They gave his widow and children a government pension, and Gottlieb got away with a slap on the wrist. Sirhan has always maintained he has no memory of the night he shot Kennedy. Thats all I knew about it at first. The sill was high and there was a radiator right in front of it. On the left side of the body, there was an indication of hitting something hard with the bottom of the foot. In 1960, for instance, Gottlieb himself had hand-delivered an assassination kit to the CIA station chief in the Congo, with instructions that it be used to eliminate Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Guzik, T. J., & Olson, E. N. (2020). They [the police] told me he was on LSD and had been acting aberrant and erratic for a while. And third, the motive for murder turned out to be far more substantial than we had dared to imagine. What do you mean, fell or jumped?, We dont know if he fell, said one of the men. In the morning of March 27, 196 1, Paul Robeson was found in the bathroom of his Moscow hotel suite after having slashed his wrists with a razor blade following a wild party that had raged there the preceding night. The room was simply too small for his father to have gained the speed to take a running plunge through the window. What was someone like Sidney Gottlieb, a poisoner, an assassin (albeit a not particularly good one), the man indirectly responsible for the death of Frank Olson, doing in the middle of this other, funny, psychic story? The assassin usually has insufficient technical knowledge of the limitations of weapons, and expects more range, accuracy and killing power than can be provided with reliability. He, alone among the interrogators, had a scientific knowledge of how to administer drugs and chemicals. How are your headaches? asked my father at the bar at Twenty-One., Herrick, I havent seen a superior hell of a lot of you lately, have I? he asked, unfolding his napkin, and sizing up the room., Well, theres a reason I havent seen a lot of you Rick. He was the only one to call me Rick, rather than Harry, forHerrick. This impression is strengthened by information we now have that proves that the purpose of Presidential apology our family received in 1975 was to deflect our intention to sue, which might have led to our discovering the true nature of my fathers job. Certainly if the real story to which we were being led was correct, then the government would have been forced into a very awkward position when the Olson family suddenly attached a name to the anonymous story of an Army scientist that the Rockefeller Commission had divulged. 17.12 Voice of Armand Pastore/Former hotel manager: He said yes because his government asked him to.. the windows in the office dont open., Elliot said, I dont mean in the office.. The early phases of the perceptual act often serve to register the emotional value of the stimulus precisely in order to steer subsequent perceptual phases away from the stimulus or from some aspects of it. Dr Sargents own conclusion was that Frank Olson had undergone a marked personality change; many of Olsons symptoms soul searching, seeking reassurance etc. Was the big secret that Olson was a CIA employee? Given Gottliebs intellectual perspicacity (he had been familiar with the work of the professors with whom I worked in graduate school and even claimed to have financed Robert Liftons early work) I found this hard to believe. On the other hand, there was a haematoma, unrecorded at the first post mortem examination, on the left hand side of Olsons skull. I had thought all along of the possibility of the presence of a third person in room 1018A when Olson exited it. Fifteen percent collaborated fully with the Chinese, and only 5 percent refused to cooperate with them at all. My old Harvard mentor Henry Murray (who assessed Hitlers personality for the OSS) used to tell me, Chance, love, and logic. Reportedly he himself had thrown away his papers, his identification badge and his wallet while walking around the city the previous day. To be sure, as a CIA scientist working on some of the nations most secret Cold War projects, Frank Olson was in a position to know things that, if exposed publicly, would prove embarrassing to the government. After dinner on the second night, Gottlieb or one of his CIA men secretly slipped LSD into seven glasses of Cointreau liqueur. George White addressed this letter to his boss, the very same CIA man who had spiked Frank Olsons Cointreau: an ecology-obsessed Buddhist named Sidney Gottlieb. In essence the SO Division was an off-campus CIA biological warfare laboratory, doing work on bacteriological agents for use in covert operations. It was assumed that Russian scientists were aware of it. His face was largely intact, lacking the cuts that would have resulted if he had broken through a plate-glass window to jump. Donovan [William Wild Bill Donovan, founder of the OSS] loved White. In fact, given his reports the astounding thing is that Olson was permitted to reside on a high floor of a hotel at all during the New York stay. 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. The man in the room had called a number out on Long Island while she had listened in. 30:21 Voice of Bennie E. Hackley/Chemical Corps US Army: A well-documented effect of LSD use in some persons is the occurrence of flashbacks, days and even months after the LSD has been taken. He was laying there looking at me, trying to speak to me, very earnest When I first met Eric Olson in 1974, both of us were working on doctorates at Harvard. Dr Sargant remarked that he was just like any other CIA spy, using our secret airfields to come and go. This occurred on both of World War IIs major fronts, and Detrick was involved in both. I had a couple of my girls pick up these Russian sailors and bring em back to the pad. He did confirm night manager Armond Pastores statement that Olson was still breathing as he lay on the sidewalk. For a long time, Blome was a doctor at Camp King, he also ran the clinic. Olson told Ruwet that he was too ashamed to face his family and afraid that he might become violent with his children. Dr. Gibson said he cannot remember all the words that were used in the explanation, but that was what was told to him had formed an image in his mind of what the situation had been, and this image he remembers very clearly. Any locally obtained edge device may be successfully employed. Shortly thereafter Greg called to invite me to join him in an airplane trip to the Adirondacks where he had a cottage. At the urging of Eric and Harry Huge I took a train to New York City accompanied by Olsons boxed skull. Well, here I am on hotshot duty in TSS, and there you are, honcho number one to the big man in Berlin. Michael Calhoun, a radiolographer with Shady Grove (Md) Adventist Hospital would do the x-raying. 