On his arrival the secretary informed him that a call had just come in concerning the admission he had discussed the previous day. Whats this about? Feldman demanded. Everest, confident as God. And on the Monday morning Frank did, indeed, tender his resignation, but his colleagues persuaded him to seek psychological counselling in New York. In all cases, the number of wounds is recorded and each wound is carefully measured and its characteristics described. Lashbrook left the agency, but Gottlieb remained in senior positions for 20 more years. It was apparent that John Mulhollands files had been gone through and sanitized by someone who knew the Agency and knew how to eradicate any hint of its presence.[67], Despite these efforts and unbeknownst to Gottlieb and his staff, some MKULTRA documents still remained. Upon my inquiring about the conversation between him and Dr. Lashbrook on the morning of Olsons death, I was stunned to hear yet another conflicting account from Lashbrook of the occurrence. With Arthur Vidich, his wife and their children. Was he gonna be caught on this? He earned his B.S. POISONED SKY, Screenplays: Suppose the grand jury does in the end find that the evidence that Olson was murdered and that the perpetrators were other CIA officers, there will still remain a major barrier to an eventual convictionwhat was the motive? Very, very close, every day of the week for two and a half years. A long and grueling journey toward understanding seemed to be coming to an end. Begun in Chicago in March of 1902 and subsequently housed in Kansas City and finally New York, this staid yet controversial periodical had become the most influential of magic journals. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. The agency portrays its agents as incompetent stooges, encouraging the public to laugh at their wacky attempts to formulate cancer potions and knock off foreign leaders. into naive subjects to study changes in their subjectivity. And in 1960, even as the Multiform Assessments on Kaczynski and his classmates were underway, Murray had, according to Leary, given his blessing to the latters testing psilocybin, an hallucinogen derived from mushrooms, on undergraduates. he kept asking his friend Ruwet. One day, White calls me into his office. These were hooked up to two model F-301 tape recorders monitored by agents in a listening post adjacent to the apartment. He then described what had happened. After his death the Olson family was told that Frank Olsons body was too disfigured to be seen. They were fighting the Devil, after all. He also showed me a gun disguised as a fountain pen which could shoot a cartridge of nerve gas. In righteous outrage, the Olson family invited the media to a press conference in July 1975 to announce their intention of suing the government for its complicity in the wrongful death of Frank Olson. Ill shoot you with it, then you shoot me. Fuck that,I said.You aint gonna shoot me with that crap. So we went outside and I shot George White with the gas. On the other hand both versions deflected attention from the most troubling issue inherent in the conduct of the kind of BW and mind-control research in which my father and his colleagues were engaged. Given the many references in the Colby document to ARTICHOKE, Eric began to wonder if the Deep Creek dosing had been part of an interrogation targeting his father. Part of the original agreement between Mulholland and the CIA was that Gottlieb or his representative would review the work the magician was doing for the Agency at a biweekly conference. Gottlieb also raises Christmas trees. Mulhollands name appears nowhere on the document, but consciously or not he did leave a subtle trace: the illustrations he sketched detailing facial expressions look very much like self-portraits. It was the prelude to murder. Back home in the United States, some of those deeper connections had begun to surface on their own. He continued his relationship with the CIA for at least another five years. Meachum does an excellent job of sketching the context of my fathers work at Detrick and the CIA, his objections to biological warfare, and the Cold War climate in which the whole saga unfolded and in which his 1953 murder must be understood. Most of the people [at Fort Detrick] didnt know what was going on in SO, Pannier said. Dave Dickenson, Tim Hauck, Kroy Biermann, Trumaine Johnson, Dante Olson. Baltimore Sun Staff I was prepared to dive into the dark depths, but, of course, as soon as I finished training, they wrapped me in cotton. From my reading of the documents, it sounds as if Isbells research could just as easily have been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, says Dr. Sidney Cohen of UCLA, a respected LSD researcher. Yet after exhuming and examining his remains a specific injury that went undetected at the time of his death turned out to be an important lead in re-evaluating the manner of the mans death. On matters of more vital moment, such as what Lashbrooks statement or behavior might have been when confronted in room 1018A, his memory went blank and immovably so. Not only had the elite government scientist whose death was in questionnotdied in the manner officially described, his body did not bear the injuries stated in his autopsy report. or not in something more nefarious than an accidental death. After the death of Dr. A. M. Wilson in April of 1930, he took over editorship ofThe Sphinx. He said he knew that Dr Gottlieb had been researching into slow-acting depressants which, when taken, could drive a person to suicide. Ruwet was a close friend of the Olson family, he had been in contact with Olson daily since June 1953 and had been with Lashbrook and Olson in New York until the previous day. In any