This notwithstanding,Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deceptionremains John Mulhollands most secret book of secrets. The CIA was using German SS prisoners and Norwegian Quislings [collaborators] taken from jails and detention centres as guinea pigs to test Camerons theories about mind control. During the six and a half weeks of our journey we were propelled by a powerful and simple idea, which boiled down to the notion just keep peddling. We knew that Route 40, the old National Pike just a few hundred yards from here at the end of the lane, went all the way to the West Coast. Evidence in support of that can be found in Frank Olsons passport. Informational, and not to plot to cover the tracks of persons responsible for Dr. Olsons death? Saracco and Bibb flew to meet him in California, but he would only talk in the presence of an attorney, which resulted in his stone walling all the questions asked. It was, in a sense, a house haunted by its own history. Anyway, Gottlieb had come upon a physical substance that turns a few corners in schizophrenia. The three men arrived at Mulhollands office around 3:00pm on November 25. My name's Marc and I'm a sophomore in Pfoho, originally form Framingham, Mass. It was all planned and scripted by the Central Intelligence.. By relieving reality of its rules of the game, collage presents designs for experimentation patterns which are new, unused, and possibly valid only for the moment. The evidence on the body says that the agency may have lied. Soon, the very same Nazis who had helped to develop nerve gas and Zyklon Btthe gas used to exterminate Jews at Auschwitzwere helping to perfect Americas own Psychochemical Warfare program, testing everything from alcohol to LSD on unsuspecting American soldiers. That, at least, is one thing of which Olsons son is now certain. 4.55 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. One of them was a former CIA pimp named Ira Ike Feldman. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Almost immediately, though, the investigation encountered a major setback. The Americans save Kurt Blome, seen here on the left, from death by hanging. After several conferences with the Assistant General Counsel of the Agency, and the Security Officer for TSS, the following was recommended: Mr. Mulholland should report all funds received from CD/TSS except for funds for travel expenses, but no attempt should be made to itemize deductions based on these funds. His recollection of the location of Dr. Olsons body on the sidewalk fronting the hotel was quite fresh and keen, giving us a base from which to synthesize a computer animation of the event. He killed himself nine days later by jumping out the window of New Yorks Starlet Hotel at 2:30 A.M. on Saturday, November 28. In 1975 after the family press conference the Olson family was immediately assured by the President that the government would provide more restitution. Eric Olson. had not turned over to my team Olsons fingerprints or dental records. Notwithstanding these purported justifications for silence, there are those whose intimate knowledge of critical details imposes upon them a singular duty to speak. Lashbrook, the other occupant of the room, was found to be sitting in the bathroom on the toilet with his head in his hands. (Gibson went on to a very distinguished career in medicine: he became director of Shepherd-Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, and President of the American Psychiatric Association.) If the C.I.A. After joining the CIA in 1951, he quickly proved himself to be an ardent Cold War patriot. Frank Olson had spent a weekend on an office retreat in a cabin called the Deep Creek Lodge in rural Maryland. Frustrated and understandably indignant, the family and their lawyers held a press conference in the back yard of the home in Frederick. Was it suicide? I tell [the men] to thrust it in like a bullfighter finishing off the bull, said a San Antonio urologist in a recent report on the new therapies used to treat male impo-tence. In Stockholm, he worked to develop the psychotherapeutic technique he had begun at Harvard: the collage method, a process that involved clipping pictures and pasting them into photomontages. (Before you get too pissed off, recognize that I mean it.) Colonel Edwards reported that the men had assembled at a twostory log cabin in the Deer Creek Lake area of Fort Detrick. The sight of his fathers shrunken corpse might prove disturbing. A third-rate novelist couldnt have ordered up a more obvious literary trope: The cat was indeed out of the bag. According to Feldman and other CIA experts, it is still continuing today under an alphabet soup of different cryptonyms. This bizarre story has the power to make a lot of different people feel that way. (612) 624-6529. The circumstances surrounding the death are taught as a case study at the Mossad Training School outside Tel Aviv. The story those colleagues were given in 1953 is the one that the public received in 1975 when the Rockefeller Commission released the news that an unnamed scientist had been drugged with LSD in 1953 and then plunged to his death. 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. 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. The real story is not merely a story that no one could love. He was trying to mumble something, Pastore later told reporters, but I couldnt make it out. I recognized Feldman immediately when he waddled into the lobby of the Marriott. We were biking companions, and also went rock climbing and rappelling. 