Olsons specialty at Fort Detrick was delivering deadly diseases in sprays and aerosol emulsions. Gibbons stated that he is stopping any LSD tests which may have been instituted under CIA auspices.. Whites particular area of expertise was the testing of drugs on unwitting human guinea pigs. Two days before his death he allegedly leaves his room in the middle of the night, wanders the streets alone, throws away wallet, including all of his money and his identification. In fact, I read the book. We put various poisons in Castros cigars but none of that worked. An inveterate smoker, he suffered from ulcers, stomach disorders and arthritis. Even if they were all released, their sheer bulk is sufficient to fend off even the most dedicatedor obsessedinvestigator. Meanwhile, ex-CIA man Robert Lashbrook fought the New York D.A.s attempts to interview him; he eventually submitted to a deposition. Sound: Jan Schmiedt 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. '', Just before I left, we went to the graves of his mother, sister and brother-in-law and their child, the place where he wants his father to be buried. Anything!. The news that the men delivered was that Erics father was dead. I want to travel to Long Island to interview a former narcotics agent who worked undercover for the CIA dosing people with LSD. My parole officer would have ordered a urine test on the spot. Walter recalled that colleagues were sent overseas to collect the mussels that produced the poison, into which the darts would be dipped. Ruwet reassured him that everything would be all right. We took a drive over to Muir Woods out by Stinson Beach. Eric Olson in New York. Research on one hundred subjects began at Harvards Boston Psychopathic under Hydes direction in 1950 In 1975, a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller issued a report on CIA abuses, Days later, the family was invited to the White House to meet President Ford. Here was a pathologist who wanted a smoking gun, not a skull with a massively blood-stained frontal bone, to induce him to declare the manner of death a homicide. At one point, Alice asked her husband whether he had falsified information. Getting information out of him, they noted, was like pulling teeth.They asked to see what was in his pockets and billfold. Such plans must be modified frequently to meet changes in the tactical situation. LSD was not yet ready for testing in interrogations, but the agency did report some success in causing amnesia after interrogations, through a combination of hypnosis and sodium pentathol. In the spring of 1954, Mulholland found himself facing an unforeseen problem. Because LSD-25 is colorless, odorless and tasteless, it could possibly be used clandestinely for the contamination of food and water, although the data on its stability in solution are conflicting. It was not even remotely similar, and likewise, Olsons hemorrhage over the frontal bone had no association with the firearms-injury phenomenon that produces a raccoons eye. He earned his B.S. We really kept that thing hush-hush, he said. What seemed to be at first glance a simple and straight-forward set of events leading to a death turned out to be much more complicated than had been anticipated, including the occurrence of yet more mysterious deaths. Eric Olson Age 35. 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. TECHNIQUES Al Santoli, a Congressional investigator who helped gather the documents, said the House subcommittee would explore the possibility that some of the American prisoners reported missing in 1953 were the same Americans reportedly sighted in recent years in North Korea. 48-year-old case has links to CIAs secret experimentation program, By H.P. THE ASSASSIN This section was not considered inmy original outline and was suggested subsequently to me. When Alice asked if he had broken security, Olson replied, You know I would never do that. Although he revealed little more, he did tell his wife that he planned to resign his job and retrain himself as a dentist. This coincidence was extremely convenient for Lashbrook, the Chemical Corps and the CIA. The story didnt make any sense in 1953, and it didnt make any more sense in 1975. My Doctor orders me to confine my efforts at this time to the shows by which I earn my living.. Little Gidding, (1943)Four Quartets. He told Alice he wanted to quit his job and become a dentist. At first, they suspected they had a homosexual affair gone bad on their hands. Lashbrook left the agency, but Gottlieb remained in senior positions for 20 more years. The CIA was on to acid long before the flower children. After 75 years of psychoanalysis -- the talking cure -- here was a therapy, Eric believed, that didn't start from words but from images. Falls before trains or subway cars are usually effective, but require exact timing and can seldom be free from unexpected observation. