It was called the ''collage method,'' and it involved getting survivors to paste together pictures, using anything they felt like clipping out of newspapers and magazines. Mercury News reporter Frederick Tulksy said: In 1993, Eric Olson arranged for his fathers body to be unearthed and examined by James Starrs, a forensic scientist. Firearms We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us.. Among them is Army intelligence veteran Norman G. Cournoyer, 85, who worked with Olson at Detrick and became one of his closest friends. By then, Dr Sargant was physically not a well man but his memory was still good. The real story is not one in which anyone will take pleasure. While Mulholland was meticulous in his personal record keeping, not a single reference to his clandestine work remains in his personal archives. Before long, I had half a dozen girls working for me. By that time, Gregory Bateson was working at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, California. 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. Bremen, Germany I wonder if this will mean anything to you. Under ordinary circumstances, the 5MG shold be used as a fully automatic weapon. 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? Finally I found myself driving toward the place where something had happened on a chilly November night 45 years ago, something that had set a bizarre chain of events in motion. He was intensely patriotic and served on the Committee for National Morale. He decided the time had come to close the case and to rebury his father. ; What Did the C.I.A. Moreover, Mulhollands work on the manual was at a critical point. That night, in Room 1018A, with Lashbrook in the bed by the door, Olson was calm: he washed out his socks and underwear and went to sleep. From 1949 to 1969, at the jittery height of the Cold War, the division tested the nations vulnerability to covert germ warfare and devised weapons for secret biological attacks if the United States chose to mount them. The following year, an obscure Swiss chemist named Albert Hoffmann, working for the Sandoz pharmaceutical company, accidentally imbibed a concoction he had created while looking for a circulation stimulant. Gottlieb added that it didnt really matter that the documents were ruined, because it was all a waste anyway. In Alexa, Eric found a technological blank slate -an open field offering new and interesting problems to solve. In response, my father leaned toward me across the table and whispered, Theyve given OPC thecovertoperations., The real stuff. Did the CIA, in collusion with the British intelligence service, orchestrate his subjection to mind depatterning? Christmas 1949 in a tuxedo. The program, codenamed Project Pelican, was overseen by Dr. Paul H. Hoch, director of experimental psychiatry at the Institute, who worked in secret collaboration with the Army Chemical Corps chief of clinical research, Dr. Amedeo Marrazzi. Their families regularly spent their summer vacation together. But the condition of the body meant that precise identification was impossiblemaking the area a conspiracy blackspot. A Gottlieb memo in 1953 stated that MK-ULTRA Subproject 6 is designed to develop a reliable source of lysergic acid derivatives within the U.S., as opposed to our present complete depen upon [DELETED I sources, and in addition, it aims to extend the isolation and testing program of the hypnoti c nat- products from the Rivea species of plants obtained from [DELETED].. No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded, says the CIA assassination manual. In a nuclear age, Eisenhower could not risk telling the Russians or the Chinese that were willing to go to all-out war to get our prisoners back, Mr. Santoli said. The autopsy and its sequelae which were to intervene between the exhumation and the reburial were not featured in my approaches to the legal authorities in Maryland. And if the orders came to unleash the weapons, Fort Detricks biowarriors were ready. That, at least, is the story that the public has come to know and that is recounted in this book. He should be determined, courageous, intelligent, resourceful, and physically active. Was it because Olson was suffering from some embarrassing aftermath of the drug experiment of 19th November as well as from nervous disorder? 