Of course, they assigned me to him I guess they figure we have something in common. higher-up Sidney Gottlieb, Ph.D., who was officially reprimanded for the handling of the Olson incident, had been involved in C.I.A. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly EARTHQUAKE (with Max MorganWitts) So to that extent we did do something that was not kosher. Said Starrs, This finding stood in contradistinction to that of Dr. DiMaio in his report of his external examination of Dr. Olsons remains in 1953. Continued Starrs, It is a matter of some consternation how Dr. DiMaio could have reported the existence of multiple lacerations on the face and neck of Frank Olson when in truth, there were none.. Montague, so far as I can see, pays no rent.) Should the verb disappeared be taken to mean jumped? Dr. Eric Olson, MD is an Orthopedic Surgery Specialist in Waterbury, CT. According to a later agency review, these helpers included at least ninety-three universities and other governmental or nonprofit organizations, including Harvard, Cornell, the University of Minnesota, the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Lexington, Kentucky, Narcotics Farm, several prisons and penitentiaries, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Institutes of Health. The bloody battles of Pork Chop Hill, Eerie and Old Baldy were headline news. In what was undoubtedly a remarkable coincidence, the doctor who served as the admitting physician for was Dr. Robert W. Gibson the 25-year old son of Walter Gibson. Pastore recalled that immediately after the incident someone had made a phone call from Olsons hotel room to a number in Long Island. investigators that Olson ''appeared to be greatly agitated and in his own words, 'all mixed up.'''. 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.. The memorandum stated in part LOVELL reported that QUARLES and George MERCK were about to kill the Schwab activity at Detrick as un-American. The memorandum later continued LOVELL knew of Frank R. OLSON.. Review Eric Cost We have not found any cost information for this lawyer Contact for Details Resume AVVO RATING 7.3 (Very Good) Education Harvard University Law School Falls into the sea or swiftly flowing rivers may suffice if the subject cannot swim. That same night, I received another phone call from another former student, Hugh Lewis, stating that the plane carrying Greg to the Adirondack retreat had encountered a sudden, unexpected snowstorm causing it to crash into a mountainside. Way back in 1967, a book titled, Perhaps not through assassinations, and perhaps not even intentionally, MK-ULTRA definitely altered a generation. What do you want? he said with emphasis on each word. I regret everything. She spent twenty years thinking her husband was an ordinary suicide, which is onerous for a family to believe since there are no ordinary suicides. This call was received the day before a second call on the day of Olsons death informing Gibson that Dr. Olson would not be coming. 41.18 The news conference had immediate results. 43.31 Voice of US Air Force Pilot (Prisoner of War in North Korea): And it was precisely the new-found calm which enabled me to see that, objectively, the CIAs version of events made no sense. Even the manuscript itself would have to be written in a manner that protected the Agency should it fall into the wrong hands. Decision and instructions should be confined to an absolute minimum of persons. Five of the attendees were SOD men from Camp Detrick, including Olson and his boss Ruwet. The CIAs unscrupulous experiments on human beings continued the Nazi drug experiments they learned of during the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The time consuming part of writing this section will be in developing the adaptations and modifications of the best existing (methods) to fit new requirements. Inexplicable silence during an interview comes in many tones and hues. If the subject is deliberately run down, very exact timing is necessary and investigation is likely to be thorough. And five days after that (July 28) we were having lunch with CIA Director William Colby in the Directors 7th floor office at Langley, receiving an apology from the CIA, along with what we were told was the complete CIA file on our fathers death. This is documented in CIA papers. He said, These guys are running our Intelligence? but they sent George $2,000 a month for the pad, and as long as they paid the bills, we went along with the program. Gottlieb, who now lives in Virginia, refused to be interviewed for this article. No, Feldman replied with a wave of his cigar, Im a goddamn CIA agent.. Nils said, At times you go through a phase of believing that maybe the story is a bunch of hooey, and that it was just a simple LSD suicide and that, can trigger a kind of shame spiral. Through an unnamed source, the DAs