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. Molecular Biology, Graduate Programs Genetics, Development and Disease, Copyright 2023. And finally, the reason for [officers] contacting the Agency in the first place was to see if we could help them in any way to hush the thing up. the windows in the office dont open., Elliot said, I dont mean in the office.. He and his wife were both fun people, recalls Curtis B. Thorne, a Detrick veteran who pioneered anthrax studies at the University of Massachusetts. This fit led the principal forensic investigator who had exhumed our fathers body to say that the assassination manual fits the death of Frank Olson like the fingers of a glove. (CIA assassination manual found, poster 7.). 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.. He is a former foreign correspondent of the New York Times and also covered the CIA in Washington for the Times. For instance, Walter said, their scientists bred antibiotic-resistant bacteria to make standard Soviet and Chinese treatments useless against U.S. weapons. Would there come a time when I would be called to repay my good fortune? project, beginning in the Korean War, to explore the use of drugs like LSD as truth serums, as well as botulism and anthrax, for use in covert assassination. Colonel in the Chemical Corps and a man who described himself as a close personal friend of the Olson family. 40.52 I dont want to say it. Mulholland devoted his energies to the project and by November his first draft was complete. Drug companies are now working on a cream that can be rubbed directly into the penis before intercourse. Already on July 11, 1975just one day after our press conferencethe White House was outlining a strategy to handle our case, a strategy that would ensure that we did not request pertinent information regarding what had actually happened to Frank Olson. Not a single line related or referred to the Agency. Main navigation. ''Fallen or jumped'' and ''accident'' were the words he heard as he looked across the room at his mother, frozen and empty-eyed, on the sofa opposite. So you can imagine the amount of work they did on these people., 43.10 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson More particularly, the present invention defines the molecular events linking calcium stimulation to cardiac hypertrophy. I am the author of thirty eight books published world wide. 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. That was the hypothesis he felt was cementing itself into place. 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. Later, as the journalists milled around, eating from the buffet that was laid out on the picnic tables, the conversation among the Olsons and their friends turned to Julia Robb, the reporter from theFrederick News Post. Instead we will fast forward to key the key moments that have, piece by piece, eviscerated the 1975 story and left a very different one in its place. Yet, four hours later, Olson fell (sic) to his death. (Gibson went on to a very distinguished career in medicine: he became director of Shepherd-Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, and President of the American Psychiatric Association.) Among the contents of his wallet was a scrap of paper with the initials JM on it, an address, and a telephone number[47]. During the ensuing uproar, the scientist was identified as Frank Olson. Contribute:Please clickhereto make a contribution to help us continue the work. The government explained to the family that even though the body had been embalmed, it was badly disfigured from the fall. Using the alias Morgan Hall, he constructed an elaborate alter-identity as a seaman and artist in the Jack London mode. At the same time it seems clear that Mr. Colby would not have given them the papers had he thought there was anything contained in them that might make possible a challenge and reversal of the official verdict. Now, with these drugs, you could get information without having to abuse people.. Consequently, so he had fallen at about half the speed of a normal walkers pace, hardly running as if his death depended on it. I met Elmore Leonard in 1996 at a book signing at a bookshop called Killer Books in Washington, together with his friend James Grady who wrote 6 Days of the Condor (changed to 3 Days of the Condor for the movie). Frank Olson didnt jump out the window (even in physical terms that would have been virtually impossible), and he certainly didnt fall out. and symptoms of drugs that might be used () We should look into the use of amnesia-producing drugs., 25.34 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./ Former barkeeper at Camp King: Was it for not telling the truth to his family in 1953? Norman lives in a large white bungalow in an upmarket suburban street. When the casket was opened that day it had been closed during the funeral years before because the family had been told Frank Olsons body was too disfigured from his fall Eric Olson recognized his father. 47:24 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: Roy Meachums columnFredericks Candidate'(, Albarelli Jr., H.P. His subsequent handwritten travel voucher for the December 3 journey only lists meeting with a contact.[56]Perhaps the Lashbrook visit was scheduled for the two men to discuss this activity. So, one night at a small cocktail party a TSS researcher managed to slip ads of LSD into a pony of Cointreau that a contract scientist was drinking. 