event, Lashbrook did deliver the check during the November 25 session and received a handwritten receipt in return. The Strange Story of Frank Olson., What Did the CIA Do to Eric Olsons Father?, Now the man in the pencil-strip suit began his counteroffensive. His report of his dental comparisons was thorough and constituted additional strong support for the remains being those of Frank Olson, even though it lacked the element of surprise that his dental expertise revealed from the exhumed teeth of Jesse Woodson James. Returning to America shaken, Olson resolved to quit. The former head of the United States Special Operations Command, he retired from the United States Navy in 2011 as a full Admiral after 38 years of military service. Whether the investigation would have been stymied or side-tracked if all had been told I cannot say, but it is probable that Frank Olsons remains would not have been housed above ground under lock and key in my office and in that of Dr. Jack Levisky at York College, Pennsylvania over the nearly ten year span that transpired until his reburial. And no government panel would be publishing a report acknowledging that Frank Olson had been murdered. In April of 1950, Dr. Frank Olson received a diplomatic passport, unusual for an army scientist. Drug companies are now working on a cream that can be rubbed directly into the penis before intercourse. Gregg was readying himself for a run for Congress. Dr. Gibson explained that Chestnut Lodge did not have security-cleared psychiatrists on its staff at that time, and that security would indeed have been a problem had psychotherapeutic treatment begun at Chestnut Lodge. In this way more valuable experiments will probably be carried out in spite of hospital conditions. But that appearance is deceiving. Several times Sidney Gottlieb came out, Feldman assured me. This will not do in assassination as the subject will not wait. 24.42 Voice of Franz Gajdosch-dt./ Former barkeeper at Camp King: A. Quantitative and behavioral B. Quantitative and attitudinal C. Attitudinal and qualitative D. Qualitative and behavioral. (Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling,Vol. According to a report by Colonel Sheffield Edwards Olson had participated in an LSD-test ing session on the evening of November 19, 1953. He is from USA. Wormwood is assembled as a hallucinatory, psychologically penetrating collage and plays like a pulse-pounding thriller, a damning indictment of institutional malfeasance, and a chilling portrait of both self-destructive obsession and the elusiveness of truth. 39:03 Voice of Eric Olson: 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. Finally, forty-nine years after his death, he also has a story. My father was a friend of his.. Second, the forensic investigation added fuel to the fires of our suspicions. Was this conversation still relating to the Olson case? 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. But his plans were not to be. The automatic feature of the machine gun should rather be used to increase reliability by placing a 5 second burst on the subject. Blome was the Third Reichs Deputy Surgeon General and the man behind German research into biological weapons. . I noted that the hematoma over Dr. Olsons left eye did not bear even the remotest resemblance to a hemorrhage resulting from a contrecoup cephalic insult. They mailed letters to Ruwet and Colby. 22.00 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: 17.48 And know the place for the first time. Cameron was engaged in secret experimental work for the CIA (details of that can be found in my book Journey into Madness). Any locally obtained edge device may be successfully employed. He went though a moral crisis, but he was in too deep and they couldnt let him out., We continued watching the home video. Yes, absolutely! . The moment was one to be savored by him and the Olson family. Maybe a few bushmen in Australia had not heard how we labored to rub Fidel Castro out, but by the time the Senate Select Committee to Study Intelligence Activities had done inquiring, there were very few bushmen. Even a rock or a heavy stick will do, and nothing resembling a weapon need be procured, carried or subsequently disposed of. American prisoners of war, paraded before the press by their North Korean captors, confessed in Zombie-like fashion that the US was using chemical and biological warfare against them. He received steady funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which had served as cover for his trip with Cantril to the Soviet Union for the CIA in 1958, and from the National Institute of Mental Health, also known to be a covert funding conduit. In the midst of all this hubbub what nobody seemed to notice was that the story of Frank Olsons death hadnt changed at all. worked with lethal effect on human beings (the expendable SS men etc.). He and a few colleagues tried it on one another, but they were aware of the experiment. The old part of the house was all there was in 53. Even the manuscript itself would have to be written in a manner that protected the Agency should it fall into the wrong hands. It was the story of Luthers crisis of conscience over the corruption of the Catholic Church in the 16th Century, when its theologians claimed it was impossible for the Church to do any wrong, because they defined the moral code. He entered the meeting with a negative frame of mind, wondering aloud why such a cold case would be deserving of his or anyones attention. And we are familiar with the risks taken with the lives of persons who were subjects of unwitting government experiments of various kinds. Nearly a year before Blauers death, beginning in 1952, the relationship between the CIA and Fort Detricks SOD was formalized through a written agreement. When making these statements I deliberately attempted to put in much as was false and ridiculous that I could possibly get away with., 44.57 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson 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.'' 