CIA Murder Claims Are Credible, but Too Late

[The Straight Story]

CIA Murder Claims Are Credible, but Too Late

WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge dismissed claims that the CIA dosed a bioweapons scientist with LSD in 1953, killed him and made it look like a suicide.

Eric and Nils Olson say their father, Frank Olson, died shortly after expressing his disillusionment with his work as a CIA bioweapons expert during the early years of the Cold War. Olson had allegedly been involved in the highly classified MKUltra program, which sought to develop chemical and biological materials for clandestine operations. The program included testing LSD as a truth serum and a mind-control agent on human subjects.

Numerous works of investigative journalism and requests under the Freedom of Information Act ultimately brought the MKUltra project to light, and U.S. District Judge James Boasberg acknowledged that "the public record supports many of the allegations that follow, farfetched as they may sound."

"Although mention of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) conjures in the popular imagination the 1960s escapades of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters ... government study of its effects predates this by a decade," Boasberg wrote.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/07/23/59599.htm

[ret5hd]

1. So murder DOES have a statute of limitations!

[leveymg]

4. It was a civil Wrongful Death suit brought by the family.

Not enough evidence to conclude it was probably intentional.

[think]

2. But MKUltra is a conspiracy theory...

[Wilms]

3. Interesting bit about former CIA Director William Colby...

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Though the Olsons settled with the government in 1976, accepting $187,500 each for waiving their claims, CIA Director William Colby piqued their interest 18 years later, shortly before his own death under suspicious circumstances.

Colby apparently sent Eric Olson a message in 1993 that indicated there was more to tell about his father's death.

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[leveymg]

5. Hadn't seen that about Colby before. Interesting.

Colby had a lot of powerful enemies. He's the one who did most of the firings at DOO and put together the "Family Jewels" file. He probably shouldn't have gone kayaking alone every morning at dawn.

Extract of NYT Family Jewels story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/washington/26cia-timeline.html?_r=0

Dec. 24, 1974 Mr. Colby sends a note to Mr. Kissinger summarizing the "family jewels."

Dec. 25, 1974 Mr. Kissinger distills the list into a five-page memorandum to President Ford, informing him that the C.I.A. had indeed spied on the American antiwar movement, wire tapped reporters and placed them under surveillance, conducted illegal searches and opened first-class sacks of mail. But Mr. Kissinger does not put the worst revelations in writing. Some of the C.I.A.'s actions "clearly were illegal," he warns the president. Others "raise profound moral questions." He later refers to the file as "The 'Horrors' Book."

Jan. 3, 1975 Laurence H. Silberman, the acting attorney general, learns about the file and informs the White House. He warns that the file contains one dangerous piece of information: "Plans to assassinate certain foreign leaders which, to say the least, present unique questions."

[KoKo]

9. Thanks for that info....interesting read!

[frylock]

6. in ten years or so we'll leak the truth..

but by then it's only so much paper.

Dead Kennedys
I Am the Owl

[Rex]

7. The CIA murders people? Next thing you will be telling me is that

they smuggle drugs or would hire a criminal like Osama Bin Laden.

[KoKo]

8. K&R