344-348), So I went on to TSS with Allen [Dulles] blessing and Hughs strong arm around my waist. There are ways of breaking people. At every point there seems to be a convergence of the evidence, Nils Olson says. men, they say, but contract killers associated with the Trafficante mob family hired by the C.I.A. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967-82). Contrary to conventional press accounts, CIA-employee Olson was not a simple research scientist with SOD but was a high-ranking division administrator holding the titles assistant division chief and director of plans and assessments. I never signed any goddamn secrecy agreement.. It is not clear whether John Mulholland continued to consult for the CIA after that. Dr. Eric J. Olson is an internist in Chula Vista, California and is affiliated with VA San Diego Healthcare System. The study offered the best rationale to date for tests on humans. Dr. Frank Olson, an army captain and one of the first scientists at Fort Detrick, worked together with Norman Cournoyer. He took a number of courses at both Columbia University and at New Yorks City College, but did not attain a degree. 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. [9]. When preparing his Federal Income Tax form, income is customarily listed by individual performances, etc., with the person or organization paying for the performance, the location of the performance, the amount received, and the deductions itemized for each performance or each source of funds, rather than for a standard deduction to be taken. And in the absence of a reasonable explanation the missing how and why a kind of numbness began to set in. Then in June 1975 a special commission chaired by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released the findings of its investigation into illegal CIA domestic operations. He came so close it wasnt even funny, said Norman. The only remaining option is some form of disposal. This places the architects of such experiments in a position more like that of Mafia dons than traditional administrators of military research. This reticence is partly due to the necessity of committing communications to paper. At the same time, DiMaio told reporters that he had been told nothing in 1953 about Olson being given LSD or having been brought to New York to see a physician. Over its five-decade history, it had become part of the lifeblood of the conjuring world. Theirs was a world in which everyone knew each other, and many worked for the CIA. Eric D. Olson is dual-qualified as a United States (California) attorney and Solicitor of England and Wales and has a complex international litigation, arbitration, and strategic counseling practice. In the Agencys terminology, the ideal tactic is to intercept a question before it has a chance to be stated, thereby shutting off curiosity before a direction of thought can be formulated, articulated, and acquire momentum. Allen Dulles wants a chemical spigot to turn a defector on and off. 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. The terms of the $750,000 Congressional financial settlement precluded a civil suit. Rather than saving democracy, they created tools for coercion, and many people were hurt. A brilliant chemist with personality tics numerous enough to satisfy a novelists appetite for the aberrant (Norman Mailer and Barbara Kingsolver have immortalized him in their fiction), Gottlieb at the time had not yet been dubbed the CIAs Dr. Strangelove. But a few decades of diligent work and a congressional inquiry or two would eventually remedy that oversight. A medical examiner will try to determine the direction of impact, the type of object that caused it, and how often contact was made. The finding and the opening in Paris, France in 1905 of the leaden coffin of American Naval hero John Paul Jones, some 113 years after his death was one such instance. Pouring over the documents in which many lines and names were blacked out, the Olsons believed that significant information about their fathers death was still missing. Although all outside contractors I were to be notified of Gibbons ban, the testing nonetheless went on. No assassination instructions should ever be written or recorded, says the CIA assassination manual. At this point, the matter was considered so important that the CIAs Office of Scientific Intelligence prepared its bulky top-secret study, Strategic Medical Significance of Lysergic Acid Diethylamidc (LSD-25), which was circulated to only seven senior officials besides Dulles. By the Gottlieb-Gardiner theory, a defectors wall, whether psychotic or normal, can be shattered by the use of LSD. Both the offices of Rumsfeld and Cheney have declined to comment on their role concerning the alleged coverup but, from his home outside Washington, Eric Olson said that the documents involving Rumsfeld and Cheney show they have questions to answer. Near the Eiffel Tower, his two CIA colleagues sit in a sidewalk caf and watch pretty French girls go by, on the left is John McNulty. The significance of this absence of lacerations is less a criticism of Dr. Di Maio than a commentary on the way Dr. Olson exited through the window. Copyright 2001 by The Genii Corporation. Even the nails are clipped or retained in full. Dr. Gibson said that the more natural response would not have been Dr. Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist The other thing that has occurred to me on re-reading your book and considering the role of the CIA in BW in Korea is the very likely possibility that my father was the CIAs man at Detrick, whose job may well have been that of linking Detricks resources with the CIAs task of administering the secret deployment of BW in cooperation with the Air Force. They later received $750,000 in compensation. We brought an old cardboard box and some crayons, and we started writing this sign. There were no lacerations consistent with damage by glass. However, he had been under contract to prepare a manual, Some Operational Applications of the Art of Deception, that applied the magicians art to covert activities, such as slipping drugs into drinks. 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