Friday, November 30, 2012
Ninth Circuit Gives the A-OK For Warrantless Home Video Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/ninth-circuit-gives-ok-warrantless-home-video-surveillance
November 29, 2012 | By Hanni Fakhoury
Can law enforcement enter your house and use a secret video camera to record the intimate details inside? On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unfortunately answered that question with "yes."
U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents suspected Ricky Wahchumwah of selling bald and gold eagle feathers and pelts in violation of federal law. Equipped with a small hidden video camera on his clothes, a Wildlife agent went to Wahchumwah's house and feigned interest in buying feathers and pelts. Unsurprisingly, the agent did not have a search warrant. Wahchumwah moved to suppress the video as an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment, but the trial court denied his motion. On appeal before the Ninth Circuit, we filed an amicus brief in support of Wahchumwah. We highlighted the Supreme Court's January 2012 decision in United States v. Jones -- which held that law enforcement's installation of a GPS device onto a car was a "search" under the Fourth Amendment -- and specifically focused on the concurring opinions of Justices Alito and Sotomayor, who were worried about the power of technology to eradicate privacy.
In our brief we argued that although a person may reveal small bits of information publicly or to a house guest, technology that allows the government to aggregate that data in ways that were impractical in the past means that greater judicial supervision and oversight is necessary. After all, a video camera can capture far more detail than the human eye and is specifically designed to allow the government to record, save and review details for another day, bypassing the human mind's tendency to forget. That means police need a search warrant to engage in the type of invasive surveillance they did in Wahchumwah's house.
Unconvinced, the Ninth Circuit instead relied on a case from 1966, Hoffa v. United States, ruling that Wahchumwah forfeited his privacy interest when he "voluntarily" revealed the interior of his home to the undercover agent. But its conclusion contradicts not only the Supreme Court's decision in Jones, but also earlier Ninth Circuit caselaw as well.
In Jones, the Supreme Court made clear that a law enforcement trespass onto private property for the purpose of obtaining information was a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. Under common law, a defendant was not liable for trespass if their entry was authorized. But the Ninth Circuit previously made clear in Theofel v. Farey-Jones that a person's consent to a trespass is ineffective if they're "mistaken as to the nature and quality of the invasion intended." In fact, Theofel cited another Ninth Circuit case where the court found a "police officer who, invited into a home, conceals a recording device for the media" to be a trespasser.
What that means here is that when the undercover agent concealed his identity and purpose, making Wahchumwah "mistaken as to the nature and quality" of the home visit, the government trespassed onto Wahchumwah's property. Since that trespass was done for the purpose of obtaining information -- to get evidence of bald and gold eagle feather and pelt sales -- the government "searched" Wahchumwah's home. And it needed a warrant to do that; without one, the search was unconstitutional.
Its troubling that the Ninth Circuit did not see it this way (nor are they the only one). Because the sad truth is that as technology continues to advance, surveillance becomes "voluntary" only by virtue of the fact we live in a modern society where technology is becoming cheaper, easier and more invasive. The Wahchumwah case exemplifies this: on suspicion of nothing more than the benign misdemeanor of selling eagle feathers, the government got to intrude inside the home and record every intimate detail it could: books on a shelf, letters on a coffee table, pictures on a wall. And we're entering an age where criminal suspicions is no longer even necessary. Whether you're calling a friend's stolen cell phone and landing on the NYPD massive database of call logs, driving into one of the increasing number of cities using license plate scanners to record who comes in or out, or walking somewhere close to hovering drones, innocent people are running the risk of having their personal details stored in criminal databases for years to come.
The only way to avoid pervasive law enforcement monitoring shouldn't be to make the choice to live under a rock in the wilderness somewhere. Instead, the Fourth Amendment means today what it meant in 1787: that the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" shouldn't be violated unless the government comes back with a warrant.
Boy, this is a slippery one!
More than one question from more than one direction to take.
But maybe the starting point is with the officer's intent, uniformed or undercover, when headed to a specific house. Then one might need to then determine what the Constitution says about a homeowner's rights in relation to being searched or investigated by law enforcement, which this guy was clearly targeted for investigation of crimes. Both of these determinations must be made BEFORE the cop enters the property.
It seems clear to me that the cop would then need to be asked what was his intent in contacting that particular person, the defendant, that moved the cop to deceptively use a recording device.
I think also it must be asked, at what point did the cop first contact this defendent. Was it at his front door when knocking to come in? Or hag they met prior, and agreed to meet at the defendant's house? Big questions that make a huge difference legally.
Clearly, the basic facts show that the undercover cop was intending to gather information about a criminal case from his encounter with the defendant in the process of a criminal investigation. THAT means he needs a warrant, sorry!
Going undercover is in part in my mind illegal anyway, as it's deceiving people into to doing things they wouldn't do around a cop. It's getting them to admit guilt to a crime without being read their rights that they have the right to remain silent under risk of self-incrimination. That's a violation of a person's rights, period.
November 29, 2012 | By Hanni Fakhoury
Can law enforcement enter your house and use a secret video camera to record the intimate details inside? On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unfortunately answered that question with "yes."
U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents suspected Ricky Wahchumwah of selling bald and gold eagle feathers and pelts in violation of federal law. Equipped with a small hidden video camera on his clothes, a Wildlife agent went to Wahchumwah's house and feigned interest in buying feathers and pelts. Unsurprisingly, the agent did not have a search warrant. Wahchumwah moved to suppress the video as an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment, but the trial court denied his motion. On appeal before the Ninth Circuit, we filed an amicus brief in support of Wahchumwah. We highlighted the Supreme Court's January 2012 decision in United States v. Jones -- which held that law enforcement's installation of a GPS device onto a car was a "search" under the Fourth Amendment -- and specifically focused on the concurring opinions of Justices Alito and Sotomayor, who were worried about the power of technology to eradicate privacy.
In our brief we argued that although a person may reveal small bits of information publicly or to a house guest, technology that allows the government to aggregate that data in ways that were impractical in the past means that greater judicial supervision and oversight is necessary. After all, a video camera can capture far more detail than the human eye and is specifically designed to allow the government to record, save and review details for another day, bypassing the human mind's tendency to forget. That means police need a search warrant to engage in the type of invasive surveillance they did in Wahchumwah's house.
Unconvinced, the Ninth Circuit instead relied on a case from 1966, Hoffa v. United States, ruling that Wahchumwah forfeited his privacy interest when he "voluntarily" revealed the interior of his home to the undercover agent. But its conclusion contradicts not only the Supreme Court's decision in Jones, but also earlier Ninth Circuit caselaw as well.
