Frank Olson (murdered)

<p><strong>It’s a foregone conclusion that Olson was a dead man walking after that.</strong>
Olson, obviously not a diplomat, had been issued a diplomatic passport back in April of 1950. This enabled him to carry pouches that were not subject to customs searches. It has recently been insinuated by Annie Jacobsen in her book, <em>Operation Paperclip,</em> that Olson had been taking full advantage “flying to Frankfurt and making the short drive out to Camp King.”
There, according to documents obtained through the FOIA and interviews with Olson’s former partner Norman Cournoyer, Olson as an agent of empire used “unconventional interrogation techniques on Soviet prisoners.”<sup>[165]</sup>
It has always been assumed, because the CIA has always insinuated, that Olson was using mind altering drugs in terminal experiments on Soviet spies captured by the Gehlen Organization the forerunner and progenitor of Germany’s federal intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND). But Olson would have been acting under the instructions of the former Deputy Surgeon General of the Third Reich; the notorious Dr. Kurt Blome.<sup>[166]</sup> Blome’s war time field of expertise was well known to be bacteriology.
<strong>Over and over again in what has become the academically orthodox lore of MKUltra there is the repetitive theme of “Acid Dreams.”<sup>[167]</sup> It’s well documented that LSD was used at Camp King but there were other far more nefarious and terrible things taking place there and being transplanted back into the empire by the personnel of Porton Down, Fort Detrick and Edgewood…</strong>
Olson was a bacteriologist, the senior one in the program. If anybody was dosing anybody with LSD at that high a level for the CIA at that time it would have been Puharich, their premier expert on those matters. By early 1953, Puharich had been “redrafted,” after presenting a paper to the Pentagon about clairvoyance on behalf of Essentia Research Associates. He was serving at the rank of Captain out of the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood in Maryland.
<a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/01/28/mk-ultra-cybernetic-mutation-remote-controlled-slaves-dragon-soldiers-and-zombie-empire/">http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/01/28/mk-ultra-cybernetic-mutation-remote-controlled-slaves-dragon-soldiers-and-zombie-empire/</a> </p>

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><em><strong>Acid - A New Secret History of LSD</strong></em><strong>, pg. 27-31 by David Black</strong></h1>

<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Frank Olson</h1>

<h3 id="siteSub">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>

<div id="jump-to-nav">Jump to: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#column-one">navigation</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#searchInput">search</a></div>

<p><strong>Frank Olson</strong> (July 17 1910 – November 28 1953) was a <a class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army">U.S. Army</a> scientist who died under mysterious circumstances while undertaking secret research with the U.S. Army.
Olson's death was initially ruled a suicide, but this verdict has been disputed.</p>

<tbody>

<tr>

<td>

<h2>Contents</h2>

[<a id="togglelink" class="internal"></a>hide]</div>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#Biography">1 Biography</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#MKULTRA_and_Olson.27s_death">1.1 MKULTRA and Olson's death</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#Motives_involving_US_national_security">2 Motives involving US national security</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#Later_disclosures">2.1 Later disclosures</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#References_in_popular_culture">3 References in popular culture</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#References">4 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#Notes">5 Notes</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#External_links">6 External links</a></li>

</ul>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

<h2>[<a title="Edit section: Biography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=1">edit</a>] Biography</h2>

<p>Frank Olson was a chemist with the Army's <a class="mw-redirect" title="Top secret" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_secret">top secret</a> <a class="new" title="Special Operations Division (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Operations_Division&action=edit&redlink=1">Special Operations Division</a> at <a title="Fort Detrick" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Detrick">Fort Detrick</a> in <a title="Frederick, Maryland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick,_Maryland">Frederick</a>, <a title="Maryland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland">Maryland</a>. His specific research in the Army is unknown, but he was involved in <a class="mw-redirect" title="Biological weapons" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_weapons">biological weapons</a> research and experimented with <a title="Mind control" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control">mind control</a> drugs.
In 1953, as Deputy Acting Head of Special Operations for the CIA, Olson associated with <a title="William Sargant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant">William Sargant</a>, investigating the use of psychoactive drugs at Britain's Biological Warfare Centre at <a title="Porton Down" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porton_Down">Porton Down</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#cite_note-0"><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup></a></p>

