Immediately after Olsons fall, CIA officer Lashbrook phoned Abramson, the physician. (In fact, Eric Olson would later discover that the doctors at Chestnut Lodge had no special security clearance, a fact that begs the question, Why did the CIA lie about this?) I just called her and she said, Eric, Im glad you phoned. Mulholland was always a gracious host and an engaging conversationalist. Lots of writers asked me to tell my story. And, in the context of this endlessly dark story, could the father of the doctor to whom I was now speaking really be the author of the line, The Shadow knows? Apparently so. Our purpose in inviting you here today is to explain why49 years after his death, 27 years after the government claimed to have told us the truth about his death, and 8 years after we had his body exhumed and a forensic investigation performedwe are going to rebury our fathers remains tomorrow. What seemed to be at first glance a simple and straight-forward set of events leading to a death turned out to be much more complicated than had been anticipated, including the occurrence of yet more mysterious deaths. The Olson family had never heard this name, and would not learn of Dr. Gibsons role until 1994. Expert: Zach Olsen Title: How to Make Data-Driven Decisions for Ecommerce Marketing. 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 maniacal cackle. But Olson became agitated during the first act, believing, according to Ruwet, that people were waiting outside the theater to arrest him. The Cold War was at its height. The drug, say the investigative journalists H. P. Albarelli, Jr., and John Kelly, was administered as part of a top-secret Army-funded experimental program . I have written a number of non-fiction books dealing with the activities of various intelligence agencies. One day in the late 50s or early 60s, his finger swelled to the size of a sausage with a cutaneous, or skin, anthrax infection. It is in the best interests of the Agency to extend this time limit and obtain the best possible manual rather than hold Mr. Mulholland to the six-month period. But newly-discovered documents reveal that Vincent Ruwet had been assigned by the CIA to keep track of the wife.. Sometime in the year of 1952, in the top secret interrogation center, Gajdosch runs across another German: Professor Kurt Blome. He is interrogated by military intelligence. Saracco and Bibb decided to interview William Colby, Vincent Ruwet, Robert Lashbrook, and Sidney Gottlieb. Even Marks, who exercises the journalistic wisdom to stick only to what he can back up with hard documentation, readily acknowledges that the clandestine researchers probably planted electrodes in the brains of men. The U.S. government has always denied allegations that it sprayed Korean soldiers with anthrax and dropped a number of other lethal germ warfare agents, including Bubonic plague-bearing fleas. Everything seems the same as always. Gottlieb was the CIA branch chief that ordered the experiment with LSD that allegedly resulted in Olsons suicide. These entries fit in with a 1963 internal report by then-CIA Inspector General Lyman B. Kirkpatrick about the MK-ULTRA project. Starrs and his team concluded that the evidence from their examination was rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide.. I do what I want. Well let me call up my friend Walt!, So he called up Walt Disney, and this is one of the great disappointments of my life, Walt wasnt home.. While we had no reasonable doubt about the identity of these remains, we decided to go one long stride forward with new technology still on the scientific cusp to attempt a computerized superimposition of the skull to known photographs of Frank Olson. Related stories: He took a number of courses at both Columbia University and at New Yorks City College, but did not attain a degree. It is my view and a number of my team members, not all of them, that it was homicide.. Meeting me must have been strange for him, but I imagined there was more. [ From reading Dr. Abramsons report it is not readily evident what the CIA wanted in particular to have in it.] The only manifestation was that he could not sleep. Copyright 2001 by The Genii Corporation. Instead we will fast forward to key the key moments that have, piece by piece, eviscerated the 1975 story and left a very different one in its place. Why Mulholland decided to do this is a matter of some conjecture. Eric hoped his press conference would, at least, change the language of the reporting of the story. Dr. Gibson remembers being concerned for the caller, who had apparently witnessed the horrifying death of a friend. 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. To Eric, the newly revealed facts painted a grim picture of his fathers death having been a C.I.A. My fathers case covers both. It was on the sidewalk in front of the Penn Bar, adjacent to the place where he had found Dr. Olsons body. They would now focus on LSD as a potent new agent for offensive unconven-tional warfare. 