In Jones, the Supreme Court made clear that a law enforcement trespass onto private property for the purpose of obtaining information was a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. Under common law, a defendant was not liable for trespass if their entry was authorized. But the Ninth Circuit previously made clear in Theofel v. Farey-Jones that a person's consent to a trespass is ineffective if they're "mistaken as to the nature and quality of the invasion intended." In fact, Theofel cited another Ninth Circuit case where the court found a "police officer who, invited into a home, conceals a recording device for the media" to be a trespasser.
What that means here is that when the undercover agent concealed his identity and purpose, making Wahchumwah "mistaken as to the nature and quality" of the home visit, the government trespassed onto Wahchumwah's property. Since that trespass was done for the purpose of obtaining information -- to get evidence of bald and gold eagle feather and pelt sales -- the government "searched" Wahchumwah's home. And it needed a warrant to do that; without one, the search was unconstitutional.
Its troubling that the Ninth Circuit did not see it this way (nor are they the only one). Because the sad truth is that as technology continues to advance, surveillance becomes "voluntary" only by virtue of the fact we live in a modern society where technology is becoming cheaper, easier and more invasive. The Wahchumwah case exemplifies this: on suspicion of nothing more than the benign misdemeanor of selling eagle feathers, the government got to intrude inside the home and record every intimate detail it could: books on a shelf, letters on a coffee table, pictures on a wall. And we're entering an age where criminal suspicions is no longer even necessary. Whether you're calling a friend's stolen cell phone and landing on the NYPD massive database of call logs, driving into one of the increasing number of cities using license plate scanners to record who comes in or out, or walking somewhere close to hovering drones, innocent people are running the risk of having their personal details stored in criminal databases for years to come.
The only way to avoid pervasive law enforcement monitoring shouldn't be to make the choice to live under a rock in the wilderness somewhere. Instead, the Fourth Amendment means today what it meant in 1787: that the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" shouldn't be violated unless the government comes back with a warrant.
Boy, this is a slippery one!
More than one question from more than one direction to take.
But maybe the starting point is with the officer's intent, uniformed or undercover, when headed to a specific house. Then one might need to then determine what the Constitution says about a homeowner's rights in relation to being searched or investigated by law enforcement, which this guy was clearly targeted for investigation of crimes. Both of these determinations must be made BEFORE the cop enters the property.
It seems clear to me that the cop would then need to be asked what was his intent in contacting that particular person, the defendant, that moved the cop to deceptively use a recording device.
I think also it must be asked, at what point did the cop first contact this defendent. Was it at his front door when knocking to come in? Or hag they met prior, and agreed to meet at the defendant's house? Big questions that make a huge difference legally.
Clearly, the basic facts show that the undercover cop was intending to gather information about a criminal case from his encounter with the defendant in the process of a criminal investigation. THAT means he needs a warrant, sorry!
Going undercover is in part in my mind illegal anyway, as it's deceiving people into to doing things they wouldn't do around a cop. It's getting them to admit guilt to a crime without being read their rights that they have the right to remain silent under risk of self-incrimination. That's a violation of a person's rights, period.
The Obsolete Man
Plot
In a future totalitarian state, Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is a man put on trial for the crime of being obsolete. His occupation as a librarian is a crime punishable by death, as the State has eliminated books and literacy. He believes in God, a crime also punishable by death, as the State claims to have proven that there is no God. He is prosecuted by the Chancellor (Fritz Weaver), who announces in front of the assembled court that Wordsworth, in not being an asset to the State, shall be liquidated.After being convicted, Wordsworth is allowed to choose his method of execution. He cryptically requests that he be granted a personal assassin to whom he may privately disclose his preferred method of execution. He also requests that his execution be televised. Thinking that the spectacle will help show the public what happens when citizens become of no use to the State, the court grants both requests.
A camera is installed in Wordsworth's study to broadcast his final hours and execution live to the nation. He summons the Chancellor, who arrives at exactly 11:16 p.m. After some discussion, Wordsworth reveals to the Chancellor that his chosen method of execution is by an explosive set to go off in his room at midnight. He explains that the reaction to imminent execution that will interest the public is not his own but the Chancellor's, as the door is locked and no one is outside to help the Chancellor escape. He intends to show the nation how a spiritual man faces death, and proceeds to read from his illegal, long-hidden copy of the Bible. He also points out that, as the events are being broadcast live, the State would risk losing its status in the eyes of the people by trying to rescue the Chancellor. As the time draws to a close, Wordsworth's calm acceptance of death stands in sharp contrast with the Chancellor's increasing panic.
Moments before the bomb explodes, the Chancellor desperately begs to be let go "in the name of God". Wordsworth says that "in the name of God" he will release the Chancellor immediately, which he does. The Chancellor bursts out of the room and down the stairs just as the bomb explodes and kills Wordsworth.
In the final scene, he returns to the courtroom to discover that a new Chancellor has replaced him and that he himself is now obsolete: "You have disgraced the State. You have proven yourself a coward. You have, therefore, no function." Immediately convicted, the former Chancellor screams as the crowd in the courtroom apprehends him. In his closing narrative, Rod Serling says that "the Chancellor, the late Chancellor" was wrong about one thing: any state judging its own citizens obsolete is itself obsolete.
Political Messages
This episode was meant to highlight the dangers of totalitarianism. Wordsworth once compares the Chancellor to Hitler and Stalin, and asks "Does history teach you nothing?". The chancellor's reply is "On the contrary, history teaches us everything.". The chancellor then argues that Hitler and Stalin were not evil, and that on the contrary, they refused to go far enough. The episode is also meant to put emphasis on the importance of art, philosphy, literature, freedom of religion, and free speech in a society (all of which taken away by the state).Murder Under Hypnosis: The James Holmes Story Takes A Familiar Turn
Saman Mohammadi
Prisonplanet.com
November 30, 2012
Related:
The Shadow Patsy Rises Again: How Mind Control Is Connected To Gun Control .
Inmate: James Holmes Told Me He Was ‘Programmed’ To Kill by “Evil” Therapist .
Shooter James Holmes and DARPA Weird Science .
David Hammer Talks About McVeigh and Government Prior Knowledge of OKC Bombing .
A Deeper Look At “The Dark Knight Rises” Shooting: A CIA Black Op?
