount of $750,000. The AP story appears below, followed by my notes on that meeting. In the early 195Os the US chased the worlds LSD supply as just the first step in a debauched CIA program code-named MK-ULTRA. Twice each year, the MKNAOMI team from SOD held a working retreat where the Army scientists could plan and discuss future projects with their CIA counterparts. The CIAs original acid dream was that LSD would open the mind to suggestion, but they found the drug too potent to manage. But terminal ARTICHOKE experiments werent the only matters weighing heavily on Olsons conscience during the summer of 1953. When you pull on the Frank Olson case, Professor Starrs said then, you get the feeling that something very big is pulling back.. The U.S. government has always denied allegations that it sprayed Korean soldiers with anthrax and dropped a number of other lethal germ warfare agents, including Bubonic plague-bearing fleas. He showed the article to the rest of his family. The Company had never been quite the same since exposure of the Family Jewels. The scope of this subproject is the collection, in the form of a concise manual, of as much pertinent information as possible in the fields of(magic as it relates to covert activities). The film juxtaposes footage of an American pilot making these claims with footage in which this same serviceman subsequently recants his germ warfare confession. The question as to which of these statements is the product of indoctrination is thereby starkly posed, with the implication that the notion of brainwashing was, among other things, a powerful tool for psychological discrediting. 4. After the death of Dr. A. M. Wilson in April of 1930, he took over editorship ofThe Sphinx. According to the CIA, Ruwet and Lashbrook had earlier taken Olson to see John Mulholland, a magician hired by the CIA to advise on the delivery of various materials to unwitting subjects i.e., on how to spike drinks with drugs or poisons. Is that the reason he hasnt been caught? [68]. As we talked about the old cabin Railey looked sad. The following summer, the Agency asked the magician to undertake another assignment. He directed my attention to an ambiguity in the way I had described what he had said during the meeting he had had with Jim Starrs Gibson pointed out that my description could be read as implying that he had had some sort of affiliation or relation with the CIA, or had access to special information from that source. 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. If, as a result of Eric Olsons persistence in trying to uncover what really happened to his father, and the investigating skills of public prosecutor Saracco, this turns out to be a lie, it could well be the beginning of the end of the agency. Some believed the chemical might even be used to alter the state of a persons being to convert an enemy agent, to dishearten idealistic adversaries, to reprogram a persons memory or thoughts, to get an individual to do something he or she otherwise would never do. They all say the same thing: that [Olson] was pushed out of the window and did not jump. ), In the weeks following the Post story, no one from the government bothered to contact the Olsons. At every turning this investigation brought new issues to light to burden and perplex us. Frank Olson pulled no punches at any time. Yes! Hemorrhages of the head do occur from trauma inflicted at a site removed from the situs of the hemorrhage. Alice Olson, who knew nothing about the nature of his visit, did recall that when he returned from Europe that summer, Frank was unusually withdrawn. The previous year, Soviet Union had detonated its first atomic bomb. The CIA report offers no more details about Olsons doings on that Friday. 3. The personality of the LSD user, his expectations for the experience, the setting in which the drug is consumed-all are factors in the complicated equation that determines LSDs effects. If the subject had to be controlled, blows to the temple or behind the ear were said to be effective means of silencing him. TRAUMA (with Max MorganWitts) All this was set forth in language that adhered to the original stipulations put to Mulholland in April of 1953. In 1953, Frank Olson, a key member of the CIAs brainwashing programme MKULTRA, plunged from a New York hotel window. Eric Olson has a swimming pool in his back garden one of the very few additions to the house made since 1953. Starrs concluded that Frank Olson had probably been struck on the head and then thrown out of the hotel window.. Pastore told me that Lashbrooks statements and behavior disturbed him and led him to doubt the truth of Lashbrooks recitals. No longer were people afraid of Soviet biological warfare. 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