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us.. In Ruwet and Lashbrooks version of events, the three flew back to Washington later that morning. Frank is troubled by something. LSD inspires one to tell the truth. Increasingly boisterous, they soon could not engage in sensible conversation. In 1994, an Associated Press reporter discovered the typewritten memo, which quoted an earlier, hand-written note forwarded to Detrick in 1975 by a person described only as retired Army and retired DAC (Army shorthand for Department of the Army Civilian). The idea that Lashbrook saw the exit through the window was clearly problematic. (see pp Chap 4, Journey into Madness). Cournoyer added three crucial elements to the story: 1. As chief of the governments most secret biological lab in the early 1950s Frank Olsons position concerning these allegations could not have been discredited. Documents reveal that Frank never saw a psychiatrist in New York. Ive ruined my life, he says in one interview. See how in this scenario a slice of Jim Channons First Earth Battalion (harsh light and noise) and a slice of Frank Olsons Artichoke (a whole new category of longing) come together like two pieces of a jigsaw. Then he laughs, and the look on his face is wild, bitter and full of pain. But if someone is stricken with a sudden, fatal illness or an epidemic slashes across a crowded city there is no way of knowing whether anyone attacked, much less who. Among the tasks of the dirty tricks department in Building 1412 are brainwashing, drugs and torture, as well as murder by means of poisons and bacteria. The CIA agent dictated it to Dr. Abramson. She said that there was just one call, and she had listened in to it. The government feared that highly classified information was at stake and that a court might grant full discovery, including information on the nature of Olsons work. The long-term aim of these experiments with mind-altering drugs is thought by those who have studied the MK-ULTRA programme to have been to ensure the dominance of Anglo-American civilisation in the war of all against allthe key to evolutionary success. Brain-washing would be used not only to defeat the enemy but to ensure compliance and loyalty of ones own population. Born with two clubfeet, Gottlieb spent much of his life almost compulsively adapting himself to the external world. According to the report, an Army scientist had leaped to his death from the 13th floor of a New York City hotel room in 1953 after being dosed with LSD by the CIA. In 1955, White moved the safe house to San Francisco, and he took over as regional head of tha Bueau of Narcotics. Patrick Johnson. It spread to undergraduate students, then to other campuses. At the funeral in 1953, the coffin was shut because the family had been told that the body was broken up and that there were extensive cuts and lacerations to the face caused by the fall through the glass. At the time we spoke of your father, Dr Sargant was Director of Psychological Medicine at St Thomas Hospital, London, England. Should the verb disappeared be taken to mean jumped? When all necessary data has been collected, an effective tactical plan can be prepared. They graduated from Columbia University / College of Physicians And Surgeons and is affiliated with Saint Mary's Hospital and Waterbury Hospital. He was a CIA man too. Alarmed by these horror stories, federal and state authorities moved to ban the drug. Ten days later, Ford hosted the Olson family and apologized. This session presented just such an opportunity. Tic was never given a psychiatri c examination, and after the last test, he suffered within 24 hours what he described as an LSD relapse, Driving his car i that day, he experienced a major loss of coherence. He lost all control and found himself in the wreckage of the vehicle after it turned over several times on a Washington parkway. I can visualize his face actually: It was drawn, in a way I had never seen it before.. Mr. Sejna, a former Czech defense official, had access to information about medical experiments carried out on American prisoners of war by Russian and Czech personnel in a hospital in North Korea during the war. He looked exasperated. THE PARENTS HOME DOCTOR (with lan D Hudson, Vincent Pippet) He decided that Frank Olson could pose a security risk if he continued to speak and behave as he did. Fifty years after the fact, Eric Olson came to believe that he had finally prized loose the carefully guarded state secret of his fathers death. Over the left eye, underneath unbroken skin, was a fist-sized hematoma embedded in the sub-galeal sheath. His face was largely intact, lacking the cuts that would have resulted if he had broken through a plate-glass window to jump. Im here to tell you, he said, that the government has paid the Olson family close to a million dollars for their wrongdoing in causing the death of Frank Olson.. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967-82). When it was mentioned that the call related to the death of Dr. Olson, she was unwilling to discuss the matter of Dr. Abramsons treatment of Dr. Olsons or his experiments with LSD or her knowledge or involvement in it. Dirty tricks. After he and Lashbrook ate a dreary Thanksgiving meal at a Horn & Hardart restaurant, the two men returned to their room at the Statler, which they shared, and Olson called Alice to say he looked forward to seeing her the next day., Around 2:00 a.m. the next morning, Pastore found Olson on the sidewalk. 3. It was all planned and scripted by the Central Intelligence.. He got out as quickly as he could after high school and ended up in Ohio and India and New York and Massachusetts and Stockholm and California, but in 1993 he thought he would just crash out for a few months, and then ten years passed, during which time he hasnt decorated for three reasons: And, really, his life ground to a shuddering halt on November 28th, 1953, and if your living environment is meant to reflect your inner life, Erics house does the job. It was titledSome Operational Applications of the Art of Deception. Then he hung up and retired to the bathroom where he sat on the lavatory with his head in his hands. Unwitting LSD recipients were what was needed. He still smoked constantly. Itwas as if a long-lost MIA had at last been found and identified, but his family were not notified. As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the CIA men might have felt an odd sense of relief. The whole history of a lot of things would be different. Yet curiously, the CIA has always claimed that its attempts to create real-life incarnations of Richard Condons unfortunate protagonist Raymond Shawthe hypnotically programmed assassin of, The ultimate goal of mind control would have been to produce a Manchurian Candidate assassin, an agent who didnt know he (or she) was an agentbrainwashed and programmed to carry out that most sensitive of missions. John Mulholland died at age 71 on February 25, 1970 after a long illness in University Hospital, New York. 14.50 He coughed, his face turned red, his eyes started watering. This information from Cournoyer fit well with what we already knew and with what we would soon learn. 