Frank Olson person
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Claims (11)
Gerald Ford pardoned
Frank Olson documented
“Olson's widow and grown children were invited to the White House by President Ford, who apologized to them on behalf of the government. The Olson case would become enshrined in history as one of the more outrageous examples of CIA hubris an…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 26:33
Frank Olson member_of
CIA documented
“and captured double agents into this psychological apparatus. Then he started using drug addicts, mental patients, prison inmates, and other quote-unquote expendables. By the end, Dulles would put his own family members in the hands of CIA …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 10:46
James McCord covered_up
Frank Olson documented
“James McCord, later known for his role in Watergate, was one of the security agents who took charge of the quote-unquote investigation for the CIA. The agency termed Olson's death a suicide. The tragic end of an emotionally unstable man, th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 26:03
Frank Olson worked_at
Fort Detrick host_asserted
“He worked at Camp Detrick, later turned Fort Detrick. But, I mean, when he was there, it would have been Fort Detrick. When Frank Olson was there, it was still called Camp Detrick. Maryland, you know, the always chatty state of Maryland. Bu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 1:12:02
Hank Albarelli exposed
Frank Olson book_quoted
“I would strongly recommend the book by H.P. Albarelli, which I know you've read his book on coup in Dallas. But his utter masterpiece, in my opinion, is it's called A Terrible Mistake about the Frank Olson murder in 1953. And as I think I'v…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 1:04:51
Allen Dulles recruited
Frank Olson documented
“Flew to Frankfurt, where he was picked up at the airport and driven 12 miles north of Camp King, an extreme interrogation center of the sort that would later be known as a black site. Now, keep in mind, 1952, it's in the middle of the Korea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 11:14
CIA assassinated
Frank Olson host_asserted
“there. He would later go up in the building and be thrown out of the building and murdered. Though the police was summoned, agents forbade any type of investigation or autopsy of Olson. Olson's family didn't discover what really happened un…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 39:05
CIA covered_up
Frank Olson host_asserted
“there. He would later go up in the building and be thrown out of the building and murdered. Though the police was summoned, agents forbade any type of investigation or autopsy of Olson. Olson's family didn't discover what really happened un…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 39:05
CIA carried_out_attack
Frank Olson host_asserted
“Mount Sinai Hospital and infamous Columbia University. Meanwhile, back at Fort Detrick, the incident occurred that almost blew the cover of MKUltra. Someone put 70 micrograms of LSD in a glass of liqueur and gave it to Dr. Frank Olson. He w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 38:33
Frank Olson spied_on
Operation Paperclip book_quoted
“And who is pissed as hell at what Netflix did to it and had written a book about it. And it was up on Amazon for three weeks, but apparently it came out, but no one has ever seen it. And I think I mentioned just a short version is they cut …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 1:05:18
Sidney Gottlieb assassinated
Frank Olson host_asserted
“Gottlieb also excelled at cooking up rare toxins and clever delivery mechanisms to eliminate people the CIA had deemed enemies. Gottlieb strongly adhered to Dulles' ethic that there was no rules in war. We were in World War II mode, a CIA p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14 @ 23:33
Mentions (28)
▶ 1:21:52
I'm sure you probably have encountered a gigantic case that happened to be in Allen Dulles year one, 1953, which is also the year where we see the most, you know, some of the most flagrant MKUltra shenanigans, such as the Frank Olson case a…
▶ 10:46
and captured double agents into this psychological apparatus. Then he started using drug addicts, mental patients, prison inmates, and other quote-unquote expendables. By the end, Dulles would put his own family members in the hands of CIA …
▶ 11:14
Flew to Frankfurt, where he was picked up at the airport and driven 12 miles north of Camp King, an extreme interrogation center of the sort that would later be known as a black site. Now, keep in mind, 1952, it's in the middle of the Korea…
▶ 11:47
weapons lab jointly operated by the U.S. Army and the CIA. The top secret work conducted included research on LSD-induced mind control, assassin toxins, and biological warfare. That was in fact being used in Korea and not by the Soviets. Ol…
▶ 12:17
Extreme methods of extracting intelligence from uncooperative captives, which of course we saw replicated in the Phoenix program, Operation Condor, and all of the other Operation Gladio things that we've looked at. For the past two years, O…
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expressed any ethical concerns about their work. Quote, I never gave it a thought to legality or morality. Frankly, I did what worked, unquote. But Frank Olson did suffer profound moral anxieties about his work and the result of a serious c…
▶ 18:59
Norway, and Germany, and observing the human experiments being conducted in those black sites. Olsen's trip to Germany in the summer of 1952, during which he visited Haas Waldorf, a notorious CIA safe house on a country estate near Camp Kin…
