After the survey, the Engineers returned with their maps of the plots they had surveyed. All of this, of course, depends on having a well-preserved body, and organs, which we did. His concept of being a real American had changed. Sidney is in fine shape at TSS these days. By Michael Edwards. Fremont-Smith and Abramson were the links between the universities and MKULTRA. She had encouraged him to do this if that is what he wanted to do.. He and Nils would reach the goal San Francisco by small continuous increments of motion along a single strand. This was in Erics mind a test-run for another goal he would one day reach in an equally fastidious way: the solution to the mystery of what happened to his father in that hotel room in New York at 2am. This description of the fateful session as a trap obviously contradicted the official CIA story that Olson had been one of seven human guinea pigs in a simple LSD experiment. First stop: London. The previous year, Soviet Union had detonated its first atomic bomb. There was no guarantee Feldman would talk. After meeting with Gottlieb, White noted his initiation into the world of psychedelics in his diary: Gottlieb proposes I be CIA consultant and I agree.. The scope of this subproject is the collection, in the form of a concise manual, of as much pertinent information as possible in the fields of(magic as it relates to covert activities). Greg had married Eric Olsons sister, Lisa. It was intended to assess what kind of risk he posed and then eliminate him if necessary. 32.43 Ideally, only one person will be involved. 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. This is a matter of great interest, since the subjective effects induced by LSD-25 have been studied more intensively and more thoroughly in a greater diversity of populations than any other drug with which we are familiar, including morphine and alcohol., LSD, it appears from CIA documents, was also given at about the same time to cancer patients and diabetics at a Washington hospital under an agency contract. Hearing this, Dr. Gibson inquired about the reason, asking whether the plans had been changed. Although George White operated a CIA safe house in Greenwich Village, only minutes from the Hotel Statler, where Olson and Lashbrook had taken lodging, they apparently did not visit it. As far as that program was concerned, disclosure was already well underway. He did not give a damn. Marks, John. Weve been sweating across the desert., We ended up staying for a week at Harolds Club. The chief of the Special Operations Division was VINCENT L. RUWET, a Lt. And on the Monday morning Frank did, indeed, tender his resignation, but his colleagues persuaded him to seek psychological counselling in New York. The absence of live bacteria may have a simple explanation. Dennison MN 55018. August 22, 2004 Certainly going through an open window would be one feasible explanation, because if it had been closed, it is reasonable to expect that the glass would have cut his skin at some place or other. In addition, he had an address for a house on Bedford Street that was used for Operation Midnight Climax. When a colony of bacteria grew on growth medium, he recalled, it came out like a little comma, perfectly spherical.. Each made treachery and duplicity his byword. The bones have been sitting for years in a locked file cabinet in the George Washington University office of James E. Starrs, the professor of law and forensic sciences who determined that the death was not a suicide. Alarmed by these horror stories, federal and state authorities moved to ban the drug. Alice said that if he felt it was necessary, she would support his decision. As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the CIA men might have felt an odd sense of relief. And Murray, write Lee and Shlain, took a keen interest in Learys work. Our perception of the world has withered away, what has remained is mere recognition., The poetic image makes strange the habitual and its linguistic devices, to use the favorite Formalist expression, are laid bare., (Victor Erlich, [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. Join Facebook to connect with Eric Olson Harvard and others you may know. The activities at Deep Creek, it suggests, were designed to find out what Olson knew, what he had done, and what he was likely to do. Frank Olson often uses the Air Force to test germ warfare in the field, for example on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He reported that for every 1,000 persons taking LSD under medical supervision, there were 0.8 psychotic reactions lasting more than a day, and no attempted or com suicides. His talk there, wrote Forrest Robinson, featured a highly literary rendering of a psilocybin trip that he took with Timothy Leary a year earlier. Frank Olson was not just a civilian scientist working with chemicals at Fort Detrick. Lashbrook and special agent Walter P. T. Jr. went together to Abramsons office at 9:15 in the evening of the 28th. Walter, in Florida, agreed with Patricks diagnosis. found the right drug, they could use it to extract secrets from enemy agents as well as learn how to protect their own agents against such disclosures. I asked him why he decided to talk with me. 