(For an article that raises this issue empirically, though not philosophically, Mid-century deaths all linked to CIA? The CIA allergist talked to Olson for about an hour, then gave him permission to spend Thanksgiving with his family. Elvis first visited a recording studio, and Bill Haleys Rock Around The Clock gave the world rock and roll, and subsequently the teenager. Regis scatters the Olson story through a number of chapters of his book, which enables him to make it almost aleit motifof his narrative while divesting him of the responsibility to confront the story head on. ORGAN HUNTER America faced a brainwash gap! 10.33 We put various poisons in Castros cigars but none of that worked. It followed the young Luther to the moment of spiritual crisis -- Here I stand, I can do no other'' -- when he decided to take on the might of the Catholic Church. But the destination, whether it was San Francisco or the truth about what happened to Frank Olson, was still on the same map. In all cases, the number of wounds is recorded and each wound is carefully measured and its characteristics described. Basically, he said, this is a story about a guy who had a simple moral code and a nave view of the world. His closest colleagues knew that this explanation was not the true reason for his death. Its like the feelings youve had in the middle of the night, at 3am, when youre trying to get to sleep and you start having some thought and the thought spins you into another negative thought and it kind of spins out of control and you have to shake yourself and maybe turn the light on and get grounded in reality again., Eric and Julia were arguing now. There the explanation for coming on Saturday is that the weather in New York was bad and that flights were not departing, the assumption being that Lashbrook and Olson would travel by plane, not by train. In essence the SO Division was an off-campus CIA biological warfare laboratory, doing work on bacteriological agents for use in covert operations. 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. There was the peculiar memo in Olsons personnel file at Detrick, which indicated that the CIA did indeed see him as a potential security risk. At one point, he had said to his wife rather enigmatically, If the Germans had won the Second World War, my colleagues and I would have been prosecuted for war crimes.. But the report is also a selfindictment on moral and ethical grounds. Certainly the virtuoso job of disinformational engineering that had been applied to the whole affair seemed to suggest that no resources would be spared to keep the truth secret. How is the mechanism of perception refreshed; how are the mechanisms of internal censorship and repression modified so that inconvenient objects can be perceived and held in mind, awkward questions can be raised? However, these agents refused to spill the details without the C.I.A.s releasing them from their confidentiality agreements, and that never happened. He took a number of courses at both Columbia University and at New Yorks City College, but did not attain a degree. Pannier spent a night on the roof of the Pentagon taking air samples to rule out a bioattack before a visit by President John F. Kennedy. It took us seven weeks, and we had unbelievable adventures all the way., We camped out. He said he knew that Dr Gottlieb had been researching into slow-acting depressants which, when taken, could drive a person to suicide. Would he be unable to resist revealing secrets? Lashbrook left the agency, but Gottlieb remained in senior positions for 20 more years. Within the Agency, there was a concern almost a panic that the Russians had developed a frightening new weapon: a drug or technology for controlling mens minds. After decades of dogged inquiry, Eric Olson now has a new verb for what happened to his father, Frank Olson, who worked for the Armys top-secret Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, where he developed bioweapons and experimented with mind-control drugs. My own critical response to Murrays Thematic Apperception Test was one of the factors that led to my work on thecollage method. Cournoyer added three crucial elements to the story: 1. He spent the night at the Hotel Pennsylvania, along with a CIA agent who was there to guard him. One stoned night, he and a girlfriend got down on their knees in her apartment and began cutting pictures out of magazines and gluing them down. 