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Korea were the apparent result of “debriefings” utilizing techniques garnered from Operation Artichoke.
▸ Thursday, November 19, 1953
The same LSD interrogation technique that was perfected by his Special Operations Division was then used on Olson himself. At a work retreat just prior to Thanksgiving, the CIA’s “Dirty Tricks” Division met with ten of its scientists at a remote location. Olson was given a large dose of the drug, without his knowledge or permission, and was then interrogated under the influence of LSD using Artichoke techniques.
▸ Friday evening, November 20, 1953
Olson returned home to his family and was visibly and deeply disturbed. He told his wife that there were very serious problems with his work and that he had made “a terrible mistake."
▸ Saturday & Sunday, November 21-22, 1953
Olson stayed inside alI weekend and was very quiet and thoughtful all weekend long. His children recall the weekend as being very somber and serious and vividly remember their father at that time as sitting for hours on the sofa and staring thoughtfully out the window.
▸ Monday, November 23, 1953
Olson informed his boss, Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Ruwet, that he “wanted out of the germ warfare business” to “devote his life to something else” and that he, therefore, was resigning from his position. LTC Ruwet refused to accept Olson’s resignation.
▸ Tuesday, November 24, 1953
Olson returned of the office of LTC Ruwet and again formed him that he was resigning from his position. Lt. Colonel Ruwet advised Olson not to resign and told him that they would take him to New York City to get treatment for his depression about his work.
▸ Friday, November 27, 1953
Olson was brought to New York City by Lt. Colonel Ruwet and was also in the constant accompaniment of a CIA agent who was assigned as his shadow. They checked Olson and the CIA agent into room 1018a (which is actually the thirteenth floor when the first three unnumbered floors are counted) of the Hotel Statler (which is now the Hotel Pennsylvania). They were visited there by a CIA doctor who administered medication to Olson.
▸ Saturday, November 28, 1953, 2:30 AM
In the early morning hours of Saturday night/Sunday morning, Frank Olson went through the closed thirteenth floor window of his hotel room, crashing through a canvas window shade, a cloth curtain covering the shade, and a closed plate glass window, before landing on the 7th Avenue sidewalk.
▸ Saturday, November 28, 1953, 2:30-2:35 AM
Hotel manager Armand Pastore rushed outside, attempting to comfort the victim, who died in his arms.
▸ Saturday, November 28, 1953, 2:30-2:35 AM
CIA agent Robert Lashbrook phoned Dr. Harold Abramson (the doctor working with the CIA who had sedated Olson earlier) from the hotel room. Via the system in use in 1953, Lashbrook had to use the hotel operator to place the call to a number in Long Island. The hotel operator stayed on the line and heard the call in its entirety. After the call was connected and answered, the caller only stated the following:
“Well, he’s gone.”
The other party then stated:
“Well, that’s too bad.”
Both parties then hung up.
▸ Saturday, November 28, 1953, 2:40-3:00 AM
Hotel manager Armand Pastore notified police and also determined that the victim must have fallen from Room 1018a on the thirteenth floor and that there was another occupant of that room. Pastore led police to 1018a and opened the door for them. The police entered, guns drawn, and encountered the room’s other occupant, Robert Lashbrook, seated on the toilet. The police said, “What happened?” and Lashbrook responded: “I don’t know, I just heard a crash of glass and then I see that Frank Olson is out of the window and he is down on the street.”
▸ Sunday, November 29, 1953
The case was classified as a suicide and immediately closed.
▸ Post-Mortem—Summer, 1975
The report of The Rockefeller Commission was released in which it was made public