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. orchestrated project that had involved the administration of psychoactive drugs to numerous unsuspecting Americans. He brought home a lot of slides from his many travels. In Mount Olivet Cemetery, which dates its first interment to 1854, lay hundreds of soldiers from both sides of the Civil War, as well as veterans from the past centurys world wars. The cottage itself was only a quarter of mile from where we were sitting and Railey told me how to find it. He proceeded with direct inquiries to Vincent Ruwet, who had been his fathers supervisor at Fort Detrick. 17.12 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: This is a biological warfare story. Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? Well, Hugo, theres a good case to be made for declining even to talk about quandaries like that. He filled the secret service with confident, intelligent, often daring young men from leading eastern colleges. Mulholland continued work on the operational guide throughout the spring and summer. The Division had three primary functions: assessing the vulnerability of American installations to biological attack; developing techniques for offensive use of biological weapons; and biological research for the CIA. . Four years after he was suspected for disclosing secrets an accusation that was never proved: During a trip to New York, Olson is accompanied by a CIA agent who watches him constantly, never leaving his side. He had am explaining all these different sex acts, the different positions they knew for humping. The situation was consistent with the CIAs surreptitious drugging of hundreds of unwitting American citizens as part of their Cold War experiments. Eric Olson is responsible for protecting and evaluating innovations in high tech arising from research at the University of Minnesota as well as partnering with Technology Licensing Officers to facilitate commercialization of these innovations. For nearly five years, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthaus cold-case unit has been conducting an unprecedented criminal investigation into the mysterious death of Fort Detrick biochemist Frank Olson. The previous year, Soviet Union had detonated its first atomic bomb. This report did nothing to quiet Pastores suspicions. It was also in March 1953 that he became mentally and emotionally disturbed. And he has a clubfoot, but loves all the same to square dance. Even more remarkable than what he did not find was what Starrs did find: A large bruise over Olsons left eye, which suggested to Starrs that the victim had been smashed on the head before plunging through the window. Some of these people would become regulars with me in my future exhumations. It was said not to be the hotels policy to reveal the names of its guests since they might be temporarily resident there, shall we say, under circumstances possibly compromising their marital vows or otherwise. No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded, says the CIA assassination manual. The public first learned of MK-ULTRA in 1977, with the disclosure of thousands of classified documents and CIA testimony before a Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy. Research on one hundred subjects began at Harvards Boston Psychopathic under Hydes direction in 1950 Then, on June 29, 1953, John Mulholland wrote a letter to journals subscribers. Sometime in the year of 1952, in the top secret interrogation center, Gajdosch runs across another German: Professor Kurt Blome. Fritz was interested in that area as well.. One of these was Richard Helms, then special assistant for clandestine operations to CIA director Walter Bedell Smith. In the wrong hands, 100 million doses would be enough to sabotage a whole nations mental equilibrium. This Post newspaper report, revealing the results of the Rockefeller Commissions findings about illegal C.I.A. When Zach was discussing all the online research tools, under which two sections was web analytics a part of? He recalled his mother telling him that Frank Olson had been concerned that the United States was using biological weapons in Korea. It may well be, as John Marks suggests, that Lashbrook thought that the magician might amuse Olson.[58]In fact, just the opposite occurred. The word revealed in the headline is ironic in that no name is provided. (Why would the government murder Frank Olson?). But the hotel room was only 5.5 metres long. Of the other known psychogenic drugs, mescaline produces reactions that are the most similar to those of LSD-25. Under Review. 9305 Quitman St. Westminster CO 80031. THE PARENTS HOME DOCTOR (with lan D Hudson, Vincent Pippet) The consequences of military confrontation could well be global thermonuclear war. Those factors would have an impact on his speed in exiting the room. Five of my books have been made into successful motion pictures, including the Academy Award winning Voyage of the Damned. The person who puts the spin on the story controls it from the beginning. So was it in fact murder? Here, in the German offices of the CIA, the biochemist is conducting important conversations with US intelligence officers. No, said Eric. William A. Boyles, a 46-year-old microbiologist, inhaled anthrax spores on the job in 1951 and died a few days later. 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. 