38:16 Voice of Arthur Vidich/Brother-in-law of Frank Olson: They also found Lashbrook, at his vine-covered stucco house in Ojai, Calif., where they watched him twitch in his seat as he told his version of what happened in room 1018A -- that he was awakened by a crash, saw a broken window and an empty bed and concluded that Frank Olson had jumped to his death. When he was buried the coffin had been sealed. One of the CIAs mob contacts long suspected of involvement in John Kennedys assassination was the Las Vegascapo mafiosoJohn Roselli. employee. Both Greg and Lisa, their two-year-old son, Jonathan, and the child that Lisa was carrying had died in the crash, the entire family wiped out. . It looked as if he had left in a hurry: the lights and the radio were still on, his computer was still running, and a half finished glass of wine was on the table. Instead, the Technical Services Staff was to reach an understanding with the individuals who will perform the work as to the conditions under which the work will be performed and reimbursement arranged. And, Eric said, also, there were these two, Eric searched for a moment for the right word to describe the others. Gottlieb and Lashbrook took the drug thernselves. They are the very opposite of the dictum that gentlemen do not read each others mail. Huge drafted a fifteen-page memorandum in support of their position. It came time to probe other avenues of possible information on Dr. Olsons death. The first call that Lashbrook made was not to the hotel management or the police, but to his superior, Dr. Sid Gottlieb, at his home in Virginia, to tell him what had happened. Steward Alsop noted they were called the Ivy Leaguers, the Socialites, the Establishmentarians.He himself coined an alternative epithet: the Bold Easterners.The CIA, he said, was positively riddled with Old Grotonians.[6]. He has been married to Sarah Wright since 23 June 2012. THE CAMP ON BLOOD ISLAND Menu Log In Sign Up 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. Upon opening the coffin, the remains proved to be immaculately well preserved, albeit mummified, under a tight wrapping of linen acting as a full body shroud. 1.36 On more than one occasion, White sent me to the airport to pick up John Roselli and bring him to the office, said Feldman. We called it `LK thats what wed put on the log sheets for each run, Walter said. 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. This terse description of Olsons condition was apparently the only explanation given for requiring hospitalization. The clandestine researchers explored every possible means of manipulating the human mind. Yesterday, Eric Olson thanked people who have long listened to his story and helped him work through the details: the filmmaker who made a German documentary on the subject, the mechanic who has kept his Volvo running, the friend who catered lunch. Global advisory council: David Rubenstein (founding chair; also: trustee Harvard Corporation; trustee Johns Hopkins University; trustee University of Chicago; trustee Duke University 2005-2012, vice chair 2012-2013, chair 2017-2020)). In Mount Olivet Cemetery, which dates its first interment to 1854, lay hundreds of soldiers from both sides of the Civil War, as well as veterans from the past centurys world wars. She inquired no further nor did I volunteer anything more. This is the question of timing: why were arrangements for hospitalization made so late in the week, and so late in the day? And Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, gave a talk to his Princeton alumni group in which he said Mind warfare is the great battlefield of the Cold War, and we have to do whatever it takes to win this.. [29]Memorandum for the Record,Reimbursement of Excess Federal Income Taxes to Mr. John Mulholland, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 15-24, February 24, 1955, authors files; Memorandum,Reimbursement for Excess Income Taxes, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 15-33, January 16, 1956, authors files, [30]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Subproject 34,Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-46, October 1, 1954, authors files, [31]Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deception, Central Intelligence Agency, undated, p. 2, authors files, [32]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Subproject 34,Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-46, October 1, 1954, authors files, [33]Memorandum for the Record,Definition of a Task under MKULTRA Subproject 34, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-39, August 25, 1955, authors files, [34]Memorandum for the Record,MKULTRA, Subproject 34, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-29, June 20, 1956, authors files, [35]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Subproject 34A, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-26, August 31, 1956, authors files, [36]Memorandum for the Record,Project MKULTRA, Extension of Subproject 34, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-7, November 15, 1957, authors files, [37]Invoice Check List, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 34-48, authors files, [38]Memorandum for the Record, Central Intelligence Agency, MKULTRA document 83-12, March 26, 1959, authors files, [39]U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee)Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders: An Interim Report, Government