Odd! Another parallel exists. All their friends fathers worked at the base. A sunny view of human nature, that. With gunshot wounds, the coroner looks for distinct patterns that indicate the type of weapon used, where the bullet entered and exited (if it did), and how far from the body the gun was when the shot occurred. THAMES NUMBER ONE They were a wonderful, much-loved couple with a young son, Jonathan. His family moved to New York when he was quite young and it was there that he began to learn the techniques of the craft. A few years later, the surreptitious administration of a mind-altering drug in a drink at a party was suggested as a possible solution to a strange double death in Sidney, Australia. 11.48 The finding and the opening in Paris, France in 1905 of the leaden coffin of American Naval hero John Paul Jones, some 113 years after his death was one such instance. 18.50 The trains swishing by would get it airborne., The SO Divisions report concluded that similar covert attacks with a pathogenic agent during peak traffic periods could be expected to expose large numbers of people to infection and subsequent illness or death.. The agency wanted a drug, as LSD historians Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain put it, that would blow minds and make people crazy.. They hoped to find a way to use the drugs on the battle ground. He had even managed to slip away from them one night, a good indication that they were not really watching him. Army harvested victims blood to boost anthrax, Then there was the fact that previous run-ins with drug cops had usually resulted in criminal prosecutions. However, I now had another conflicting view of the last moments in the life of Frank Olson. Each team member deserves the highest praise and has my most genuine and entirely unreserved gratitude for their selfless, uncompensated labors in our attempts to disentangle this mystery. In response, my father leaned toward me across the table and whispered, Theyve given OPC thecovertoperations., The real stuff. With the external front under control, the Agency then turned to its own internal investigation. He said, I am getting out of that CIA. Less than two weeks after their backyard press conference, the Olsons were summoned to White House for a personal meeting with President Ford. Even within the parameters of the CIAs own story this could not have been true. Two possibilities attracted attention. Among the prisoners at Kransberg Castle is rocket scientist Professor Hermann Oberth, who collects autographs from his colleagues. English version: Mark Rossman And if you lack provable truth, you do not get justice. The automatic feature of the machine gun should rather be used to increase reliability by placing a 5 second burst on the subject. The CIA was on to acid long before the flower children. Others interviewed on the program disputed the likelihood of suicide from a closed window with the shade drawn, and in fact Olson has spoken calmly to his wife on the telephone a few hours before. A significant portion of the human population within selected target areas may be killed or incapacitated., Setting an imaginative tone for what would follow, the report listed potential targets: ventilating systems, subway systems, water supply systems stamps, envelopes, money, biologicals and cosmetics contamination of food and beverages.. Today, he announced, Frank Olson finally hit bottom. Eric Olson might just as well have been talking about himself. Well, White said,thats why we have to test these drugs, to find out if they can be used to brainwash people. He says, If we can find outjust how good this stuff works, youll be doing a great deal for your country.. And it put forth techniques that could be used by teams of men working in tandem. George called me in because I had this whore, one of my whores was this Cuban girl and we were gonna send her down to see Castro with a box of LSD-soaked cigars.. This was the terrible mistake he had made. I must say, he messed up. The CIA never reveals the identity of its assets. Often the professor himself doesnt know the originating source of research monies he receives. Was the big secret that Olson was a CIA employee? Friday evening he came home and spent the weekend in this house with my mother, my brother and sister and me and during much of the weekend they sat on the sofa which was just over here. 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. I was simply told that Your father has had an accident, and that he has died. The only detail that I was then given was that he had fallen or jumped out of a window. 68 Eric Wilson Height 6-4 Weight 280 Class Senior Hometown Minnetrista, Minn. High School Benilde-St. Margaret's Position OL Concentration Psychology House Affiliation Adams Bio Related Stats Historical Biography At Harvard: 2020: Named a nominee for the 2021 Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team . 