Many of those who had taken LSD in the ’60s were convinced it was more than just another drug. That it opened human perception and allowed other people to see new realities that were normally hidden from them. Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation, BBC 2016
LSD became widespread in the music scene. Born to be Wild: The Golden Age of American Rock I, BBC 2014
A bioweapons scientist found mortally wounded on a Manhattan sidewalk. His death remains steeped in mystery. Behind him, a covert career with deadly secrets. The knowledge he holds is explosive. Did the grim nature of his research push him over the edge, or did he die because he knew too mch? Deadly Intelligence II: Dr Frank Olson, Amazon 2018
Biochemist Dr Frank Oslon has falled ten floors from his room in the Hotel Stadler. ibid.
To stop him blowing the whistle on a top-secret US bioweapons program. ibid.
America’s germ-warfare program had been kick-started with Nazi research. ibid.
Testing is also carried out in urban areas. ibid.
‘He thought that the experimentations being done with prisoners was unethical.’ ibid. comment
‘It would require a degree of athletic ability that he simply didn’t possess’ ibid.
‘The two police officers found Lashbrook’s behaviour highly suspicious.’ ibid.
Only a superficial autopsy is performed. ibid.
Olson’s death is reported as a suicide. But two decades later, a government inquiry into CIA activities leads to the release of previously secret documents. They link the CIA and Olson to a covert program of experiments in which patients were dosed with the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD. ibid.
So they begin testing it on their own troops. ibid.
The explosive allegation: Point Saint-Esprit was a secret LSD experiment undertaken by the US. ibid.
Frank Olson’s passport shows he made multiple trips to France in the early 1950s. ibid.
‘Frank Olson had no scratches on his face he would have had had he crashed through a window.’ ibid. comment
‘Frank Olson sustained a subgaleal hematoma right here above the left eye.’ ibid. expert
Members of the 1994 forensic team believe Olson’s haematoma pointed to possible foul play. ibid.
‘Frank Olson was dosed with LSD.’ ibid. comment
In 1953 Frank Olson is deeply conflicted about secret scientific experiments he’s been conducting for the Army and CIA, codenamed Project Artichoke. Ibid.