For more information, here is an excerpt from an article published in The Milwaukee Journal on March 25, 1969, called, “Sirhan Re-enacted Kennedy Killing Under Hypnosis”:
According to Unruh, a fellow inmate, Holmes said he was programmed to kill by a psychiatrist. Unruh has no reason to lie. It is very possible that Holmes was under hypnosis while he was at the scene of the mass shooting on that night in July.
Hypnosis is a science that can be used for deadly ends. Sirhan Sirhan was put under hypnosis in 1969 by a psychiatrist in under ten minutes, so imagine what government psychiatrists can do with mind control subjects and government patsies in our era.
Paul Joseph Watson elaborates on the strange similarities between the Robert F. Kennedy shooting and the Dark Knight Rises shooting in his article, “Inmate: James Holmes Told Me He Was ‘Programmed’ To Kill by “Evil” Therapist”:
In May 2010, Hammer spoke with Alex Jones about his conversations with McVeigh in prison and what they revealed about the Oklahoma City bombing.
The Dark Knight Rises shooting was not politically motivated, as the Oklahoma City bombing was said to be, but it has had damaging consequences on the struggle for gun rights. The public perception of the virtues of civilian gun ownership is negatively affected by shocking shooting stories in which ordinary people are mercilessly murdered at public places.
Quickly after the traumatic incident in July, many in the mainstream media jumped on the gun confiscation bandwagon. They no longer held back their true opinions about gun rights in a national period of tragedy and grief.
The government-run media reported the shooting without checking the background of Holmes or informing the public about the history of government staged terror events in the United States.
The media’s strange behaviour was a small clue that a bigger and sinister agenda was at work. Also, the public’s understandable emotional response to the shooting marked another propaganda victory in the establishment’s ideological and political war against gun rights.
Unruh’s revelations about Holmes’s awareness of his own programming is another clue that there is more to this story.
We would be fools to ignore these clues.
Saman Mohammadi is the writer and editor at The Excavator
Prisonplanet.com
November 30, 2012
Related:
The Shadow Patsy Rises Again: How Mind Control Is Connected To Gun Control .
Inmate: James Holmes Told Me He Was ‘Programmed’ To Kill by “Evil” Therapist .
Shooter James Holmes and DARPA Weird Science .
David Hammer Talks About McVeigh and Government Prior Knowledge of OKC Bombing .
A Deeper Look At “The Dark Knight Rises” Shooting: A CIA Black Op?
“The big key to the thing is that only the small secrets need to be kept. You can find just about anything the government is doing by going into scientific journals and doing research. But the big secrets are kept by public incredulity and your study and your experience is in an area which is not secret. All this has been known for a long time, but people don’t want to believe it and there is a great deal of denial.” – Walter Bowart, “The Secret History of Mind Control.”A trained psychiatric professional can put someone under hypnosis and tell him to commit a certain act very easily. Sirhan Sirhan, the patsy who was blamed for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, was put under hypnosis several times by a psychiatrist in his jail cell in which he re-enacted the murder.
For more information, here is an excerpt from an article published in The Milwaukee Journal on March 25, 1969, called, “Sirhan Re-enacted Kennedy Killing Under Hypnosis”:
Sirhan Sirhan re-enacted the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy while under hypnosis in January, it was revealed at his trial today.Keep this strange news piece from 1969 in mind when reading about Steven Unruh’s account of what James Holmes told him after the Dark Knight Rises shooting in July.
The 25-year-old Jordanian, placed in a trance by a psychiatrist, Dr. Bernard Diamond, pulled an imaginary pistol from his belt and fired it convulsively as he shouted, “You son-of-a-bitch, you son-of-a-bitch.”
Sirhan re-enacted the assassination during an interview with Dr. Diamond in a prison cell in Los Angeles, the psychiatrist testified.
Dr. Diamond said he had hypnotized Sirhan on six separate occasions. He put him into a trance each time in less than 10 minutes by holding a coin in front of him and repeatedly ordering him to relax.
According to Unruh, a fellow inmate, Holmes said he was programmed to kill by a psychiatrist. Unruh has no reason to lie. It is very possible that Holmes was under hypnosis while he was at the scene of the mass shooting on that night in July.
Hypnosis is a science that can be used for deadly ends. Sirhan Sirhan was put under hypnosis in 1969 by a psychiatrist in under ten minutes, so imagine what government psychiatrists can do with mind control subjects and government patsies in our era.
Paul Joseph Watson elaborates on the strange similarities between the Robert F. Kennedy shooting and the Dark Knight Rises shooting in his article, “Inmate: James Holmes Told Me He Was ‘Programmed’ To Kill by “Evil” Therapist”:
The parallels between Sirhan Sirhan and James Holmes are alarming. Both were described as behaving as if in a trance or under the influence of drugs, both cannot remember any of the details of the shootings, and in both cases eyewitnesses reported more than one gunman at the scene.It is a pattern for government patsies to talk openly to fellow inmates about their nerve-racking experiences. David Paul Hammer, who was the inmate of Timothy McVeigh, another famous patsy, informed the world about the true nature of the Oklahoma City bombing in two books called, “Secrets Worth Dying For: Timothy James McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing,” and, “Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing.”
In both the RFK and ‘Batman’ shootings, eyewitnesses described other shooters, dismantling the “lone wolf” narrative. According to Nina Rhodes-Hughes, another man was shooting at RFK and the authorities tried to alter her account of what happened. “What has to come out is that there was another shooter to my right,” Rhodes-Hughes said in an interview with CNN. “The truth has got to be told. No more cover-ups.” Sirhan’s lawyers also presented evidence that “two guns were fired in the assassination and that Sirhan’s revolver was not the gun that shot Kennedy.”Similarly in the case of Holmes, eyewitnesses described two shooters, noting that one of the gas canisters was thrown from the opposite side of the theater to where the killer was standing. It has also been suggested that Holmes had an accomplice. Eyewitnesses described the killer talking on a cellphone before the shooting and then standing in the emergency exit and beckoning someone else over.Holmes, a neuroscience student, was also fascinated with mind control. During his time at Salk Institute of Biological Studies, Holmes designed a computer program to alter mental states using flicker rates. Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner was also obsessed with mind control.While there is no way to confirm Unruh’s account, he seems to have little motive in making it up out of fresh air. Added to the other unexplained inconsistencies surrounding the ‘Batman’ massacre, the story will only serve to bolster the view amongst some that the full story about the tragic events of that night has not yet come to light.
In May 2010, Hammer spoke with Alex Jones about his conversations with McVeigh in prison and what they revealed about the Oklahoma City bombing.
