It was agreed that the trip should be made the following day. [65]Few other files ever existed. Although ethical standards for such experiments were considerably murkier then than they are now, the CIA launched its LSD research on unwitting subjects even though the U.S. was a party to an international understanding that, in effect, banned such activities. As vice president and secretary of defense of the government of the United States. Blome will be among those charged in the case against concentration camp doctors brought before the military tribunal in Nuremberg. He explained it thus: One of the difficulties of determining explicitly the effect of the drug itself is that the subject and the observer are both conscious of the fact that an experiment is being performed. The sill was high and there was a radiator right in front of it. We spied on high government officials like Barry Goldwater and Bobby Kennedy; we had all of those activities advertised in the marketplace. That was Eric Olsons conclusion as well. The story those colleagues were given in 1953 is the one that the public received in 1975 when the Rockefeller Commission released the news that an unnamed scientist had been drugged with LSD in 1953 and then plunged to his death. According to Thomas, Frank Olson told Sargant that he had visited secret joint American-British research installations near Frankfurt, where the CIA was testing truth serums on expendables, captured Russian agents and ex-Nazis. One day I asked him if he regretted this, and he replied, I regret it all the time.. After reading the assassination manual the Assistant District Attorney said, The assassination manual reads like a script for the murder of Frank Olson. The only question is which came first, the manual or the murder. (Demesneis the etymological origin of domain, that is, the lands belonging to the Lordfor which he pays no rent.) That day in July 1975 we sat at this table and read afamily statement. Deadly effective though it may be, biological warfare has drawbacks. 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. The next step is to take a blood sample from the heart for drug and other subsequent tests, and then start taking the organs out, one by one, to examine and to weigh them. For the next 23 years he would oversee magics most influential periodical. There were invoices for fountain pens, even 1 Toy Dog, 98 cents.. One sheet of paper had New York City addresses for people identified only by the initials G.W., M.H., and J.M. All of these factors affected our computerized reconstruction of the incident and augmented the complexities and the imponderables of bringing the truth of Dr. Olsons death to light. Gottlieb was very enthusiastic about Mulhollands approach and wanted to move ahead quickly. Cardiovascular Research, 116(5), E54-E55. 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. He did not know that the bacteria that had put him in Fort Detricks hospital for a month had gone on to another life, too as a sub-strain of anthrax bearing his initials. Like the documents released to John Marks in 1977, these files were heavily though inconsistently redacted. Investigations of suspicious events are justifiably reliant on an Occams razors approach in reaching their conclusions. He contends that, in the final days of his life, his father became morally distraught over his work and decided to quit. Abramson, from 1951 through to at least the late 1960s, served as a high-level researcher for the CIA and Army. He called me in mid-July 2002 to obtain the return of his fathers remains. Eric Olson is the founding chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at UTSouthwestern. He knew all the greatest magicians of the day, Houdini, Blackstone, and Mullholland. When Frank Olson is buried again today, only bones will be returned to the ground the tissue has been removed for study. Stays up for two hours. Nevertheless, a deal was struck. These men interacted with, one might say surrounded, Frank Olson in his last days before he either committed suicide, or as some suspect, was murdered. In that spirit, we will try here to convey the path we followed that led, finally, to a very different story of how, and why, Frank Olson died. His brother, Nils, who was only 5 in 1953, consciously chose dentistry, the alternate career his father had considered. 18.03 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: And on the Monday morning Frank did, indeed, tender his resignation, but his colleagues persuaded him to seek psychological counselling in New York. Frank Olson went to work on a Monday morning and resigned from his job. Gottliebs own deputy stayed with VICTIM in a New York hotel room. 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. The CIA never reveals the identity of its assets. Often the professor himself doesnt know the originating source of research monies he receives. I asked Feldman if hed ever met Sidney Gottlieb, the elusive scientist who was the brains behind MK-ULTRA. So, how much is Eric Olson worth at the age of 60 years old? Here are some passages from the CIAs own manual on the technique of disguising a murder through engineering a contrived accident: Assassination is a term thought to be derived from Hashish, a drug similar to marijuana, said to have been used by Hasan-Dan-Sabah to induce motivation in his followers, Assassination is an extreme measure not normally used in clandestine operations., No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded. Even within the parameters of the CIAs own story this could not have been true. It also provided a backdrop for our reconstructing the scene at the street level of the hotel. The call was overheard by the hotel switchboard operator and reported immediately to the night manager (Armand Pastore). Dr. Gibsons father the author of The Shadow! When my fathers colleague told me about the use of biological weapons in Korea, I responded by saying. Three years later, Eric would discover that a CIA assassination manual written in late 1953 the period of his fathers death prescribed exactly that technique. Frustrated and understandably indignant, the family and their lawyers held a press conference in the back yard of the home in Frederick. It was primarily Soviet agents and defectors from East Germany who were kept here, people the CIA considered to be communist spies. The effects of LSD-25 appear to be specific and are not related to any of the factors mentioned above. 