Yes! Fifty years after the fact, Eric Olson came to believe that he had finally prized loose the carefully guarded state secret of his fathers death. Sargant believed that Frank Olson could also have been given a cocktail of drugs that included more than LSD. At the funeral, attended by several dozen relatives, friends of the family, and members of my team, the remains were lowered into the ground for what could be their final rest. His failure to recall whether he kept a record of the event in his patrolmans notebook was a challenge to his credibility as was his memory lapse on whether this was the one and only jumper he had investigated. Once he said Elliot was wrong or stupid Raji would keep going, have his say. No report may be made. ''I was outclassed,'' Eric remembers. ABZUG: It may very well have been a State offense if there was foul play. This means that the first call was received on Nov. 27, 1953, at about 4:00 P.M. liaison at Fort Detrick, took Olson to New York -- ostensibly to seek psychiatric advice. 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. Ten days later, Ford hosted the Olson family and apologized. He had also co-wrote a 1939 magic-detective novel,The Girl in the Cage, with Cortland Fitzsimmons. Lashbrook reported to the police who were investigating Olsons death that he, Olson, worked for the Defense Department, and that Olson had been calm that evening, washing out his socks in the sink before going to bed. Pointing to the section on Erics timeline spanning the early 1950s, Cournoyer offered a laconic statement: Korea is the key. This was the historical context he had referred to in the earlier phone call. He wasnt fundamentally a military guy. Mr. Mulholland has agreed to undertake this task.Mulhollands compensation for this was raised from $150.00 per week to $200.00 per week. Our purpose was to find out what had happened, and to arrive at a storywhatever that story might bethat made sense. His casket was at all times kept closed due, so the family was informed, to the massive injuries he sustained in his fatal fall. A week after the case was reopened, William Colby, a key witness, vanished. However forthcoming Lashbrook was, the Technical Services Staff still tried to keep the details of its operations from the scrutiny of others even within the Agency itself. It would also explain the low exit velocity that allowed Olson to hit the wooden impediment on the sidewalk below. I hope this helps to set the record straight. He died in 1988. It hasnt been to pursue a fixed agenda. According to several documents, Marrazzi instructed Hoch to do everything possible to conceal the Armys involvement in Blauers death. 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. See bio. It looked like a family holiday, except the family werent with him. And he makes an attempt to confide in his brother-in-law Art. We tried some crazy things, and we made errors of judgement. Eric Olson is responsible for protecting and evaluating innovations in high tech arising from research at the University of Minnesota as well as partnering with Technology Licensing Officers to facilitate commercialization of these innovations. The problem today is theres a huge disconnect between what us old fossils know and what the current generation knows, Patrick said. According to the official CIA version of events, made public in 1975, Olson became increasingly despondent and paranoid. Eric Olson. If a drawn shade separated the glass from the flesh, then perhaps the shade buffered kept the glass from piercing Olsons underwear-clad body, but it is nevertheless inexplicable that we found no cuts on the front of the lower extremities from dragging across glass shards on the bottom edge of the window. [21], Gottlieb, whose goal was an operational guide that would be of use to agents in the real world, shared Mulhollands view that broadening its scope to include collaborative efforts by teams of operatives or by female agents was well worth the delay. No, said Eric. It was also disclosed that Olson was not just a civilian scientist with the Army but a full-fledged C.I.A. In addition to these discrepancies in the medical examiners report, Starrs discovered a highly suspicious hematoma over Olsons left eye that he concluded was singular evidence of the possibility that Olson was struck a stunning blow to the head prior to exiting the window. There was no mention of this hematoma in the 1953 medical examiners report. Helms later became CIA director and gained a measure of notoriety for his Watergate lying to Congress conviction and a touch of immortality in Thomas Powerss aptly named biography,The Man Who Kept the Secrets. Olson was told that he had swallowed LSD about 20 minutes after drinking some Cointreau. Disappeared below the ledge! He had been agitated and worried about something and from time to time discussed leaving Detrick, leaving his job and retraining himself as a dentist. Eric Thor Olson (born January 24, 1952) is a retired United States Navy admiral who last served as the eighth Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) from July 2, 2007 to August 8, 2011. In the fifties, he worked in drug enforcement. Eric believed his father was a civilian scientist, working with chemicals at the nearby Fort Detrick military base. My latest book on the Israeli service, Gideons Spies, to be published by St Martins Press in New York, will be published in 40 countries in April 1999. This tragedy stayed with me as did my questioning the reason for the fate that had saved me. The event was chronicled in a lengthy article published in the. Eric Olson says, "The Cold War is over and there are now ongoing national debates about the future of the CIA and about unethical medical testing on humans. While