Remembered by his colleagues for his forcefulness as well as for his marked stuttering while excited, Gottlieb came closest to the image of the sinister scientist in the whole strange cast of agency characters. Yet curiously, the CIA has always claimed that its attempts to create real-life incarnations of Richard Condons unfortunate protagonist Raymond Shawthe hypnotically programmed assassin ofThe Manchurian Candidatewere a complete bust. The real story is not a simple or short one, and we will not be able to tell all of it in detail in this statement. A hammer may be picked up almost anywhere in the world. Would the information be coherent? The caller said that he was calling from New York where he was with a friend who had been acting strangely and appeared to require hospitalization. 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. As a researcher Olson himself used animals in experiments and perhaps witnessed the use of humans as well. First, the CIA documents proved unconvincing. At the time, John Mulholland was one of Americas most highly regarded magicians. On a hot day in August, Eric and his brother Nils and Erics son, who usually lives in Sweden, and Nilss wife and their children, and some of Erics friends and I, were sunbathing by the pool, when a truck covered with pictures of party balloons Capital Party Rentals pulled up in his driveway to drop off 100 plastic seats. Is Gottlieb the only person in the shop? The Nazis confiscated it in 1934, and the Americans took it over after the war. 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. This new work became MKULTRA Subproject 19. Marks, Kennedy, and many others apparently believe that the U.S. government failed where alltoo-many far less sophisticated operationsfrom the Moonies to Scientology to ESThave scored resounding triumphs. 40.52 When returning American POWs reported this the first use of bacterial weapons by the United States in war authorities in Washington dismissed their claims as products of brainwashing. 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. Blome will be among those charged in the case against concentration camp doctors brought before the military tribunal in Nuremberg. The remarkable example of Evan Thomas failure to see what he himself placed in front of his own eyes on page 212 ofThe Very Best Menis not the only case where an author has blinked when faced with the Frank Olson story. Theirs was a world in which everyone knew each other, and many worked for the CIA. Bissell, on the other hand, was more open-minded, said Gottlieb. Saracco and Bibb did manage to meet with Ruwet in Frederick, Maryland, as reported by H.P. 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.. As the investigations progressed others would be added to the list of interviewees, including the C.I.As mandarin for clandestine research projects, Sidney Gottlieb. The point is'' -- and here his eyes go flat and cold and relentless -- what happened in the damned room. The police officer was most courteous and pointed to my being somewhat over burdened, as he said, for a man of my years with the items I was lugging about with me. The use of human accident victims to boost the killing power of the nations germ arsenal is a macabre footnote to a top-secret program designed to destroy enemy troops with such exotic weapons as botulism, smallpox, plague and paralytic shellfish poison. At some point during his investigation, Eric hooked up with the British journalist Gordon Thomas, who has written numerous books on intelligence matters. Was the big secret that Olson was a CIA employee? One section would give modified, or different, tricks and techniques of performance so that the tricks could be performed by women. Erics mother had created from the same scant facts offered to Eric this scenario: Frank Olson was in New York. Eric Olson is the founding chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern. He said, CIA activities related to the MK-ULTRA program were thoroughly investigated in 1975 by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. It was learned that an agent who had gone to New York immediately after Olsons death had listened to a conversation between Lashbrook and Abramson that clearly concerned their conspiring to devise a report to the effect that Olsons mental state had been deteriorating. An example: according to a CIA document dated April 26th 1952, the Artichoke men used heroin on a routine basis, because they determined that heroin (and other substances) can be useful in reverse because of the stresses produced when they are withdrawn from those who are addicted to their use.. There are ways of breaking people. Some of these people would become regulars with me in my future exhumations. 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. But the cottage those guys from the CIA usedthats still there.. The flesh in that area of the scalp was intact, having experienced, as best we could tell, neither a laceration nor an incised wound. After this program, some were given LSD and put in sensory deprivation boxes for another sixty-five days. Links are also provided to three additional. Mulholland continued work on the operational guide throughout the spring and summer. In 1959 Bateson, in turn, helped arrange for a beat poet friend of his named Allen Ginsberg to take the drug at a research program located off the Stanford campus. 