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. Eigelsbach, Robert Lashbrook, and Dr. [Abramson].. Those four sentences stimulated the authors own Freedom of Information Act request calling for the Central Intelligence Agency to release of any information or records relating to Mulhollands work with the CIA, including any written agreements between him and the Agency, copies of the documents he produced, or other related materials. Maintenance of absolute secrecy in the new ethical context implies that potential whistle blowers can neither be automatically discredited nor brought to trial for treason. At some point on Friday the last day of Frank Olsons life Abramson showed up at the hotel with a bottle of bourbon and the sedative Nembutol. The offensive potential was unstated, but the aim was clear: to create what later would be known as a Manchurian Candidate. The term would come from the title of Richard Condons 1959 best seller about a plot to take an American soldier captured in Korea, condition him at a special brainwashing center in Manchuria, and create a remote-controlled assassin programmed to kill the President of the United States. Olson told Ruwet that he was too ashamed to face his family and afraid that he might become violent with his children. Descriptions also would be given of simple mechanical aids, how to make them, and how to carry them about. A moment of returningthis time with knowledgeto the beginning. Though armed with a mountain of circumstantial evidence, Eric remained hamstrung by the waiver he and his family had signed promising not to sue the CIA. A Brooklyn boy, he was drafted into the Army in 1941. in 1975 and had brought Frank Olsons LSD dosing to public attention. Blows should be directed to the temple, the area just below and behind the ear, and the lower, rear portion of the skull. We know that Dr. Harold Abramson was a true believer, in the Eric Hoffer sense, in the value of LSD in psychotherapy for disturbed persons. In 1960, for instance, Gottlieb himself had hand-delivered an assassination kit to the CIA station chief in the Congo, with instructions that it be used to eliminate Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Through the information retrieval work Frank Olson learned that in factdespite vehement denials by the American governmentthe United States was using biological weapons, including anthrax, in the Korean War. Professor in Philosophy . 19.15 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: By his own account, Gottlieb served Cointreau to seven of the men without telling them he had laced it with LSD, ostensibly to study the drugs effects. In understanding this phenomenon of directed misperception the most pertinent literary source is not The Manchurian Candidate, but, rather, The Emperors New Clothes. What that classic story illustrates is the power of authority to establish a perceptual illusion among a public who are instructed to see things in a certain way. The lysergic-acid derivative can produce a temporary state of severe imbalance, hysteria, insanity. His diaries show that Gottlieb and Lashbrook met him at the Bedford Street apartment. employee working at Fort Detrick. For him, the ends justified the means. A DEA flack confirmed Feldman resigned under a cloud at a time when a number of agents came under suspicion for a variety of offenses, none having to do with secret drug-testing programs. But Nils Olson, 55, says he admires his brothers tenacity and agrees with his conclusion. I suppose its this LSD shit.. And Murray, write Lee and Shlain, took a keen interest in Learys work. But Starrs was looking at an undamaged face, devoid of cuts. Mr. Sejna had described experiments in which American prisoners were drugged in a program to develop comprehensive interrogation techniques, involving medical, psychological and drug-induced behavior modification.. Im a professional here in town. (In the compensation form he subsequently filed on behalf of the family, Ruwet wrote that Olson had died of a classified illness.). From 1953 to 1975, as Alice Olson descended into alcoholism and fought back to sobriety, she and her children were told nothing about LSD. Isnt this what Communism is all about anyway! Despite the CIAs editing of the material, the documents provided a remarkably comprehensive account of John Mulhollands work for the CIA. Non-drug factors such as set and settinga persons mental state going into the experience and the surroundings in which the drug is takencan make all the difference in reactions to a dose of LSD. One telephone call said it all. (What Dr. Lashbrook told Dr. Gibson). In another place the Colby documents refer to something called the Schwab activity at Frank Olsons division at Detrick as being arguably un-American. The documents imply that issues pertaining to this activity were somehow involved in Frank Olsons death. On page 157 (hardback edition) Regis describes the Tuesday morning when, for the second time after the Deep Creek drugging, Olson arrived at work: Ruwet now decided that this was far more serious than hed realized at first. In fact, it had only been a week since Gottlieb authorized Mulholland to proceed on these two additional chapters. We were able to grow [the anthrax bacteria] right up. Tommy said: Eric, you need to tell this story, because it will help a lot of people connect a lot of other dots in other stories that have nothing to do with this one.. 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. And as it turns out, the results of the first autopsy in 1953 in New York were manipulated. If the sheep jumped, that meant people were going to jump, too, said Pannier, now living a quiet life tending his flowers and shrubs in Frederick. 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. Ike Feldman was subpoenaed and appeared on a panel of witnesses, but the senators failed to ask him a single question. . 