The Dark Knight Rises shooting was not politically motivated, as the Oklahoma City bombing was said to be, but it has had damaging consequences on the struggle for gun rights. The public perception of the virtues of civilian gun ownership is negatively affected by shocking shooting stories in which ordinary people are mercilessly murdered at public places.
Quickly after the traumatic incident in July, many in the mainstream media jumped on the gun confiscation bandwagon. They no longer held back their true opinions about gun rights in a national period of tragedy and grief.
The government-run media reported the shooting without checking the background of Holmes or informing the public about the history of government staged terror events in the United States.
The media’s strange behaviour was a small clue that a bigger and sinister agenda was at work. Also, the public’s understandable emotional response to the shooting marked another propaganda victory in the establishment’s ideological and political war against gun rights.
Unruh’s revelations about Holmes’s awareness of his own programming is another clue that there is more to this story.
We would be fools to ignore these clues.
Saman Mohammadi is the writer and editor at The Excavator
Will Sick Babies Be Starved to Death Under Obamacare?
Doctor describes “horror” of Britain’s socialist healthcare system
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
November 30, 2012
“Survival is often much longer than most physicians think…..Parents and care teams are unprepared for the sometimes severe changes that they will witness in the child’s physical appearance as severe dehydration ensues,” he wrote.
“Some say withdrawing medically provided hydration and nutrition is akin to withdrawing any other form of life support. Maybe, but that is not how it feels,” he wrote, describing the mixture of “compassion, revulsion, and pain” the care team had to experience in watching the baby slowly die.
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
November 30, 2012
A physician has told the British Medical Journal about
the “unique horror” of watching a newborn baby shrivel up and die under a
cost-cutting system of socialized healthcare that withdraws feeding
tubes from sick and disabled babies, a method that could be replicated
in the United States under Obamacare.
After speaking with doctors who have blown the whistle
on how babies are being starved and dehydrated to death in British
hospitals, an investigation by the Daily Mail
has revealed that the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway end of life
regime is being used to kill disabled newborns and young children. It
was previously thought that the method was only being used on elderly
and terminally ill adult patients.
The method has been criticized as a form of euthanasia
because its primary purpose is to kill off patients quicker so as to
free up more hospital beds and resources.
One physician spoke of how parents who gave permission
for their babies to be put on the ‘pathway to death’ were making the
decision without properly considering the abhorrent reality of what
dehydration and starvation does to the human body.
“I know, as they cannot, the unique horror of witnessing
a child become smaller and shrunken, as the only route out of a life
that has become excruciating to the patient or to the parents who love
their baby,” the doctor writes. “I reflect on how sanitised this
experience seems within the literature about making this decision.”
The doctor also dismissed the myth that the baby does not suffer during the process.“Survival is often much longer than most physicians think…..Parents and care teams are unprepared for the sometimes severe changes that they will witness in the child’s physical appearance as severe dehydration ensues,” he wrote.
“Some say withdrawing medically provided hydration and nutrition is akin to withdrawing any other form of life support. Maybe, but that is not how it feels,” he wrote, describing the mixture of “compassion, revulsion, and pain” the care team had to experience in watching the baby slowly die.
Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), now under independent
investigation by order of government ministers, is a process whereby a
doctor identifies a patient who is likely to die and that patient is
then heavily sedated while treatment is withdrawn, “including the
provision of water and nourishment by tube.”
In a recent exposé,
Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals and
professor of clinical neurosciences at the University of Kent, revealed
that of the 450,000 patients who die annually under the care of the
NHS, 130,000 of them were on the Liverpool Care Pathway.
“If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that
euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying as it is now associated
with 29 per cent of NHS deaths,” Pullicino said.
The Telegraph’s Gerald Warner notes that LCP represents “euthanasia by the back door.” Other doctors such as Dr. Peter Hargreaves have highlighted the fact that patients taken off LCP have gone on to live for “significant amounts of time.”
Because death occurs on average within 33 hours of a
patient being put on LCP, the cost difference between two days of
morphine and treatment of a condition for months or even years means the
NHS is literally euthanising people to save money.
“In fact, Hargreaves noted,
some patients may exhibit signs of dying when their bodies are merely
reacting to sedation combined with dehydration and then “be wrongly put
on the pathway.” Once a patient is sedated under the LCP, University of
London geriatrics professor P.H. Millard told the Telegraph, “it is much
harder to see that a patient is getting better.”
“Pullicino echoed many of these sentiments, saying that
“patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of
their condition,” that “predicting death” at a specific time “is not
possible scientifically,” and that, as a result, “very likely many
patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the
LCP.”
Could a similar system of euthanasia become commonplace in America under Obamacare?
President Obama has repeatedly expressed his support
for the Medicare Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a group of
doctors that would make decisions on cost cutting measures under
Obamacare. Opponents of government-run healthcare have dubbed this a
system of “death panels” that would have the power to refuse treatment
to the elderly or severely ill patients, a de-facto form of mandatory
euthanasia.
Last month, Obama adviser Steven Rattner acknowledged that rationed healthcare would be part of Obamacare, brazenly stating, “We need death panels.”
The idea that “death panels” would be introduced through Obamacare as a means of rationing healthcare was also discussed during an Aspen Institute conference in 2010 when Obama supporter Bill Gates argued that money should not be spent on treating the elderly.
During a question and answer session, Gates implied that
elderly patients undergoing expensive health care treatments should be
killed and the money spent elsewhere.
Gates said there was a “lack of willingness” to consider
the question of choosing between “spending a million dollars on that
last three months of life for that patient” or laying off ten teachers.
“But that’s called the death panel and you’re not supposed to have that discussion,” added Gates.
Allowing patients to die via the horrifically slow and
painful method of dehydration and starvation is not just restricted to
the elderly and sick or disabled babies.
In a series of best-selling books,
author and bioethics expert Wesley J. Smith has exposed how adults in
the United States who regain consciousness after being comatose and are
able to exhibit physical and emotional responses are also being starved
and dehydrated to death.
