Its brainwashing research also took the CIA to Canada, where the agency hired an eminently prestigious psychologist, Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, president of the Canadian, American, and World Psychiatric associations and head of the Allen Memorial Institute at McGill University (which had been founded with money from the Rockefeller Foundation). Abramson also gave Gregory Bateson, Margaret Meads former husband, his first LSD. Other articles where Eric Olson is discussed: personal identity: Animalism: According to the American philosopher Eric Olson and others, persons are biologically individuated animals whose persistence through time consists of biological continuity, which is constituted by the biological processes that make up an organism's life. Lashbrook supposedly contacted Gottlieb, interrupting his bosss Thanksgiving dinner, and the CIA men decided it would be best to take Olson back to Abramson in New York. In any case, soon, Olson was experiencing disorientation. Meanwhile, in Fort Detrick, a massive arms program is taking place with bacteriological weapons, primarily anthrax spores, which have proven to be highly resistant and therefore suitable for biological warfare. Some of the stuff George White and I tested, he explained. At one point, the two officers speculated to each other that the case might be a simple homicide with homosexual overtones and noted this in their written report. They now rest in a plot beside the remains of their sister, Lisa, her husband and child, and their mother, Alice. Yesterday, Eric Olson thanked people who have long listened to his story and helped him work through the details: the filmmaker who made a German documentary on the subject, the mechanic who has kept his Volvo running, the friend who catered lunch. He struck up conversations with strangers, then lured them back to the pad where he served drinks spiked with Sandozs finest. But people who are far from wild-eyed conspiracy theorists accept the plausibility of Frank Olsons death as an execution. Last to mention but always in the forefront throughout the project was Dr. Jack John Levisky, a forensic anthropologist and department chairman at York College, PA. A scientific consultant, and an assortment of support staff were also used. When an unidentified person answered, the caller said, Well, hes gone. At the other end the reply was brief and unemotional. Indeed, Gottlieb had observed some of this work firsthand and was well acquainted with the hypnotists involved. Thats all I knew about it at first. What little else they knew came from a small article in their local paper: Army Bacteriologist Dies in Plunge from NY Hotel. In order to assure his family of Civil Service benefits, the CIA had his death officially recorded as a classified illness.. He told the police that he worked for the Defense Department and he didnt know why Olson had jumped from the window, but he did know that Olson suffered from ulcers and might have been suffering from job-related stress. His conclusion was that the evidence was starkly suggestive of homicide.. It was, as one former Detrick employee called it, ''a community of saints'' dedicated to using the most fearful and secret science to defend the republic. () 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: CIA documents have confirmed that a week earlier Olson had been surreptitiously drugged with LSD at a high-level CIA meeting. But in fact this was a family haunted by fear, shame, uncertainty, and insecurity. That dose might have catapulted him to his death. Describing how sinister the battle for mens minds has become in Soviet hands, Dulles revealed that the Russians had developed brain perversion techniques which must be countered at any price. The operator said, yes there was one call out of that room. 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. But now it was time for him to prepare his taxes. [4]The ULTRA hearkened back to the most closely guarded American-British secret of the Second World War: the breaking of Germanys military codes. His instincts are superb and his work ethic exacting and conscientious. The field of psychoactive drugs, it seemed, was yet another defense-related area in which the Nazis had been ahead of the Allies. Russian Formalism: History-Doctrine,1981), Brechts epic theater is a theater that is in certain ways conscious of itself as signifying practice, and that draws attention to its own means of production, its own processes of representation. 15.30 He became one of the guinea pigs, but his reaction to the LSD spelled disaster for him. Were we close? As part of this experiment, Olson unwittingly received some 70 micrograms of the hallucinogen. Unanswered questions or not, the family wanted to believe needed to believe that vindication and justice had prevailed. Even if they were all released, their sheer bulk is sufficient to fend off even the most dedicatedor obsessedinvestigator. The full extent of the CIAs activities under the rubric of MK-ULTRA may never be known. 40.27 Family Statement on the Murder of Frank Olson, That day in July 1975 we sat at this table and read a, In the years after the case was settled we had had time to grapple more carefully with the confusing stack of, documents we had received from William Colby, elliptical, incoherent, and contradictory, We now know that this story begins long before the meeting at, In these documents the overall context for Frank Olsons death is related not to the infamous MK-ULTRA program for mind and behavior control, as is generally assumed. For almost half a century, his son Eric, a psychologist, has insisted his father as murdered on orders from the highest level. Disciplinary action was recommended against Gottlieb and Lashbrook, but the agency's director, Allen Dulles, delivered only a mild reprimand. When he came home, his mood was unusually anxious. Eric, though, was undeterred, whatever the outcome. Was the big secret that Olson was a CIA employee? Then, suddenly, a picture of the ruins of the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate. The most useful line of thought on this problem comes, I think, from philosopher Susanne Langer who in her multivolume studyMind: An Essay on Human Feelingemphasizes that perception is a complex act which consists of many components or phases, not all of which are synchronized and integrated with each other. The lawyer stated he would give the case no publicity. There are certain things