By the time he realized this, his suite had been invaded by a variety of anti-Soviet people whose behavior had become so raucous that he locked himself in his bedroom. They invented LSD to control people and what it did was give us freedom.. But if the Colby documents fail to discuss security issues, other internal documents that we obtained do mention this issue. Puncture wounds of the body cavity may not be reliable unless the heart is reached. I said, Whos smokin a pipe? Gittinger, one of those CIA nuts, was there with two of my girls. Sincerely Evidence in support of that can be found in Frank Olsons passport. Problems with the conventional story Dr. Goldberger, a toxicologist with the University of Florida and an internationally recognized toxicologist, recommended further confirmatory testing at the one location that possessed the knowledge and the technique sufficient to give a firm determination. On one level, the below ground one, it was strictly a scientific investigation. Whites credentials were impeccable: A former crime reporter on the West Coast before he joined the narcotics bureau, White had soon become one of the top international undercover agents under Harry Anslinger, the grandfather of Americas war on drugs. I must check this. 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. In the morning of March 27, 196 1, Paul Robeson was found in the bathroom of his Moscow hotel suite after having slashed his wrists with a razor blade following a wild party that had raged there the preceding night. 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. According to the invitation, it was a conference for sports journalists. Clearly, the Chinese had found new and formidable brainwashing techniques that could transform American servicemen into Manchurian candidates programmed to do Communist bidding. He received a telephone call from a family friend on the morning of June 11th 1975: Have you seen the Washington Post? They have three children. According to a 1975 CIA document, the U.S. Military attach in Switzerland had miscalculated by a factor of one million in his CIA reports because he did not know the difference between a milligram (1 /1,000 of a gram) and a kilogram (1,000 grams). Ruwet reassured him that everything would be all right. Gottlieb wanted Mulholland to teach intelligence operatives how to use the tools of the magicians trade sleight of hand and misdirection to covertly administer drugs, chemicals and biological agents to unsuspecting victims. Frank Olson had met with Sargant to discuss a moral crisis: he had been horrified to witness terminal experiments conducted by the CIA on human subjects Nazi prisoners and suspected spies who had been plied with the various, sometimes lethal, ARTICHOKE interrogation techniques. One of the top secret protocols documents a Russian agent being pumped full of medication. These documents show that the White House was extremely alarmed that the Olson family had recognized the unnamed Army scientist as Frank Olson, and was concerned that the family was demanding the truth concerning Olsons death. At Learys suggestion, according to a former colleague, he took psilocybin again, this time with Aldous Huxley and Ginsberg. All problems can be fixed by the alchemy of the mind sciences. Our sights were therefore particularly set on that portion of his anatomy. Graduates from Social Relations who specialized in clinical, social, developmental, are included. 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. Maintenance of absolute secrecy in the new ethical context implies that potential whistle blowers can neither be automatically discredited nor brought to trial for treason. Whether the programs accomplishments reached that peak will probably never be public knowledge. 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. Nils daughter Lauren is 19. They took every necessary step to prevent Frank Olsons death from being connected with the CIA in any way. I can visualize his face actually: It was drawn, in a way I had never seen it before.. Congratulations. Alice Olson roused her nine-year-old son, Eric, from bed and led him into the living room. Sometimes a collage-maker will place two images in very close proximity and then, pointing first at one image and then at the other, insists that Thishas nothing to do withthat.. Eight years earlier our father had diedvanished reallyand it has taken all the years since then to figure out what happened to him. Now I understand why, when I asked Eric what he had learned from his 25-year ordeal, he told me that no one should ever dig up his father's body. I am eighty-two years old and Im no longer afraid, he said. By the end of the 1960s, LSD was illegal. By night, CIA spy Morgan Hall metamorphosed into a drug-eating denizen of the bohemian coffeehouse scene. back to TSS. Altogether, it conducted tests at fifteen penal and mental institutions, concealing its role by using the U.S. Navy, the Public Health Service, and the National Institute of Mental Health as funding conduits. 