<h3>[<a title="Edit section: MKULTRA and Olson's death" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=2">edit</a>] MKULTRA and Olson's death</h3>

<p>According to the government's version of events, as part of the <a title="Project MKULTRA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA">MKULTRA</a> mind control experiments, Olson was dosed with <a class="mw-redirect" title="LSD" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD">LSD</a> without his knowledge, subsequently suffering severe paranoia and a <a class="mw-redirect" title="Nervous breakdown" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_breakdown">nervous breakdown</a>. The <a class="mw-redirect" title="CIA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA">CIA</a> sent him to New York to see one of their <a title="Psychiatrist" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatrist">psychiatrists</a>, who recommended that Olson be placed into a mental institution for recovery.
On his last night in <a title="Manhattan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, Olson purposely threw himself out his tenth-floor hotel room window at the <a title="Hotel Pennsylvania" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Pennsylvania">Hotel Pennsylvania</a>, dying on impact.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#cite_note-Sue-1"><sup id="cite_ref-Sue_1-0" class="reference">[2]</sup></a></p>

<h2>[<a title="Edit section: Motives involving US national security" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=3">edit</a>] Motives involving US national security</h2>

<p>The explosive nature of the Olson intimations about CIA torture-to-death in Germany and bacteriologic warfare on North Korea were revealed in a German documentary and clearly laid out in phone interviews with Olson's sons (see external links).</p>

<h3>[<a title="Edit section: Later disclosures" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=4">edit</a>] Later disclosures</h3>

<p>His family had no knowledge of the details of the accident until the <a title="United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President%27s_Commission_on_CIA_activities_within_the_United_States">Rockefeller Commission</a> started uncovering some of the CIA's MKULTRA activities. In 1975, the government admitted that Olson had been dosed with LSD without his knowledge. The government offered his family an out of court settlement of $750,000, which they accepted.
In 1994, Eric Olson had his father's body exhumed. The <a title="Forensic science" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_science">forensic scientist</a> in charge of the examination, <a title="George Washington University" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University">George Washington University</a> professor James E. Starrs, determined that Olson had suffered some form of <a title="Blunt force trauma" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunt_force_trauma">blunt force trauma</a> to the temple/forehead prior to falling out of the broken window, but contrarily had no visible laceration indicating that he fell through a broken window. The evidence was called "rankly and starkly suggestive of <a title="Homicide" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide">homicide</a>." Based on his findings, in 1996 the <a title="New York County District Attorney" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_County_District_Attorney">Manhattan District Attorney</a> opened a homicide investigation into Olson's death, but was unable to find enough evidence to bring charges.</p>

<h2>[<a title="Edit section: References in popular culture" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=5">edit</a>] References in popular culture</h2>

<ul>

<li>In the May 2, 2007 episode of the show <a title="Bones (TV series)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bones_%28TV_series%29"><em>Bones</em></a>, titled "Spaceman in a Crater," the Frank Olson case was mentioned along with <a class="mw-redirect" title="Project Paperclip" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Paperclip">Project Paperclip</a> and <a title="Project ARTICHOKE" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE">Project ARTICHOKE</a> as examples of situations where the US government has caused the death of individuals. The reference is made by the character "Hodgins" who is noted for being a conspiracy buff.</li>

<li>In the feature film <a class="new" title="Oktober (film) (page does not exist)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oktober_%28film%29&action=edit&redlink=1"><em>Oktober</em></a>, the protagonist says he "has what Frank Olson had."</li>

<li>Two similar events are mentioned in an episode of the TV series <a title="JAG" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAG"><em>JAG</em></a>.</li>