that I dont want to talk about.. Ruefully, no such experiment could be designed with any approach to verisimilitude. There was the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin. That hardly seems shocking in the context of an accidental LSD dosing. She recalled one call. Congressional investigators said much of the information was confirmed by a former military aide to President Eisenhower, Col. Phillip Corso. Gottliebs experiments occurred at a time in our countrys history when no act performed with a view toward thwarting communism was considered out-of-bounds. If the assassin normally carries weapons because of the nature of his job, it may still be desirable to improvise and implement at the scene to avoid disclosure of his identity. Cold War research ran the gamut, from investigations of sleep deprivation to perfecting anthrax delivery systems. To be reliable, it should deliver at least 5 rounds into the subjects chest, though the .45 caliber U.S. weaponshave a much larger margin of killing efficiency than the 9 mm European arms. The Eighty Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Historys Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals. Piecing these facts together, Eric Olson thought that Lashbrooks account was implausible. At the end of the lunch, Colby handed the family an inch-thick sheaf of declassified documents relating to Frank Olson's death. Feldman was the sort of guy who didnt have too many scruples, said Dan Casey, a retired FBN agent who worked with Feldman in San Francisco. He was a branch chief and in October 1952 the confidence which his superiors had in him was reflected in the fact that they promoted him to be Acting Chief of the entire Special Operations Division. 32.43 Mulholland was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 9, 1898. George called me in because I had this whore, one of my whores was this Cuban girl and we were gonna send her down to see Castro with a box of LSD-soaked cigars.. Ruwet delivered the terrible news: Alices husband was dead. Click on the image above to read the chapter on the Olson story from the previous edition, now part of a re-edited Chapter 1 of the new edition. In May 1963 1 learned that my father had received fifty four ECT treatments, and I arranged his transfer to a clinic in East Berlin. First, however, Gottlieb had to test the compatibility of LSD to his purpose. For example, when I asked whether any of the eight unwitting participants in the LSD experiment had been pre-screened for any medical disabilities that might put them at risk, he unhesitatingly said, No. When I inquired whether any medical personnel had been in attendance at the Deep Creek meeting in the eventuality that some one of the LSD subjects would have an untoward reaction requiring immediate medical attention, he again replied, No. Yet his own prior use of LSD, which he openly admitted, had not been so devoid of medical supervision. A few years later, the surreptitious administration of a mind-altering drug in a drink at a party was suggested as a possible solution to a strange double death in Sidney, Australia. Lashbrook told the police he was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. 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. But Saracco, now retired, found plenty to fuel his suspicions: a hotel room so cramped it was hard to imagine Olson vaulting through the closed window; motives to shut Olson up; the ambiguous autopsy; and the CIA assassination manual. September 17, 1996, Tuesday. Now he has them making these little figurines out of the pipe cleaners-men and women screwing in all these different positions. Who the fuck are you?. Starrs concluded that the forensic evidence was rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide.. We want you to work as an under cover agent in San Francisco.. SCIENTIST WAS KILLED TO STOP HIM REVEALING DEATH SECRETS; SO DID CHENEY AND RUMSFELD COVER UP A CIA ASSASSINATION? 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. BILL BUCKLEY, Station Chief of the CIA in Beirut (1983). What Meachum doesnt say is that The Manchurian Candidate has been a large part of the problem. He obviously knew, however, that lysergic acid monoethylamide can be isolated from Rivea seeds and turned into LSD. Their first sons were born within a few days of each other in 1944. The Seventy Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: The exhumation at Linden Hills Cemetery took place on Thursday, June 2, 1994, commencing at 8:30 A.M, under clear skies and in the presence of the Olson brothers, my team members, representatives of the press and a smallish group of voyeurs. Two days after the press conference, a man named Armand Pastore contacted the family. There is a piece missing and I am not sure that I am the one to give it to you. The fact that Abramson was not a psychiatrist apparently didnt bother Gottlieb, who later sought to justify the peculiar patient referral on national security grounds, that last refuge of panicky civil servants: Abramson, who had considerable experience dosing himself and others with LSD on behalf of the CIA, was already vetted for secrecy. (Demesneis the etymological origin of domain, that is, the lands belonging to the Lordfor which he pays no rent.) Hamlet has become like a friend to me. It looked as if he had left in a hurry: the lights and the radio were still on, his computer was still running, and a half finished glass of wine was on the table. I did sign a confession, relating to germ warfare. [19]. He met with Gottlieb in late summer to discuss the matter. DESCENT INTO DANGER The war raged in Korea. Finally, forty-nine years after his death, he also has a story. In both cases the claim was that nobody saw anything even though a CIA official allegedly acting as an escort and protector was sleeping in the next bed when Frank Olson fell or jumped out the window of a very small room. 4.18 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: Carried out by a team led by James Starrs, Professor of Law and Forensic Science at The National Law Centre, George Washington University, it could find no sign of the cuts and abrasions that the first autopsy said had been caused by crashing through the window glass. By this point I was starting to experience a hot flash. Graduates from Social Relations who specialized in clinical, social, developmental, are included. 