Gottlieb was looking for better sources of LSD, the CIAs ARTICHOKE committee developed concern that for-agency personnel might, Lill &I t h e influence of drugs, reveal top-secret information to outsiders. While he was introducing Allen Ginsberg to the drug, a colleague began testing it on Stanford undergraduates. Again, these comments have to be placed in the context of assurances given to us personally by the President of the United States that we would be provided with all relevant information concerning the death of our father. Eight years ago, questions unanswered, Frank Olsons body was exhumed from the Frederick cemetery where it had lain for more than 40 years. When the agency plotted the assassination of Congo leftist Patrice Lumumba in 1960, it was Gottlieb who personally carried the poison to the Congo and hand-delivered it to the agencys chief of station. THE NUCLEAR stand-off of the Cold War had sent both sides back to their drawing boards. Ruwet and Robert Lashbrook, a C.I.A. This was how it looked that day. For my next Interview with Feldman, I rented a day room at the Marriott and brought along a tape recorder. 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. This phenomenon is a familiar one in psychoanalytic experience. By comparison it had only taken 31 years to find room 1018A in what had been the Statler Hotel. 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. When he was buried the coffin had been sealed. The Frank Olson case, it seems, is far from being closed, even 50 years later. and tell Harold that we cycled all the way from, She said, These people are very smart. The CIA would purchase all of Sandozs potential output of LSD. What evidence was concealed, the memo does not reveal. He's a veteran of numerous campaigns, having led Marco Rubio's digital team during his 2016 campaign for president, served as digital director of Ed Gillespie's campaign for Virginia Governor in 2017 and US Senate in 2014, and advised on digital strategy for the National Republican Senatorial Campaign in 2016 . For one thing, I was leaving Manhattan without permission from my parole officer, What was I going to tell him? Thats all I knew about it at first. a. I realized full well that the major unresolved mystery continued to be: the large hemorrhage above the left eye. on December 7, 1953 speaks of Olson having exited through a closed window. What brought you here? she asked. And Ted Kaczynski would participate. Under the circumstances, the agency was fearful that its own agents could be brainwashed, and in 1950, it embarked on defensive research to find ways of protecting them. Contacted at his home, retired medical examiner DiMaio said, I dont recall the incident involving Harold Blauer. On Frank Olsons death, he said, It was a long time ago. 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. If the subway tests could be explained as defensive, there was no such ambiguity in the SO Divisions development of covert biological weapons. We were interested in anyone who did work in biological warfare. The acid-tripping intersection between the CIA and the counterculture is one of the areas where the on-the-record facts about MK-ULTRA meld into the foggy region of conspiracy theory. So I hid out at a nearby Hooters, courtesy of a CBS camera crew, who were following me about. This version of events comprises the core chapter of John Marks 1979 book. His concept of being a real American had changed. It would be better to get rid of him altogether but make it look like suicide. orchestrated project that had involved the administration of psychoactive drugs to numerous unsuspecting Americans. Everybody had this stony-faced expression, Olson recalls. The bedclothes were pulled back in a way that was consistent with someone ripping him out of bed forcibly. In 1997, after the C.I.A. That voice having had its strongly voiced say the door was opened and Joseph Gustafeste stepped out on the porch having turned on a bare bulb over my head. The family decision not to file suit, made in deference to Alice Olsons desire to bring the 22-year ordeal to closure, would prove to be a mistake. The Soviet official confirmed that known anti-Soviet people had attended the party. Christopher Simpson,Blowback: Americas Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War(New York: Widenfeld & Nicolson, 1988). 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? Seeing Eric standing beside his fathers remains gave me a start for one was a look-a-like for the other, in the same way that civil rights leader Medgar Evers and his son were seen to be duplicates of each other when Medgar Evers was exhumed from his grave in Arlington National Cemetery. So Paperclip officials smuggled them in, forging, deleting, and doctoring documents to erase evidence of their Nazi past. They said he had been so badly mutilated in the fall that it wouldnt be right for the family to see him. He took his movie camera. You have made that abundantly clear on numerous occasions Looking back, I realize that it was when you returned from California [to depose Lashbrook] that everything changed. He told me that directly. Cournoyer explained that Frank Olson had revealed sometime in 1946-47 that he was on a new path as a CIA employee. Embittered, cynical, frustrated and utterly undeterred Eric pressed ahead with his own private investigation. The family home, a ranch house, is in a decayed state of suspended animation -- seemingly the same carpets, same couches, same dusty jar of Vaseline in the bathroom cabinet that were there the night Frank Olson died. A condition of complete simplicity If Olson was murdered, the question is why? Vidich remembers Frank Olson as an American patriot, who was enthusiastic about working for the Armys