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. This information from Cournoyer fit well with what we already knew and with what we would soon learn. White wanted to know all kinds of crap, but they werent talking. Hundreds of names, places and dates were blacked out. He might have jumped., Anyhow, said one of the men. January 2004 The death of Frank Olson on November 28, 1953 was a murder, not a suicide. In chase cases it will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him. The day before the reburial, the surviving Olsons held one last backyard press conference. After three years there, he went home to Utah and completed a degree in bacteriology. He should be determined, courageous, intelligent, resourceful, and physically active. George Hunter White. Then he laughs, and the look on his face is wild, bitter and full of pain. By Melissa Roth Through them I made contacts in a number of military and civilian intelligence agencies, Germanys BND and Frances DGSE; the CIA; Canadian and British services. His report was most abbreviated since the death had been no posted, (reported out based only on an external examination of Olsons dead body). Mulholland also taught Gottlieb how to slip bio-toxins into the toothbrushes and cigars of Americas enemies abroad. 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. While a clubfoot kept him from military service in World War II, it didnt stop him from engaging in some of the CIAs most covert and deadly missions. Lying on the pavement, bloodied and broken, was Frank Olson. Instead, the Technical Services Staff was to reach an understanding with the individuals who will perform the work as to the conditions under which the work will be performed and reimbursement arranged. It was also in March 1953 that he became mentally and emotionally disturbed. Helms founded the MK-ULTRA program and justified its notably unethical aspects with the rationale, We are not Boy Scouts.. Eric Olson. Cameron won his post-graduate diploma in psychiatric medicine at the University of London before joining the staff at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in 1926. The caller said he had known his friend was dead because the window was on a high floor of the hotel.. His research focuses on the history of political thought in early-modern Europe and America, and on the implications of that history for debates in contemporary political theory. Elevator shafts, stairwells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. His principal responsibilities had been research to find a synthetic substitute for codeine (the government feared the U.S. might be cut off from all its usual sources of opium). Eric Olson is ready to charge in a news conference tomorrow that the story of a suicide plunge makes no sense. Vast quantities of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, could now be produced with reasonable ease in any sophisticated chemistry laboratory.At about the same time, a subculture of researchers began to experiment on themselves. Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert were discovered by the media in 1962, and the craze was on. While waiting in the outer office agent Walter P. T. was nevertheless able to overhear the conversation of the two men, which he records in his report. We were biking companions, and also went rock climbing and rappelling. Im a professional here in town. He wielded a fat unlit cigar like a baton, pulled out a wad of bills that could have gagged a drug dealer, slipped a 20 to the waitress and told her to take good care of us. It was intended to assess what kind of risk he posed and then eliminate him if necessary. When two or more possibilities exist, sometimes even when equally plausible, it is incumbent to adopt that rationale which is the simplest, the most direct and the least convoluted, so Occams razor teaches. I checked you out. The impression given was to be, We did our best, but unfortunately we didnt quite make it to the hospital. That was the myth with which I grew up as a child. When Dr Sargant learned of Frank Olsons death I recall him telling me it came in a priority message from the British Embassy in Washington Sargant came to the immediate conclusion that Olson could only have been murdered. He has been married to Sarah Wright since 23 June 2012. A similar impression came from a CIA investigators report in Colbys documents. He seemed unaware of the importance of what he was giving them, for the material soon raised more questions than it answered. The police suspected foul play. Both in 1947 with son Eric and daughter Lisa. See the article in its original context from. The house is full of drafts of books on collage, as well as books about his father's story that remain unfinished because the story itself lacks an ending. 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. 