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.. I know, he said. Disappeared below the ledge! Does all this rest on the word of one man, your fathers friend?. Turned out, that stuffwas the prototype for Mace.. Amazingly, Olson was still alive. Pastore told me that Lashbrooks statements and behavior disturbed him and led him to doubt the truth of Lashbrooks recitals. itself. Join Facebook to connect with Eric Olson Harvard and others you may know. In one, psychiatrist Ewen Cameron received CIA funding to test a procedure he called depatterning. This technique, Cameron explained when he applied for his CIA grant (through a front group called the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology), involved the breaking down of ongoing patterns of the patients behavior by means of particularly intensive elec- in addition to LSD. According to Gottlieb,this would involve the application of techniques and principles employed by magicians, mind readers etc, to communicate information, and the development of new techniques. An allergist and immunologist practicing medicine in New York City, he had no formal training let alone a degree in psychiatry nor did he hold himself out to be an expert in the field. He has an impressive military record, graduating as a Navy SEAL in 1974 before working his way up to becoming the first SEAL to ever be appointed Admiral, and the first naval officer to head USSOCOM. The death was ruled accidental. LSD emerged as one of the interrogation drugs of choice. After dinner Lashbrook and Olson watched television for about another hour, and at 11:00p.m. In 1967 a former CIA agent to whom I promised anonymity told me in a private conversation that my father was the subject of high-level concern and that Helms and Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles discussed him in a meeting in 1955. I explained I was a writer researching George White. Although all outside contractors I were to be notified of Gibbons ban, the testing nonetheless went on. Its like the feelings youve had in the middle of the night, at 3am, when youre trying to get to sleep and you start having some thought and the thought spins you into another negative thought and it kind of spins out of control and you have to shake yourself and maybe turn the light on and get grounded in reality again., Eric and Julia were arguing now. That evening and the following day stories about Frank Olson and his family dominated network news broadcasts and newspaper headlines. A maniacal cackle. HEROES OF THE R.A.F. Onedocument, found in Frank Olsons personnel file at Detrick, specifically mentions fear of a security violation after Olsons trip to Europe in the summer of 1953, just four months before his death. This is why, Eric has learnt, his father was recruited to Artichoke. With increasing frequency, someone inside the Agency would want an explanation for something they had seen or heard and Mulholland was asked to explain it. Cold War legend dies at 80, To view these articles on the WorldNet site go toWorldNet Dailyand enter Olson and CIA in the WND search box at left side of the page. But like any secret program, the Armys biowarfare operation was run on a need-to-know basis, and weapons development was not his bailiwick, Jones said. When he talked to me he said, I can probably tell you things, that I cant tell other people, because they are still in top secret material. The area fire capacity of the machine gun should not be used to search out a concealed subject. Hamlet has become like a friend to me. slipped LSD into Olson's glass of Cointreau. Sinai Hospital in New York. The Frank Olson case, it seems, is far from being closed, even 50 years later. 32.24 (Terminal interrogations and biological weapons in the Korean War). Meeting me must have been strange for him, but I imagined there was more. The cause of his disturbance is not made clear in the documents at hand, but it is said that he had begun to feel guilty about something. (Or perhaps the guardian did more than watch. Blowback: Americas Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War. Before World War 11, few medical researchers seemed consciously concerned with ethical problems, says Dr. Richard Restak, a neurologist who writes about bioethical problems. The CIA had learned a great deal about LSD during its first four years of experiments, but it was also aware of wide gaps in its knowledge. The Soviet official confirmed that known anti-Soviet people had attended the party. In 1975 the White House advised us that they were concerned that if we went to court we might lose and not obtain what the White House regarded as appropriate compensation. Fifty years after the fact, conventional history records Dr. Frank Olsons death as perhaps the most infamous repercussion of MK-ULTRA, the CIAs illegal quest to modify an individuals behavior by covert means using hypnosis, electroshock treatment and psychotropic drugs such as LSD. Ruwet told C.I.A. Following the rubrics of positivism, they believed that good and evil are fictions. Firearms are often used in assassination, often very ineffectively. But now, having reached what we were now convinced was the truth about the murder, how could we ever learn the truth about the renewal of the coverup in 1975? He owned a farm in Frederick Maryland, to which I would journey with my family on many occasions. He might as well have been entering a new dimension, a strange new world where his every word, move, and sensation would be monitored and measured; where things might be as they seemed but might not; where there would be no such thing as day or night, or normal patterns of eating and drinking, wakefulness and sleep; where hot and cold, wet and dry, clean and dirty, truth and lies, would all be tangled