office learned that at the Deep Creek meeting, Olson had been given LSD mixed with Meretran, a drug that made people talk more freely. After all these years there may be no possibility of following up to find answers to these elusive and sometimes disturbing questions. We brought an old cardboard box and some crayons, and we started writing this sign. Further, the entire anterior (front) portion from head to toe of the flesh of Frank Olsons remains was devoid of lacerations, save those to be expected from the many compound fractures, and from that in the upper thoracic region where a laceration had been sutured up, probably during embalming. Mulholland requested instructions from the Agency on how he was to report this income to the Internal Revenue Service and what he should do if he were audited or questioned by the IRS. Each and every document had to be carefully scrutinized and then crosschecked against all of the other released papers. Infinitesimally small amounts of LSD can completely destroy the sanity of a human being for considerable periods of time (or possibly permanently), stated an October 1953 CIA memo. 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. Yet when he returned from work the next day, he told Alice that his colleagues had reassured him. The American response was MK-ULTRA. On the day before Erics press conference, Eric and I watched old 8mm home movies of his father playing in the garden with his children. 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. After being sent to New York with a C.I.A. Bremen, Germany But the diaries and personal papers of the Central Intelligence Agency operative who ran safe houses in San Francisco and New York in which drug-addicted prostitutes gave LSD and other drugs to unsuspecting visitors tell a different story. As a secret study commission under former President Hoover put it: It is now clear we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. Increasingly, he can be found in the company of other CIA agents, including a certain John McNulty. Those who first tested LSD in the early 1950s were convinced that it would revolutionize the cloak-and-dagger trade. Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects; TECHNIQUES Of course it bears mention that it could be random broken glass on the sidewalk having no connection to Dr. Olsons death. In the morning of March 27, 196 1, Paul Robeson was found in the bathroom of his Moscow hotel suite after having slashed his wrists with a razor blade following a wild party that had raged there the preceding night. For this reason the time estimates are difficult to make in advance and it is apparent at this time that the estimate was too short for the adequate preparation of this manual. A. The hearing Tuesday of the subcommittee will include potentially explosive testimony from a Czech defector, Jan Sejna, who now works for the United States Defense Intelligence Agency. Lashbrooks immediate boss was Sidney Gottlieb. That was the key conclusion of the Pentagons Committee on Biological Warfare in a secret October 1948 report on covert biowarfare. Olsons job [was] so sensitive that in a trial the government would refuse to reveal it. He said he was concerned about the psychological changes in Frank Olson. I ask us, Harry boy, he said, to forgive the spears weve left in one another. In 1953 we had been told only that he had had an accident in a New York hotel room and hadfallen or jumpedout the window. We accepted as a fact that Dr. Olson himself was five feet ten inches tall, necessitating his bending over to some degree to clear the horizontal bar of the window. The flesh in that area of the scalp was intact, having experienced, as best we could tell, neither a laceration nor an incised wound. Around Frederick, Maryland, where Frank Olson lived while working for both the US Armys secret biological warfare program and the CIA, the FBI is still looking for the anthrax terrorist. His chemical division laboratory stored a vast array of poison pills and potions. But after Alice died in 1993, Eric, with the consent of Nils, decided to exhume his fathers body. Had he found out something he was not supposed to know? The evidence on Boyles is contradictory. 