26.01 Used here with permission of the authors. Olson was survived by his wife and three children. A former CIA official reported in an interview that he was given LSD 21 times for this purpose at one of the agencys cover facilities in Washington. A molecular biologist and a country musician might seem an odd pair, but Dr. Eric Olson and Willie Nelson share musical and scientific interests that have benefitted both fields. The project was code-named MK-ULTRA, and they did it, they explained, because they wanted to watch how a scientist would cope with the effects of a mind-altering drug. Directly in the Forehead The confluence of scientific fact and investigative fact points unerringly to the death of Frank Olson as being a homicide, deft, deliberate and diabolical. Using the findings of Blome and other Nazi scientists, the Americans experimented with artificial diseases capable of destroying crops. In early April of 1953, Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles outlined to a Princeton audience the urgency of the situation. Most alarming of all, Regis does not mention that this disappearance below the ledge was, at the very least, extremely convenient for Olsons caretakers, charged as they were with the security of a high level scientist doing top secret work and now (according to the standard version of the story) completely out of control. Of course, they assigned me to him I guess they figure we have something in common. But, there were people who had biological weapons and they used them. 15.52 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: 17.12 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: 18.03 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: 21.07 Voice of Ira (Ike) Feldman/Former CIA agent: 25.34 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./ Former barkeeper at Camp King: 26.33 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./Former bartender at Camp King: 30:21 Voice of Bennie E. Hackley/Chemical Corps US Army: 31.41 Voice of Ira (Ike) Feldman/Former CIA agent. Bacteriological warfare is remarkably cheap; it has been described as the poor mans nuclear bomb. A deadly virus sufficient to wipe out every living person over an area of one square mile would cost only about $50. New evidence in Olson case suggests similarities with other incidents, The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA, The Biology of Doom: The History of Americas Secret Germ Warfare Project. Even in 1943, during the same period when he was seeking combat duty in Europe, he wrote in his analysis of Hitler that there is a great need now rather than later, for some form of World Federation (Murrays italics). The agencys interest began with its precursor, the OSS, in 1942, when General Donovan, anxious to perfect interrogation techniques for captured spies, established a truth drug committee of prominent psychologists, including Dr. Winfred Overholser, superintendent of St. Elizabeths hospital in Washington, D.C., and Dr. Edward Strecker, president of the American Psychiatric Association. The first was bacteriological warfare. With the necessary consent of Eric Olson, I secured a copy which revealed its author to be Dr. Dominick Di Maio later to become the New York City medical examiner. The central character in the documentary is Olson's son Eric who spent most of his life researching his father's untimely passing. Wheres the proof? asked Julia Robb, the reporter from Erics local paper, theFrederick News Post, when he had finished. The real story is not merely a story that no one could love. The cause of his disturbance is not made clear in the documents at hand, but it is said that he had begun to feel guilty about something. Eric Olson may not have the whole story. Copyright 2022 Eric Olson, Ph.D. All Rights Reserved. Frederick News-Post Even within the parameters of the CIAs own story this could not have been true. So Ruwet and Lashbrook took Olson to New York, supposedly to see a psychiatrist. He was simply knocked on the head and thrown out the window, as the CIAs assassination manual suggests (and as Roy Meachum asserts). The team reported that the tests demonstrated conclusively the effectiveness of the combined chemical-hypnotic technique Now the way was opened for the use of LSD in interrogations. When the casket was opened in 1994 Frank Olsons upper body was not disfigured as the New York Medical Examiners Report had claimed in 1953. (Visual text!) Only two or three Agency officers at any time were cleared for access to Fort Detrick activities. PLANNING The obvious answer is that termination, not a secured facility was the course chose. Consequently, the decision to employ this technique must nearly always be reached in the field, at the area where the act will take place. It co-opted nearly an entire generation of scholars in the physical, social, and health sciences. [15]Mulholland