Posted on 8/20/2002, 4:37:00 AM by Leper Messiah
Edited on 4/13/2004, 10:29:42 AM by Jim Robinson. [history]
The death in 1953 of a government scientist, Frank Olson, in a fall from a New York hotel window, is one of the most notorious cases in CIA history.
Only in 1975 did Olson's family learn that the CIA had slipped LSD into his drink, days before his death. President Ford apologized for an experiment gone awry, and promised that the government would reveal everything about the case.
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The only reason this is being brought up now is to embarrass the President in an important Congressional election year.
And
In 1993, Eric Olson arranged for his father's body to be unearthed and examined by a forensic scientist, James Starrs. Starrs concluded that Frank Olson had probably been struck on the head and then thrown out of the hotel window.
This Starrs guy is quite a forensic scientist. Mr. Olson has been in the ground for 40 years and jumped out of a highrise window and the conclusion was he was hit on the head.(probably)
Amazing
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