Category: cia

Author probes 1953 death of early Detrick researcher
Originally published March 22, 2012

By Courtney Mabeus
News-Post Staff

Suicide, or killing by CIA?

H.P. Albarelli talks about his book, “A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiment,” Wednesday at Hood College.

The CIA killed Frank Olson because he wanted to leave his work and the organization feared the stories he would tell and information he would share, according to the author of a book about the decades-old but still mysterious death of the Fort Detrick researcher.

H.P. Albarelli Jr., who spoke about his 2010 book, “A Terrible Mistake,” Wednesday night at Hood College, contended that the death — caused by either a fall or a jump from a New York City hotel window — was unintentional and that the CIA planned to bring him back to a psychiatric facility in Montgomery County where they would continue to keep Olson from talking….

…Olson was an early researcher in the biological warfare program at the post, then known as Camp Detrick, until he died in 1953 — nine days after being dosed with LSD during a work retreat at Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County. But it would take 22 years for those drug-dosing details to become public. At the time, the government labeled his death a suicide.

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Beginning after World War II and escalating through the early 1950s, the U.S. government launched a multimillion-dollar series of experiments in mind control and behavior modification.

It wasn’t until the mid-1970s that Americans learned of such programs, which went by the names of Bluebird, ARTICHOKE and, most notably, MK/ULTRA. That’s when a commission led by then Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and a subsequent Senate investigation revealed what our government had been up to…..

…”Almost everything that I wrote about,” he responds, but the words are specifically a quote from Olson. “He came home from the Deep Creek Lake meeting where he was dosed with LSD nine days before his murder, and his wife knew something was wrong, and the only thing he would say to her was that he had made a terrible mistake and he said he’d speak to her later about it… The event at Deep Creek Lake was really his interrogation using drugs and probably LSD to find out with why he was talking about Pont-St.-Esprit and other experiments. He had decided to leave the CIA and the Army and re-school himself as a dentist, but Olson was an arrogant, outspoken sort of guy, and the last two or three months before his departure he started talking about what he had done over the past three years under contract with the CIA, and that was just a no-no.”

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