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. However, I now had another conflicting view of the last moments in the life of Frank Olson. So close, and yet so far. Of particular interest to the Agency was the potential the hallucinogen LSD had in this arena. We will make available materials to amplify all these points, and provide copies of a definitive new one-hour documentary film on the Frank Olson case called Code Name ARTICHOKE that will air on public TV in Germany (the ARD network) next week, on Monday, August 12. Alice recalled that when Frank returned from Europe that summer, he was unusually withdrawn and morose and contemplative. He was taken instead, by Gottliebs deputy, to the office of the former Broadway magician John Mulholland, who probably hypnotised him, and Frank probably failed that test too. This would not stop the CIA or other branches of the United States Government from spending enormous resources over the next three decades to explore the possibilities of parapsychology and remote viewing. A trained athlete takes about fifty metres to accelerate to that speed. We could never prove it was murder, says Saracco. But Starrs was looking at an undamaged face, devoid of cuts. Alarmed by these horror stories, federal and state authorities moved to ban the drug. The assassination range of the sub-machine gun is point blank. 00.50 Voice of Eric Olson Though theNew Yorkerwriter did not make the connection between Fort Detrick, SOD, Frank Olson, and MK-NAOMI, he told of a number of monkeys who all died of a highly infectious virus known as Ebola that first appeared in 55 African villages in 1976, killing nine out of ten of its victims. Incredible as it sometimes seemed, in both cases, the place one finally got to was still part of America. Education Master in Architecture, Harvard University Email eric.olsen@woodbury.edu News Faculty Spotlight: Eric Olsen on Building and Teaching for the Future April 21, 2020 Contact Us Intelligence reports had the Soviets on the fast track and the Americans playing catch up. He decided to investigate on his own. Ruwet reassured him that everything would be all right. By James E. Starrs with Katherine Ramsland A far-fetched ides, perhaps, but one whose currency was not limited to the CIA. So I was good at it. If Abramsons reports in the Colby documents are to be believed, Abramson had had ample reason to have come to the conclusion early on that Olson required hospitalization. The second quote comes from Tommy Worsley, the genius Volvo mechanic who kept Erics car running during the long years of digging. Believing this means, in my friend's words, ''leaving the known universe,'' the one in which it is innocently accepted that an agency of the American government would never do such a thing. Alice Olson would recall that her husband returned home deeply depressed. As the numbers of people using LSD multiplied, so did sensationalized accounts of its effects. Revised, updated, and expanded. Mulholland wrote Gottlieb back on May 11. The Strange Story of Frank Olson., What Did the CIA Do to Eric Olsons Father?, Now the man in the pencil-strip suit began his counteroffensive. Frank asked Norman one day, Do you know a good journalist I can talk to?. Eric spent a weekend at Normans house in Connecticut. Of course, only a genius can when in concert with another genius like Hugh Montague. Or was it for not notifying the Olson family when this story was finally emerging twenty-two years later, in 1975? Leftys strain was rather easy to detect, Walter said. While with Military Intelligence in Europe, Feldman first heard of George White. My friend said he saw an analogy between my fathers murder and the order given to Francis Gary Powers to kill himself rather than allow himself to be captured by the enemy. If the subject is deliberately run down, very exact timing is necessary and investigation is likely to be thorough. . Lashbrook went so far as to claim that Alice Olson had urged her husband to seek psychiatric help months before the LSD dosing a bald-faced lie, according to Alice. Yet at the time, the family believed that full disclosure was finally at hand. This is the paper in which the first news about the death of Frank Olson arrived, twenty-two years late. They hoped to find a way to use the drugs on the battle ground. At the urging of Eric and Harry Huge I took a train to New York City accompanied by Olsons boxed skull. He said that when he found Olson, his eyes were open while he was making a supreme effort to speak, but words were only an incomprehensible gurgle. The year was 1955 and the analysis was from a report of the agencys Office of Scientific Intelligence titled Strategic Medical Significance of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25).. When Gottlieb revealed to the uproarious group that hed laced the Cointreau, Olson suffered a psychotic snap. Starrs listened to Eric Olson talk yesterday about putting his fathers death in the past. What does that mean? And that was my final interview in this deeply disturbing investigation. As large a percentage of the population took the drug in 1976 as in 1972. But it seems the CIA has already found a solution. For years, in total secrecy, they studied the black art of bioterrorism. To make a long story short, he said, using one of his favorite verbal segues, I want the truth of this to be known so that people understand that what we did was good for the country.. Stunned by this I pressed Gibson for an explanation. in the summer of 1953 Frank Olson travelled to Britain, once again to visit Parton Down. I didnt want to leave it, one CIA agent said of his first LSD trip I felt I would be going back to a place where I wouldnt be able to hold on to this kind of beauty.. Falls into the sea or swiftly flowing rivers may suffice if the subject cannot swim. Eric Olson, Ph.D. Pictures taken in Frankfurt and Heidelberg will later turn up among Olsons slides. This Is the account he gave me of your fathers death which I now feel free to make public. His face was largely intact, lacking the cuts that would have resulted if he had broken through a plate-glass window to jump. Fischer, Mary A. 