biological weapons program. As it happened, some hairline fractures, undetected on the radiographs, were discovered only after inspection of the skeletorized remains. In fact, many people had expressed distrust of the governments conduct of the Cold War and were rooting out past secrets, some of which were shameful and unethical. The terms of the $750,000 Congressional financial settlement precluded a civil suit. The activities at Deep Creek, it suggests, were designed to find out what Olson knew, what he had done, and what he was likely to do. Each of these years I have spent a great amount of time, and considerable money, to produce a magazine of service to the professional magician and to the serious student of magic. At that point the government wasted no time in getting in touch. It is now known that similar agency tests with LSD led to the suicide of an army employee, Frank Olson, and are alleged to have permanently damaged a group of unsuspecting psychiatric patients at a Canadian clinic whose director was working under CIA contract. Oh my God, he said. Dr Sargents interest in the work going on there was to study the psychological implications of mind-blowing drugs such as LSD. Most are proud of their work, pointing out that the Soviet biological program was much larger and also developed assassination tools. Why these records were stored in this manner is not known, but it accounts for why the material escaped retrieval and destruction in 1973. By 1953, Olson was acting chief of Fort Detricks Special Operations Division, which, according to a Michael Ignatieff article in theNew York Times Magazine, had become the center for the development of drugs for use in brainwashing and interrogation. But he was becoming increasingly disillusioned. Further, the entire anterior (front) portion from head to toe of the flesh of Frank Olsons remains was devoid of lacerations, save those to be expected from the many compound fractures, and from that in the upper thoracic region where a laceration had been sutured up, probably during embalming. A length of rope or wire or a belt will do if the assassin is strong and agile. The documents, obtained from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and other Government depositories by a Congressional committee, show that the Pentagon knew in December 1953 that more than 900 American troops were alive at the end of the war but were never released by the North Koreans. He had been to Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain, that was certain. While the above ground investigations proceeded, the exhumation was given the go-ahead. He and CIA officer Robert Lashbrook decided to spend the night at the Statler and head south the next morning. Gottliebs own deputy stayed with VICTIM in a New York hotel room. The experiments, during the 1950s and 60s, were based on long experience with animals showing that anthrax often becomes more virulent after infecting an animal and growing in its body, according to experts on the bacteria and scientific studies published at the time. He previously served as Deputy Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command from 2003 to July 2007. This would mean that the government would have no defense at all against claims for information that the Olson family might legitimately make. On April 3, 1953 Richard Helms, the Agencys Acting Deputy Director, had proposed an ultra-sensitive program of research and development in clandestine chemical and biological warfare. Those four sentences stimulated the authors own Freedom of Information Act request calling for the Central Intelligence Agency to release of any information or records relating to Mulhollands work with the CIA, including any written agreements between him and the Agency, copies of the documents he produced, or other related materials. An effective technique has been devised for the use of a pair of sub-machine gunners, by which a room contailning as many as a dozen subjectgs can be purifico in about twenty seconds with little or no risk to the gunners. Isnt this what Communism is all about anyway! Habituation to that which was in fact quite bizarre was the common experience in my own family, where my fathers death acquired a pseudo-familiarity that served to remove it from the reach of curiosity and thought. Did he have a new job? Gottlieb was very enthusiastic about Mulhollands approach and wanted to move ahead quickly. The fact that the letter did reach me shows the cordial relationship I have with my local Post Office. During the Second World War he was a member of the Military Mobilization Committee of the American Psychiatric Association and was appalled to learn that of the fifteen million men inducted into the US armed forces, two million had to be rejected on neuropsychiatric grounds, a proportion far higher than in any other nation. Meanwhile, without proper maintenance, the Olson home had fallen into disrepair, its paint peeling and roof sagging. Sure was his immediate reply. The caller said he had known his friend was dead because the window was on a high floor of the hotel.. And two CIA employees were reprimanded by the director. Elevator shafts, stair wells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. was in fact experimenting with ''expendables'' in Germany, and if Olson knew about it, Eric reasoned, then it would not be enough to hospitalize him, discredit him with lies about his mental condition and allow him to slip back into civilian life. For obvious reasons, this is an extremely difficult case. As he explained it to me, he was just a dumb cop.. Bridge falls into water are not reliable. In 2001 we obtained documents from the Gerald Ford Presidential Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan pertaining