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. Albarelli came to Olson in his research into the case. 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. Eric was led to believe that these facilities tested human subjects, called expendables who were enemy agents or collaborators and that they sometimes died from the experiments. Frank Olson was described in these heavily redacted reports as one of the C.I.As guinea pigs, making him a victim. Lashbrook would later claim that he was awakened by the crash of glass as Olson hurtled through the closed window. It was an L-shaped apartment with a beautiful view of San Francisco Bay, and White, who kept pitchers of chilled martinis in the refrigerator, also had photos of manacled women being tortured and whipped. In fact, Eric Olson believes that only his fathers drink was spiked, and that the substance he imbibed was probably not LSD but something stronger. It is one thing to believe in a truth as painful as this. As a five-year old, he sat enthralled by a performance of Harry Kellars. He then described what had happened. Soon, MKULTRA was testing all conceivable drugs on every kind of victim, including prison inmates, mental patients, foreigners, the terminally ill, homosexuals, and ethnic minorities. Sargant believed that Frank Olson could also have been given a cocktail of drugs that included more than LSD. We, at the CIA, had gone through some considerable suffering on the exposure of the Family Jewels in 1975. 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. There was the digger breaking through the soil. A trained athlete takes about fifty metres to accelerate to that speed. Its version: that Frank Olson crashed through the window in a suicidal depression nine days after he was given LSD without his knowledge in a CIA mind-control experiment. The CIA staffer was still in his underwear, on the telephone in the bathroom. Before General Stubblebine came along, the secret psychic spies had another administrator: Sidney Gottlieb. Trace evidence, such as hairs and fibers, is collected off the body and from under the fingernails. He was Los Angeles . At the time of his death my fathers colleagues at Detrick were informed that Frank Olson had been an unwitting participant in a drug experiment, and that this caused the psychological reaction that led to his taking his own life ten days later. The automatic feature of the machine gun should rather be used to increase reliability by placing a 5 second burst on the subject. It makes people think they know things that they dont know and it enables them to have a kind of superficial quasi-sophistication and cynicism which is just a thin layer beyond which theyre not cynical at all.. He says the evidence he has gathered over the years shows that Frank Olson didnt suffer a nervous breakdown, as the family initially was told, and didnt commit suicide because he had had a negative drug experience, as they learned in the 1970s. The Olsons in the Oval Office. In one of his father films, immediately following images of his grandfather, Eric discovers a sequence that seems to show secret crop-dusting flights that took place in 1947. Olson was suspicious of Mulholland and asked Ruwet, Whats behind this? He had an accident, said one of the men, and the accident was that he fell or jumped out of a window., He fell or jumped out of a window in New York.. White says to me,Cmon, Ike. These tests are carried out to monitor the spread of diseases under realistic conditions. In 1976 our family received a financial settlement from Congress for far less than the White House, CIA Director George Bush, the Justice Department, the Labor Department, and the Treasury Department had recommended. Experts told him that in order to achieve the momentum needed to vault over a central heating radiator under the window, burst through the closed blinds and smash through the hotels heavy glass panes, Olson would have had to struck the window travelling at more than 30km per hour. Any locally obtained edge device may be successfully employed. Third, we would later learn that the subject of the experiment was not an Army scientist., We recognized our father in this story only by the fit of the details: the man was a scientist, the year was 1953, the fall was from a tenth floor window.. John Lennon was far from the only sixties acid-hero to make the connection between the mood of the streets and the secret CIA labs. Dr. Gibson said that the more natural response would not have been Dr. Saracco and Bibb decided to interview William Colby, Vincent Ruwet, Robert Lashbrook, and Sidney Gottlieb. Twenty-seven years ago, on July 10, 1975, our family sat at this same picnic table in this same backyard, to hold a press conference. 