Abstract

“There’s Something Rotten in Denmark:” Frank Olson and the Macabre Fate of a CIA Whistleblower in the Early Cold War

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  • This paper examines the case of Dr Frank Olson, a CIA biochemist who worked at the Ft

  • In 1975, the CIA admitted that Olson had been unwittingly drugged with Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) which led to his death and paid the family a lofty financial settlement

  • The New York District attorney subsequently changed the classification of his death from suicide to unknown

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Introduction

In September 1994, the NBC hit show Unsolved Mysteries aired an episode on Dr Frank Olson, a CIA biochemist at the Ft.

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