Printing Office, 1975, pp.20-21, [42]Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Inspector General,Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro, CIA-IG, May 23, 1967, [43]Testimony of Admiral Stansfield Turner,Select Committee on Intelligence & the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, U.S. Senate, 1977, pp. 33.07 Voice of Ira (Ike) Feldman/Former CIA agent: 34.52 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University: 36.05 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University: 36.49 Voice of Prof. James Starrs/George Washington University: 37.24 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson: 38:16 Voice of Arthur Vidich/Brother-in-law of Frank Olson: 42.19 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson, 43.10 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson. Back in Frederick, Lisa Olson confronted Vincent Ruwet, her father's old boss at Detrick. Special teams, the so-called rough boys, interrogated the prisoners. 40.42 In fact, it had only been a week since Gottlieb authorized Mulholland to proceed on these two additional chapters. ''This was a world-class intelligence.'' MK-ULTRA was secret, shocking and incredibly dangerous. 30:21 Voice of Bennie E. Hackley/Chemical Corps US Army: Is it possible that the accidental death scenario however embarrassing to the CIA at the time of its disclosure during the mid-1970s served as a cover story to conceal a more disturbing truth? It was only two days before Thanksgiving, 1953 but, notwithstanding the importance of his family holiday he insisted he needed to leave for treatment. Erics younger sister, Lisa, was killed in a 1978 plane crash along with her husband and 2-year-old son. [28]Memorandum for the Record,MKULTRA, Subproject 15, Expansion of Scope,op. As it happens, that phrase is inscribed in the entry hall of the C.I.A. Mulhollands task was to evaluate this and other claims of telepathy and clairvoyance. Earlier in 1975, spurred by the LSD revelations of the Rockefeller Commission, Morgenthaus office had briefly considered doing so but for reasons reportedly tied to the Olson familys settlement decided not to pursue the case. On August 25, Gottlieb outlined this new project on the application of the magicians art to the covert communication of information in a confidential CIA memo. 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. Eric, though, was undeterred, whatever the outcome. In view of Olsons upset state of mind that was not unreasonable. In the meantime, there wasnt a hell of a lot to do with chickens. Were we close? and allergist who had parlayed a fascination with behavior-modifying drugs into lucrative MK-ULTRA contract work. Pastore told me that Lashbrooks statements and behavior disturbed him and led him to doubt the truth of Lashbrooks recitals. When he knew a woman already had a date for a particular night he would call her up and ask her out. An expert in biochemistry and aerobiology, Olsons specialty was delivering such deadly diseases in sprays and aerosol emulsions. When the end of the war revealed that the Nazis had been carrying out similar experiments23 German doctors were convicted at Nurembergthe Western intelligence community suddenly became very interested in Camerons work. Projects at the Special Operations Division involved or related to the following activities: Assassinations materials research (e.g. One of the few survivors is Wallace Pannier, 76, who remembers standing in a Frederick County field watching sheep shot with what the Army called a nondiscernible bioinoculator a dart gun. 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. Even the nails are clipped or retained in full. This worsening coincided with considerable publicity in the press about the return to the United States of twenty-five airmen who had made confessions of using biological warfare in Korea. And indeed, all discredited their confessions. They say he jumped. He doesnt. But at the time, the CIA suspected the Soviets had some super-mind-control drug. 29.35 It was not only the cover-up of his bizarre death (as this information refers to it) that was in question, but the nature of his work. White had been testing the stuff in New York when that guy Olson went out the window and died, Feldman said. Tommy said: Eric, you need to tell this story, because it will help a lot of people connect a lot of other dots in other stories that have nothing to do with this one.. orchestrated project that had involved the administration of psychoactive drugs to numerous unsuspecting Americans. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume to assassinate particular individuals. Some researchers had already begun to experiment with LSD on their own in those days, without any help from the CIA. 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. Around 1954, Eli Lilly & Company published the details of a new process they had developed for synthesizing lysergic acid (the parent molecule of the ergot alkaloids) cheaply and in bulk. Eric had captioned the photograph Happy Bikers. There were 8mm videos shot two decades earlier of Erics father, Frank, playing in the garden with the children. It was titledSome Operational Applications of the Art of Deception. An internal memo the following week refers to Olsons suicide in quotation marks, as if the memos author was aware that it had not been a suicide. Then we settled down, Dr. Gibson on the sofa and me in a large comfortable chair, to begin what became a five-hour conversation. Ike Feldman remembers that time well. This weapon, known as the machine-pistol by the Russians and Germans and machine-carbide by the British, is occasionally useful in assassination. 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