If America mimics the Britain’s notoriously bad
socialized healthcare system, thousands upon thousands of sick babies
will likely be left to die excruciatingly painful deaths in the name of
cost-cutting measures that amount to nothing less than a cruel and
inhumane death sentence.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
TRANSFORMERS:Coming soon to a neighborhood near you
34 Signs That America Is In Decline
Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse
November 30, 2012
The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love. Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding Fathers started truly has been a light to the rest of the world in a lot of ways over the centuries. Unfortunately, our foundations are badly rotting and our nation is collapsing all around us. Many Americans like to think that the United States is greater today than it has ever been before, but the truth is that America is like a patient that has stage 4 cancer that has spread to almost every area of the body. Our nation is being destroyed in thousands of different ways, and more distressing news emerges with each passing day. This article will mainly focus on the economic decline of America, but much could also be said about our social, political, moral and spiritual decline as well. We are simply not the same country that we used to be. Americans are proud, selfish, greedy, arrogant, ungrateful, treacherous and completely addicted to entertainment and pleasure. Our country is literally falling apart all around us, but most Americans are so plugged into entertainment that they can’t even be bothered to notice what is happening. Most Americans seem to assume that we will always have endless prosperity just because of who we are, but unfortunately that simply is not true. We inherited the greatest economic machine the world has ever seen and we have wrecked it, and now a very painful day of reckoning is approaching. But most people will not understand until it is too late.
The following are 34 signs that America is in decline…
#1 According to the World Bank, U.S. GDP accounted for 31.8 percent of all global economic activity in 2001. That number dropped to 21.6 percent in 2011. That is not just a decline – that is a freefall. Just check out the chart inthis article.
#2 According to The Economist, the United States was the best place in the world to be born into back in 1988. Today, the United States is only tied for 16th place.
#3 The United States has fallen in the global economic competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum for four years in a row.
#4 According to the Wall Street Journal, of the 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders, half of them plan to reduce capital expenditures in coming months.
#5 More than three times as many new homes were sold in the United States in 2005 as will be sold in 2012.
#6 America once had the greatest manufacturing cities on the face of the earth. Now many of our formerly great manufacturing cities have degenerated into festering hellholes. For example, the city of Detroit is on the verge of financial collapse, and one state lawmaker is now saying that “dissolving Detroit” should be looked at as an option.
#7 In 2007, the unemployment rate for the 20 to 29 age bracket was about 6.5 percent. Today, the unemployment rate for that same age group is about 13 percent.
#8 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
#9 If you can believe it, approximately one out of every four American workers makes 10 dollars an hour or less.
#10 Sadly, 60 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were mid-wage jobs, but 58 percent of the jobs created since then have been low wage jobs.
#11 Median household income in America has fallen for four consecutive years. Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.
#12 The U.S. trade deficit with China during 2011 was 28 times larger than it was back in 1990.
#13 Incredibly, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since 2001. During 2010, manufacturing facilities were shutting down at the rate of 23 per day. How can anyone say that “things are getting better” when our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted?
#14 Back in early 2005, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was less than 2 dollars a gallon. During 2012, the average price of a gallon of gasoline has been $3.63.
#15 In 1999, 64.1 percent of all Americans were covered by employment-based health insurance. Today, only 55.1 percent are covered by employment-based health insurance.
#16 As I have written about previously, 61 percent of all Americans were “middle income” back in 1971 according to the Pew Research Center. Today, only 51 percent of all Americans are “middle income”.
#17 There are now 20.2 million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing. That represents a 46 percent increase from 2001.
#18 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate for children living in the United States is about 22 percent.
#19 Back in 1983, the bottom 95 percent of all income earners in the United States had 62 cents of debt for every dollar that they earned. By 2007, that figure had soared to $1.48.
#20 Total home mortgage debt in the United States is now about 5 times larger than it was just 20 years ago.
#21 Total credit card debt in the United States is now more than 8 times larger than it was just 30 years ago.
#22 The value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than 96 percent since the Federal Reserve was first created.
#23 According to one survey, 29 percent of all Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket are still living with their parents.
#24 Back in 1950, 78 percent of all households in the United States contained a married couple. Today, that number has declined to 48 percent.
#25 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that receives direct monetary benefits from the federal government. Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.
#26 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7 percent of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income.
#27 In November 2008, 30.8 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, 47.1 million Americans are on food stamps.
#28 Right now, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.
#29 As I wrote about the other day, according to one calculation the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.”
#30 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid, and things are about to get a whole lot worse. It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
#31 In 2001, the U.S. national debt was less than 6 trillion dollars. Today, it is over 16 trillion dollars and it is increasing by more than 100 million dollars every single hour.
#32 The U.S. national debt is now more than 23 times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter became president.
#33 According to a PBS report from earlier this year, U.S. households that make $13,000 or less per year spend 9 percent of their incomes on lottery tickets. Could that possibly be accurate? Are people really that foolish?
#34 As the U.S. economy has declined, the American people have been downing more antidepressants and other prescription drugs than ever before. In fact, the American people spent 60 billion dollars more on prescription drugs in 2010 than they did in 2005.
So what are our “leaders” doing about all of this?
Not much.
They just continue to insist that everything is “just fine”.
Sadly, the truth is that they live in a world that is very different from most of the rest of us.
Barack Obama is getting ready to take a 20 day vacation to Hawaii.
When was the last time you got to take a 20 day vacation?
And most of our “leaders” have no idea what it is like to struggle from month to month on a paycheck.
Overall, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. We are led by wealthy men who are serving the interests of other wealthy men.
But the problem with our system is not limited to the president and the members of Congress. The truth is that the political system in America has become a colossal beast that just continues to grow no matter who is in power. The political establishment of both parties is totally dependent on this beast, and they will continue to feed it and serve it because it has been very good to them. The following is from an outstanding article by Steve McCann…
Do you think that there is any chance that this insidious system will be uprooted any time soon?
Of course not.
We will continue on the same path that we are on right now and America will continue to decline.
Many will rejoice as America falls, but I will not.
I will mourn for a mighty Republic that has fallen and for a dream that has been lost.
Economic Collapse
November 30, 2012
The United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love. Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding Fathers started truly has been a light to the rest of the world in a lot of ways over the centuries. Unfortunately, our foundations are badly rotting and our nation is collapsing all around us. Many Americans like to think that the United States is greater today than it has ever been before, but the truth is that America is like a patient that has stage 4 cancer that has spread to almost every area of the body. Our nation is being destroyed in thousands of different ways, and more distressing news emerges with each passing day. This article will mainly focus on the economic decline of America, but much could also be said about our social, political, moral and spiritual decline as well. We are simply not the same country that we used to be. Americans are proud, selfish, greedy, arrogant, ungrateful, treacherous and completely addicted to entertainment and pleasure. Our country is literally falling apart all around us, but most Americans are so plugged into entertainment that they can’t even be bothered to notice what is happening. Most Americans seem to assume that we will always have endless prosperity just because of who we are, but unfortunately that simply is not true. We inherited the greatest economic machine the world has ever seen and we have wrecked it, and now a very painful day of reckoning is approaching. But most people will not understand until it is too late.