7.58 Even within the parameters of the CIAs own story this could not have been true. That night while he slept in the adjacent bed, Olson slipped out of the room and wandered the streets of New York. In all types of assassination except terroristic, drugs can be very effective. Thomas, whose books include a 1988 study of the CIAs forays into mind-control,Journey into Madness: Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers, says Sargant told me that he had urged the British government to distance this country from it. The serpents were in the details. Frank Olson was described in these heavily redacted reports as one of the C.I.As guinea pigs, making him a victim. Master's Programs; Executive Education He and his wife were both fun people, recalls Curtis B. Thorne, a Detrick veteran who pioneered anthrax studies at the University of Massachusetts. I am eighty-two years old and Im no longer afraid, he said. 37.49 A very disciplined man, he fought the effects of the LSD. Mr. Mulholland should determine a conservative value for the amount of tax paid in excess of what would have been paid if reasonable deductions were made. Dr. Gibson wanted me to understand that this was not and had never been the case. A month earlier, on June 11, 1975, an article had appeared on thefront pageof theWashington Post. He approached the family in 1975 to report what hed heard from the hotel switchboard operator that night. He received his medical degree from University of Minnesota Medical School and. Used to live: Scottsdale AZ, Harvard IL. Sargant heard Olson out and then reported to British intelligence that the young American scientist's misgivings were making him a security risk. In chase cases it will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him. Whatever he saw, perhaps in U.S.-occupied West Germany, seems to have greatly disturbed him. Operation ARTICHOKE was a CIA program that preceded MK-ULTRA. Immediately after the war he courted the Americans, seeking to ensure a job in the United States. That same year, Eric moved to Sweden, the birth country of his fathers parents, hoping to put some distance between himself and the family curse. Happily the extraction process had hit no snags. . itself. Eric says he knows the truth, but it is not the ''smoking gun'' kind of forensic truth that will force the agency to go to court and be put through the discovery process. In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthys anti-Communist crusade was raging. And many did so unwittingly. One of them was a former CIA pimp named Ira Ike Feldman. Thus, in the trial it may become apparent that we are concealing evidence for national security reasons and any settlement of judgment reached thereafter could be perceived as money paid to cover-up the activities of the CIA. He wrote all of those, more than three hundred Shadow novels in all. Its really been the pursuit of truth. Nils Olson sometimes worried that they might learn something ugly about their father for example, that he had been a traitor to his government. He was simply knocked on the head and thrown out the window, as the CIAs assassination manual suggests (and as Roy Meachum asserts). Feldman stared at me for a long time. I always wanted chickens, Feldman recalled, so I bought a chicken ranch. The proposed CIA work on drugs and mind manipulation was to remain one of the Agencys deepest secrets. ''In that moment when I learned that my father had gone out a window and died,'' Eric later wrote, ''it was as if the plug were pulled from some central basin of my mind and a vital portion of my consciousness drained out.'' The man identified as an army scientist turned out to be Frank Olson. A far-fetched ides, perhaps, but one whose currency was not limited to the CIA. There was this Russian ship in the harbor. Everyones worst nightmare had always been of someones flipping out and running amok, and spilling all the family secrets. in the summer of 1953 Frank Olson travelled to Britain, once again to visit Parton Down. Eric Olson 's Email English Teacher at Harvard-Westlake School Contact Details Phone 81******92 Email eo*******@hw.com Department Other Location Los Angeles, California, United States Eric is no longer with Harvard-Westlake School Harvard-Westlake School Company Information Website http://www.hw.com Revenue $50 - 100M Head Count 250 - 1000 After Eric left the lab, Starrs began his autopsy. But the next morning, Olson, still agitated, was back in Ruwets office determined to quit. Before doing so, the three men made another stop. ORGAN HUNTER The other section would describe tricks suitable for two or more people working in collaboration. The incident had made this man unstable and had ruined his life,so it was alleged, possibly precipitating his early death. December 23, 2001. But they werent a band of al-Qaida fanatics or enemies of any kind. On November 19, 1953, Olson had joined nine colleagues for a three-day working retreat at Deep Creek Lodge, a rustic cabin in the secluded woods of western Maryland. But later Lashbrook said that he had been awakened from sleep by the sound of crashing glass, and only upon noticing that the bed next to his was empty did he realize that his roommate had gone out the window. He was laying there looking at me, trying to speak to me, very earnest Olson was part of a team which was developing aerosol delivery systems for biological weapons that included staphylococcus enterotoxin, Venezuelan equine encephalo- myelitis, and anthrax. Robert Lashbrook must have been a hard-boiled type, nerves of steel. (Visual text!) Then in June 1975 a special commission chaired by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released the findings of its investigation into illegal CIA domestic operations. Youre kidding, Kreh said. With only an hour between the time Lashbrook was slated to meet with Mulholland and Frank Olsons next appointment with Dr. Abramson, it might have been simply out of convenience that Lashbrook suggested that Olson and Col. Ruwet accompany him on this visit. Yet at the time, the family believed that full disclosure was finally at hand. Eric Olson. Olson reportedly had the worst trip. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated. 17.00 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. But on the day Eric put his father to rest for the second time, the son seemed to have found his footing again. They were not there, totally non-existent. He had been to Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain, that was certain. 22.00 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: It was, therefore, not unexpected that he would down-play the significance of the sizeable blood stain on the skull over Olsons left eye. (Before you get too pissed off, recognize that I mean it.) In fact, I read the book. MAMBO Frank remained agitated all weekend. To solve the mystery of their fathers death. The evidence is said to involve the Jan. 8, 1953, death of Harold Blauer and its subsequent elaborate cover-up. Only researchers had access to LSD through legitimate channels, but when publicity created a demand for LSD, hip chemists rushed to create a supply. It is noted that the completion date estimate is now extended to November 1, 1954.[24]. Eric said to me, It very quickly became an incredibly rancorous issue in the family because I was always the kid saying, Excuse me, where did he go? See bio. DiMaio said that Robert Lashbrook, when questioned by the medical examiners stenographer, Max Katzman, failed to say anything about Olson having taken LSD or that he was under psychiatric treatment. Its painful to me. 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. The moment was one to be savored by him and the Olson family. The war raged in Korea. At Edgewood and Fort Holabird, Maryland (where I was stationed as a young second lieutenant in intelligence in 1957-58) at least one thousand soldiers were given up to twenty doses of LSD. The day after President Ford apologized to the Olsons in the Oval Office, a congressional subcommittee headed by Bella Abzug met to question Lawrence R. Houston, the former CIA general counsel who had drafted the 1954 memo. He had contacts among C.I.A. After a month-long bout with pneumonia, Sidney Gottlieb died at his home on March 7, 1999. It was time to move on. There was the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin. Clinching the story However, there are many cases in which firearms are probably more efficient than any other means. Documents reveal that Frank never saw a psychiatrist in New York. A psychiatrist testifying in Sirhans defense said that the accused assassin was in a trance when he shot Kennedy, albeit a self-induced one. Sargant believed that for the first time Olson had come face to face with his own reality. But the new autopsy findings were certainly enough for a New York public prosecutor, Stephen Saracco, to win the right for a grand jury to begin hearing the evidence he had uncovered. Already in 1976 theNew York Timeshad observed that the Colby documents were elliptical, incoherent, and contradictory. TheTimeswrote that: Taken as a whole, the file is a jumble of deletions, conflicting statements, unintelligible passages and such unexplained terms as the Artichoke Committee and Project Bluebird that tend to confuse more than enlighten. And finally we got it from Lefty Krehs finger.. Drug companies are now working on a cream that can be rubbed directly into the penis before intercourse. Olson and all but two of the others (one a teetotaler, the other abstaining because of a headcold) drank it. [66], At some point, John Mulhollands personal files were also apparently vetted to remove any connection between him and the Agency. Henry, a staunch conservative with close connections to the CIA, once dropped acid on the golf course and then claimed he had enjoyed a little chat with God. The answer given by the caller was that Dr. Olson was not currently in treatment and was not under the care of a doctor. Meanwhile, at the CIAs Technical Services Staff (TSS), the department specializing in unconventional weaponry such as poisons, biological warfare, psychoactive substances, and mind control, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb was searching for a candidate to head MK-ULTRA. 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