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. Its more than just some crazy paranoid speculation. There they slipped their clients an LSD mickey while Agency researchers savored the scientific action from behind a two-way mirror, a pitcher of martinis at the ready. The sleepy boy immediately recognized the two men as the family doctor and Lt. Col. Vincent Ruwet, his fathers boss at U.S. Army Camp Detrick, just down the road from the Olson home. A week or so later, Eric, Lisa, Nils and two lawyers met the C.I.A. Once in the Congo, the scientist carefully instructed CIA operatives in how to apply the toxin to Lumumbas toothbrush and food. For months, the largest investigation in the history of American criminal justice has been underway. During this period (1953/5), Dr Sargant had met several more times with Dr Ewan Cameron, both in Washington and in Montreal, Canada. Room C14, 45 Victoria Street Full contact details . Reproduced by Permission. As we were discussing the scenario in New York I mentioned the very strange business involving Franks visit to a magician, Dr. Mullholland. Three days later, Olson agreed to be admitted to a Rockville psychiatric hospital. There was a local journalist asking Eric, as the coffin was hauled noisily into the back of a truck, Are you having second thoughts about this, Eric?. Eric, by then a 31-year-old graduate student working toward a Ph.D in clinical psychology at Harvard, recalls brushing elbows with the likes of Rolling Stone magazines Hunter S. Thompson and Leslie Stahl of CBS News. And among these fellow travelers would be Professor Murray The caller was the same man with whom Gibson has spoken the day before. The kit consisted of a lethal toxin possibly anthrax concealed in a tube of toothpaste. From 1918 to 1924, he taught industrial arts at the Horace Mann School in New York. His preservation is best explained by Ambassador Porter who reported to the Secretary of State that the body fortunately was found well-preserved, the coffin having been filled with alcohol but which had evaporated. Of course, like Frank Olson, the linen winding sheet in which both he and John Paul Jones had been wrapped was added protection against post-mortem decay. A cache of papers that he accidentally missed was found some years later, however, and the agency has since been forced to make public sanitized versions of some of those records. I have given the subjects we discussed considerable thought, Mulholland wrote. Altogether, it conducted tests at fifteen penal and mental institutions, concealing its role by using the U.S. Navy, the Public Health Service, and the National Institute of Mental Health as funding conduits. The CIA was on to acid long before the flower children. After the family agreed not to sue the CIA, it was awarded a $750,000 settlement. The area fire capacity of the machine gun should not be used to search out a concealed subject. Were sorry for that.. But that appearance is deceiving. The meeting continued until about 1:00 a.m., when the participants retired for the evening. I am resuming work today. Enclosed was a signed receipt for the check and a notation that Gottliebs missive had taken longer than expected to reach him. (He survived.). By comparison it had only taken 31 years to find room 1018A in what had been the Statler Hotel. When the story finally surfaced in the Rockefeller Commission report on CIA abuses, they got official apologies from President Ford and from CIA Director William Colby, who handed over CIA documents on the case. The practice of giving drugs to unsuspecting people lasted from 1953 to 1963, when it was discovered by the CIAs inspector general and stopped, the commission said.. The one useful item he revealed was that Gottlieb had been with Olson in New York the week before he died a fact Gottlieb had failed to mention. The reason for this was the feeling that any questions by the Internal Revenue people concerning funds paid by CD/TSS would be prompted by questions on deductions made. Although he remained handicapped for life, he compensated by teaching himself to become a graceful square dancer. It made no sense. He made that fruitcake Hoover look like Nancy Drew., Again he gazed stonily at me. His casket was at all times kept closed due, so the family was informed, to the massive injuries he sustained in his fatal fall. 34.01 By the end of the 1960s, LSD was illegal. This question was greeted with silence. After this short clip, more family pictures of the children. Care is required to insure that no wound or condition not attributable to the fall is discernible after death. The notion of a Manchurian Candidate, the idea that someone could be programmed to make statements or commit actions contrary to their own will, bears a very complicated relationship to the Frank Olson story. In humans, you could have a switch toward more virulence on one passage, but it wouldnt necessarily happen.. Eric has taken a break from his work on the collage method, and the huge books of patients' collages now lie shut up in storage nearby. As Lee and Shlain explain: Nearly every drug that appeared on the black market during the 1960s marijuana, cocaine, heroin, PCP, amyl nitrite, mushrooms, DMT, barbiturates, laughing gas, speed and many others had previously been scrutinized, tested, and in some cases refined by CIA and army scientists. A maniacal cackle. The former CIA man referred to the arsenal that came to be called the Big Five. By now, the Agency was utilizing more and more of his expert advice. I do not think again from what I heard, that he was drugged because he was a security agent. When asked by the officers who this JM was, Lashbrook indicated he preferred not to identify him because of security reasons and the matter was pressed no further by the detectives.