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. This proved their stated interest in getting to the root cause of their fathers death, whether the findings implicated the C.I.A. 26.33 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./Former bartender at Camp King: A computer animation of the most likely scenarios for Frank Olsons fall was to follow after additional on scene measurements based on the recollections of those present at the scene on the occasion of Olsons death-fall. Despite Lashbrooks pathetic attempts to deflect blame by trumping up a bogus psychiatric history for Olson, CIA Inspector General Lyman Kirkpatrick officially (but secretly) concluded that Olsons suicide had been triggered by the LSD dosing. No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded, says the CIA assassination manual. A former outdoors columnist for The Sun, he credits his 19 years at Fort Detrick with giving him time to develop his expertise. He was taken instead, by Gottliebs deputy, to the office of the former Broadway magician John Mulholland, who probably hypnotised him, and Frank probably failed that test too. Most of the men who conceived and directed the CIAs rnind-control program are dead. 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. Absolute reliability can nearly always be achieved at a distance of one hundred yards. It then becomes clear that the real target of mind control was not Frank Olson. Show more detail. And I dont know. Sometime in the year of 1952, in the top secret interrogation center, Gajdosch runs across another German: Professor Kurt Blome. The Olson family had been advised against an open casket funeral cemetery on the advice of Dr. Olsons superiors who had represented that his injuries were too gruesome to behold. He still has an office here in Fort Detrick, in the US armys center for biological weapons. Official Washington moved quickly to end the furor. Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland, a three-hour drive from Washington. Now I know why my friend's wild laugh is so full of pain. Ruwet and Lashbrook claimed to have found Olson sitting in the Statler lobby early the next morning. But the speculation is irresistible that it might have involved experiments in mind control similar to those that Olson had worked on. Instead of my moving to another chair at the table he politely insisted that I relocate the same chair upon which I had been sitting up to then. But promotions and parties concealed Olsons qualms about his work. Historys Biggest Mysteries, Coverups, and Cabals, Revised, updated, and expanded. The project was code-named MK-ULTRA, and they did it, they explained, because they wanted to watch how a scientist would cope with the effects of a mind-altering drug. Adam Cray. Eric Olson Director at Ontosphere LLC Frederick, Maryland, United States168 connections Join to connect Ontosphere LLC Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Websites Websites. BE COOL, Dell, 1999, p. 233). Not a leaf left on it. 3. After Whites death, his widow donated his papers, including diaries, to an electronic surveillance museum. It was officially referred to as Project MK/NAOMI, an adjunct to the larger CIA behavior modification program that within months became known as MK-ULTRA. We would find him in exactly the same position the next morning. One, By 1996 our suspicions had reached an intolerable threshold. None of that counterespionage where you drink out of my teacup and I drink out of yours. The .300 F.A.B. His face was largely intact, lacking the cuts that would have resulted if he had broken through a plate-glass window to jump. But why had Olson been taken to see Dr Abramson who was not a psychiatrist at all but a skin allergist? But the condition of the body meant that precise identification was impossiblemaking the area a conspiracy blackspot. PONTIFF (with Max MorganWitts) 8.43 Voice of Eric Olson: The following eight chapters illustrated with diagrams hand-drawn by Mulholland ran over 100 pages and outlined how to apply the magicians art to the needs of espionage and covert activity. Revealing to Eric the secrets hed been harbouring all these years was so stressful for Norman that he repeatedly excused himself so he could go to the toilet and vomit. It was on the sidewalk in front of the Penn Bar, adjacent to the place where he had found Dr. Olsons body. (At 25 micrograms per dose, a million doses of LSD would weigh only nine ounces.) For one thing, I was leaving Manhattan without permission from my parole officer, What was I going to tell him? Erics request, even entreaty, was entitled to and received my immediate and careful attention. We hid the fact from his widow. The only manifestation was that he could not sleep. Designed to mimic a disease endemic to the Congo, the virus was cultured specifically for its lethal effect. That was Eric Olsons conclusion as well. Ruefully, no such experiment could be designed with any approach to verisimilitude. The CIA knows it. Originally published August 9, 2002. Dr. Gibson then went into his office to take the call. Walter was involved in anthrax production from selection of seed stock to the dry, deadly spore powder ready to be loaded into a bomb; his final job was as principal investigator in a lab that