6.02 (Times Books). It is now known that similar agency tests with LSD led to the suicide of an army employee, Frank Olson, and are alleged to have permanently damaged a group of unsuspecting psychiatric patients at a Canadian clinic whose director was working under CIA contract. Even more puzzling were the reports numerous references with all details blacked out to the CIAs Project ARTICHOKE. While Mulhollands work for the CIA may have ended, the Agency continued its interest in the connection between the techniques of conjuring and espionage. Did he come back from Europe looking very upset? I asked. At Learys suggestion, according to a former colleague, he took psilocybin again, this time with Aldous Huxley and Ginsberg. Colonel Edwards reported that Gottlieb reiterated many times that outside of the boisterous effect and the inability to think properly, LSD has no harmful or permanently injurious effects., None of the men in the log cabin had undergone medical or psychiatric examinations before taking the drug, and Gottlieb was reprimanded by the new ClA director, Allen Dulles, for failure to take precautions. Allen took up the CIA post twenty-six days later. The bedclothes were pulled back in a way that was consistent with someone ripping him out of bed forcibly. Are they checking me for security?'' He said, Theyre getting very, very uptight now because of what they believe I am capable of. He really thought they were picking on him because he was the man who might give away the secrets.. The CIA brings Olson, accompanied by an agent, to New York. He even recruited a well-known New York magician, the late John Mulholland, to prepare a top-secret manual on techniques for surreptitiously slipping LSD and other drugs into the drinks of unsuspecting persons. The most candid discussion I have seen of this general problem with reference to the values of a democracy (though murder of a fellow citizen is not mentioned) occurs between two CIA officers in William Buckleys novelSpytime: Esterhazy was solemn in his reflection. In an exclusive interview, Ike Feldman, one of the operations kingpins, talks to Richard Stratton about deadly viruses, spy hookers, and bad trips. Yet he remained in the hotel for two more nights. However, in discussing this history in relation to The Manchurian Candidate movies, both the new and the old versions, Meachum inadvertently adds to the confusion. More importantly, the window in 1018A was unchanged in its dimensions from 1953, and even the current radiator that had fronted the window then was now a similarly sized heating unit in the same position. 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. He was asked to turn out his pockets.. A check with Ruwet confirmed it. It had already been going on for three years. One group of men was kept on LSD for 77 days. But it is known that the SOD was considered to be very effective, receiving commendation on the originality, imagination and aggressiveness it has displayed in devising means and mechanisms for the covert dissemination of bacteriological warfare agents. (Our BW book, pg 70.) A human being may be killed in many ways but sureness is often overlooked by those who may be emotionally unstrung by the seriousness of this act they intend to commit. Incredible as it sometimes seemed, in both cases, the place one finally got to was still part of America. Sargant heard Olson out and then reported to British intelligence that the young American scientist's misgivings were making him a security risk. Robert Lashbrook, Ph.D. who was with Olson on that fateful night, recounted his version of the events leading up to and occurring at the tragic moment many times: Lashbrook and Olson were together in Room 1018A on the 10th floor, actually the 13th when the first three unnumbered floors are counted, when Dr. Olson suddenly went out the rooms only window. Next week, a grand jury may finally hear the truth about the Cold Wars darkest Secret. was testing interrogation and truth serums there -- not on monkeys but on human subjects, ''expendables,'' captured Russian agents and ex-Nazis. 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. On Nov. 24, concerned colleagues took him to New York to see a doctor, Harold Abramson, who had experimented with LSD. MIDNIGHT TRADER$ He soon broadened this to debunk and denounce other forms of occultism. While these myriad investigations were occurring around me, I was not quiescent. 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. It seemed to unfurl the winding processes of a person's unconscious and lay them out flat on paper. Someone said he thought it was a shame that the most hostile journalist present represented Eric and Nilss local paper. Several days later, he jumped from a tenth-floor window of his room and died as a result.. However the voluminous literature on the hallucinogenic effects of LSD, compiled from a time before that of Dr. Timothy Leary, the LSD guru of his time, to the present, demonstrates well-nigh conclusively that during flashbacks LSD users do not commit violent acts such as throwing themselves through a closed window. He excelled in his studies and eventually earned a doctoral degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Gibson made some inquiries along these lines but doesnt remember eliciting any particular response. The experiments, during the 1950s and 60s, were based on long experience with animals showing that anthrax often becomes more virulent after infecting an animal and growing in its body, according to experts on the bacteria and scientific studies published