Remembering Frank Olson, MKULTRA victim and "suicidee"

(Image: President Ford and Frank Olson's widow)

The recent news item about the activist lawyer "falling" to his death, along with the disgusting paeans to recently-deceased President Ford, brought to mind the story of Frank Olson. The Olson saga is a miniature primer of parapolitics, bringing together the nastiest of the dark players -- Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colby, and of course GHW Bush and clan -- and the blackest of CIA projects, Paperclip, MKULTRA, and ARTICHOKE.

There's a lot of material about this online, but this site does a good job of condensing the story. See the links on the page for further material.

Al Qaeda Suspect: U.S. Government Gave Me LSD

More confirmation that MKULTRA never went away.

Lawyers for Padilla, who was born in Brooklyn and converted to Islam while in prison for gang-related crimes, made the claims of torture in a motion filed last week with a federal court in Florida.

"He was threatened with being cut with a knife and having alcohol poured on the wounds. He was also threatened with imminent execution," the chief federal defender in Miami, Michael Caruso, wrote. "Additionally, Padilla was given drugs against his will, believed to be some form of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) or phencyclidine (PCP), to act as a sort of truth serum during his interrogations."

See also the Sex, Drugs, Mind Control, and Torture index.