3.58 The 1975 White House documents include the following comments: First, a passage from a September 1975 memorandum by White House attorney Roderick Hills addressed to Richard Cheney: two circumstances affect our analysis of the Justice Department position. He has further seriously studied the psychology of deception and has instructed graduate students, 3. 130, 12, p. 1827-1850 24 p. Research output : Contribution to journal Review article peer-review Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats 100% Saracco has already offered Lashbrook immunity from prosecution in return for his testimony. A trained athlete takes about fifty metres to accelerate to that speed. As one psychoanalyst (Roy Schafer) put it, the mystery of how the repressed makes its appearance in the psychoanalytic dialogue is that patient refers to what he is passing over as he passes over it. The reciprocal task of the psychoanalyst, therefore, becomes that of hearing the alienated voice of the other within the rhythms of the patients multivocal speech. Three days later, Olson agreed to be admitted to a Rockville psychiatric hospital. The element silicon, second only to oxygen in its abundance in the earths crust, is a principal component of glass. But the report is also a selfindictment on moral and ethical grounds. Fully vetted by the Agency, he had a top secret security clearance. According to the report in the Post based on the official findings of an internal CIA investigation conducted after the incident a civilian employee of the Army had been dosed with LSD during a government retreat in western Maryland. White says to me,Cmon, Ike. He greeted the Olsons warily. And this is what my mother was seizing on when she talked to Gottlieb. 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. There is a house in Frederick, Maryland that has barely been touched since 1953. Would this colleague, Norman Cournoyer, repeat this statement in front of the camera? 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. 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. But during that time I knew nothing about the death of Frank Olson or the familys sustained grief over it, a grief which they keep well closeted from me. BE COOL, Dell, 1999, p. 233). 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. Later a second irony occurred to me. Such a revelation was to be avoided at all costs, the internal correspondence stated. By March of 1953, he was certainly consulting for the Agency and being paid for these professional services.Inasmuch as he was billing the government on a biweekly basis, it seems apparent that this was ongoing work with at least some of it related to development of Project MKULTRA. He became one of the guinea pigs, but his reaction to the LSD spelled disaster for him. Miniccino adds, So if Frank Olson expressed serious doubts about the MK-ULTRA project to Sargant, then he signed his own death warrant.. Read it tonight, he said. Arthur Vidich is Frank Olsons brother-in-law. We want you to test these mind-bending drugs. I said, Why the hell do you want to test mind-bending drugs? He said, Have you ever heard of, Dick Russell, author of a recent book on the Kennedy assassination titled, One of the CIAs mob contacts long suspected of involvement in John Kennedys assassination was the Las Vegas, The connections between MK-mind-control experiments, the proliferation of the drug culture, Mob/CIA assassination plots, and the emergence of new, lethal viruses go on and on. This fits with what my mother had always said: Korea really bothered your father. These documents include intra-office memoranda by senior White House staff members and attorneys. Its tough on everyone when they die.. CIA documents have confirmed that a week earlier Olson had been surreptitiously drugged with LSD at a high-level CIA meeting. (One paragraph of the CIA report on Mr. Olsons death is blanked out by a censor) Perhaps Colby didnt pay close attention, because there are certainly some disquieting matters in the conduct and reported conversations of Frank Olsons colleague, Robert Lashbrook, and the New York allergist, Dr. Harold Abramson, in the hours after Mr. Olsons death. Global advisory council: David Rubenstein (founding chair; also: trustee Harvard Corporation; trustee Johns Hopkins University; trustee University of Chicago; trustee Duke University 2005-2012, vice chair 2012-2013, chair 2017-2020)). It had already been going on for three years. Here are my comments on twenty-five pages from the package of documents which I understand that the Director of Central Intelligence, William Colby, gave to the Olson family some years after the tragic death of Frank Olson. So there were many aspects of this case that were very suspicious, and they would become even more so. The next morning the two men returned to Manhattan with Abramson. . But the hotel room was only 5.5 metres long. I can't wait for the new school year to start, and I'm excited to meet all the new freshmen. But it also generated alarm. While Mulhollands work for the CIA may have ended, the Agency continued its interest in the connection between the techniques of conjuring and espionage. Christopher Simpson,Blowback: Americas Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War(New York: Widenfeld & Nicolson, 1988). Frank Olson, it seems, was not only an experimental subject but also engaged as a researcher in the CIAs Special Operations Division. 