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frank-olson — Part 01

8 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Jul 14, 1975 · Broad topic: General · Topic: frank-olson · 8 pages OCR'd
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Assoc Dir. -19 4Rev -1-30-74) Dep.AD.Adm Det AInv Detestive Said Scientist Had Severe Psychosis' ndsaid he was a consltant mominick1.Dimaiowho de Ext. Affairs was "multiple fract- Files & Com death unwittingly participated in a of the War Department. fures." Gen Inv "They agan visited the doc Detective Ward said in hrs Central Intelllgence Agency Ident drug experimenthad dlagnosed _as suffering Inspection deceased and Lashbrook with the U.S.Government, the.facts Intell. of this casewere related to Laboratory death from a loth floor win-| and HelusionsDetective'Ward [F.BI. Agent George Dalen by Plan & Eval dow ofthe Statler Hotel in wrote. telephone.The detective made It wa's at thatpoint-appar- no mention ofthe C.n and Spec Inv according to a police roport of efforts to reach him yesterday ently sometime during the Training the incident. were unsuccessful. The report said that the |27th--that arrangements were Dr Abramson began working Legal Coun scientist, Frank R Oison, a made for Mr Olson to enter with LsD in 195ltwayears before Mr. Olson's suicide and Telephone Rm biological warfare at Fort pervision of "s Doctor Fort," two years before Sandoz Phr- days in the city undergoing Thatevening, Detective madeuticals began distnbutig psychiatricanalysis immedi ately before his death and that The doctor's secretary said yesterday that Dr Abramson Lodge sanitarium in Roek- ville, Md their three children said in ansaid, and then went to sleep. In 1959,Dr Abramson told b7C interview with The New York ThenDetectlve Ward said a scientific meeting on LSD that at the outset many of his C had nbt learned the circun- stances of Mr. Olson's death as "a sort psychietric Dacula closed that C.LA. es showedthe light.gaw that Mr Olson a suicide had occured during was not in his bed and realized -(32) Mr.Lashbrook told Detective its effects, wards that he had called the Plan to Sue C.IA hotel operator and "at this At a'news conference in the tlme learned that Olson had family repeated its intentions Detective ward said that his ECROWICK (LAST) The Washington Post the facts in interviewswnth husband. Colonel Ruwet and Dr.Abram- Washington Star-News According to the police re- Daily News (New York) The detective's account,how- W.Ward,who retired in 1970, The New York Times . ever, was at odds with a de- Mr. Olson had come to New. The Wall Street Journal Wednesday in a statement by Col. Vincent Ruwet, who was The National Observer. the Olson family in which they also attached to Fort Detrick, The Los Angeles Times Tater told that her husband's Hotel. escort was awakened about Mr. 7117 twice by Dr Harold Abramson a full run toward the win- Date a physician who had offices at dow.He said he saw Olson go had been one of the first Amer- dow and a drawn shade." icans to study the effects on Reached yesterday,Colonel people of the powerful mmd- said. ColonelRuwetreturned Nov 26. got to know where I stand legally." sunce the Olson's have Detective's Report made clear they are going to, Then, on that same after- be filing a su't. noon the police report con. Detective Ward, who teamed tinwed. Mr. Olson returned to the death a swcide, m ins re asRobert Lashbrook. tant Medical Examinar Dr
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