and distorted. In 1978 another CIA officer, John Paisley, also vaanished there in another boating accident. Gottlieb knew how to mix the potions. At Learys suggestion, according to a former colleague, he took psilocybin again, this time with Aldous Huxley and Ginsberg. But the notion of an LSD suicide provided at least a placeholder to quiet rumors and suspicions, even as it left room for the message that was being sent by security to all the personnel at Detrick: potential whistle-blowers will be dealt with harshly. . Crushing wounds result from blunt violence to skin which is close to bone, causing these wounds to bleed into the surrounding tissues. The sight shold be telescopic, not only for accuracy, but because such a sight is much better in dim light or near darkness. From what I could determine from many background sources, there was certainly substantial controversy over whether Frank Olsons death was an accident, a suicide or, more ominously, a homicide. Arthur Vidich is Frank Olsons brother-in-law. If it was a guy, you took his cock and you hit it with a hammer. (612) 624-6529. The CIA brings Olson, accompanied by an agent, to New York. 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. And why was he just sitting there many removes from any positive action? In the spring of 2001, Eric heard from one of his fathers colleagues at Camp Detrick, Norman Cournoyer, a man Eric had assumed was dead. But Lashbrook had not said a word about whether the window was closed, whether the shade was drawn or otherwise. 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 the real problem was that the Colby documents seemed to be pointing to a story that they were not tellinga story quite at odds with the spin that had already been placed on the story by the initial account in the Rockefeller Commission Report. He explored a host of biological agents, toxins, and other drugs as well as such areas as crop and material sabotage, harassment techniques for offensive use, gas propelled spays and aerosols, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and electroshock. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated. He even recruited a well-known New York magician, the late John Mulholland, to prepare a top-secret manual on techniques for surreptitiously slipping LSD and other drugs into the drinks of unsuspecting persons. Eric Olson said his father was murdered to cover up his ultra-secret research in Korea and Europe. Mulholland devoted his energies to the project and by November his first draft was complete. However, my assistants phone call to her was abruptly terminated by her. The memo remained under wraps and officially off the books for decades until the Frank Olson case erupted again, in 1975. The cops said what happened he said: I dont know, I just heard a crash of glass and I then I see, that Frank Olson is out of the window. We did not use anthrax, we used bacillus globigii which is very similar a spore as Anthrax is. He agreed to meet with me only after a private detective, a former New York cop who also did time for drugs. In both these proposed sections the tricks would differ considerably from those which have been described. We sat there and said nothing. Having been in the hotel business for the last 36 years and witnessed innumerable unfortunate incidents, your husbands death disturbed me greatly due to the most unusual circumstances of which you are now aware. code named Project Pelican, in which Blauer was used as a guinea pig. The supervisor of the project was Dr. Paul H. Hoch, director of experimental psychiatry and, according to Albarelli and Kelly, an associate of Harold Abramsons. HOUSTON: Not that I recall. Also in 1953, the CIA told the Olsons, they created an MK-ULTRA brothel in New York City, where they spiked the customers drinks with LSD. Spin Magazine,March 1994. We know that Dr. Harold Abramson was a true believer, in the Eric Hoffer sense, in the value of LSD in psychotherapy for disturbed persons. In 1969, John Marks reports. That condition, for good or for ill, was the most uncertain and the most significant aspect of this as it is in any exhumation, especially where the time elapsed since burial is prolonged. First, the CIA documents proved unconvincing. The article contained stunning news about our father, but it did not mention his name. Our mother passed away in 1993. A New York City assistant medical examiner, Dr. Dominick De Maio, confirmed Lashbrooks recital, stating in his report of his external (not internal) examination of Olsons body that there were many compound fractures of Olsons extremities and multiple lacerations on his face and neck as well as his lower extremities. (The CIA assassination manual). And what if that scientist has been drugged destabilized by his own colleagues? Although their cold case proceeded to get colder, the D.A.s office did manage to dislodge a number of interesting leads. He said, I am getting out of that CIA. To tell that story, I ask the readers indulgence in my turning the clock back a few years. Twenty-five seconds after it was shot, the sheep just fell to the ground, said Baronian, 73. But with the postwar revelations of Nazi atrocities in the name of science, the need for formal ethical guidelines became painfully clear, The Nuremberg code was the most important document of this period. In the wake of the, At the end of this story ones mind is inevitably drawn back to that, Brainwashed: Where the Manchurian Candidate came from, The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea, Mid-century deaths all linked to CIA? [63], Even if Mulholland were not a skilled hypnotist they still might have gone to see him, even if hypnosis were the purpose, counters Eric Olson. 