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. The CIA was able to secretly buy small amounts from Sandoz, but this was not considered sufficient. General William Wild Bill Donovan, the founder of the Office of Strategic Services, Americas World war II spy agency liked to hire Wall Street lawyers and Ivy League academics to commit espionage. A history devoted specifically to American biological weapons program,The Biology of Doom, also appeared for the first time in 1999. Someone said he thought it was a shame that the most hostile journalist present represented Eric and Nilss local paper. He either fell out the window or jumped.'. People who wanted him out of the way said he talked too much and he was telling people about the things he had done, which are American secrets. I suppose that to people like George Merck this might seem to be an un-American activity. When he knew a woman already had a date for a particular night he would call her up and ask her out. Eventually you would come to San Francisco. (See this link for atranscriptof the film. Here are some passages from the CIAs own manual on the technique of disguising a murder through engineering a contrived accident: Assassination is a term thought to be derived from Hashish, a drug similar to marijuana, said to have been used by Hasan-Dan-Sabah to induce motivation in his followers, Assassination is an extreme measure not normally used in clandestine operations., No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded. How had this occurred? I cant imagine what would happen if you ever tangled with him. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvz298 High page and low page SEO c. PPC and product listing ads d. On page and paid search SEO. 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. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest? He was a fuckin nut. 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. Mind warfare, he said, is the great battlefield of the Cold War and we have to do whatever it takes to win this.. Now he believes it was murder. experiments in which American prisoners were drugged in a program to develop comprehensive interrogation techniques, involving medical, psychological and drug-induced behavior modification. At the end of the testing, the Americans were reportedly executed. It was like a comedy routine, like the Marx Brothers Become Covert Assassins, and sometimes it seemed to Eric as if his family were the only people not laughing. Newly declassified documents show that the United States knew immediately after the Korean War that North Korea had failed to turn over hundreds of American prisoners known to be alive at the end of the war, adding to growing speculation that American prisoners might still be alive and in custody there. And he is down on the street.. (The Shakespearean parallels werent lost on the scholarly Eric; think Hamlet, he liked to say, but on the order of years, not months.) Eventually, Eric would uncover tantalizing evidence suggesting that his father, far from being the victim of a drug experiment gone awry, may have been murdered as the proverbial man who knew too much. I had heard he was short, five three, and Id read how George White used to dress him in a pinstriped zoot suit, blue suede shoes, a Bursalino hat with a tu rned-up brim, and a phony diamond ring, then send him onto the streets of San Francisco to pose as an East Coast heroin dealer. The most striking information is that contained in the report of the two Special Agents who are identified only as reporting agent for Case No 73317, and Walter P. T., which centres on the activities of Robert Lashbrook. In less than a year on the job as steward of MK-ULTRA, Gottlieb had already established a rather wild and arguably unscientific methodology that involved dosing unsuspecting CIA men at Langley with LSD and then watching them freak out. Assisted by his deputy Lashbrook, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, head of the TSS Chemical Division, led the sessions in the lodges chestnut-paneled living room, opposite a roaring fire in a stone hearth. The practice of giving drugs to unsuspecting people lasted from 1953 to 1963, when it was discovered by the CIAs inspector general and stopped, the commission said. Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland, a three-hour drive from Washington. In fact, it might be argued that, PR-wise, a CIA employee dying in a bungled CIA drug experiment is somewhat less scandalous than an innocent Army civilian as fallguy. To state this positively: all (covert techniques) described would be adaptations of acts usually performed for other purposes. When the Korean War drew to a close the following spring, the CIAs interest in the drug became an obsession. Through an unnamed source, the DAs office learned that at the Deep Creek meeting, Olson had been given LSD mixed with Meretran, a drug that made people talk more freely. Pentagon strategists began to envision a day when battles would be fought on psychic terrain in wars without conventional weaponry. JOURNEY INTO MADNESS Id estimate about as much worse as Hiroshima was an order of magnitude beyond Pearl Harbor. An SOD driver met Olson and Ruwet at National Airport. The only manifestation was that he could not sleep. (2009) and Not Another Teen Movie (2001). In fact, Sandoz had produced only about 40 grams of LSD in the