27.53 33.30 Voice of Eric Olson: He had been brought to New York by Lashbrook to be treated for an alleged psychiatric disturbance by the CIAs principal secret LSD consultant, Dr. Harold A. Abramson, a highly respected physician who was then head of the Allergy Clinic at Mt. 8.43 Voice of Eric Olson: He proceeded with direct inquiries to Vincent Ruwet, who had been his fathers supervisor at Fort Detrick. Then he tells me, Come back in two days and check this tree. So we go back in two days, the tree was completely dead. And that was what the record showed for the next twenty-two years. In addition, it was at least odd that C.I.A. For myself, I am solidly skeptical of anyone in Dr. Olsons allegedly distraught state of mind, or even someone of sound mind and memory, clearing a 31-inch high window opening obscured by a drawn shade, all in the darkness of a hotel room at night without having his line of travel so obstructed as to cause the venture to misfire. He is on duty that night, when Frank Olson falls from the 13th floor, landing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. Yet when he returned from work the next day, he told Alice that his colleagues had reassured him. Copyright 2001 by The Genii Corporation. Fat. They gave his widow and children a government pension, and Gottlieb got away with a slap on the wrist. On a hot day in August, Eric and his brother Nils and Erics son, who usually lives in Sweden, and Nilss wife and their children, and some of Erics friends and I, were sunbathing by the pool, when a truck covered with pictures of party balloons Capital Party Rentals pulled up in his driveway to drop off 100 plastic seats. This textual nature of this task is one reason why literary theory and psychoanalysis have had such a rich cross-fertilization in recent decades. 5.35 But the notion of an LSD suicide provided at least a placeholder to quiet rumors and suspicions, even as it left room for the message that was being sent by security to all the personnel at Detrick: potential whistle-blowers will be dealt with harshly. This would mean that the government would have no defense at all against claims for information that the Olson family might legitimately make. We have estimated Eric Olson's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets. Interestingly, the belief that ones psyche is being invaded by radio transmissions or electrical implants is considered a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. A document issued on June 11 described the essential elements in the program as physiological research leading to a better understanding of the constituent factors in human behavior and physiological and pharmacological research leading to a better understanding of the action or effectiveness of various agents used in connection with efforts to control human behavior.. Was a decision then taken to make certain that Olson never talked by destroying his memory with drugs and, when this failed, by murdering him and making it look like a suicide? I did eight years for the Feds because I refused to rat when I got busted for pot.. After all, what would the prying eyes say to my explanation that I was carrying it to the New York City Medical Examiner for his inspection. Trained as a biochemist, he had been employed since 1943 in the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, Maryland, was associated with a CIA secret research unit known at the time as MK-ULTRA, and came to Britain frequently between 1950-53 to work at the British Microbiological Research Establishment (MRE) at Porton Down. Marks book ran 264 pages. Was the CIA implicated in my fathers 1961 suicide attempt? A front-page story headlined Suicide Revealed zeroed in on a sensational item from the just-released report of the Rockefeller Commission, the first of the post-Watergate inquiries into CIA misdeeds. The information will be collected principally from the previous studies made by Mr. Mulholland in connection with various problems he has considered. This developed during the time I used him in various documentary programmes for the BBC. Right after Olsons death, the C.I.A. And we never actually assassinated anybody., And Gottlieb turns up everywhere! he said. Together with a small group of other scientists this colleague (Norman Cournoyer) and Frank Olson had designed the protective clothing for the invasion of Normandy during World War II. In the multiplicity of collage working techniques ranging from tearing, to burning, cutting, crumpling, ripping, rubbing one finds analogues to societys socializing processes and events. I did sign a confession, relating to germ warfare. New York Post,Sept. 21, 1997, By Scott Shane When we can do it right.''. 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. Automobile accidents are a less satisfactory means of assassination. They quickly produced gas masks and anthrax weapons, in order to be able to strike back in kind. 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.