Seeing Eric standing beside his fathers remains gave me a start for one was a look-a-like for the other, in the same way that civil rights leader Medgar Evers and his son were seen to be duplicates of each other when Medgar Evers was exhumed from his grave in Arlington National Cemetery. It should be assumed that it will never be ordered or authorized by any U.S. Headquarters, though the latter may in rare instances agree to its execution by members of an associated foreign service. Whats this about? Feldman demanded. Eric had brought a ghetto blaster down to the poolside and he tuned it to National Public Radios All Things Considered because the legendary reporter Daniel Schorr was about to deliver a commentary about him. The casket, draped with an American flag, remained closed at the funeral four days later. The man was given the drug while attending a meeting with CIA personnel working on a test project that involved the administration of mind-bending drugs to unsuspecting Americans and the testing of new listening devices by eavesdropping on citizens who were unaware they were being overheard. The death of Diane Linkletter, daughter of celebrity Art Linkletter, reportedly occurred while she was in the grip of LSD and not during a flashbackalthough it is difficult to say which is which in the case of an LSD habitu. The overseer for all us Mensa types is Hugh Montague, the old OSS legend, and hes an odd one, as remote as Mt. Hemorrhages of the head do occur from trauma inflicted at a site removed from the situs of the hemorrhage. Orley R. Bourland Jr., 75, who worked as a plant manager, said anthrax from Krehs finger was isolated and designated BVK-1, for Bernard Victor Kreh. Cameron won his post-graduate diploma in psychiatric medicine at the University of London before joining the staff at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in 1926. It was here in the Olson family back yard in 1975 that the world first learned the name of a man who, the story went, had been unwittingly drugged with LSD by the Central Intelligence Agency 22 years earlier and then jumped to his death from a 10th-floor hotel room. A further type division is caused by the need to conceal the fact that the subject was actually the victim of assassination, rather than an accident or natural causes. I told Dr. Gibson that I had re-read the transcript of the conversation he had had with Jim Starrs almost exactly five years earlier, on Dec 21, 1994. 15.52 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: 17.12 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: 18.03 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: 21.07 Voice of Ira (Ike) Feldman/Former CIA agent: 25.34 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./ Former barkeeper at Camp King: 26.33 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./Former bartender at Camp King: 30:21 Voice of Bennie E. Hackley/Chemical Corps US Army: 31.41 Voice of Ira (Ike) Feldman/Former CIA agent. However, he added, these results were so unusually uniform as to be considered unreliable. His academic career includes appointments at Iowa State University, and his industry experience includes working at The Walt Disney World Resort. [22], Impressed with Mulhollands range of knowledge and analysis, the CIA was beginning to extend its relationship with the magician beyond just the preparation of the covert operations manual. I would turn our gaze from the past, pronounced CIA Director George Tenet recently before Congress. Dr. Gibson had met Mullholland! If no, two grains will suffice. According to Colonel Ruwerts further recollections in 1953 he journeyed to New York City with Dr. Olson on the Tuesday prior to Olsons death for an emergency visit to Dr. Harold Abramson, a medical doctor who had a grant-in-aid from a C.I.A. Not all of Whites diary entries involved clandestine meetings with narcoties or CIA agents or addicts and prostitutes, for that matter. ORGAN HUNTERS Editorial Director: Gert Monheim He also believed that, from his own meetings with Frank Olson, there was a very real possibility that your father could become a whistle-blower if he believed that what was happening was wrong. Immediately after the war he courted the Americans, seeking to ensure a job in the United States. files still available, that his associate Dr. Margaret Ferguson was still alive in 1993. As a nine-year-old I was old enough to have some idea of cause and effect. The latter seems overwhelmingly likely. 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. We put various poisons in Castros cigars but none of that worked. The following summer, the Agency asked the magician to undertake another assignment. The directions were forthcoming and very accommodating, even to the point of a uniformed officers volunteering to show me the way even to the extent of carrying the box with the skull for me. The consequences of a magic trick going wrong might be embarrassment or a decline in bookings; a covert operation going bad could cost an agent his or her life. The essential point is this: it is necessary to insert the notion of psychological discrediting into theManchurian Candidate scenarioas it applies to the Frank Olson story. Earlier that morning, Frank Olson had fallen or jumped, as Ruwet put it, from the window of a New York City hotel room. But Olson became agitated during the first act, believing, according to Ruwet, that people were waiting outside the theater to arrest him. In late 1975, summoned by the U.S. Senate, Sidney Gottlieb returned from semi-retirement as a hospital volunteer in India (he dedicated the latter portion of his life to charitable pursuits, almost as if doing penance for earlier sins). However, he had been under contract to prepare a manual, Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deception, that applied the magicians art to covert activities, such as slipping drugs into drinks. Although the CIA documents that Colby had given the Olson family filled in some missing details, it raised as many questions as it purported to answer. Or are they themselves the victims of communist brainwashing? It looks like an exhibit in a down-at-heel museum of the Cold War. Such a threat is of no value unless it can be carried out, so it may be necessary to plan the assassination of various responsible officers of the oppressive regime and hold such plans in readiness to be used only if provoked by excessive brutality. I just dont give interviews on that subject, said Andrew M. Cowan Jr., 74, the divisions last chief, who is retired and living near Seattle. We categorically deny that.. Cournoyer had recently seen an article about Eric in the New York Times Magazine. 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. She knew that as a biochemist, Frank Olsons specialty during World War II had been the airborne delivery of biological toxins and bacteria, including anthrax. 