ten years since its psychoactive features were first discovered by Albert Hofmann. Educational Programs. The stone house is just above the lake at the end of a small dirt road. The goal, according to a declassified White House memo, was to avert a lawsuit in which it may become apparent that we are concealing evidence for national security reasons.. At the same time a renewed coverup of the truth concerning this story was being carried out at the highest levels of government, including the White House. In her explanation of this phenomenon Langer emphasizes the idea that the early phases serve toadumbratevalue. Alice Olson was stunned. During the research and writing of Journey into Madness, Dr Sargent and I met on many occasions, perhaps as many as 20. Whether the manual is a complete coincidence, I dont know, Saracco says. He has nothing else to say. His search for answers would ultimately span the course of three decades, becoming a personal obsession that would drain his finances, upend his relationships, and derail his once promising career as a Harvard-trained psychologist. He was too late, however, to do the same for William Colby, the CIA chief who apologised for Olsons death. He received a telephone call from a family friend on the morning of June 11th 1975: Have you seen the Washington Post? Hemorrhages of the head do occur from trauma inflicted at a site removed from the situs of the hemorrhage. Lashbrook, giving the impression of being befuddled, said he had been sleeping when he awoke to the sound of crashing glass. He served with Dulles in Germany and stayed within the intelligence community after the war. 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. But the darkest episode may well have been one in which John Mulholland found himself personally involved during the very first year of his MKULTRA work: the death of Dr. Frank Olson[44]. She knew that as a biochemist, Frank Olsons specialty during World War II had been the airborne delivery of biological toxins and bacteria, including anthrax. It is one thing to believe in a truth as painful as this. degree at NYU, his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, and carried out postdoctoral studies at MIT. And this is what my mother was seizing on when she talked to Gottlieb. Such plans must be modified frequently to meet changes in the tactical situation. The search for the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of Dr. Frank Olson begins in 1945, with the liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany. The man in the room had called a number out on Long Island while she had listened in. George Hunter White. My over-all assessment of this interview was not at all favorable to Dr. Gottlieb. He calls it the most sensitive program we ever created at Detrick, and says its details should still be kept secret because they might be useful to terrorists and embarrassing to the United States.. Moreover Lashbrooks remembrance of the window-shades snapping back into its housing was out of joint with Armond Pastores oft-repeated recollection of the shades having been pushed through the windows broken glass. He was a conflicted man living in conflicted times who died leaving conflicting leads. But because of the compartmentalization it is unlikely that Frank Olson had much idea of what took place at Detrick beyond his work bench until he was promoted to be acting chief of the Special Operations Division. BED OF NAILS In Korea, its just a matter of days before the first American prisoners of war will be released. Frank is troubled by something. This individual was not made aware he had been given LSD until about 20 minutes after it had been administered, the commission said. I can't wait for the new school year to start, and I'm excited to meet all the new freshmen. Except in terroristic assassinations, it is desirable that the assassin be transient in the area. In 1953 the story was that Frank Olson fell or jumped out the window due to job-related stress. John did not have a political agenda, says George Gordon, a close friend with whom Mulholland would later writeThe Magical Mind. He also directs the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine and the Wellstone Center for Muscular Dystrophy Research. Frank Olson was one of these. Ineptitude. Next week, a grand jury may finally hear the truth about the Cold Wars darkest Secret. Gibson made some inquiries along these lines but doesnt remember eliciting any particular response. It is dangerous, frankly, to have to keep looking over our shoulders. Whether Tenet had the unsolved death of Dr. Frank Olson in mind is not known, but there is little doubt that it is on his mind today. Suicide. The final police report makes no mention whatsoever of the CIA or any drugs, nor does the report on Olsons death filed by the New York City Medical Examiners Office. So studying LSDs effects might lead them to drugs for treating mental illness. This material could potentially aid in discrediting individuals, eliciting information, implanting suggestion and other forms of mental control.[2]. Abdominal wounds were once nearly always mortal, but modern medical treatment has made this no longer true. The. As Alice would later note, it wasnt the best choice of movies, given her husbands mood. The asterisk at the end of this paragraph directs us to a footnote at the bottom of the page and here it comes: the Frank Olson story as a footnote to assassinations in Europe! 