24.23 It was a basic hotel room with two double beds, small and rather spare in its furnishings. Before doing so, the three men made another stop. So we went into a drugstore. Frank Olson also used photography. Today, he announced, Frank Olson finally hit bottom. Eric Olson might just as well have been talking about himself. The good doctors at CDC [the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] dont have a clue about aerosol dissemination, and the military is not much better.. This colleague explained that my father had become alarmed both by terminal experiments and interrogations that were being conducted by American forces in Europe using Detrick-CIA techniques, and also by the use of biological weapons in Korea. Nevertheless, the attorneys prepared a draft of a letter to him. The CIAs original acid dream was that LSD would open the mind to suggestion, but they found the drug too potent to manage. Leaders in Cardiovascular Research: Eric Olson. One time, when Eric returned from a year away in India, he walked right past her in the airport. Yet in the secret, compartmented biological program, Kreh himself does not recall ever being informed of the use to which his government put his illness. (Visual text!) A molecular biologist and a country musician might seem an odd pair, but Dr. Eric Olson and Willie Nelson share musical and scientific interests that have benefitted both fields. Have you heard of The Shadow novels? A request for a re-review of these files is still pending. 14.50 Apparently the cover story was changed later on Saturday morning, after the call to Gibson had been made. 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.. He told me that he developed a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Grady was very familiar with the Olson storyhe had interviewed my sister in 1975 for a Jack Anderson column. Chapter One of: These comments are from the same White House attorney, Roderick Hills, who was simultaneously advising us that we should not go to court because the law was not on our side. Four hours later, Armand Pastore found him lying on his back on Seventh Avenue. Within minutes, uniformed New York City police officers and hotel employees came to Lashbrooks room. He had allegedly threatened to reveal the CIA involvement in terminal experiments in post-war Germany and in Korea during the Korean War. We put various poisons in Castros cigars but none of that worked. First they both listened to portions of a tape recording of a conversation between a physician or psychiatrist and the SUBJECT. Then Lashbrook dictated to Abramson on the SUBJECS behaviour prior to his demise. This story of my fathers death as it was experienced by insiders was brought up to date for me in 2001 when one of my fathers closest Detrick colleagues and friends told me what he knew about the events that preceded my fathers death. Alice, a 38-year-old housewife, had only a vague knowledge of her husbands classified work at Camp Detrick, where he was director of planning and evaluations in the Army Chemical Corps Special Operations Division (SOD). He wondered if it was in the realm of possibility to break through the window with so little space allowed to gain momentum and so many obstructions at the window. This was all part of the CIA experiments. In 1952 Frank Olson was acting chief of the Special Operations Division at Detrick; at the time of his death in 1953 he was SODs director of planning and evaluations. Olson soon became the acting head of this division. The assassin must not fall into enemy hands. All their friends fathers worked at the base. I had almost been foiled in this opportunity by my initial attempt to engage him in conversation unannounced with CBS cameramen in the background. This confirmed the document from Dr. Abramson, written a few weeks after Olsons death, that the drug had been used to set a trap. 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. The Emperor was naked from the start. Eric Olson is ready to charge in a news conference tomorrow that the story of a suicide plunge makes no sense. But of all the techniques explored by the Agency in its multimillion-dollar twenty-five-year quest to conquer the human mind, none received as much attention or was embraced with such enthusiasm as LSD-25. Albarelli Jr. and John Kellys upcoming book deals with the mysterious death of one of those subject, Dr. Frank Olson. ''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.'' I cant take no more of this shit life is handing me, so Im gonna throw myself through the fuckin window? You did it to the man in Haiwa-ya and you think, year, thats it, thats how to do it. I wont say anything more than that. [9]. This interpretation is given support by another anomaly in the story. The patriotic community surrounding Fort Detrick has long been reluctant to believe such a possibility. White supposedly killed some Japanese spy with his bare hands while he was on assignment in Calcutta. . He had been lecturing on the topic since 1930, when he began exposing the means and methods of fortunetellers. My letter to the New York City police departments pension division seeking to contact him was forwarded to him but I received no reply from him. (The Shakespearean parallels werent lost on the scholarly Eric; think Hamlet, he liked to say, but on the order of years, not months.) Eventually, Eric would uncover tantalizing evidence suggesting that his father, far from being the victim of a drug experiment gone awry, may have been murdered as the proverbial man who knew too much. With the discovery in the 1950's that the North Koreans were brainwashing American prisoners, the Special Operations Division at Detrick became the center for the development of drugs for use in brainwashing and interrogation. House of Representatives, 94th Congress, First Session. MK-ULTRA was the code name the CIA used for its program directed at gaining control over human behavior through covert use of chemical and biological materials, as proposed by Richard Helms. It seemed to unfurl the winding processes of a person's unconscious and lay them out flat on paper. I always wanted chickens, Feldman recalled, so I bought a chicken ranch. LSD inspires one to tell the truth. He thought it was all bullshit. That is no longer the situation, but getting to a solid bottom has required a very long descent. He had seen the published accounts of the investigations and believed that something was missing. 