FRANK-OLSON · DEAD SCIENTIST
Frank Olson
CONFIRMED · OFFICIAL SENSITIVE VOICE · INV / NAR
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS · PD / CC
American bacteriologist working on the CIA MK-ULTRA program. Fell from a 13th-floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York. The CIA later acknowledged he had been covertly dosed with LSD.
VOICE · INVESTIGATIVE
Frank Olson worked at the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Camp Detrick. On 19 November 1953, while at a CIA retreat at Deep Creek Lake, he was covertly administered LSD. Nine days later, he fell from the thirteenth-floor window of room 1018A at the Hotel Statler in New York. The Rockefeller Commission Report (1975) and a 1976 settlement with the Olson family acknowledged the dosing. The case has remained the subject of investigation, including a private exhumation in 1994 and continued litigation by the family.