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 US government moved immediately to show how sorry it was for what had happened. It was made immediately after Frank Olson went out of the window. He served the U.S. Army Surgeon Generals Clinical Psychology Advisory Board and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene with the CIAs propagator of LSD, Frank Fremont-Smith. In an attempt to preempt foreign attacks and even wage its own assaults, the CIA funded a group of renegade agents to experiment with ways to derail a human being. 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. One colleague, who spoke on condition of anonymity, thinks Olson was upset because he believed the U.S. had used biological weapons against North Korea. For a time CIA personnel were completely infatuated with the hallucinogen. Operation Realism, a top-secret project run by George White, involved giving citizens in bars and restaurants LSD without their knowledge. But he also borrowed money from friends and family, maxed out half a dozen credit cards, and began to sink into debt. He telephoned Robert Lashbrook and advised him that Dr. He doesnt mix with us poor mortals.[7]. More recently his colleagues at the laboratory included DR. SID GOTTLEIB, who was chief of the Technical Services Division, and ROBERT V. LASHBROOK, Ph.D, who joined the organization only in 1952. Yeah it is, said Nils. The .300 F.A.B. Sincerely ENOLA GAY/RUIN FROM THE AIR (with Max MorganWitts) The early phases of the perceptual act often serve to register the emotional value of the stimulus precisely in order to steer subsequent perceptual phases away from the stimulus or from some aspects of it. His failure to recall whether he kept a record of the event in his patrolmans notebook was a challenge to his credibility as was his memory lapse on whether this was the one and only jumper he had investigated. Among the mourners at the ceremony were two CIA men: Robert Lashbrook the man from room 1018A and his boss, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, architect of the CIAs MK-ULTRA program and the spy agencys mastermind of bizarre assassination techniques employing lethal biological agents ranging from anthrax to shellfish toxin. I did sign a confession, relating to germ warfare. He wasnt fundamentally a military guy. According to George Belk, a former head of the Drug Enforcement Agency in New York, Feldman quit the drug agency following a probe by the internal security division. Only the bones -- and not all of them -- remain intact. No one needed to debate the next step, Alibek wrote in his 1999 book Biohazard. () In some cases it will be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him., 36.49 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University: Arthur Vidich is Frank Olsons brother-in-law. One day I asked him if he regretted this, and he replied, I regret it all the time.. It is possible to kill a man with bare hands, but very few are skillful enough to do it well. After decades of doubts and confusion, it appeared that the strange story had finally found a fitting conclusion. At every point there seems to be a convergence of the evidence, Nils Olson says. On Friday, we transported the remains to the biology department at Hagerstown Junior College where we would conduct the autopsy, analyze the skeletal features and obtain specimens for toxicological analysis. They reveal new details, including names and dates, about the safe house project, dubbed Operation Midnight Climax, which was part of the CIAs MK-ULTRA program in the 1950s and 1960s to manipulate human behavior. It was an absurd idea, a caricature of how the Chinese had induced their prisoners to write elaborate confessions, nevertheless, there was much discussion of the question at the United Nations and in the newspapers. It also suggested that the perpetrator then play the horrified witness, and that drugs be used for the subjects preparation. The papers are a rare find for anyone interested in the espionage business and show White dashing about the world, busting up narcotics rings in South America, Texas and San Franciscos Chinatown. This textual nature of this task is one reason why literary theory and psychoanalysis have had such a rich cross-fertilization in recent decades. Although his family didnt know it, he had also been recruited by the CIA for a program code-named Artichoke, part of a decades-long hunt for drugs to make enemy prisoners spill their secrets. However, he said it was recommended that he obtain treatment for some newly emergent behavioral problems he was having. What was the nature of Olsons duties? And Gottlieb knew how and was willing to use them. It was a mystery, solved a week later when searchers found his decomposing remains on a Chesapeake Bay island. Cournoyer affirmed that Frank Olson had returned from Germany during the summer of 1953 feeling troubled. Later, in the documentary aired on German TV, Cournoyer would elaborate, stating that the people [Olson] saw in Germany [at the CIA interrogation center] went to the extreme. And then, somewhere around dawn, Eric was woken up. 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