The following are 34 signs that America is in decline…
#1 According to the World Bank, U.S. GDP accounted for 31.8 percent of all global economic activity in 2001. That number dropped to 21.6 percent in 2011. That is not just a decline – that is a freefall. Just check out the chart inthis article.
#2 According to The Economist, the United States was the best place in the world to be born into back in 1988. Today, the United States is only tied for 16th place.
#3 The United States has fallen in the global economic competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum for four years in a row.
#4 According to the Wall Street Journal, of the 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders, half of them plan to reduce capital expenditures in coming months.
#5 More than three times as many new homes were sold in the United States in 2005 as will be sold in 2012.
#6 America once had the greatest manufacturing cities on the face of the earth. Now many of our formerly great manufacturing cities have degenerated into festering hellholes. For example, the city of Detroit is on the verge of financial collapse, and one state lawmaker is now saying that “dissolving Detroit” should be looked at as an option.
#7 In 2007, the unemployment rate for the 20 to 29 age bracket was about 6.5 percent. Today, the unemployment rate for that same age group is about 13 percent.
#8 Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
#9 If you can believe it, approximately one out of every four American workers makes 10 dollars an hour or less.
#10 Sadly, 60 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were mid-wage jobs, but 58 percent of the jobs created since then have been low wage jobs.
#11 Median household income in America has fallen for four consecutive years. Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.
#12 The U.S. trade deficit with China during 2011 was 28 times larger than it was back in 1990.
#13 Incredibly, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since 2001. During 2010, manufacturing facilities were shutting down at the rate of 23 per day. How can anyone say that “things are getting better” when our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted?
#14 Back in early 2005, the average price of a gallon of gasoline was less than 2 dollars a gallon. During 2012, the average price of a gallon of gasoline has been $3.63.
#15 In 1999, 64.1 percent of all Americans were covered by employment-based health insurance. Today, only 55.1 percent are covered by employment-based health insurance.
#16 As I have written about previously, 61 percent of all Americans were “middle income” back in 1971 according to the Pew Research Center. Today, only 51 percent of all Americans are “middle income”.
#17 There are now 20.2 million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing. That represents a 46 percent increase from 2001.
#18 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate for children living in the United States is about 22 percent.
#19 Back in 1983, the bottom 95 percent of all income earners in the United States had 62 cents of debt for every dollar that they earned. By 2007, that figure had soared to $1.48.
#20 Total home mortgage debt in the United States is now about 5 times larger than it was just 20 years ago.
#21 Total credit card debt in the United States is now more than 8 times larger than it was just 30 years ago.
#22 The value of the U.S. dollar has declined by more than 96 percent since the Federal Reserve was first created.
#23 According to one survey, 29 percent of all Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket are still living with their parents.
#24 Back in 1950, 78 percent of all households in the United States contained a married couple. Today, that number has declined to 48 percent.
#25 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that receives direct monetary benefits from the federal government. Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.
#26 In 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7 percent of all income. Today, government transfer payments account for more than 18 percent of all income.
#27 In November 2008, 30.8 million Americans were on food stamps. Today, 47.1 million Americans are on food stamps.
#28 Right now, one out of every four American children is on food stamps.
#29 As I wrote about the other day, according to one calculation the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.”
#30 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid, and things are about to get a whole lot worse. It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
#31 In 2001, the U.S. national debt was less than 6 trillion dollars. Today, it is over 16 trillion dollars and it is increasing by more than 100 million dollars every single hour.
#32 The U.S. national debt is now more than 23 times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter became president.
#33 According to a PBS report from earlier this year, U.S. households that make $13,000 or less per year spend 9 percent of their incomes on lottery tickets. Could that possibly be accurate? Are people really that foolish?
#34 As the U.S. economy has declined, the American people have been downing more antidepressants and other prescription drugs than ever before. In fact, the American people spent 60 billion dollars more on prescription drugs in 2010 than they did in 2005.
So what are our “leaders” doing about all of this?
Not much.
They just continue to insist that everything is “just fine”.
Sadly, the truth is that they live in a world that is very different from most of the rest of us.
Barack Obama is getting ready to take a 20 day vacation to Hawaii.
When was the last time you got to take a 20 day vacation?
And most of our “leaders” have no idea what it is like to struggle from month to month on a paycheck.
Overall, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. We are led by wealthy men who are serving the interests of other wealthy men.
But the problem with our system is not limited to the president and the members of Congress. The truth is that the political system in America has become a colossal beast that just continues to grow no matter who is in power. The political establishment of both parties is totally dependent on this beast, and they will continue to feed it and serve it because it has been very good to them. The following is from an outstanding article by Steve McCann…
The Republican and Democratic political establishments are made up of the following:
1) many current and nearly all retired national office holders whose livelihood and narcissistic demands depends upon fealty to Party and access to government largesse;
2) the majority of the media elite, including pundits, editors, writers and television news personalities based in Washington and New York whose proximity to power and access is vital to their continued standard of living;
3) academia, numerous think-tanks, so-called non-government organizations, and lobbyists who fasten onto those in the administration and Congress for employment, grants, favorable legislation and ego-gratification;
4) the reliable deep pocket political contributors and political consultants whose future is irrevocably tied to the political machinery of the Party; and
5) the crony capitalists, i.e. leaders of the corporate and financial community as well as unions whose entities are dependent on or subject to government oversight and/or benevolence .
Of course not.
We will continue on the same path that we are on right now and America will continue to decline.
Many will rejoice as America falls, but I will not.
I will mourn for a mighty Republic that has fallen and for a dream that has been lost.
Indefinite Detention--Senate Votes Down Military Imprisonment Of Americans(NDAA)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/29/indefinite-detention-senate-military-imprisonment_n_2215305.html
The Constitution and the 5th Amendment live another day!!!!!
WASHINGTON -- The Senate took a step Thursday toward ending the indefinite detention of Americans in the U.S., voting for a narrow amendment that some civil liberties groups opposed, even though they said it was in the right direction.
The measure, offered by Sen. Dianne Feistein (D-Calif.) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, specifies that citizens and legal residents suspected of terrorism in the U.S. cannot be held without trial indefinitely.
"I know this is a sensitive subject, but I really believe we stand on the values of our country, and the value of our country is justice for all," said Feinstein before the Senate voted 67 to 29 to add her provision to the NDAA.
Civil libertarians had problems with her amendment, even though many regarded it as a positive step.
The key sentence in her measure says: "An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States apprehended in the United States, unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention."