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.'' At the third level are memoranda by Dr. Howard Abramson and Lt. He is an actor and producer, known for Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003), Fired Up! DEFINITION Over the 27 years that have elapsed since 1975 light has been cast on all this from many directions, and the real story of Frank Olsons death has gradually taken shape. ..I think the overall purpose is clear: they were exploring whether and to what extent they might distract my father (certainly the essence of the magicians art) for the purpose of taking his eye off the ball, making him forget, creating amnesia. These files may be the last link we have to the clandestine world of John Mulholland. A scanning electron microscope, coupled with energy dispersive X-ray, disclosed the presence of a number of elements, one of which was silicon in a rather high concentration. Attorney. The 1975 White House documents include the following comments: First, a passage from a September 1975 memorandum by White House attorney Roderick Hills addressed to Richard Cheney: two circumstances affect our analysis of the Justice Department position. Lashbrook and Olson flew back to New York that same day for further consultations with Abramson. We had a hell of a time with that because we had to get Russian cans, he said. Most of the people [at Fort Detrick] didnt know what was going on in SO, Pannier said. No devious or long-term tracking was necessitated in this instance. Public figures or guarded officials may be killed withgreat reliability and some safety if a firing point can be established prior to an official occasion. In the hotel they are joined by a doctor working for the secret service, who administers medication. The statements contained in this confession were false they were obtained under duress from Chinese communists. Shortly after Kauderss talk, one hospital staffer, Max Rinkel, ordered a supply of LSD from Sandoz and then persuaded his colleague Robert Hyde to test it on himself. At best it would motivate some energetic journalist to take the challenge and find an unequivocal smoking gun that proved Frank Olson was pushed out of the window. It was Frederick itself. The first relates to the speed at which Dr. Olson exited the window of Room 1018A. I can visualize his face actually: It was drawn, in a way I had never seen it before.. Before Richard Helms left his post as CIA director in 1973, a large portion of the agencys records of its mindcontrol program was ordered destroyed But a good deal of the story is detailed in Congressional testimony and thousands of pages of documents released in recent months under the Freedom of Information Act. CLASSIFICATIONS He conducted experiments.. The source that I have was the New York City Police Department, the Bureau of Narcotics Agents and the CIA Agents themselves. The sleep they might have induced in him could have been his last. 9305 Quitman St. Westminster CO 80031. Given what we knew about Lashbrooks immediate reaction that night, I thought a straight-forward uncomplicated interpretation was likely to be the correct one. Eric Olson said his father was murdered to cover up his ultra-secret research in Korea and Europe. So was it in fact murder? 1) I stated publicly and openly that I was a conscientious National Socialist, 11.29 Voice of Norman Cournoyer The family had only been told that the stress of his job had led to a nervous breakdown and that Frank Olson had killed himself. The Russian SHGs have a good cyclic rate, but are handicapped by a small, light protective which requires more kits for equivalent killing effect. Its painful to me. But Falconer refuses to say anything, feeling bound by his military oath, and doesnt want to be interviewed. It was not as the Church Committee and the New York City Police Report and all the many other reports, including his own signed report, had said that a crash of glass had cast his sleep aside. Could LSD be used as a truth serum for CIA interrogators? His conclusion was that the evidence was starkly suggestive of homicide.. It also provided a backdrop for our reconstructing the scene at the street level of the hotel. He repeatedly stressed that this was no longer a family story. Was a decision then taken to make certain that Olson never talked by destroying his memory with drugs and, when this failed, by murdering him and making it look like a suicide? 34.24 The caller then inquired about bringing the patient in that same night. 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. put in a good word. In the standard autopsy, the pathologist makes a Y incision, cutting into the body from shoulder to shoulder, with the arms of the Y meeting at the sternum (breast plate) and then going straight down the abdomen to the groin. 