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.. The essential point of assassination is the death of the subject. Maybe some mysterious Harold junior would come along and kindly explain everything. The days in the New York hotel room, away from family and community, had certainly offered an opportunity for the crime. Each and every document had to be carefully scrutinized and then crosschecked against all of the other released papers. A new documentary film, Code Name Artichoke (produced this year by German public television and widely shown internationally and in the US on WorldLink TV) on the death of my father, Dr. Frank Olson, revisits this question and presents new evidence. This area includes the production of various physiological conditions which could support present or future clandestine operations. These are preferable to ordinary military calibers, since ammunition available for them is usually of the expanding bullet type, whereas most ammunition for military refles is full jacketed and hence not sufficiently lethal. From time to time, he referred to the death of your father and, as I clearly recall, he said his paperwork on the case had been handed over to the competent authorities in the British Secret Intelligence Service. Then in June 1975 a special commission chaired by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released the findings of its investigation into illegal CIA domestic operations. For twenty odd years, the Olson family remained in a state of perplexity about these events. Dick Russell, author of a recent book on the Kennedy assassination titledThe Man Who Knew Too Much,uncovers new evidence to support the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was a product of MK-ULTRA. At that time, I was hoping to see a new edition of the book published (this was not to be) and I wanted to get Dr Sargants permission to use all he had told me in a new edition. To provide a forum for the utilization of new or under-utilized scientific technologies and experiences, such as the bio-engineering aspects of a fall from a height, an analysis of the causal features in fractures resulting from such a fall, a toxicological analysis of bodily tissues and hair for therapeutic and abused drugs (whether defined as controlled substances or not), the use of the computer to animate a re-enactment scenario of the event, and to provide an identification of the remains by a computerized skull superimposition. He served as an adviser on army-sponsored steroid experiments. Such a revelation was to be avoided at all costs, the internal correspondence stated. 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. Dr. Gibson informed me that he had been the psychiatrist on duty at the Chestnut Lodge hospital in Rockville, Maryland when Lashbrook, without identifying himself, had called from New York City just hours before Dr. Olson died. The meeting with the president lasted 17 minutes. Official Washington moved quickly to end the furor. Mulholland was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 9, 1898. PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY The chief of the Special Operations Division was VINCENT L. RUWET, a Lt. One of them had received a substantial sum of money in the month of Olsons death for services rendered. So had Abramson. The witness had tried to speak to Olson, and had then watched as Olson plunged through the window on a dead run. It is not at all clear that we can keep such evidence from becoming relevant even if the government waives the defense of the Federal Employees Compensation Act. In 1953 Dr. Gibson was the admitting psychiatrist at the hospital near Washington to which Frank Olson was allegedly to have been taken after returning from New York City. Still, the veterans say, Special Operations stood apart. For a time CIA personnel were completely infatuated with the hallucinogen. The CIA had slipped LSD into Frank Olsons Cointreau at a camping retreat called the Deep Creek Lodge. Theyd been flying to the Adirondacks, where they were going to invest money in a lumber mill. In Oberursel, in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt, hidden in old half-timbered houses, the US Army led a quiet interrogation center: Camp King. The documents may only deepen the mystery over the fate of Americans still considered missing from the Korean War. Finally, all of this information was reassembled to form a chronological narrative. Two officers of the 14thDetective Squad then interviewed Lashbrook at the local police station. Indeed, in the spring of 1959, the Agency extended another MKULTRA Subproject (subproject 83) to revise and adapt some of material that Mulholland had developed on deception techniques (magic, sleight of hand, signals) and on psychic phenomena.[38]. If the subjects car is tampered with, reliability is very low. But the condition of the body meant that precise identification was impossiblemaking the area a conspiracy blackspot. The Frank Olson case was included in the Mossads assassination curriculum due to the success with which a murder had been disguised as a suicide. Then in 1993, Alice Olson died. 15.21 According to the invitation, it was a conference for sports journalists. No sooner had MK-ULTRA been established than Gottlieb proceeded to organize 13 subprojects that called for the support of LSD research for the purposes of disturbance of memory, discrediting by aberrant behavior, altering sex patterns, eliciting information, enhancing suggestibility, and creating dependence. 