at the time. According to the minutes of a committee meeting held in July 1953, one of the participants stated that some individuals in the Agency had to know tremendous amounts of information and if any way could be found to produce amnesias for this type of information-for instance, after the individual had left the Agency-it would be a remarkable thing.. A world traveler, he was equally at home on the New York City subway system or entertaining the Sultan of Sulu or the King of Romania. Lives in: Mesa AZ. My other awards include the Critics; and Jurys prizes at the Monte Carlo Film Festival, an Edgar Allen Poe Award and three citations from the Mark Twain Society for Reporting Excellence. It was improbable that Olsons exit was as Jack Frost hypothesized especially with the shade drawn and the window closed. With all the outrage over the C.I.A.s LSD experimentation, little attention has been paid to the governments testing of other drugs, many of which also have hallucinogenic affectssome like benztropine, or BZ, ever more potent in even smaller doses than LSD. Could be. Not having ante-mortem dental X-rays of Frank Olson, how were we to make an acceptable identification? Helms founded the MK-ULTRA program and justified its notably unethical aspects with the rationale, We are not Boy Scouts.. The US government moved immediately to show how sorry it was for what had happened. Cold War research ran the gamut, from investigations of sleep deprivation to perfecting anthrax delivery systems. He volunteered for a psilocybin session, becoming one of the first of many faculty and graduate students to sample the mushroom pill under Learys guidance.. Two of them died. But at the time, fearing correctly that the Soviet Union had an even larger bioweapons program, Army scientists were driven to come up with more and more lethal disease strains.. He knew too much. But they werent a band of al-Qaida fanatics or enemies of any kind. The walls were covered with Toulouse-Lautrec posters of French cancan dancers. 43.31 Voice of US Air Force Pilot (Prisoner of War in North Korea): A Cold War context in which unethical research was being absorbed and sponsored was bound to see extreme forms of discipline and sanction applied to those who raised ethical questions or who might be likely to do so. Sargent met with him. Of course, it is fair to say that if the full details of the exhumation had been demanded of me a different attitude and result might have ensued. Graduates from this department who specialized in anthropology or sociology . to take to a jury, Eric and his lawyer, Harry Huge, will have to bring a civil suit of their own, claiming that the C.I.A. His chemical division laboratory stored a vast array of poison pills and potions. And on the Monday morning Frank did, indeed, tender his resignation, but his colleagues persuaded him to seek psychological counselling in New York. But the sensational notion of LSD administered by the CIA served wonderfully to conceal this gap. When Starrs raised the lid, he was surprised to find Frank Olsons body remarkably well preserved. Doctors say a person with inhalation anthrax who is given intravenous antibiotics might soon show no live bacteria, even though the person might still die of toxin produced earlier by the bacteria. He was choking. I spent most of the. That he is convinced that the word was neither ''fallen'' nor ''jumped,'' but ''dropped,'' does not heal. The government explained to the family that even though the body had been embalmed, it was badly disfigured from the fall. His recommendations against hospitalization had been voiced when Dr. Lashbrook had insisted that Olson was then no danger to himself or to others. 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. On September 12, 2001, Harry Huge suddenly bowed out. It is related to that part of Special Operations which was said to be was one of Gottleibs specialities: creating means (darts, toxins etc.) The drug-testing program resumed in the Bay Area under the cryptonyrn Operation Mid-night Climax. And he has a clubfoot, but loves all the same to square dance. The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Alice joined her husband during the 30plus mile trip to Washington, where she saw her husband enplane for New York. 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. He is extremely bright, and he has a lot to offer the field of psychology. And when youre done, slip it under the sill., Ill read in this room, I said, and if anybody unfamiliar knocks, anyone official, that is, Ill put the letter under your door before I go to answer.. Murray was so surrounded by agency people he couldnt have moved without bumping into one. On July 11, 1975, the Olson family held a press conference expressing their outrage and anguish, called for a full accounting of the incident, and filed a wrongful death suit against the United States Government. He wanted to understand what the farthest reach could be. The PBS American Masters documentary on Paul Robeson titled Here I Stand surveys the life and work of this great American artist, scholar, and activist. 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