5.17 Even more frightful discoveries were aborning. The Olson death remained a suicide stemming from depression for 22 years. What little money he managed to scrape together he funneled back into the investigation. Fusogenic micropeptide Myomixer is essential for satellite cell fusion and muscle regeneration. If one of the obstacles to assassination was what agency officials called blowback, perhaps there was a technical solution. He had obviously jumped out of the window, just another suicide in a city where the plunge from skyscraper to pavement was a shocking but not unusual event. Olson was in serious trouble and needed immediate professional attention. Agreeing to make the appropriate arrangements, Lashbrook then phoned Gottlieb. And we are familiar with the risks taken with the lives of persons who were subjects of unwitting government experiments of various kinds. However, one brief memorandum dated 14 December 1953 mentioned the OLSON incident. One of the top secret protocols documents a Russian agent being pumped full of medication. This rationale has the ring of plausibility, and it explains another aspect of the story that otherwise is a gaping hole. Sincerely There was Big Ben and the Changing of the Guard. And the next day, the CIA claims its experts decided Olson must be institutionalized. 80s in prison for smuggling marijuana. 27.19 the windows in the office dont open., Elliot said, I dont mean in the office.. He knew too much. Indeed, his story makes you wonder about that noble phrase ''The truth shall make you free.'' The sleepy boy immediately recognized the two men as the family doctor and Lt. Col. Vincent Ruwet, his fathers boss at U.S. Army Camp Detrick, just down the road from the Olson home. Eric Olson Edward Olson has lived in Carrollton, VA Yorktown, VA Newport News, VA 5060 Montebello Pl, Colorado Springs 80918 Colorado Springs, CO Clearfield, UT Langley AFB, VA phone number (719) 351-9244 view more Eric Olson Age 56 / Jan 1967 View Profile Everett, WA also known as Erec Olson related to Michael Martin, 38 Stacy Martin, 40 I was, however, able to add it without necessitating extension of the number of weeks requested for the writing. This area includes the production of various physiological conditions which could support present or future clandestine operations. Other Soviet show trials demonstrated the same apparent brainwashing of prisoners. But he said the government has made little effort to learn from the work of the Special Operations Division and the larger biowarfare program. 40.05 On November 17, he authorized Mulholland to draft the two additional chapters and extended the timeline for completion of the book until May. It took us seven weeks, and we had unbelievable adventures all the way., We camped out. in 1998 1 wrote and presented for Britains Channel 4, The Spying Machine, a major television documentary in which for the first time key members of Mossad appeared, describing their work. Sound: Jan Schmiedt There were no lacerations consistent with damage by glass. The dosage of LSD concededly administered to Dr. Olson was so miniscule70 micrograms, according to CIA project director Dr. Sidney Gottlieb; the half-life of LSD is so short (only a few hours at the outside), and the liability of LSD in embalmed tissues over time is so unknown that not finding LSD is absolutely non-probative on the issue of whether Dr. Olson had ingested the substance in 1953. When Dr. Gibson read about the exhumation of Frank Olsons body he contacted Professor James Starrs, director of the forensic team, to tell his side of the story. What do you mean, fell or jumped?, We dont know if he fell, said one of the men. Fully vetted by the Agency, he had a top secret security clearance. Cournoyers assertions resonated strongly with Eric. He was a member of the CIA. His life had been dedicated to magic and the keeping of secrets. Your new story is not as much fun, I agreed. In fact the SO Division was only physically located at Detrick. Both decisions must have been reached some time Friday. THE TERMS of the $750,000 government settlement for Olsons death prevented his family from pursuing the matter in the civil courts. Citing confidentiality agreements with the Agency, these sources have thus far declined to go public with their claims. Im here to tell you, he said, that the government has