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. Olson seems to have concentrated on counter- biological warfare, trying to find vaccines and special clothing that would protect against attack. The first was bacteriological warfare. Unbeknownst to us, the intent of the White House in having the family meet personally with the President was to ensure that the Olson family pursue a course that would enable the government to maintain secrecy even as it was being alleged that the full story concerning this incident was being released. Subsequently Dr Gottlieb and Frank Olson visited London and, according to Dr Sargent, he accompanied them to Porton Down, Britains main research centre for biological/chemical research. Lisa died in an airplane crash in 1978. MIRACLE OF SURGERY He says were all stuck in 1953, in a sense, because the events of that year have a continual and overwhelming impact on our lives. With their mother locked in silence, the children were left alone with their own sense of shame about their father's death. Pastore told me that Lashbrooks statements and behavior disturbed him and led him to doubt the truth of Lashbrooks recitals. We brought an old cardboard box and some crayons, and we started writing this sign. For a while, indeed, it looked as if the CIA flirtation with LSD was over. Eric spent a weekend at Normans house in Connecticut. ZNF281 enhances cardiac reprogramming by modulating cardiac and inflammatory gene expression. Ruwet reassured him that everything would be all right. Eric, who is now 54,was never very convinced by this version of events but kept quiet so as not to distress his mother. 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. Hed been in the house on the telephone. Ike, he says, we want you as an agent. Eric Olson in California 520 people named Eric Olson found in Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose and 15 other cities. Eric had decided for the purposes of clarity to tell the story primarily through the narrative of his weekend with Norman Cournoyer. Mans gonna commit suicide. [29]Memorandum for the Record,Reimbursement of Excess Federal Income Taxes to Mr. John Mulholland, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 15-24, February 24, 1955, authors files; Memorandum,Reimbursement for Excess Income Taxes, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 15-33, January 16, 1956, authors files, [30]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Subproject 34,Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-46, October 1, 1954, authors files, [31]Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deception, Central Intelligence Agency, undated, p. 2, authors files, [32]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Subproject 34,Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-46, October 1, 1954, authors files, [33]Memorandum for the Record,Definition of a Task under MKULTRA Subproject 34, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-39, August 25, 1955, authors files, [34]Memorandum for the Record,MKULTRA, Subproject 34, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-29, June 20, 1956, authors files, [35]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Subproject 34A, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-26, August 31, 1956, authors files, [36]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Extension of Subproject 34, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-7, November 15, 1957, authors files, [37]Invoice Check List, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-48, authors files, [38]Memorandum for the Record, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 83-12, March 26, 1959, authors files, [39]U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee)Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: An Interim Report, Government Printing Office, 1975, pp.20-21, [42]Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Inspector General,Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, CIA-IG, May 23, 1967, [43]Testimony of Admiral Stansfield Turner,Select Committee on Intelligence & the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, U.S. Senate, 1977, pp. Even though I had my tape recorder in my pocket at our meeting, I judged it best not to seek my interviewees permission to turn it on remitting myself to four pages of handwritten notes and a contemporaneous transcription of them into my tape recorder as I motored home after our meeting. Unable to walk, he spent his earliest years in her arms. And we made it! If Eric is right, slipping LSD into Olson's Cointreau was not an experiment that went wrong: it was designed to get him to talk while hallucinating. Only two or three Agency officers at any time were cleared for access to Fort Detrick activities. Usually this will require the subversion of a unit of an official guard at a ceremony, though a skillful and determined team might conceivably dispose of a loyal gun crow without commotion and take over the gun at the critical time. inadvertently declassified an assassination manual dating from late 1953, Eric Olson was able to read the following: ''The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. White House attorney Roderick Hills wrote to White House Deputy Staff Director Dick Cheney (yes, that Dick Cheney) stating, Dr. Will he, now in his 80s, pay last respects to his old friend Frank Olson? A length of rope or wire or a belt will do if the assassin is strong and agile. To put this differently, an author may know more than he realizes he knows, or, in some cases, more than he wants to know, and, as in a collage, he may convey this knowledge implicitly in choices concerning spatial positioning. Or are they themselves the victims of communist brainwashing? Lacking a Siberia to which the reluctant could be sent, extreme security measures in the US took a more complex form. The FBI files also reveal a suspicious concern over my fathers health, beginning in 1955. I ask us, Harry boy, he said, to forgive the spears weve left in one another. Well, hes gone, said the voice of Sidney Gottliebs deputy, Robert Lashbrook. If the assassin immediately sets up an outcry, playing the horrified witness, no alibi or surreptitious withdrawal is necessary. It is built on a steep slope, and appears considerably larger from the lake side than from the approach. to hide, forever, a perfect murder. 