letter to subscribers ofThe Sphinx, June 29, 1953,op. This is clearly the implication of the film documentaryMind Control Murderproduced by Principal Films and presented as part of Arts & Entertainment NetworksInvestigativeReportsseries in September of 1999. In addition to hanging around Hillel, I enjoy talking politics, playing tennis, and watching The Big Bang Theory. I recognized Feldman immediately when he waddled into the lobby of the Marriott. Until then, Gottlieb saw nothing unusual in Olsons behavior. What?. He died in 1988. Part of the original agreement between Mulholland and the CIA was that Gottlieb or his representative would review the work the magician was doing for the Agency at a biweekly conference. Attorney. Having said as much, however, is most definitely, not an affirmation of the lack of LSD in those tissues at the time of Dr. Olsons death in 1953, or prior to it. It did not clear his mind; it worsened his anxieties and nine days later Frank Olson was dead, having jumped or been pushed through a window on the tenth floor of the Statler Hotel in New York City. These men would carry on similar research for the U.S. Air Force. He received his medical degree from University of Minnesota Medical School and. At one point, the Agency had been approached by a man claiming to be a genuine mystic who had developed a system for sending and receiving telepathic messages anywhere in the world. 41.18 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. Thats what I was doing when I worked for the CIA. This secret was so immense that even twenty-two years later the White House had been enlisted to maintain it.. 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. He had obviously jumped out of the window, just another suicide in a city where the plunge from skyscraper to pavement was a shocking but not unusual event. He had even managed to slip away from them one night, a good indication that they were not really watching him. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Part of that assumption was formed by Sargent because he had come to see Frank Olson as a somewhat naive man: locked up in his lab mentality was, I recall, one of the phrases Sargant used. M142064, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 15-23, July 31, 1954, authors files. Mr. Mulholland seems well qualified to execute this study. Yet at the time, the family believed that full disclosure was finally at hand. Later that day, Lashbrook escorted Olson to Abramsons office, and the non-shrink finally decided to get Olson qualified professional help. As he put it, the staining could have come about post-mortem. At the request of Frank Olsons son, Eric, an autopsy was performed in 1994, revealing that Olson had apparently been struck on the left side of the temple and knocked unconscious before going through the window. One project was designed to turn people into programmed assassins who would kill on automatic command. In late November 1953, Frank Olson, then 43, joined a group of government officials at a conference at Deep Creek Lodge in western Maryland. I dont know if he jumped or he was pushed. I could read no further. He said he planned to leave the Army and retrain as a dentist. Dr. Frank Olsons life was a mystery, full of dubious experiments for the CIA, and unexplained trips to Porton Down. THE TRIAL They practiced germ attacks in airports and on the New York subway, tracking air currents and calculating the potential death toll. 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. Gottliebs appearance, moreover, revealed little about the standards and procedures used in experiments by the CIAs private contractors. The M-K identified the initiative as a CIA Technical Services Staff (TSS) project. Bottom Line: University of Montana Montana linebacker Dante Olson was named NCAA Division II Defensive Player of the Year in 2019. . Such a third person could have been positioned to enter from the room next door through a door from that room to room 1018A. However most of the passages pertaining to ARTICHOKE in the documents provided to the Olson family have been carefully deleted. Thats a different feeling., And, vexingly for Eric, on the rare occasions hes convinced a journalist that the CIA murdered his father, the revelation has not been greeted with horror. Yet I am more hopeful than ever that efforts to quash the truth about some of the most closely held secrets of cold war experiments, including the circumstances surrounding Frank Olsons death, will ultimately fail. It was not only the cover-up of his bizarre death (as this information refers to it) that was in question, but the nature of his work. It was learned that an agent who had gone to New York immediately after Olsons death had listened to a conversation between Lashbrook and Abramson that clearly concerned their conspiring to devise a report to the effect that Olsons mental state had been deteriorating. Now, to back up and