First, the rights groups argued, the measure does not provide justice for all, because it does not apply to non-citizens or Americans caught overseas.
"The constitutional requirements of due process of law apply to all persons within the United States," a coalition of 20 groups wrote in a letter to Feinstein Thursday. "The 5th Amendment to the Constitution states that 'No person shall be…deprived of…liberty…without due process of law.'"
The groups also said they worried that part of that sentence suggests that Congress believes it can write laws that abridge basic constitutional protections in the future.
"The clause 'unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention' could be read to imply that there are no constitutional obstacles to Congress enacting a statute that would authorize the domestic military detention of any person in the United States," the letter said.
Senators who had supported the detention of Americans in the past seemed to agree with the civil liberties groups.
One, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), pointed to the same exception. "This is a big 'unless,'" he said.
"I believe that the 2001 authorization for the use of military force authorized the detention of U.S. citizens when appropriate in accordance with the laws of war," said Levin, referring the authorization Congress passed after the 9/11 attacks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) an opponent of indefinite detention, said he believed the amendment does shield citizens, and said American terrorist suspects would be treated just like criminals and get trials, arguing that if Americans give up a basic constitutional right to trial, terrorists have won.
"People say, 'But these terrorists are horrible people.' Yes, they're horrible people, but every day and every night in our country horrible people are accused of crimes and they are taken to court," said Paul. "They have an attorney on our their side. They have a trial. People who we despise, people who murder and rape, are given trials by juries. We can try and we can prosecute terrorists."
President Barack Obama has pledged to never detain people caught in the United States -- perhaps making it an academic point during his presidency -- but if someone were to be grabbed and detained in the U.S., the extreme divergence of opinion among the lawmakers as to what the law does likely assures a court will eventually make a final determination.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), a supporter of detention, suggested matters were actually quite simple, and a judge would see it his way.
"When you're fighting a war, the goal is not to prosecute people, the goal is to win," Graham said. "How do you win a war? You kill them, you capture them and you interrogate them to find out what they're up to next."
The Constitution and the 5th Amendment live another day!!!!!
WASHINGTON -- The Senate took a step Thursday toward ending the indefinite detention of Americans in the U.S., voting for a narrow amendment that some civil liberties groups opposed, even though they said it was in the right direction.
The measure, offered by Sen. Dianne Feistein (D-Calif.) as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, specifies that citizens and legal residents suspected of terrorism in the U.S. cannot be held without trial indefinitely.
"I know this is a sensitive subject, but I really believe we stand on the values of our country, and the value of our country is justice for all," said Feinstein before the Senate voted 67 to 29 to add her provision to the NDAA.
Civil libertarians had problems with her amendment, even though many regarded it as a positive step.
The key sentence in her measure says: "An authorization to use military force, a declaration of war, or any similar authority shall not authorize the detention without charge or trial of a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States apprehended in the United States, unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention."
First, the rights groups argued, the measure does not provide justice for all, because it does not apply to non-citizens or Americans caught overseas.
"The constitutional requirements of due process of law apply to all persons within the United States," a coalition of 20 groups wrote in a letter to Feinstein Thursday. "The 5th Amendment to the Constitution states that 'No person shall be…deprived of…liberty…without due process of law.'"
The groups also said they worried that part of that sentence suggests that Congress believes it can write laws that abridge basic constitutional protections in the future.
"The clause 'unless an Act of Congress expressly authorizes such detention' could be read to imply that there are no constitutional obstacles to Congress enacting a statute that would authorize the domestic military detention of any person in the United States," the letter said.
Senators who had supported the detention of Americans in the past seemed to agree with the civil liberties groups.
One, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), pointed to the same exception. "This is a big 'unless,'" he said.
"I believe that the 2001 authorization for the use of military force authorized the detention of U.S. citizens when appropriate in accordance with the laws of war," said Levin, referring the authorization Congress passed after the 9/11 attacks.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) an opponent of indefinite detention, said he believed the amendment does shield citizens, and said American terrorist suspects would be treated just like criminals and get trials, arguing that if Americans give up a basic constitutional right to trial, terrorists have won.
"People say, 'But these terrorists are horrible people.' Yes, they're horrible people, but every day and every night in our country horrible people are accused of crimes and they are taken to court," said Paul. "They have an attorney on our their side. They have a trial. People who we despise, people who murder and rape, are given trials by juries. We can try and we can prosecute terrorists."
President Barack Obama has pledged to never detain people caught in the United States -- perhaps making it an academic point during his presidency -- but if someone were to be grabbed and detained in the U.S., the extreme divergence of opinion among the lawmakers as to what the law does likely assures a court will eventually make a final determination.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), a supporter of detention, suggested matters were actually quite simple, and a judge would see it his way.
"When you're fighting a war, the goal is not to prosecute people, the goal is to win," Graham said. "How do you win a war? You kill them, you capture them and you interrogate them to find out what they're up to next."
Why Is The US Building A Secret $100 Million Underground Facility Outside Tel Aviv?
Robert Johnson
Business Insider
Nov 29, 2012
Leave it to legendary Walter Pincus from the Washington Post to flesh out a Request for Proposal construction project planned for Israel called Site 911.
The oddly named project will cost up to $100 million, take more than two years to complete, and can only be built by workers from specific countries with proper security clearances. Palestinians need not apply.
When complete the well-guarded compound will have five levels buried underground and six additional outbuildings on the above grounds, within the perimeter. At about 127,000 square feet, the first three floors will house classrooms, an auditorium, and a laboratory — all wedged behind shock resistant doors — with radiation protection and massive security.
Only one gate will allow workers entrance and exit during the project and that will be guarded by only Israelis.
The bottom two floors are smaller, according to the full line of schematics uploaded to the Army’s Acquisition Business Web Site, and possibly used for equipment and storage.
As impressive as the American design features already are, Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects will decorate the entire site with rocks it chooses, but are paid for by the contractor, and provide three outdoor picnic tables.
Pincus also found this detailed description of the mezuzahs that will adorn every door in the facility:
These mezuzas, notes the [US Army] Corps, “shall be written in inerasable ink, on . . . uncoated leather parchment” and be handwritten by a scribe “holding a written authorization according to Jewish law.” The writing may be “Ashkenazik or Sepharadik” but “not a mixture” and “must be uniform.”
Also, “The Mezuzahs shall be proof-read by a computer at an authorized institution for Mezuzah inspection, as well as manually proof-read for the form of the letters by a proof-reader authorized by the Chief Rabbinate.” The mezuza shall be supplied with an aluminum housing with holes so it can be connected to the door frame or opening. Finally, “All Mezuzahs for the facility shall be affixed by the Base’s Rabbi or his appointed representative and not by the contractor staff.”