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. Almost immediately, though, the investigation encountered a major setback. Available documents indicate that a Detrick-CIA interrogation program called Artichoke with which my father was involved had debriefed these POWs prior to their recantations. Dr. Gibson wanted me to understand that this was not and had never been the case. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair termed him Americas official poisoner.[5]. 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. Its intense potency in even miniscule amounts would make it easy to administer covertly. 35.54 I went back and I saw White, and he says to me, What do you think of Sidney? I said, I think hes a fuckin nut. White says,Well, he may be a nut, but this is the program. His wife answered the door and she led me into the living room where Norman was waiting for me. He was director of Shepherd Pratt Hospital for twenty years, where a building there bears his name. His knowledge of tricks seemed inexhaustible, as was his familiarity with the performance, theory, psychology, history, and literature of magic. When we can do it right.''. The proposed CIA work on drugs and mind manipulation was to remain one of the Agencys deepest secrets. . Ruwet stalled at first but eventually confirmed that the man in the story was Frank Olson and that he had known the details in The Post story all along. However, knowledgeable sources who have seen the CIA documents said Lashbrook identified G. Here, for example, a soldier was expected to assemble a rifle while under the influence of the hallucinogen. Soon, MKULTRA was testing all conceivable drugs on every kind of victim, including prison inmates, mental patients, foreigners, the terminally ill, homosexuals, and ethnic minorities. 3.15 Ward and his partner, detective Robert Mullee, took Lashbrook to the precinct house for interrogation. Did his superiors fear he might turn whistleblower, exposing dangerous knowledge about America adopting the killing techniques of German and Japanese war criminals? He brought home a lot of slides from his many travels. Theyre not going to fall for this.. It had not been noted in Dr. Di Maios first autopsy report. It was still dark outside when two grim visitors arrived at the Olson house in Frederick, Maryland, two days after Thanksgiving. analyzing the documents obtained by the Olson family from CIA Director William Colby in June 1975 For that matter, the (supposed) impetus for the program was the reported success of communist countries in brainwashing. The word itself originally applied to several soldiers whod fought in the Korean War who exhibited strange behavior and had large blank spots in their memoriesparticularly when it came to their travels through regions of Manchuria. As he discovered himself-along with the CIA-it is not easy to unlock mens minds and wrest the secrets from them. The cottage itself was only a quarter of mile from where we were sitting and Railey told me how to find it. Fully vetted by the Agency, he had a top secret security clearance. The Stone Tavern that used to stand by the bridge is gone. If it was a guy, you took his cock and you hit it with a hammer. He is of a mind that his father had expressed distress over experiments he was conducting and the possible use of the results. In October 1952, Olson was promoted to acting director of the division. All across the country back then there were billboards advertising a place called Harolds Club, which was a big gambling casino in Reno. Are they checking me for security?'' Cold War research ran the gamut, from investigations of sleep deprivation to perfecting anthrax delivery systems. If Eric is right, slipping LSD into Olson's Cointreau was not an experiment that went wrong: it was designed to get him to talk while hallucinating. Animalism is additionally supported by the fact that in actual . I can visualize his face actually: It was drawn, in a way I had never seen it before.. Sidney says, Stop the car. He pulls out a dart gun and shoots this big eucalyptus tree with a dart. He was contemplating entering a psychiatric hospital in Washington for treatment. In a photograph taken during the 1975 meeting, Alice Olson and her grown-up children Eric, 30; Nils, 27; and Lisa, 29 look at ease and, more to the point, relieved, as they stand with the president. During those visits he had also met with Dr Ewan Cameron and, on one occasion, he had met Dr Lashbrook and your father, Frank Olson. His manuscript encompassing the original outline of the guide had just been completed. He did not know that the bacteria that had put him in Fort Detricks hospital for a month had gone on to another life, too as a sub-strain of anthrax bearing his initials. These turned out to be the precursors of what became known as MK-ULTRA, a C.I.A. Frank Olson has become a security risk. On the contrary Lyman Kirkpatrick would report on December 1, 1953 that in a conversation with Dr. Willis Gibbons, a higher-up in the C.I.A., Gibbons indicated that, Olson had a history of mental disturbances. His source for this knowledge was not revealed. 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