*. It was the last time Alice would ever see him. Eric Olson. To provide a forum for the utilization of new or under-utilized scientific technologies and experiences, such as the bio-engineering aspects of a fall from a height, an analysis of the causal features in fractures resulting from such a fall, a toxicological analysis of bodily tissues and hair for therapeutic and abused drugs (whether defined as controlled substances or not), the use of the computer to animate a re-enactment scenario of the event, and to provide an identification of the remains by a computerized skull superimposition. The latter circumstance may mean as a practical matter we would have no defense against the Olson law suit. Another answer is suggested by a colleague: It is well known, wrote Dr. Howard Abramson after Olsons death, that it is an occupational hazard to mental stability to be doing the type of work connected with his [Olsons] duties. The New York District Attorney was in fact able to locate a source in Israel with close ties to Israeli intelligence which was able to confirm this allegation. Seeing Martin Luther on the Sunday night had made him all the more determined to quit his job. Early in 2001, Harry Huge reportedly expected the DAs office to declare Olsons death a murder, which would free the Olsons to file a substantial lawsuit. But dogs were not the primary target of the SO Divisions creative efforts. CHAOS UNDER HEAVEN .In Dr. Leviskys laboratory at York College the remains of Dr. Olsen were kept in a secure vault under lock and key while Jack Levisky and his assistant, Sherry Brown, worked to macerate (deflesh) the bones. 2001H.P. . Unsuspecting clients were served cocktails laced with powerful doses of LSD and other concoctions the CIA sent out to be tested. 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. 4.55 Plotting a covert germ assault is easier if the rooms cubic footage and ventilation system are known, he says. I find it interesting. In 1975 after the family press conference the Olson family was immediately assured by the President that the government would provide more restitution. The Soviet official confirmed that known anti-Soviet people had attended the party. In Peace or Pestilence: Biological Warfare and How To Avoid It, Theodor Rosebury said science should combat disease, not find devious ways to spread it. I have seen corpses in much worse condition with a lesser time period in between burial and exhumation. research enterprise might conceivably be replicated in todays society. I dont know if work at TSS deserves to be as hush-hush as is presented to us here, but it is certainly a special place. 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. So Olson and some of his colleagues became intrigued by another type of weapon altogether, one which attacked not the body but the mind. According to Lashbrook, Olson was cheerful and appeared to enjoy the entertainment. He appeared no longer particularly depressed, and almost the Dr. Olson I knew prior to the experiment.. Maintaining stoic silence took its toll. And the then CIA director, William Colby, held a lunch for Mrs Olson and Eric in his office at the CIA, apologised and gave them the CIA file on the case. He set about finding remedies including electroshock (60,000 ECTs in a single year), lobotomies and other forms of psychosurgery, sensory deprivation and mind-altering drugsall used on patients who had little or no say in their treatment. By the time Olson returned home Friday evening, things had changed radically. The old training group PQ 31 is doing all right for itself, even if PQ has to stand for peculiarwhich is what I can say about my work now. Foiled and frustrated I made a quick but courteous departure and in my abstracted frame of mind took a taxi back to Grand Central Station. Immediately after Olsons fall, CIA officer Lashbrook phoned Abramson, the physician. In this section would be given alternative procedures, or modifications, needed by different types of operators (differences in fact or assumed), as well as changes in procedure needed as situations and circumstances vary. Olson was in serious trouble and needed immediate professional attention. Agreeing to make the appropriate arrangements, Lashbrook then phoned Gottlieb. 32.43 It all points to my fathers being murdered.. The article contained stunning news about our father, but it did not mention his name. Dr. Frank Olson was an expert for anthrax and other biological weapons and had top security clearance. While in Europe, according to his son, Eric, Frank Olson also learned that the Americans were deploying Anthrax against enemy troops in Korea. In resistance situations, assassination may be used as a counter-reprisal. Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, Eric N. Olson Mentorship Award established by International Society for Heart Research, Edwin G. Conklin Medal in Developmental Biology, Libin Prize for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, Heritage Foundation, Canada, Dallas Historical Society Award for Excellence in Medicine, The Eugene Braunwald Mentorship Award, American Heart Association, March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology, Research Achievement Award, International Society for Heart Research, Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande Grand Prize for Science, Editorial Board, EMBO Molecular Medicine (2008), Editorial Board, Developmental Cell (2005), Editorial Board, Molecular and Cellular Biology (1993). [10], MKULTRA and its component parts had already become one of the Agencys most secret operations. I have a speculation about it though. 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