Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups Read Online Free PDF

that the CIA had drugged U.S. citizens with LSD without their permission. The Olson family investigated the information contained in the report and confirmed that one of the subjects referred to was indeed Frank Olson. They held a press conference and demanded that the case of their father’s death be investigated.
▸ Post-Mortem—Summer, 1975
Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney, aides to President Ford, confidentially recommended to the President that he contain the “Olson matter” by setting out of court to preclude “the possibility that it might be necessary to disclose highly classified national security information,” because it had become known that the CIA did indeed drug Frank Olson with LSD just prior to his death. Therefore, in what is known in Intelligence parlance as a “limited hangout,” the CIA settled out of court with the Olson family for $750,000 retribution for past wrongdoing. Ten days after the memo from Rumsfeld and Cheney recommending retribution and an apology, President Ford hosted the Olson family at the White House for photos and handshakes with the family after the President apologized on behalf of the U.S. Government.
▸ Post-Mortem
Former longtime CIA agent lke Feldman investigated the circumstances of Olson’s death:
“The source that I have was the New York City Police Department, the Bureau of Narcotics Agents, and the CIA agents themselves. They all say the same thing: that he was pushed out of the window and that he did not jump.
People who wanted him out of the way said he talked too much and he was telling people about the things he had done, which is American secret. If you work on a top government secret, a city secret, a state secret, and it spills out to people who should not know, there is only one way to do it: kill him.”
▸ Post-Mortem — June 2, 1994
Olson’s body was exhumed and autopsied at the insistence of relatives suspicious of foul play. Eminent forensic scientist James Starrs, Professor of Law and Forensic Science at the National Law Center at George Washington University, led the autopsy team, also selecting a diverse team of scientific experts in the appropriate fields. The team determined that the original medical report in 1953 was “manipulated” and “totally inaccurate in some very important respects.” Forensic finding is that the victim suffered a severe hematoma, i.e., a blunt force trauma to the head, prior to his fall through the window:
“That is only reasonably explainable as having occurred by reason of his being shall we say silenced, being rendered unable to defend himself, so that he could be tossed out of the window.”
Official finding of Professor James Starrs, George Washington University:
“HOMICIDE”
Regarding the assassination method detailed in the CIA Assassination Manual, Professor Starrs further states:
“What was spelled out in that ‘Assassination Manual’ was almost letter for letter what happened to Doctor Olson and it was a protocol, as we call it, for an assassination, which fit like the fingers in a glove.”
Source material for the above chart was derived primarily from the following:
“The Frank Olson Legacy Project,” http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.html .
Code Name: Artichoke; The CIA’s Secret Experiments on Humans, film by Egmont R. Koch & Michael Wech, 2002, http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/code-name-artichoke/ .
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments; H. P. Albarelli Jr.; 2009, TrineDay.
“The Case of Frank Olson,” Oliver Boothby, February 11, 1996: http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Student%20papers/Oliver.html .
“Scientist was ‘Killed to Stop Him Revealing Death Secrets’; So Did Cheney and Rumsfeld Cover Up a CIA Assassination?,” Gordon Thomas, London Sunday Express , August 25, 2002.
“Frank Olson: Did a government scientist jump to his death from a New York hotel? Or was he pushed?,”