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. Biological agents would appear to be well adapted to subversive use since very small amounts of such agents can be effective, the report said. The solids, gases and liquids were not harmless substances. (Used with the permission of the authors. Then there were some films Frank Olson had shot himself during a trip to Europe a few months before he died. Montague, so far as I can see, pays no rent.) Frank Olson did not die as a consequence of a drug experiment gone awry, Eric said, addressing a small huddle of television cameras. This was one of Gottliebs MK-ULTRA subprojects and it was concerned with toxic delirium, uremic coma and cerebral toxicity from poisoning. Cancer and diabetic patients were given chemical compounds in order to study the eff ect on mental function of large doses of the compound. The document, which has heavy deletions, does not specifically mention LSD as the drug in these tests, but a former CIA official familiar with this particular program said privately that it couldnt have been anything else.. Bruce has been at his side throughout his years of research. Since certainty of death is the major requirement, firearms should be used which can provide destructive power at least 100% in excess of that thought to be necessary, and ranges should be half that considered practical for the weapon. Olson again went to Ruwet and, after an hour-long conversation, the two decided that Olson would benefit from medical assistance. Master's Programs; Executive Education 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. They rigged light fixtures and car tailpipes to loose an invisible spray of anthrax. Manual He and Nils would reach the goal San Francisco by small continuous increments of motion along a single strand. This was in Erics mind a test-run for another goal he would one day reach in an equally fastidious way: the solution to the mystery of what happened to his father in that hotel room in New York at 2am. For myself, however, the likelihood of Dr. Abramsons direct involvement in the death of Dr. Olson is less plausible than that it was the outcome of the C.I.A.s own calculated misdeeds. View Eric Olson results in Rockford, IL including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Needless to say I declined his offer, not wanting to be exposed as a possible follower of Milwaukees cannibalistic killer Jeffrey Dahmer who collected the skulls of his victims. Although ethical standards for such experiments were considerably murkier then than they are now, the CIA launched its LSD research on unwitting subjects even though the U.S. was a party to an international understanding that, in effect, banned such activities. For the moment, we could only say that it is most probable either that Dr. Olson went to his death through an open window or that he went through a closed window with a shade drawn in front of it. For almost half a century, his son Eric, a psychologist, has insisted his father as murdered on orders from the highest level. His diaries show that Gottlieb and Lashbrook met him at the Bedford Street apartment. When you look at those photographs now, I asked Eric one day, what do they say to you?, They say that the power of that Oval Office for seduction is enormous, Eric replied, as we now know from Clinton. These documents show that the White House was extremely alarmed that the Olson family had recognized the unnamed Army scientist as Frank Olson, and was concerned that the family was demanding the truth concerning Olsons death. I wonder what other light you might be able to shed on this, particularly on what the Schwab activity might refer to. Theirs was a world in which everyone knew each other, and many worked for the CIA. Although Dr. Abramson is now deceased, it appeared from the C.I.A. One of the specialists interrogating Blome is Donald Falconer, a friend and colleague of Frank Olson. We would find him in exactly the same position the next morning. And why, when he went out the window, had Lashbrook failed to summon help or even notify the hotels staff? Eric had other reasons to believe that his father had been the victim of a CIA assassination. The grave marker was presumptive evidence of his identity and burial location, as was the toe tag attached to the remains in the coffin. So was it in fact murder? The effectiveness of the substances on individuals at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign, Kirkpatrick wrote, is of great significance, and testing has been performed on a variety of individuals within these categories.. However, we do know that Olson called his wife on Friday evening. In 1960, UCLA psychiatrist Sidney Cohen reviewed studies of 5,000 persons who had taken LSD a total of 25,000 times. To be able to now invest energy back into his professional career hopefully, its not too late; he is in his late 50s. The article contained stunning news about our father, but it did not mention his name. As Eric struggled to absorb the devastating news, Alice composed herself enough to tell her two other children, seven-year-old Lisa and five-year-old Nils, that their father would not be coming home. He was going to have to create real world solutions to real world problems. Actually it was not at all clear exactly what it was that the President and the CIA Director were apologizing for. It seemed as if, irrationally, a part of Jim Railey believed that what had happened in his cottage, and what it had led to, had been in some way his fault. Why had he placed a most curious telephone call only to another C.I.A. It downplayed the connection between TSS and Olsons death and minimized any link to LSD. 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. The fact that Abramson was not a psychiatrist apparently didnt bother Gottlieb, who later sought to justify the peculiar patient referral on national security grounds, that last refuge of panicky civil servants: Abramson, who had considerable experience dosing himself and others with LSD on behalf of the CIA, was already vetted for secrecy. 40 West. Teachers have influenced students; upperclassmen have influenced lower classmen. Calling this a trickle-down phenomenon, the authors seem to have correctly analyzed how LSD got around the country. Having said as much, however, is most definitely, not an affirmation of the lack of LSD in those tissues at the time of Dr. Olsons death in 1953, or prior to it. The C.I.A. Terry Lenzners CIA connection The present invention relates to cardiac hypertrophy. Nobody was home, so I spent half an hour looking in the windows, taking pictures, trying to imagine what might have occurred there those many years ago. 