paid the Olson family close to a million dollars for their wrongdoing in causing the death of Frank Olson.. On May 4, he drafted a Memorandum for the Record spelling out what Mulholland was to do: 1. A few thoughts on the many questions this raises: The idea of placing one thing near another and then asserting (explicitly or implicitly) that the one has nothing to do with the other of course suggests Freuds comments about negation, where, due to the fact that the unconscious cannot represent a negative relationship, denial always implies affirmation. But eventually the agency found other subjects among narcotics addicts under treatment, federal prisoners, terminal-cancer patients in charity wards, college students, and fun-seeking johns entrapped at $100 a head by CIA-controlled prostitutes. The understanding known as the Nuremberg Principles was approved by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1946-with the U.S. voting in favor-as a formal condemnation of war crimes that included the medical experiments performed by Nazi doctors on human prisoners. And then Erics mother became hysterical. To find an answer we have to go back to the fifties when the two great ideologies of the 20th century, communism and capitalism, were locked in a battle to the death and no act no matter how morally shocking was ruled out in the struggle for victory. One of them was a former CIA pimp named Ira Ike Feldman. The remaining four were CIA officers from the Technical Services Staff (TSS), commonly known inside the Agency as the dirty tricks department. The official purpose of the gathering was to discuss MK-NOAMI, a top-secret joint program of the SOD and TSS to develop germ weapons to infect enemy spies in the field. It has been a source of deep personal gratification to know how wellThe Sphinxhas been received during the years.[15]The final issue, the 597th, was Volume 52, #1, dated March 1953. Lashbrook had been sharing the hotel room with Olson and was asleep in a bed next to him when, he said, he was awoken by the sound of breaking glass and realised that Olson had crashed through the window. Unsuspecting clients were served cocktails laced with powerful doses of LSD and other concoctions the CIA sent out to be tested. According to 1998 interviews with former-CIA official Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, it was Rinkels close associate, Dr. H.E. I hope this helps to set the record straight. 29.17 And yet some things in this tightly woven tale that led to my fathers death must have occurred by mere chance. In 1953, Pastore had been the night manager at the Statler Hotel. (In one of his experiments, Abramson had dosed goldfish with LSD to see their reaction.) 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. A cache of papers that he accidentally missed was found some years later, however, and the agency has since been forced to make public sanitized versions of some of those records. Olson got so suspicious and upset that the meeting was quickly ended. GODLESS ICON First, however, Gottlieb had to test the compatibility of LSD to his purpose. It wasnt exactly the sort of closure the Olson family had sought for so many years; after all, no one from the District Attorneys office was on hand to announce an official finding, or even to call for a congressional inquiry. He had entered a world of covert operations, espionage, mind control, drugs, and even death. We were problem-solving.. He developed serious side effects and was sent to New York with a CIA escort for psychiatric treatment. Even though I had my tape recorder in my pocket at our meeting, I judged it best not to seek my interviewees permission to turn it on remitting myself to four pages of handwritten notes and a contemporaneous transcription of them into my tape recorder as I motored home after our meeting. When I asked what action he had first taken upon being apprised by Lashbrook of Olsons death, he said he called his boss, Dr. Gibbons, to arrange a meeting at 5 A.M. that very morning. Mulholland had an enormous sense of public duty. Nine years after unearthing Frank Olsons body, Eric and Nils Olson put their fathers cursed bones back into the ground (the tissue remains in Professor Starrs lab). A former outdoors columnist for The Sun, he credits his 19 years at Fort Detrick with giving him time to develop his expertise. Gottlieb later testified and Richard Helms confirmed that in ordering the destruction of the papers, Gottlieb was carrying out then-CIA Director Helms verbal orders. Starrs arranges to visit the Pennsylvania Hotel with Armand Pastore, the hotel manager who found Frank Olson that night. For years, Feldman had ducked reporters. His casket was at all times kept closed due, so the family was informed, to the massive injuries he sustained in his fatal fall. The memo said that President Eisenhower was intensely interested in the fate of the missing P.O.W.s, and that he had wanted to make sure everybody was doing all they could about it.. 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