studied anthrax and other powder weapons. Finally, we examine the head, first examining the eyes and skin for pinpoint capillary hemorrhages (called petechiae) that may reveal evidence of strangulation. The question was how to deliver them secretly. The old story is so much fun, Eric said, why would anyone want to replace it with a story thats not fun. JUSTIFICATION Finally, right in front of his keeper, he took a running dive through a closed window and crashed ten stories to his death. As Eric would later explain, So great was the shock experience by the family that we did not grieve our loss at all; it was as if nothing had happened. But as they often do, calm surfaces belied turbulent undercurrents. All others received a Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology. Frank Olsons moral crisis culminated in his decision to quit his job during the weekend following the drugging, a fact which, again, is not mentioned in the Colby documents. This can be done with the point of a knife or a light blow of an axe or hatchet. He had apparently been the victim of a boating accident. He went though a moral crisis, but he was in too deep and they couldnt let him out., We continued watching the home video. If a drawn shade separated the glass from the flesh, then perhaps the shade buffered kept the glass from piercing Olsons underwear-clad body, but it is nevertheless inexplicable that we found no cuts on the front of the lower extremities from dragging across glass shards on the bottom edge of the window. Another document mentioned hypnotically-induced anxieties and induced pain as a form of physical and psychological control. There were repeated references to exotic drugs and biological agents that caused headache clusters, uncontrollable twitching or drooling, or a lobotomy-like stupor. While he was introducing Allen Ginsberg to the drug, a colleague began testing it on Stanford undergraduates. Project MKULTRA was eventually brought to a close in 1964. The Americans have other plans for him. It all began because the CIA knew the Russians had this LSD shit and they were afraid the KGB was using it to brainwash agents, Feldman told me. Mans gonna commit suicide. They invented LSD to control people and what it did was give us freedom.. In order not to see what one does not wish to see how does the mind first recognize a dangerous object precisely in order to intercept and block it? To bankroll his investigation, he became adept in the art of nonprofit fundraising. Youre all a bunch of thespians! Olson shouted at his fellow acid trippers, then spent a long night wandering around babbling to himself. Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert were discovered by the media in 1962, and the craze was on. He left the Rhine-Main region three days later, on June 15. The sleep they might have induced in him could have been his last. The agency unit that administered this program was the same Directorate of Scientific Research that developed the exotic poisons used in attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba. ), Chapter 80 of: 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. When I reached the town of Accident Maryland I figured I must be getting close. In 1975, a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller issued a report on CIA abuses, Days later, the family was invited to the White House to meet President Ford. This was the truth, Eric came to believe, that lay hidden in the collage of the Colby documents. 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. was partly influenced by the findings of a forensic pathologist from George Washington University who examined Olsons remains and concluded that Olson suffered a blow on the head with a blunt object prior to his fall. The polio vaccine was created, as was the colour TV. Now he was hearing voices, having delusions, and on his way to the crazy house. At the same time, he is working for the CIA. The AP story appears below, followed by my notes on that meeting. And I had no idea what does it mean to fall out of a window. But some of the key scientists who did the work more than four decades ago are dead, and records are classified, contradictory or nonexistent, so it is difficult to establish with certainty the details of what happened. Russell says that after his book was published, a former CIA counter-intelligence expert called him and said Oswald had been viewed by the CIA as fitting the psychological profile of someone they were looking for in their MK-ULTRA program, and that he had been mind-conditioned to defect to the USSR. Yes, Dr. Gibson said, my father would go into his study after dinner and start typing on an old Smith Corona typewriter. The Man Who Knew Too Much.Gentlemens Quarterly, January 2000. The plane crashed, and everyone on board was killed.). A third-rate novelist couldnt have ordered up a more obvious literary trope: The cat was indeed out of the bag. The bones have been sitting for years in a locked file cabinet in the George Washington University office of James E. 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