John Lennon was far from the only sixties acid-hero to make the connection between the mood of the streets and the secret CIA labs. Surprised and curious, I invited him to tell me more about it, and so he did, putting me on notice of the circumstances of Frank Olsons death. By night, he is a builder, tinkering away for the joy of seeing his creations come alive. . Manchuria is the area in northeast China directly north of North Korea where, beginning in 1932, the Japanese began an intense program of research in biological warfare. Sometime in 1952, the agency began testing LSD on individuals, presumably CIA volunteers. Neither about Frank Olson, nor about biological warfare in the Korean War. The details kept coming, so thick and fast that Frank Olson was in danger of becoming lost, swept away like a twig in the tidal wave of this colourful story. Olson had been given LSD without being told, and 10 days later jumped to his death from the 10th floor of a New York City hotel. . Lashbrook dictated the specifics of Olsons alleged psychiatric symptoms while Abramson took notes. Our purpose was to find out what had happened, and to arrive at a storywhatever that story might bethat made sense. When this information is added to the story, and when one obtains some idea of what sorts of projects were being pursued at the SO Division, then the overall picture of the death of Frank Olson changes entirely. Dr. Gibson wanted me to understand that this was not and had never been the case. We tested this stuff they call the Sextender, Feldman went on. Most of it is documented now, said Philadelphia lawyer David Rudovsky, who was a roommate of Eric Olsons in the 1970s and has assisted him with the case over the years. In 1956, White and narcotics agent Ira C. Feldman, who posed as an East Cost mobster, arrested seven San. Meanwhile, the CIA was in hot pursuit of the elusive truth drug. Two of them died. And five days after that (July 28) we were having lunch with CIA Director William Colby in the Directors 7th floor office at Langley, receiving an apology from the CIA, along with what we were told was the complete CIA file on our fathers death. Olson had traveled to England and Germany to observe the use of mind-control drugs on collaborators and German SS prisoners considered expendable. Some died. Those scientists in the Western intelligence community who supported the idea of developing brain-washing programmes had two gurusDr Douglas Ewan Cameron, a Glasgow-born psychiatrist, and Dr. Sydney The Gimp Gottlieb, the CIAs top expert on brainwashing. It was, as one former Detrick employee called it, ''a community of saints'' dedicated to using the most fearful and secret science to defend the republic. and John Kelly. On June 13, experiments are conducted with Patient No. Having experienced what Ellen Herman called a collapse of faith in the rational appeal and workability of democratic ideology and behavior, the generation of scholars that emerged from World War II had sought to perfect the tools of social control by which the elite would save democracy. DATE: 30th November 1998. His devotion to the case derailed a promising career as a clinical psychologist that began with a doctorate from Harvard. Despite the governments claim to have released all information pertinent to the death of Frank Olson, we still have not received the information that the White House was so concerned to keep secret. His clandestine work for the CIA was one secret he was able to maintain until the very end. When the story finally surfaced in the Rockefeller Commission report on CIA abuses, they got official apologies from President Ford and from CIA Director William Colby, who handed over CIA documents on the case. It was said not to be the hotels policy to reveal the names of its guests since they might be temporarily resident there, shall we say, under circumstances possibly compromising their marital vows or otherwise. As for the first questionwhy would hospitalization have been arranged for a patient who was slated to be killed?two answers occurred to us. 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. See how in this scenario a slice of Jim Channons First Earth Battalion (harsh light and noise) and a slice of Frank Olsons Artichoke (a whole new category of longing) come together like two pieces of a jigsaw. 11.07 Others, of course, have offered darker conjectures regarding the origins of Sirhans symptoms. Lashbrook told the police he was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. Cameron won his post-graduate diploma in psychiatric medicine at the University of London before joining the staff at John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, in 1926. He spends his days hounding journalists, the Manhattan D.A., anyone who will listen, with a steady stream of calls and e-mail messages from an office just feet away from the same living room, the same chair, the very spot where he was told by Ruwet that his father had ''fallen or jumped.'' cit. It was impossible for him for anyone to know how to do it in the most coherent and still entertaining way. 27.38 A CIA consultant began planning the Artichoke experiments as early as September of 1951. Sincerely The room was simply too small for his father to have gained the speed to take a running plunge through the window. None of that counterespionage where you drink out of my teacup and I drink out of yours. Eric Olson is the founding chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at UTSouthwestern. According to Thomas, who was a lifelong friend of Sargant's, Olson told Sargant that he had visited secret joint American-British testing and research installations near Frankfurt. At the same time, he is working for the CIA. Furthermore, he was to use his knowledge and creativity to fashion new methods that