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