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which sometimes resulted in their death. The cruelty he witnessed reminded him of Nazi concentration camps. After returning home to the United States, he began wrestling with his conscience, according to his wife. He had a tough time after …
▶ 19:58
who was his colleague, had also collaborated on projects that made them less proud. After the war, they had traveled around the United States supervising the spraying of biological weapons from aircraft and crop dusters. Some of the tests, …
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conducted at Camp Dietrich. Olsen began to worry about how his airborne spray research was being utilized by the military. His wife said in addition to being deeply disturbed by the interrogation procedures he witnessed in Germany, he was h…
▶ 21:29
Olson's objections to the CIA brain warfare research apparently began to raise alarms at Camp Dietrich. One document in Olson's personnel file dated after his return from Germany indicated his behavior was causing the fear of a security vio…
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A week before Thanksgiving, Olson and several other division scientists were invited to a weekend retreat at a secluded CIA facility near Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland. The scientists were greeted by Sidney Gottlieb, the chief wizard …
▶ 24:04
to and offered it to the unsuspecting Olson and his colleagues. It was the beginning of a nightmarish ordeal for Olson, which would end a week later when the scientist went crashing through a window on the 10th floor of a hotel in Manhattan…
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being murdered. The CIA officials who took charge of him that week later claimed they were planning to put him in a psychiatric hospital, but instead they shuttled him from place to place, taking him to New York to see an allergist on the C…
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even to a musician named John Mulholland, who taught CIA agents how to improve their spycraft. As the days went by, Olson became increasingly agitated, telling Dr. Abramson, not without reason, that the CIA was trying to poison him, because…
▶ 26:33
Olson's widow and grown children were invited to the White House by President Ford, who apologized to them on behalf of the government. The Olson case would become enshrined in history as one of the more outrageous examples of CIA hubris an…
▶ 27:03
In 1994, Frank's eldest son, Eric, decided to have his father's body exhumed for a second autopsy. The team of pathologists was led by James Stars, a professor of law and forensic science at George Washington University. Probably should hav…
▶ 27:32
Evidence that was called rankly and starkly suggestive of a homicide. While acknowledging that his team had not found any smoking guns, I am exceedingly skeptical that he went through the window on his own accord. But Olson's children faile…
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in which they had asked for compensatory damages as well as access to documents about their father's death. The ruling against the family, primarily on technical grounds, the judge nonetheless noted the public record supports many of the al…
▶ 28:27
March 31st, 1953, several months before Frank Olson died or was murdered, Dulles invited an old friend and protege, James Cronthal, to his Georgetown house for dinner. The CIA director said he had business to discuss, but it turned out the …
▶ 34:54
Cronthall's final words to his sister was, I can't wait till 1984. Love, Jim. Was it his way of saying that for him, Big Brother's authoritarianism had already been realized? James Cronthall case was like the Frank Olson matter. Later that …
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What a short day. I'm just gobsmacked. It's still going through my mind. You're going to be exposed to it. If you don't like it, they'll kill you. That's this chapter in a nutshell. Absolutely. I mean, all you had to do was look at what the…
▶ 1:04:51
I would strongly recommend the book by H.P. Albarelli, which I know you've read his book on coup in Dallas. But his utter masterpiece, in my opinion, is it's called A Terrible Mistake about the Frank Olson murder in 1953. And as I think I'v…
▶ 45:33
but he demonstrated integrity as an IG, recommending that the CIA employees who were responsible for the 1953 death of MKUltra victim Frank Olson be punished, although they never were. Kirkpatrick also went on the record within the agency a…
▶ 38:33
Mount Sinai Hospital and infamous Columbia University. Meanwhile, back at Fort Detrick, the incident occurred that almost blew the cover of MKUltra. Someone put 70 micrograms of LSD in a glass of liqueur and gave it to Dr. Frank Olson. He w…
▶ 39:05
there. He would later go up in the building and be thrown out of the building and murdered. Though the police was summoned, agents forbade any type of investigation or autopsy of Olson. Olson's family didn't discover what really happened un…
▶ 1:12:02
He worked at Camp Detrick, later turned Fort Detrick. But, I mean, when he was there, it would have been Fort Detrick. When Frank Olson was there, it was still called Camp Detrick. Maryland, you know, the always chatty state of Maryland. Bu…
▶ 47:39
To an Army civilian employee, Frank Olson, he leapt out of a window to his death, unquote. The CIA seemed to love its secret prisons, its drug programs from the very start. These programs were just as disastrous for everybody involved from …