36.16 He fancied himself a technological promoter and entrepreneur. So I said What was the conversation? She said the man in the room called this number out in Long Island and said Well, hes gone and the man on the other end said Well, thats too bad and they both hung up.. Amazingly, the solution to the mystery had pertained to the most obvious fact of all concerning Frank Olson, but one that was conspicuously missing from the accounts in 1975: Frank Olson was a founding member and in the year prior to his death he was chief of the countrys most secret biological warfare laboratory. Yet when Olson phoned Alice that night, he said that he felt ''much better'' and ''looked forward to seeing her the next day.'' James Starrs interviewed Dr. Gibson in 1994, and in 1999 I finally decided I should meet him too. He pointed to the table and said, I dug out some old photographs for you.. After this short clip, more family pictures of the children. The man had fallen from the 10th floor -- apparently after crashing through a closed window -- but he was alive. When my fathers colleague told me about the use of biological weapons in Korea, I responded by saying. 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. He said he knew that Dr Gottlieb had been researching into slow-acting depressants which, when taken, could drive a person to suicide. They were not there, totally non-existent. They used them., 47:24 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: Dix, procedure and any other I send you, is BAP (which in case you forgot is Burn After Perusal). One day, White calls me into his office. DESIRE AND DENIAL Sid Gottlieb instructed Lashbrook to get a report from Dr. Abramson on Olson and bring it back to Washington with him. It was also in March 1953 that he became mentally and emotionally disturbed. Early the next morning, Frank Olson appeared in his bosss office to tender his resignation. And I am sure thats why in the end I came to take on this task trying to figure out what had become of him.. I only found this out after he told me about it. A check with Ruwet confirmed it. Ruwet stalled at first but eventually confirmed that the man in the story was Frank Olson and that he had known the details in The Post story all along. Eric Olson is responsible for protecting and evaluating innovations in high tech arising from research at the University of Minnesota as well as partnering with Technology Licensing Officers to facilitate commercialization of these innovations. Cournoyer added three crucial elements to the story: 1. was testing interrogation and truth serums there -- not on monkeys but on human subjects, ''expendables,'' captured Russian agents and ex-Nazis. After Eric left the lab, Starrs began his autopsy. He received a telephone call from a family friend on the morning of June 11th 1975: Have you seen the Washington Post? Some epidemiologists believe AIDS originated in Africa. on December 7, 1953 speaks of Olson having exited through a closed window. We therefore feel ready to rebury the physical remains of our father, our grandfather. This weapon, known as the machine-pistol by the Russians and Germans and machine-carbide by the British, is occasionally useful in assassination. Nevertheless, a deal was struck. Yesterday, from the same picnic table, Eric Olson, now 57, spoke again to reporters, this time saying he knows how his father was killed, and why enough answers to allow him to move on. After 75 years of psychoanalysis -- the talking cure -- here was a therapy, Eric believed, that didn't start from words but from images. In 1953 the story was that Frank Olson fell or jumped out the window due to job-related stress. He must have put a curve on what he said, for the woman gave a low intimate laugh. It was clearly illegal to test potentially dangerous drugs on unsuspecting United States citizens.. He was director of Shepherd Pratt Hospital for twenty years, where a building there bears his name. worked with lethal effect on human beings (the expendable SS men etc.). I regret everything. Dr. Gibson affirmed that Lashbrook had said he awakened to find Olson standing in the middle of the hotel room. Cameron was engaged in secret experimental work for the CIA (details of that can be found in my book Journey into Madness). Only the bones -- and not all of them -- remain intact. It is built on a steep slope, and appears considerably larger from the lake side than from the approach. More normal people, in contrast, only choose the lies that will keep their ego intact. I learned that most of this stuff was necessary for the United States, he said, and even though it may have hurt somebody in the beginning, in the long run it was important. 34.52 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University: Two weeks after that news conference in 1975, the Olson family was invited to the White House for a formal apology from President Gerald R. Ford. We want you to test these mind-bending drugs. I said, Why the hell do you want to test mind-bending drugs? He said, Have you ever heard of, Dick Russell, author of a recent book on the Kennedy assassination titled, One of the CIAs mob contacts long suspected of involvement in John Kennedys assassination was the Las Vegas, 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. In an isolated vacation house at the edge of the lake, the CIAs dirty tricks department converged here for a meeting with ten of its scientists in November 1953. He greeted the Olsons warily. He said, CIA activities related to the MK-ULTRA program were thoroughly investigated in 1975 by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. 