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. If there is fluid in an organ, it gets drained for a sample, and then the stomach and intestines are opened to examine the contents. The effectiveness of the substances on individuals at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign, Kirkpatrick wrote, is of great significance, and testing has been performed on a variety of individuals within these categories.. Once you start looking into your fathers death, you go to the end., A new documentary film, Code Name Artichoke (produced this year by German public television and widely shown internationally and in the US on WorldLink TV) on the death of my father, Dr. Frank Olson, revisits this question and presents new evidence. Since Abramson had attended Olson several times on the days previous to his death, why was it not sufficient that Abramson, a medical doctor, write up his own report. See bio. The CIAs general counsel ruled that the death resulted from circumstances arising out of an experiment undertaken in the course of his official duties for the United States government. His family, thus, was eligible for death benefits. We picked it up all over. It indicates that the truth was being suppressed even as it was coming to light. THE NUCLEAR stand-off of the Cold War had sent both sides back to their drawing boards. Now in his 70s, Feldman still looks and talks like Edward G. Robinson playing gangster Johnny Rocco inKey Largo. 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard Dallas, Texas, 75390 | Telephone 214-648-3111, Copyright 2023. (2009) and Not Another Teen Movie (2001). Lives in: Mesa AZ. It was assumed that Russian scientists were aware of it. At the third level are memoranda by Dr. Howard Abramson and Lt. 12.12 Before it was completed, however, he had jumped to his death, so Ruwet maintained. We gave serious consideration to whether the hematoma to Dr. Olsons skull had occurred at the street level when his body, determined to have been traveling in excess of sixty miles per hour, struck one or more hard and unresisting objects. Remember Jim, he excited, danger is no stranger to an Airborne Ranger. As it turned out that was the last conversation I ever had with Greg Hayward. Income tax should be paid on the entire amount reported. In the immediate aftermath of Olsons death in 1953 Lashbrook told Alice Olson that he had seen her husband plunge through the hotel window. Meanwhile, Murray, already addicted to amphetamines, continued to flirt with hallucinogens. clearance who was a firm believer in the therapeutic value of LSD for psychiatric patients. One of the drinks has been spiked. It had just been learned that the CIA allegedly drugged its employee Frank Olson with LSD before his supposed suicide. Chapter Eleven of Simpsons book, Guerrillas for World War III, deals with the recruitment of former Nazis to carry out American-ordered assassinations in Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s. All right. But I could see he was reluctant. His intention was to visit Havana at Fidel Castros personal invitation and return home to join the civil rights movement. To judge my credibility in accepting this claim I begin with: PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Montague sent a memo to Dulles: Formal punishment would tend to interfere with that most necessary spirit of initiative and outright enthusiasm so prerequisite to this work. Dulles did send a personal letter to Gottlieb scolding him for poor judgment, but no copy of this letter at least so goes the gen ever landed in Gottliebs file. Im seeing this! Eric shot back. Near the Eiffel Tower, his two CIA colleagues sit in a sidewalk caf and watch pretty French girls go by, on the left is John McNulty. (Or perhaps the guardian did more than watch. I cannot comment on that, except to say that his memory was obviously very selective, sometimes showing crystal clarity and sometimes mired in opacity. Throughout this undeclared conflict he continued to serve, albeit quietly, Americas defense efforts. Personal relationships faltered. 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. Alice joined her husband during the 30plus mile trip to Washington, where she saw her husband enplane for New York. The two agents, who claimed to be working for the West, were examined under a psychiatric-medical cover that is, they were given a trumped-up excuse for the interrogations. Without justice, there is no accountability, and without accountability there is no healing, no resolution. Beyond that, he says, it fits with what they were trying to do in New York: to assess, from any direction possible, how deepthey were in with my father, and to try, again by any means possible, to fix it and save their own butts.[59], Frank Olsons son is not the only one to suggest that Mulhollands conjuring-related knowledge and skills were being put to use to interrogate and influence the biochemist. It added a new genre for him and for the profession: the magician as lecturer. 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. The LSD, Feldman began, that was just the tip of the iceberg. Frank Olson didnt jump out the window (even in physical terms that would have been virtually impossible), and he certainly didnt fall out. That visit was to John Mulholland. Did he come back from Europe looking very upset? I asked. Lashbrook and special agent Walter P. T. Jr. went together to Abramsons office at 9:15 in the evening of the 28th. In the Oval Office, according to newspaper accounts, President Gerald Ford expressed ''the sympathy of the American people and apologized on behalf of the U.S. By early 1953, Gottlieb had been given control of the Agencys newly minted mind-control program, MK-ULTRA. No, Feldman replied with a wave of his cigar, Im a goddamn CIA agent.. So he was terminated instead. This rationale has the ring of plausibility, and it explains another aspect of the story that otherwise is a gaping hole. 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