[48]. The man identified as an army scientist turned out to be Frank Olson. program as a way to lure people into their LSD experiments. All such improvised weapons have the important advantage of availability and apparent innocence. But now it was time for him to prepare his taxes. On June 11, 1975, The Washington Post revealed that a commission led by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had discovered that ''a civilian employee of the Department of the Army unwittingly took LSD as part of a Central Intelligence Agency test'' and ''developed serious side effects.'' On the latter visit, the doctor gave the biochemist two bottles: one of bourbon and one of the sedative Nembutal an unorthodox prescription for someone in Olsons condition. It must have been tight, I thought, when the CIA group of four and the SOD group of five occupied it. Isnt this what Communism is all about anyway! Breaks the glass? Informed sources revealed this week that the Manhattan District Attorneys Office is reviewing dramatic new evidence in the Olson case. As part of this experiment, Olson unwittingly received some 70 micrograms of the hallucinogen. These problems concern the application of the magicians technique to clandestine operations, such techniques to include surreptitious delivery of materials, deceptive movements and actions to cover normally prohibited activities, influencing choices and perceptions of other persons, various forms of disguise; covert signaling systems, etc[34], That August the Agency extended its financial arrangement with the magician for another year. Gottlieb was the CIA branch chief that ordered the experiment with LSD that allegedly resulted in Olsons suicide. In a report to the CIA on the death, Abramson wrote that the LSD experiment was designed especially to trap [Olson]. This conflicted with Gottliebs story and raised a troubling possibility: that the LSD experiment was actually designed to see whether Olson could still be trusted to keep the agencys dark secrets. Alice Olson would recall that her husband returned home deeply depressed. Within months, the Korean War was raging, Sen. Joseph McCarthy was launching his hunt for Communist agents, and pressure was on to build new U.S. germ weapons. Actually Manchuria conjoins exactly the two disparate ideas biological weapons and mind control that initially seem such unlikely bedfellows in the Frank Olson story. A Citadel Press Book This secret was so immense that even twenty-two years later the White House had been enlisted to maintain it. It was clearly illegal to test potentially dangerous drugs on unsuspecting United States citizens.. Ruwet told him to calm down. A squat, muscular fellow who played the tough guy card to the hilt, Feldman had worked as a federal narcotics agent during the 1950s. The effects of LSD-25 appear to be specific and are not related to any of the factors mentioned above. 25.24 Hoch, along with associates Dr. Harold A. Abramson and Dr. Max Rinkel, was among an elite group of five private researchers and six U.S. Army physicians who began quietly conducting LSD experiments in the U.S. in 1949. As Ive tried to tell you it conceptually rests on the idea that there are two vectors in this story and they only intersect in one place.. Instead, the forensic pathologist, Dr. James Starrs, a Professor of Law and Forensic Science at the National Law Center at The George Washington University, found a deep bruise on Olsons forehead. Dr. Gibson then went into his office to take the call. Baltimore Sun, ''This was a world-class intelligence.'' Presumably, the commission means the Treasury Departments Bureau of Narcotics since the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control was not established until 1965. The CIA also explored use of psychosurgery and repeated electric shocks directly into the brain. Eric Olson is the founding chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at UTSouthwestern. The symptoms observed appear to be identical with those observed in groups of non-addicts or for different composition with respect to race, age, social and economic status, and personality types. The combination of these two gymnastic feats leaves it highly problematic that striking the window glass or the windows housing could realistically be said to have been the cause of the hematoma situated just over and traveling to the orbit of the left eye. As large a percentage of the population took the drug in 1976 as in 1972. Gottlieb said that the CIA in the 1950s knew of well-documented instances of covert drug administration against Americans. Only from 20 to 50 Americans were unknowing subjects of drug tests at CIA safe houses in New York and San Francisco; Harsh as it may seem in retrospect, he said, such a procedure and such a risk were believed reasonable in view of the threat to national survival. The whitehaired witness admitted he had destroyed the records of these experi en ts. On one level, the below ground one, it was strictly a scientific investigation. tacitly acknowledged that it had committed a sin against the order that holds citizens in allegiance to their government. Had I once again passed through the looking glass? Dr. Frank Olson arrived in Frankfurt on June 12, 1952, from Hendon Military Airport near London. I cant imagine what would happen if you ever tangled with him. Some of his subjects suffered brain damage and other debilitations. Persons who are morally squeamish should not attempt it. Seeking to flesh out the particulars of Di Maios written report, I telephoned him in New York City and found him to be cordial and candid. Now after the passage of so many years since his fathers death, the political scene in Washington, D.C. had changed. It was the story of Luthers crisis of conscience over the corruption of the Catholic Church in the 16th Century, when its theologians claimed it was impossible for the Church to do any wrong, because they defined the moral code. program, and that the story of a bad trip on LSD had been concocted either as a cover-up for his murder or as a cloak that concealed the dagger they had figuratively used to kill him. Then, in 1977, two exceptionally diligent Agency researchers processing a Freedom of Information Act request for former State Department officer John Marks decided to double-check the Budget and Fiscal Sections historical archives. Before doing so, the three men made another stop. There are no rules in such a game. 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