10-14. The evidence suggested that someone had knocked Olson over the head either while he slept or during a struggle, and then tossed him out the window. It is here used to describe the planned killing of a person who is not under the legal jurisdiction of the killer, who is not physically in the hands of the killer, who has been selected by a resistance organization for death, and whose death provides positive advantages to that organization. His death occurred while I was putting the finishing touches onUndue Risk, and his deathbed was steps from my office in the medical school. Ruwet told investigators that Olson became highly agitated and paranoid while New York. Similarly Dr. John Schwab, another of Dr. Olsons supervisors at Camp Detrick, gave a statement from the perspective of one who knew Dr. Olson both over a long period of time and at home and in the office, that (h)is general state of mind and outlook on life was always that of extreme optimism. [10], MKULTRA and its component parts had already become one of the Agencys most secret operations. He was a prolific writer. She recalled one call. Getting information out of him, they noted, was like pulling teeth.They asked to see what was in his pockets and billfold. The Very Best MenFour Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA, This is a storythat no one wants to know. Theyre not going to fall for this.. Ruwet decided that Olson needed psychiatric attention. But instead of sending him to the base hospital, Ruwet called Lashbrook at the CIA. My father's case covers both. Note: 00.50 Voice of Eric Olson . In 1960, UCLA psychiatrist Sidney Cohen reviewed studies of 5,000 persons who had taken LSD a total of 25,000 times. and the subject induced to perform the act of attempted assassination of an official in a government in which he was well-established socially and politically.. She knew he had not been sleeping well, she knew he wasnt really at peace. That Lashbrook would be meeting with Mulholland should not be surprising. The only organizational exit is a horizontal one. After further discussions with Abramson, it was agreed that Olson should be placed under regular psychiatric care at Chestnut Lodge, an institution closer to his home and which had CIA-cleared psychiatrists on its Rockville, Maryland, staff. The war is finally over. Indeed, in the spring of 1959, the Agency extended another MKULTRA Subproject (subproject 83) to revise and adapt some of material that Mulholland had developed on deception techniques (magic, sleight of hand, signals) and on psychic phenomena.[38]. Another answer is suggested by a colleague: It is well known, wrote Dr. Howard Abramson after Olsons death, that it is an occupational hazard to mental stability to be doing the type of work connected with his [Olsons] duties. A follow-up memo stated that Sandoz had an additional ten kilos about 100 million doses of the drug, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), available for sale on the open market. And still the possibility could not be discounted that someone in the room had inflicted a blow to Dr. Olson in the process of stunning him into submission, preparatory to ejecting him from the window, especially if the window was open at the time and broken thereafter to coincide with Lashbrooks contemporaneous statements. (The Colby documents). 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. To be able to now invest energy back into his professional career hopefully, its not too late; he is in his late 50s. In short, here are instructions in deception.[31]. The search for the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of Dr. Frank Olson begins in 1945, with the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany. These scenes reveal nothing of his secret task involving deadly weapons. Molecular Biology, Graduate Programs Genetics, Development and Disease, Copyright 2023. Without knowing something more about them, especially about the shadowy figure of Robert Lashbrook, it would be difficult to determine with greater certainty how Frank Olson met his death. His sister Lisa had died too, together with her husband and their 2-year-old son. The deaths were never solved, but Sydney detectives became convinced that Bogle and his colleagues had been experimenting with LSD and the effect it produced on their thought-processesthe invitation to the New Years party required each guest to bring a painting done under the influenced of the drugand their either by accident or by design someone had slipped the couple what turned out to be an overdose. Lashbrook and Gottlieb hastily made arrangements for Olson to see Dr. Harold Abramson, a New York M.D. The men moved to the window. It was the first time they had spoken in three days, and Alice was relieved to discover that his mood had improved (a state of mind in stark contrast to the angst-ridden portrait depicted by the CIA). I noted that the hematoma over Dr. Olsons left eye did not bear even the remotest resemblance to a hemorrhage resulting from a contrecoup cephalic insult. Harvard University CGIS Knafel, First Floor 1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA . He was pushed out. Sometimes, in moments of frustration which come often because hes struggling to earn a living he says hes sorry he ever looked into his fathers death. Meanwhile, without proper maintenance, the Olson home had fallen into disrepair, its paint peeling and roof sagging. When I reached the town of Accident Maryland I figured I must be getting close. They called it dirty tricks. The real target of mind control was the public to whom the story of a suicidal, deranged, drugged scientist would be told. [14]It was a source of great joy for him. Our sights were therefore particularly set on that portion of his anatomy. For twenty odd years, the Olson family remained in a state of perplexity about these events. Accordingly the government attorneys strongly recommended that we pursue a settlement via a Private Bill in Congress, which they said the White House would support. Less than two weeks later (July 23) we were sitting in the Oval Office receiving an official apology from Gerald Ford. Although bioengineering today could produce more virulent pathogens, nothing has changed in the most challenging part of covert biological attack: delivering germs so that they infect people, Patrick said. Today five decades after it was written the tricks and approaches set forth in this manual are still classified top secret.. I was talking with a friend tonight about my fathers death. The projects purpose, according to CIA documents, was to develop biological weapons that could be used on individuals for the purposes of affecting human behavior with the objectives ranging from very temporary minor disablement to more serious and longer incapacitation to death. At the behest of the Chemical Corps, the New York medical examiner conducted no autopsy of Blauer, kept the armys name out of its report, and described the death as an accidental overdose. 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