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. THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (with Max MorganWitts) THE NUCLEAR stand-off of the Cold War had sent both sides back to their drawing boards. There were at least eight separate MKULTRA subprojects devoted to hypnosis, including two involving hypnosis and drugs in combination. Drugs also were tested on volunteers and were part of a much larger program to study ways of controlling human behavior. Within weeks, Morgenthau agreed with Huges findings and assigned the reopened case to his newly created cold-case unit headed by seasoned prosecutors Stephen Saracco and Daniel Bibb. They graduated from Columbia University / College of Physicians And Surgeons and is affiliated with Saint Mary's Hospital and Waterbury Hospital. Dr. Frank Olson, an army captain and one of the first scientists at Fort Detrick, worked together with Norman Cournoyer. (p 157-168). Officially, the MK-ULTRA program ran from 1953 to 1964, at which time it was renamed MK-SEARCH and continued until 1973. 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. Eric was woken up by his mother and taken down the hall, still wearing his pyjamas, towards the living room the same room where the two of us now sat, on the same sofas. Former SS member Franz Gajdosch was hired just after the war by the Americans to tend the bar in the officers mess at Camp King. Its author, Ed Regis, is like me a former philosophy professor. We had a triad of possibilities to consider: that someone in the room had hit Olson and pushed or dropped him out; that he had hit something on the way out or down; and that he had received his injury on the sidewalk. ), The report also complained that the CIA Security Office was being too strict with ARTICHOKE operators, denying, for example, the permission to use federal prisoners for their experiments on the grounds that criticism of the government interest in such activities might, if discovered, result in irreparable political repercussions., In February, the new coordinator of ARTICHOKE, Dr. Marshall Chadwell, proposed the establishment of an integrated CIA program for the development of special interrogations or other techniques for the purpose of controlling an individual without his knowledge. CIA director Smith accepted Dr. Chadwells proposal, and a month later, the CIA set up a small testing facility at its downtown headquarters in Washington, D.C. The scientific studies following the autopsy can take weeks to months. Now Im gonna give you another assignment. Says Eric: I knew that my father couldnt have jumped out through that closed hotel window even if he wanted to., That same year Eric, Nils and Alice paid a visit to Sidney Gottlieb at his secluded farmhouse in Rappahannock County, Virginia. Instead of shocked and emotional voices, the operator had told Pastore, there was a brief and seemingly expected exchange. It is dangerous, frankly, to have to keep looking over our shoulders. Whether Tenet had the unsolved death of Dr. Frank Olson in mind is not known, but there is little doubt that it is on his mind today. It was assumed that Russian scientists were aware of it. Thats where Vollum 1B came from, said Patrick, of Frederick, who eventually headed Detricks product development division. ), Chapter 80 of: In all safe cases where the assassin may be subject to search, either before or after the act, specialized weapons should not be used. To be able to now invest energy back into his professional career hopefully, its not too late; he is in his late 50s. 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. He was Los Angeles . Ira Ike Feldman is the only person still alive who worked directly under the legendary George Hunter White in MK-ULTRA. Hairs from a number of bodily locations on Dr. Olson, some fitted with a root structure, were also submitted to Dr. Caplan. Crushing wounds result from blunt violence to skin which is close to bone, causing these wounds to bleed into the surrounding tissues. The CIA knows it. A surprising number of counterculture veterans endorsed the notion that the CIA disseminated street acid en masse to deflate the political potency of the youth rebellion, write Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain in, The CIAs original acid dream was that LSD would open the mind to suggestion, but they found the drug too potent to manage. 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. In simple cases a private meeting with the subject may be arranged at a properly-cased location. 11.07 Dr. Gibson says he can be certain that he asked these questions both because he remembers having done so, and also because he would have routinely asked this. An internal memo the following week refers to Olsons suicide in quotation marks, as if the memos author was aware that it had not been a suicide. In this way more valuable experiments will probably be carried out in spite of hospital conditions. Book Information : Title : Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance Rating : At that time he had asked for immunity, but Saracco was not sure why he would do so, nor why so much material had been redacted from the Olson files. One of the things Mulholland may have been helping them do was to create a cover story for whatthey were doing in New York in the first place, notes Eric Olson. 23.35 My father was a writer and magician, Dr. Gibson said. For the moment, we could only say that it is most probable either that Dr. Olson went to his death through an open window or that he went through a closed window with a shade drawn in front of it. In one memo, he wrote that Olsons psychotic stateseemed to have been crystallized by [the LSD] experiment. But in another document, he characterized the LSD dose as therapeutic, and an amount that could hardly have had any significant role in the course of events that followed. He approached the family in 1975 to report what hed heard from the hotel switchboard operator that night. I think thats a tremendous tribute to our country., She felt very embraced by Gerald Ford, said Eric. Eric wondered. An internal CIA memo spelled out the problem: Mr. 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. In this context, the fact that Richard Helms was CIA chief of operations at the time of my fathers 1961 suicide attempt has sinister implications. , including two involving hypnosis and drugs in combination 23.35 My father was a and. However, Gottlieb had to test the compatibility of LSD, which he admitted. 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