to the handling of our case by the Ford White House in 1975. Now Im gonna give you another assignment. His unconventional manner seems inconsistent with his job working for the army. White apparently knew Abramson, because a Sept. 20, 1954, diary entry contained a reference to Gottlieb and Abramson. Army bosses would ask: Are you keeping them happy? Certainly the virtuoso job of disinformational engineering that had been applied to the whole affair seemed to suggest that no resources would be spared to keep the truth secret. There was the peculiar memo in Olsons personnel file at Detrick, which indicated that the CIA did indeed see him as a potential security risk. By 1996 our suspicions had reached an intolerable threshold. Acid Dreams. It is preferable that the person issuing instructions also conduct any withdrawal or covering action which may be necessary. It was drafted in early 1954, shortly after Olsons death, contemporaneous to the CIAs internal probe into the Olson affair, and in anticipation of then-pending legislation requiring government agencies to report criminal violations of its employees to the Justice Department. It was the C.I.A.s investigation into Frank Olsons death. Walter recalls an effort to package the spray device in a food can for smuggling into the Soviet Union and planting in a targets office or apartment. In both cases one reached the goal by small continuous increments of motion along a single strand. Blows should be directed to the temple, the area just below and behind the ear, and the lower, rear portion of the skull. 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. Even Marks, who exercises the journalistic wisdom to stick only to what he can back up with hard documentation, readily acknowledges that the clandestine researchers probably planted electrodes in the brains of men. They were gonna soak his cigars with LSD and drive him crazy. investigators that Olson ''appeared to be greatly agitated and in his own words, 'all mixed up.'''. 43.31 Voice of US Air Force Pilot (Prisoner of War in North Korea): 44.30 Voice of US Air Force-Pilot (after his return): 44.57 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson, 46.46 Voice of Norman Cournoyer/Friend of Frank Olson. This terse description of Olsons condition was apparently the only explanation given for requiring hospitalization. Eric would later uncover an official memorandum of understanding between the CIA and the Department of Justice essentially excusing the Agency from having to report crimes committed by its own personnel when doing so might compromise highly classified and complex covert operations.. Only the Social Security Administration was told of this practice, which was recently scaled down to almost eliminate the manufacture of false credit cards, drivers licenses and birth certificates. The New York District Attorney was in fact able to locate a source in Israel with close ties to Israeli intelligence which was able to confirm this allegation. Without knowing something more about them, especially about the shadowy figure of Robert Lashbrook, it would be difficult to determine with greater certainty how Frank Olson met his death. An SOD driver met Olson and Ruwet at National Airport. The Agency examined both the active and the retired files of all the branches of the CIA considered likely to have had an association with the project, but never looked into the Budget and Fiscal Section retired records. The next day an official SOD car came to convey Frank Olson to New York. The C.I.A. By the time he realized this, his suite had been invaded by a variety of anti-Soviet people whose behavior had become so raucous that he locked himself in his bedroom. Since John Mulholland had died in 1970, there was no way for the Olsons to interview him about his possible involvement in this tragedy. Certain key CIA documents that have been withheld, in whole or in part, would probably shed additional light on these events. Meanwhile the CIA had become interested in the possibilities of brainwashing. Proof of this, which came to light many years later, was the contract it made with a Canadian psychiatrist in Montreal, Dr Ewen Cameron, to experiment illegally on his patients with LSD and possibly other drugs for such purposes. In the spring of 1954, Mulholland found himself facing an unforeseen problem. From 1918 to 1924, he taught industrial arts at the Horace Mann School in New York. Earlier that morning, Frank Olson had fallen or jumped, as Ruwet put it, from the window of a New York City hotel room. Donovan [William Wild Bill Donovan, founder of the OSS] loved White. If my son asked me what I did, what I did in Korea, how can I tell him that I came over here and dropped germ bombs on people destroying, and bringing death and destruction. To the contrary, he appears to have been extremely skeptical of its practicality, dismissing many exhibitions of hypnosis as merely magic shows.