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76: The CIA Assassination of Frank Olson | The Murder that Exposed MK-ULTRA

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

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The Case of Frank Olson

Frank Olson was aware that the CIA had dosed entire villages in Europe to observe the results. Many innocent people died from these experiments, but he was surprised that he would be the unwitting subject of an experiment. After a couple of sessions with Dr. Harold Abramson, Frank agreed to check himself into a hospital so he could recover from stress and exhaustion. And that night, he and Lashbrooke signed into the Statler Hotel, room 1018a. At 2.30am, he was dead on the street below the window. For the next 12 hours, a cleanup and a cover-up by the CIA ensued.

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