were unknown even to the conjuring community. The CIAs general counsel ruled that the death resulted from circumstances arising out of an experiment undertaken in the course of his official duties for the United States government. His family, thus, was eligible for death benefits. In 1953 the story was that Frank Olson fell or jumped out the window due to job-related stress. I focused on the Statlers night manager, Armand Pastore, who first found Dr. Olson lying supine and barely alive on the 7th Avenue west-side sidewalk; the Statlers telephone operator, who overheard Dr. Lashbrooks call from room 1018A following Olsons exiting the window; the priest from the nearby Roman Catholic Church who had given Dr. Olson the Last Rites as he lay dying on the sidewalk; and the New York City police officer on the beat who had responded to the death scene. Was this merely a historical coincidence, or did the Agency actually take steps to promote the illicit acid trade?, The tale of Ronald Stark, told by Lee and Shlain, may provide the connection between the CIA and the Left. Educational Programs. Mulholland continued work on the operational guide throughout the spring and summer. He still smoked constantly. Feldman told me that in the early 60s, after the MK-ULTRA program had been around for over a decade, he was summoned to George Whites office. While the family enjoys summertime at the lake, Frank retreats into his own world. At that time the family consisted of our mother Alice, then 59 years old, Eric, 30, our sister Lisa, 29, and Nils, 26. Elevator shafts, stairwells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. He authored the first police report on the death of Dr. Olson and, therefore, presumptively, was the first police officer on the beat to respond to the alarm of a mans having fallen. The CIA man with the shifting story was Robert Lashbrook, deputy to the spy agencys wizard of mind-control and exotic assassinations. Henry Murray, Professor of Psychology at Harvard, played a key role in CIA psychological experimentation going back to his involvement with the OSS during World War II, as this chapter explains. Sure enough, the Deep Creek Bridge, a key landmark for finding the old cabin, was just a few miles beyond. 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. Second it was not revealed: the name was not given. My conversations with Eric Olson were one of two experiences that brought his fathers case home and the CIAs decades-old experiments home to me afterUndue Riskwas first published. The Army sent him to another language school, this time in Monterey, California, where he added Mandarin Chinese:to his repertoire. Driving out of the city, I was tense and paranoid. What operation was dangerous? He hadnt been hurt the way they said he had.. Other studies explored the effects of radiation, electric shock, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and harassment substances. Eric Newell Olson (born September 27, 1955 in Rochester, New York) is an American molecular biologist.He is professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he also holds the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Science, the Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem Cell Research, and the Pogue . Indeed the principal forensic investigator who had exhumed the body viewed it in exactly that way. I had never had a conversation with him about anything that might have involved moral values. Only researchers had access to LSD through legitimate channels, but when publicity created a demand for LSD, hip chemists rushed to create a supply. Harvard University / Harvard Corporation Trustees: huge amounts of elites. Little is left of the body the Olsons exhumed in 1994. contacts with Dr. Olson and his family, which he described as intimate over a two and a half year period prior to Dr. Olsons death. They placed an agent called George White behind a one-way mirror where he moulded, and passed up the chain of command, little models made out of pipe cleaners. The lysergic-acid derivative can produce a temporary state of severe imbalance, hysteria, insanity. Lashbrook asked agent Walter P. T. to remain in the reception room while he spoke to Dr. Abramson. While the above ground investigations proceeded, the exhumation was given the go-ahead. Little Gidding, (1943)Four Quartets. They gave the exclusive on their personal story to Seymour Hersh of The New York Times, and when he came through the door of the house in Frederick, his first words were: ''This must be the most uncurious family in the United States. . They became regulars at Detricks officers club. It was, he recalled, one of the few moments when, after nearly 50 years, he actually experienced his father's death, when the truth he had been seeking finally took hold of him. An effective alternative to this would be for you to come..on May, 13, 14, or 15 to discuss the current status of the work. Stunned by this I pressed Gibson for an explanation. Gottlieb agreed to consider extending the time to meet this need. Earlier that morning, Frank Olson had fallen or jumped, as Ruwet put it, from the window of a New York City hotel room. The plane crashed, and everyone on board was killed.). And many did so unwittingly. I was sorely tempted to join him and his family since I had once before visited his remote cabin and felt the memory of that good time tugging me to go. In addition, he had an address for a house on Bedford Street that was used for Operation Midnight Climax. With the necessary consent of Eric Olson, I secured a copy which revealed its author to be Dr. Dominick Di Maio later to become the New York City medical examiner. Gibson made some inquiries along these lines but doesnt remember eliciting any particular response. 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