approach all this a bit more slowly: There is a passage in The Four Quartets where the poet T.S. Himwich, along with the Armys Dr. L. Wilson Greene, who first drew the CIAs attention to the wonders of LSD.. Yet this estimate of horizontal velocity did not shed light on whether Olson went through an open or closed window, or with or without a drawn shade. Eric Olson in New York. And many did so unwittingly. The aim of the drugging at Deep Creek was apparently to assess the extent of Frank Olsons disaffection and alienation, given the depth of his ethical qualms. Moreover Lashbrooks remembrance of the window-shades snapping back into its housing was out of joint with Armond Pastores oft-repeated recollection of the shades having been pushed through the windows broken glass. Suicide. The final police report makes no mention whatsoever of the CIA or any drugs, nor does the report on Olsons death filed by the New York City Medical Examiners Office. engaged in sinister and clandestine research activities of a biochemical nature. Yes, he had said, I need your assistance so much that I will forgo my true innings. His knuckles, huge as carbuncles, fretted his wheel chair forward and back.. Newly declassified documents show that the United States knew immediately after the Korean War that North Korea had failed to turn over hundreds of American prisoners known to be alive at the end of the war, adding to growing speculation that American prisoners might still be alive and in custody there. Today a spokesman for the CIA said no congressional or executive branch probes of the Olson case have turned up any evidence of homicide. Some wanted to experience madness firsthand; others sought a mystical union with the beyond. ), TO: Eric Olson The sill was too high and too wide -- there was a radiator in front of it -- for him to have dived through a closed window and a lowered blind in the dark. As we talked about the old cabin Railey looked sad. Second, the forensic investigation added fuel to the fires of our suspicions. Professor of History York University Code Name Artichoke shows that my father became convinced that the US was using biological weapons in Korea, at least on an experimental basis. The agency wanted a drug, as LSD historians Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain put it, that would blow minds and make people crazy.. Merck, as you know, was one of the strongest promoters of the idea of using biological weapons in war, therefore he obviously wouldnt have considered BW as such to be un-American. But individual acts of terror might have been in a different, troubling category in their minds. The old story is so much fun, Eric said, why would anyone want to replace it with a story thats not fun. Tell me this story again. And my mother very quickly adopted the stance, Look, Ive told you this story a thousand times. And I would say, Yeah, but I didnt get it.. While he continued his performance schedule, he cleared his calendar of other commitments. Eventually you would come to San Francisco. Our motto was Harolds Club or Bust. All you had to do was just keep going and follow the road. It all points to my fathers being murdered.. C. Lashbrook and Abramson adjourned their discussion and moved into another room apparently relaxing with a drink. Two detectives from the 14th Precinct dispatched to the Statler Hotel were suspicious about what they observed. These tests fed massive quantities of convulsant and psychedelic drugs to foreign prisoners in an attempt to make them talk, according to CIA records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by author John Marks. Bill said that Sargant was right but that he was sure that Richard Helms and Sydney Gottlieb would have ensured that nothing would ever be proven. We can only infer that the laceration had glass in it and that it came from glass from the sidewalk. Eric Olson. Yes they tried to take care of our father, my brother and sister and I always thought. Interestingly, the Malleson study also noted that those physicians who had the greatest experience with LSD therapy were least likely to observe adverse reactions. In his memoirs, Colby remembered the lunch as ''one of the most difficult assignments I have ever had.'' Traveling with human skeletal remains in tow always leaves me, as Albert Camus said on another subject, strangely aching. I cannot leave the skull out of sight but at the same time I cannot treat it in away to generate suspicions. The Rockefeller Commissions account of the suicide of an Army scientist not only neglected to add the mans name and his CIA affiliation; it omitted any reference to his high position in the countrys most secret biological weapons laboratory. The chief of the Special Operations Division was VINCENT L. RUWET, a Lt. Eric Olson, PhD Stephan Kimbel Olson Nils Olson, DDS Lauren Olson Kristin Olson. In short, here are instructions in deception.