[61]Moreover, the Agency had access to a wide range of individuals with true expertise in the area. That visit was to John Mulholland. In 1953 the story was that Frank Olson fell or jumped out the window due to job-related stress. Once in the Congo, the scientist carefully instructed CIA operatives in how to apply the toxin to Lumumbas toothbrush and food. The clandestine researchers explored every possible means of manipulating the human mind. I realized I could not go on forever and for the past several years I have been searching for some individual, or group, qualified to take over the editing and publication ofThe Sphinxand maintain its standards. Eric gazed, smiling, at the screen. Had Frank Olson said or done something that was as he himself feared a breach of security? At the same time, the son got a court order to have an autopsy performed. He recalls this strange night now as a revelation. My mother also recalled that my father was short-tempered during that last summer. Erics father was and there is no pleasant way of putting this a pioneering torturer, or at the very least a pioneering torturers assistant. They hoped to find a way to use the drugs on the battle ground. Part of this background would clarify the erroneous opinions commonly held by those who are familiar with (magicians techniques). Reporters from throughout the country came to the house that Frank Olson had built and gathered around the picnic table to listen. Vincent Ruwet confirmed her suspicion that the individual was indeed Frank Olson, but because of the still top-secret status of the project was unable to divulge any further details. The meeting was set for noon at a suitably anonymous bastion of corporate America, a sprawling Marriott Hotel and convention center on Long Island. They show the perfect world of a young father, captured with the latest 8-mm camera to hit the market. Collecting the facts has been difficult enough, but there has been something even harder. With the discovery in the 1950's that the North Koreans were brainwashing American prisoners, the Special Operations Division at Detrick became the center for the development of drugs for use in brainwashing and interrogation. At least one person committed suicide after becoming an unwitting subject of a CIA LSD test, crashing through a highstory plate-glass window in a New York hotel as his Agency guardian watched. Cameron was engaged in secret experimental work for the CIA (details of that can be found in my book Journey into Madness). (Dangerous intersection, poster 6.). We did not sit around talking about the moral implications of what we were doing, said William C. Patrick III, a Fort Detrick veteran who worked closely with the SO Division. He is on duty that night, when Frank Olson falls from the 13th floor, landing on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. This description of the fateful session as a trap obviously contradicted the official CIA story that Olson had been one of seven human guinea pigs in a simple LSD experiment. Aside from the vast number of articles he penned, he authored such books asMagic in the Making(with Milton M. Smith in 1925),Quicker than the Eye(1932),The Magic and Magicians of the World(1932),The Story of Magic(1935),Beware Familiar Spirits(1938),The Art of Illusion, (1944) reprinted asMagic for Entertaining,The Early Magic Shows(1945),John Mulhollands Book of Magic(1963),Magic of the World(1965) andThe Magical Mind Key to Successful Communication(with George Gordon in 1967). In addition his signed statement to the C.I.A. Although Eric was convinced that his father had been the victim of a CIA assassination, the possible motive behind a murder had long remained the weak link in his theories. Does he have to do everything? Eric laughed. Evidence in support of that can be found in Frank Olsons passport. But first it was requisite to obtain written and notarized authorizations for the exhumation and analysis of the remains from Eric and Nils Olson, as the two surviving children. After he and Lashbrook ate a dreary Thanksgiving meal at a Horn & Hardart restaurant, the two men returned to their room at the Statler, which they shared, and Olson called Alice to say he looked forward to seeing her the next day., Around 2:00 a.m. the next morning, Pastore found Olson on the sidewalk. But the D.A.s attempts to question Sidney Gottlieb who was to become a central target of the investigation hit a terminal snag in 1999 when the ailing Gottlieb died, taking whatever secrets he still guarded to his grave. But his new life abroad offered little insulation from the past. Frank Olson did not die as a consequence of a drug experiment gone awry. I spent most of the80s in prison for smuggling marijuana. Three years later, Eric would discover that a CIA assassination manual written in late 1953 the period of his fathers death prescribed exactly that technique. The obvious answer is that termination, not a secured facility was the course chose. men, they say, but contract killers associated with the Trafficante mob family hired by the C.I.A. Robert Lashbrook, Ph.D. who was with Olson on that fateful night, recounted his version of the events leading up to and occurring at the tragic moment many times: Lashbrook and Olson were together in Room 1018A on the 10th floor, actually the 13th when the first three unnumbered floors are counted, when Dr. Olson suddenly went out the rooms only window. 45.05 To bankroll his investigation, he became adept in the art of nonprofit fundraising. The act may be executed by sudden, vigorous [excised] of the ankles, tipping the subject over the edge. A short time later, the CIA begins conducting its own LSD experiments in the bohemian New York neighborhood of Greenwich Village, on Bedford Street. Instead, Dr. Gibson was told that Frank Olsons CIA escort had awakened to see Olson standing in the middle of the room. White and CIA director Allen Dulles were there. Please clickhereto send us a message. In June of 1950, over one hundred thousand soldiers from Communist North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, invading the republic to the South. Meanwhile, at the CIAs Technical Services Staff (TSS), the department specializing in unconventional weaponry such as poisons, biological warfare, psychoactive substances, and mind control, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb was searching for a candidate to head MK-ULTRA. LSD inspires one to tell the truth. The walls were covered with Toulouse-Lautrec posters of French cancan dancers. 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