43.31 Voice of US Air Force Pilot (Prisoner of War in North Korea): Fifteen percent collaborated fully with the Chinese, and only 5 percent refused to cooperate with them at all. If no, two grains will suffice. Was the big secret that Olson was a CIA employee? Four days later, an invitation to the White House arrived. The use of LSD among young people in the U.S. reached a peak in the late 1960s, shortly after the CIA initiated a series of covert operations designed to disrupt, discredit, and neutralize the New Left. That night while he slept in the adjacent bed, Olson slipped out of the room and wandered the streets of New York. Yet it would not be until 1975 that they would learn some of the circumstances of his death, and even then not apparently the whole story. The clandestine researchers explored every possible means of manipulating the human mind. And we made it! 43.31 Voice of US Air Force Pilot (Prisoner of War in North Korea): 44.30 Voice of US Air Force-Pilot (after his return): 44.57 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson, 46.46 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson. The film was made with such respect that the subject matter seems gloomy when it should be uplifting.). The victim was not witting of the experiment. But he didn't stumble on the power of collage until he was in his 20's. Over the years, he amassed one of the worlds finest collections of magic books and memorabilia. One series of tests on CIA employees was designed to see whether LSD could i break the so-called pentathol block. During interrogations, captured agents were often given sodium pentathol-or truth serum sometimes combined with hypnosis, as in the case of the Soviet double agents, in an effort to get them to disclose secrets. Some, locked in boxes and then given LSD, went temporarily insane. Was it for not telling the truth to his family in 1953? MK-ULTRA was secret, shocking and incredibly dangerous. By magnifying the impulse toward revolutionism out of context, acid sped up the process by which the Movement became unglued, the authors continue. On this issue, until this query is put to rest by adequate scientific testing, I am a diehard skeptic. They show the perfect world of a young father, captured with the latest 8-mm camera to hit the market. Author John Marks, whoseThe Search for the Manchurian Candidateis one of the most thoroughgoing volumes yet assembled on U.S. government mind-control research, readily admits that all of his source material comprised but ten boxes of documentsbut those took him a year to comprehend despite the aid of a research staff. Im dying to hear., Julia, said Eric, called Norman. Back in Frederick, Lisa Olson confronted Vincent Ruwet, her father's old boss at Detrick. Was the CIA implicated in my fathers 1961 suicide attempt? I found him sitting at the bar nursing a Coca Cola. Unwitting LSD recipients were what was needed. If the subjects car is tampered with, reliability is very low. Ransacking the Colby documents for the umpteenth time, Eric stumbled upon a new, possibly telling clue. Viewing it under a stereo microscope left no doubt that this laceration was a unit and not the sum of more than one blow at the same site inflicted at different times or places. The specific question, then, was whether the sub-galeal hemorrhage over the left eye can reasonably be attributable to the impact to the right parietal bone, resulting in the hinge fracture of the skull. 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. Even a highly trained Judo expert will hesitate to risk killing by hand unless he has absolutely no alternative. And Murray was part of this drug-testing pyramid. He signed off with one of his favorite expressions. 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. The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. 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. As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the CIA men might have felt an odd sense of relief. He had been brought to New York by Lashbrook to be treated for an alleged psychiatric disturbance by the CIAs principal secret LSD consultant, Dr. Harold A. Abramson, a highly respected physician who was then head of the Allergy Clinic at Mt. Drugs As America entered the 1950s, the world around John Mulholland was changing. A year later it was confirmed: CIA got final clearance and sign contract as consultant met Gottlieb . But the destination, whether it was San Francisco or the truth about what happened to Frank Olson, was still on the same map. There is no evidence they were ever used. They specialize in Orthopedic Surgery, has 39 years of experience. Director William Colby to cooperate with them. Far from ending with Olson's death, the LSD experiments continued for two decades. Bring me up to date, said Nils. At every point there seems to be a convergence of the evidence, Nils Olson says. Could there be a connection between his fathers death five decades ago and the acts of terror taking place today? Dr. Gibsons father the author of The Shadow! George Magazine,October 1977, By John OMahony, I gained confirmation for some of Pastores remembrances from another former Hotel Statler employee, employed, upon my meeting with him, at the relocated Penn Bar.He was on duty at the hotel the night of Olsons death. 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