[31]. His brother John Foster Dulles became Secretary of State on January 31, 1953. White and CIA director Allen Dulles were there. Did you tell the reporter from the Fredrick News Post that you had no evidence to suggest that Frank was murdered by the CIA? I asked. For fifty years the United States has continued to deny that this country has used biological weapons in combat. What he had in mind, take the man to a hotel room like in the Roosevelt and pitch him out from the top floor. We are familiar with the stories of those whose lives were ruined when they became victims of unjustified accusations during the McCarthy witch hunts. Reporters heard that family patriarch Frank Olson, ostensibly an Army scientist, had committed suicide in 1953. We worked about five months in this thing called aerosols to see if we could test gas masks and impregnated clothing to see how good they were. [29], Operational Applications of the Art of Deception. A deeply moral and religious man, Frank Olson had been grappling with an ethical dilemma related to his work. But if the medical report is accurate, it appears to rule out the possibility that the weapons strain included bacteria collected during or after Boyles illness. Its the rock called failure.. How do you fall out of a window? said Eric. He has created a resource which will be of lasting value to students, scholars, journalists, and the general public for years to come. and abroad. With these preliminaries accomplished by October 1993, I proceeded to assemble a team of qualified and eminent specialists in the multiple scientific disciplines that would be put to the task in this investigation. Is Gottlieb the only person in the shop? The diaries were kept by Col. George H. White, Alias Morgan Hall, a colorful federal narcotics agent and CIA consultant who died two years ago. These entries fit in with a 1963 internal report by then-CIA Inspector General Lyman B. Kirkpatrick about the MK-ULTRA project. However, the letter did include a check for $150 to cover Mulhollands latest work for the agency (March 18th April 13th). For years, in total secrecy, they studied the black art of bioterrorism. Is Frank Olson on a secret Artichoke mission? It was judged to be so important that a special memorandum on the subject was rushed to CIA director Dulles on October 26. Passages in the documents they had received pertaining to a C.I.A. Decision and instructions should be confined to an absolute minimum of persons., It adds: For secret assassination the contrived accident is the most effective technique. The CIA later admitted that they very much enjoyed paranoid thrillers likeThe Manchurian Candidateand they wanted to know if they could create real life brainwashed assassins by pumping people with LSD. His resulting 1977 book,The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, did what two United States Senate Committees could not do: it assembled a detailed account of the CIA and its foray into drugs and mind control. Neurotics, psychotics, depressives, alcoholics, epileptics, and even terminal-cancer patients were given LSD. That was the paper with the initials JM on it along with John Mulhollands address and telephone number. 45.34 Voice of Eric Olson In resistance situations, assassination may be used as a counter-reprisal. I hope this helps to set the record straight. His reiterated one-liner to me during my telephone call was I have nothing to say on the matter.. He said I could only publish what he had said after his death. But assassination can seldom be employed with a clear conscience. Sargant believed that Frank Olson could also have been given a cocktail of drugs that included more than LSD. A 1954 Army document says high-ranking officials including George W. Merck, the pharmaceutical executive and top government adviser on biowarfare wanted to shut down the SO Division because they considered it un-American., But Fort Detricks rank and file rarely voiced such doubts. Dr. Robert Lashbrook was to be next in my investigative sights. Some researchers had already begun to experiment with LSD on their own in those days, without any help from the CIA. Uniformed policemen, summoned to the hotel by night manager Armondo Diaz Pastore, discovered CIA official Robert V. Lashbrook calmly sitting in the room he shared with Olson. The CIA and the Department of Justice have resisted Saracco s attempts to subpoena Dr. Lashbrook, who now lives in California, to question him, among other things, about Olsons last hours, the telephone call that Lashbrook made immediately after Olsons death and the work that Lashbrook and Olson had been engaged in together. In short order, it would be possible to conquer territory without a fight. Given what we knew about Lashbrooks immediate reaction that night, I thought a straight-forward uncomplicated interpretation was likely to be the correct one. 27.38 The FBI files also reveal a suspicious concern over my fathers health, beginning in 1955. 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