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.. This Post newspaper report, revealing the results of the Rockefeller Commissions findings about illegal C.I.A. It proposed strategies and tactics to fit the needs of female agents. The committee began testing a wide variety of chemicals on test subjects, from peyote and marijuana to goofball concoctions of sedatives and stimulants. In giving the six unwitting Harvard seniors LSD that spring of 1954, Dr. Hyde was motivated by the highest ideals. The medical examiner made no mention of the CIA, did not do an autopsy, and ruled the death a suicide due to depression. . For me, the end has come with facing a hard truth, confronting my own naivete. Magnum is probably the best cartridge readily available. It was time to move on. Another parallel exists. They were a wonderful, much-loved couple with a young son, Jonathan. My effort was not to hold on to the issue, but to put it behind me. The rest of the evening with Dr. Gibson was spent discussing the glory days of Chestnut Lodge where in the 1950s and 60s an internationally famous group of psychiatrists was pioneering the treatment of schizophrenia. An enterprising Californian called Owsley, for example, is said to have produced more than a million doses of LSD over the next few years. No obstacle would deter him from his mission, not even the taboo of unearthing his fathers bones. Who was Edwin Spoehel? After all, what would the prying eyes say to my explanation that I was carrying it to the New York City Medical Examiner for his inspection. Under the headlineSuicide Revealed on the front page of theWashington Postwe read the following paragraphs: A civilian employee of the Department of the Army unwittingly took LSD as part of a Central Intelligence Agency test, then jumped 10 floors to his death less than a week later, according to the Rockefeller commission report released yesterday. 12.45 These officers conclude that it was a case of suicide, although they toy with the idea that it might be a homicide because Robert Lashbrook had stayed in the same hotel room as Olson and because of his reluctance to answer certain questions. Listening awe-struck to him as I gazed at a picture of South African Bishop Tutu on the wall, I was emboldened to ask how he could so recklessly and cavalierly have jeopardized the lives of so many of his own men by the Deep Creek Lodge experiment with LSD.. This sub-galeal hematoma necessarily resulted from the hemorrhage of a blood vessel over the left eye. This long trajectory through the notions of shutting off curiosity, motivated perceptual blindness, habituation, and making strange brings us, finally, to collage, and to the remarkable observations of German art theorist Franz Mon on the social relevance of this medium: Collage offers an opportunity for accelerated insight into what happens to us in our reality. He attempted to speak but his words were unintelligible. [16]He soon found, however, that if it were to meet the CIAs expectations, his manual would have to be far more than a hypothetical extension of existing magic tricks, principles and methods to covert activities. The CIA agent dictated it to Dr. Abramson. Olson who had stepped down to deputy chief of Special Operations joined six Army colleagues and three CIA men led by Sidney Gottlieb, the eccentric and powerful CIA liaison to Detrick. Experts later told Eric that a man would have to be running more than thirty miles per hour to crash through such a window and the hotel room was too short for even an accomplished athlete to accomplish it. Remember Jim, he excited, danger is no stranger to an Airborne Ranger. As it turned out that was the last conversation I ever had with Greg Hayward. He either fell out the window or jumped.'. Given Gottliebs intellectual perspicacity (he had been familiar with the work of the professors with whom I worked in graduate school and even claimed to have financed Robert Liftons early work) I found this hard to believe. While a great deal about his activities remained unknown to his family, apparently during the weekend preceding his death Frank Olson had been uncharacteristically distraught, he being a person of considerable cheerfulness and bonhomie. Due to the fact that your letter was addressed to (a former address), it was delayed in reaching me. He was troubled after he came back from Germany one time. The gist of what we want to say can be compressed into three headlines: 1. The lysergic-acid derivative can produce a temporary state of severe imbalance, hysteria, insanity. I find it remarkable that the notion of a file being accidentally missed finds its way into this account, especially when one considers how many things about the death of Frank Olson the CIA has claimed were accidents. To wit: in 1953 the Olson family was told that the death of Frank Olson was an accident; when other materials were being shredded in 1973 the file on Frank Olson was accidentally not destroyed; when the Rockefeller Commission investigators were gathering materials at the CIA an Agency secretary accidentally gave them the Olson file, which was not supposed to be released (this explanation provided to the Olson family bySeymour Hersh); when the Rockefeller Commission came into possession of the Olson file in 1975 they accidentally forgot to notify the Olson family that the story of the death of their husband-father, kept secret for twenty-two years, was about to come to light; the CIA also accidentally failed to notify the Olson family when they came to know that the Olson story was about to be anonymously disseminated both in the Rockefeller Commissions report and in the press; the story of Frank Olsons death as it was described in the notoriously missing file which was accidentally not destroyed was that Olson had been accidentally kept on a high floor of a hotel during his stay in New York for psychiatric consultation because of an accidental failure of judgment in which the severity of his disturbance was underestimated; Sidney Gottlieb told the Olson family in 1984 that he had had no idea that LSD could cause the sort of effects it caused in Olsons case, and that in that sense the drugging of Olson was a mistake and an accident.. Jones said he cannot confirm the recollection of others that Willards sub-strain of anthrax was used for a new weapons strain. MAGDALENE, Fiction: EARTHQUAKE (with Max MorganWitts) From every direction the story of Frank Olsons death seemed only to become more dark as we were able to fill in more of the background and context. He said he hadnt. Thomas says that Olson confessed to Sargant that he had witnessed something terrible, possibly ''a terminal experiment'' on one or more of the expendables. While our studies so far have been carried out in isolated individuals, one at a time, it is well known that hysteria is compounded when several vulnerable individuals are together. Still, the 1950s were a period of transition, and the Nuremberg Principles may have seemed to apply more directly to medical procedures than to behavioral research. 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. 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