<li>Contemporary American poet <a title="David Clewell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Clewell">David Clewell</a> has a book of poetry entitled <em>Conspiracy Quartet</em> which includes a piece about Olson and the LSD experiments.</li>

<li>A similar event is referred to in the feature film <a title="The Good Shepherd (film)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Shepherd_%28film%29"><em>The Good Shepherd</em></a>.</li>

<li>There was a segment on the show <a title="Unsolved Mysteries" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Mysteries"><em>Unsolved Mysteries</em></a> exploring the theories and rumors behind Frank Olson's death.</li>

<li>An opera concerning the conspiracy theories behind Olson's death, <em>Man: Biology of a Fall</em> composed by <a title="Evan Hause" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Hause">Evan Hause</a> on a libretto by Gary Heidt, premiered in Brooklyn, New York at Kumble Theater on October 4, 2007.</li>

</ul>

<h2>[<a title="Edit section: References" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=6">edit</a>] References</h2>

<ul>

<li>John D. Marks (1979). <em>The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control</em>. Times Books. <a title="International Standard Book Number" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> <a title="Special:BookSources/0-8129-0773-6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8129-0773-6">0-8129-0773-6</a>. </li>

<li>George Andrews (2001). <em>MKULTRA : The CIA's Top Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification</em>. Healthnet Press. <a title="International Standard Book Number" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> <a title="Special:BookSources/0-9616475-8-2" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9616475-8-2">0-9616475-8-2</a>. </li>

<li><a title="Jon Ronson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ronson">Jon Ronson</a> (2005). <a class="mw-redirect" title="The Men Who Stare At Goats" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_At_Goats"><em>The Men Who Stare At Goats</em></a>. Simon & Schuster. <a title="International Standard Book Number" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> <a title="Special:BookSources/0-7432-7060-6" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7432-7060-6">0-7432-7060-6</a>. </li>

</ul>

<h2>[<a title="Edit section: Notes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=7">edit</a>] Notes</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#cite_ref-0"><strong>^</strong></a> www.frankolsonproject.org/statements/statement-G.Thomas.html.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Sue-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson#cite_ref-Sue_1-0"><strong>^</strong></a> "<a class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/10/magazine/750710OLSON.html" rel="nofollow">Family Plans to Sue C.I.A. Over Suicide in Drug Test</a>". <a class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times"><em>New York Times</em></a>. <a class="external free" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/10/magazine/750710OLSON.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/10/magazine/750710OLSON.html</a>. Retrieved 2008-03-16. </li>

</ol>

<h2>[<a title="Edit section: External links" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Olson&action=edit&section=8">edit</a>] External links</h2>

<ul>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/12/MNG468MM8N1.DTL" rel="nofollow">"Son probes strange death of WMD worker"</a> - Scott Shane writing for <a title="The Baltimore Sun" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baltimore_Sun"><em>The Baltimore Sun</em></a> (<a title="September 12" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_12">September 12</a>, <a title="2004" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004">2004</a>)</li>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.frankolsonproject.org/" rel="nofollow">The Frank Olson Legacy Project</a> - explores the circumstances of Frank Olson's death and the political and ethical issues embedded in them</li>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.serendipity.li/cia/olson2.htm" rel="nofollow">The Frank Olson Murder</a></li>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.wdr.de/tv/dokumentation/artischocke.html" rel="nofollow">German documentary</a> (includes a confession by an insider)</li>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.add-productions.net/lsd" rel="nofollow">LSD A Go Go</a> Short documentary about the Frank Olson case</li>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=1020olson1.mp3" rel="nofollow">audio</a> interview with Olson's sons, Part 1</li>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=1020olson2.mp3" rel="nofollow">audio</a> interview with Olson's sons, Part 2</li>

<li><a class="external text" href="http://www.dcdave.com/article5/090527.htm" rel="nofollow">Code Name ARTICHOKE</a>, Hugh Turley, Hyattsville Life and Times, April 2008.</li>

</ul>

</div>

Frank Olson (murdered)

Attachments