Along with this request is another called 911 Phase 2.
Also in the $100 million range, Pincus finds the “complex facility with site development challenges” requiring services that include “electrical, communication, mechanical/ HVAC [heating, ventilation, air conditioning] and plumbing” requirements telling; and along with the fact that the contractor must posses a U.S. or Israeli Secret Security Clearance, he believes this phase to be a secure command center.
Pulitzer Prize winning, Yale grad, born in 1932 whose worked intelligence and media in D.C. since 1955 closes his piece with these shadowy words.
“The purpose of Site 911 is [un] clear.”
Business Insider
Nov 29, 2012
Leave it to legendary Walter Pincus from the Washington Post to flesh out a Request for Proposal construction project planned for Israel called Site 911.
The oddly named project will cost up to $100 million, take more than two years to complete, and can only be built by workers from specific countries with proper security clearances. Palestinians need not apply.
When complete the well-guarded compound will have five levels buried underground and six additional outbuildings on the above grounds, within the perimeter. At about 127,000 square feet, the first three floors will house classrooms, an auditorium, and a laboratory — all wedged behind shock resistant doors — with radiation protection and massive security.
Only one gate will allow workers entrance and exit during the project and that will be guarded by only Israelis.
The bottom two floors are smaller, according to the full line of schematics uploaded to the Army’s Acquisition Business Web Site, and possibly used for equipment and storage.
As impressive as the American design features already are, Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects will decorate the entire site with rocks it chooses, but are paid for by the contractor, and provide three outdoor picnic tables.
Pincus also found this detailed description of the mezuzahs that will adorn every door in the facility:
These mezuzas, notes the [US Army] Corps, “shall be written in inerasable ink, on . . . uncoated leather parchment” and be handwritten by a scribe “holding a written authorization according to Jewish law.” The writing may be “Ashkenazik or Sepharadik” but “not a mixture” and “must be uniform.”
Also, “The Mezuzahs shall be proof-read by a computer at an authorized institution for Mezuzah inspection, as well as manually proof-read for the form of the letters by a proof-reader authorized by the Chief Rabbinate.” The mezuza shall be supplied with an aluminum housing with holes so it can be connected to the door frame or opening. Finally, “All Mezuzahs for the facility shall be affixed by the Base’s Rabbi or his appointed representative and not by the contractor staff.”
Along with this request is another called 911 Phase 2.
Also in the $100 million range, Pincus finds the “complex facility with site development challenges” requiring services that include “electrical, communication, mechanical/ HVAC [heating, ventilation, air conditioning] and plumbing” requirements telling; and along with the fact that the contractor must posses a U.S. or Israeli Secret Security Clearance, he believes this phase to be a secure command center.
Pulitzer Prize winning, Yale grad, born in 1932 whose worked intelligence and media in D.C. since 1955 closes his piece with these shadowy words.
“The purpose of Site 911 is [un] clear.”
Thursday, November 29, 2012
NYPD officer photographed giving boots to barefoot homeless man melts icy hearts online
A photo of a New York City police
officer kneeling down to give a barefoot homeless man in Times Square a
pair of boots on a cold November night is melting even the iciest New
Yorkers' hearts online.
On Nov. 14, NYPD officer Lawrence
DePrimo, who was on counterterrorism duty in Times Square, saw the
older homeless man without shoes sitting on 42nd Street. DePrimo, 25,
left and then returned with a pair of $100 boots he bought at a nearby
Skechers store.
"It was freezing out, and you
could see the blisters on the man's feet," DePrimo, a three-year veteran
of the department who lives with his parents on Long Island, told the New York Times. "I had two pairs of socks, and I was still cold."
The random act of kindness was captured by Jennifer Foster, a tourist
from Florence, Ariz., who was visiting the city. Foster, communications
director for the Pinal County Sheriff's Office in Arizona, emailed the
photo to the NYPD with a note commending DePrimo."The officer said, 'I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let's put them on and take care of you,'" Foster wrote. "The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man.
"I have been in law enforcement for 17 years," she continued. "I was never so impressed in my life. ... It is important, I think, for all of us to remember the real reason we are in this line of work. The reminder this officer gave to our profession in his presentation of human kindness has not been lost."
Foster's photo was posted on the NYPD's Facebook page on Tuesday, where it received more than 320,000 "likes," 77,000 "shares" and 20,000 comments—most of them praising DePrimo, who seems to have restored Facebook's faith in humanity.
"This is one hell of a police officer," Desiree Wright-Borden wrote.
"Wow," Jack Horton wrote. "It's nice to know there are still good people out there."
"Angels truly do walk on earth!!!" Charlene Hoffman-Pestell wrote.
Some commenters, though, were skeptical, saying the photo could have been staged.
"Clever stunt!" Louis Zehmke wrote. "The hobo is 'parked' at the entrance of a shoe shop."
But Foster claims DePrimo had no
idea he was being photographed: "The officer expected NOTHING in return
and did not know I was watching."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/nypd-boots-homeless-man-photo-145219581.html
Code Name Artichoke - The CIA's Secret Experiments on Humans
Introduction to the Collage Method:
Chaos, Creation, & Collage
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Collage/Chaos-creation-collage/Creation-Theory.html
The Collage Method consists of a progressive sequence of physical activities and a closely correlated series of therapeutic interviews.
Taken one by one the physical activities of collage-making appear disarmingly simple, so simple in fact that their significance easily escapes notice. However, when they are taken together, as an integrated series of transformations, a quite surprising symbolism appears. The activities entailed in making and physically transforming collages can then be seen to embody the logic of psychological development. These activities comprise an extended metaphor: they symbolize the growth of the human mind.
This correspondence between a series of ‘simple’ activities on the one hand, and a subtle developmental logic on the other, is the key to the Collage Method. Thanks to this correspondence, the Collage Method enables the collage maker to re-trace, in a forward direction, the path by which the psyche develops in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
The logic of psychological development is not something one leaves behind as one ‘grows up.’ Childhood is important precisely because it provides access to a universal generative function, which is the logic of creativity in general. The psychotherapeutic power of the Collage Method derives from the fact that it provides a way to re-access this universal logic of creation.
On the Collage Path every step is symbolic. Every step on this path symbolizes some essential increment of symbolizing capability. That is why it is possible to say that the Collage Path symbolizes symbolization. Expressed differently, the collage process provides a ‘user interface’ to the mind’s inner black box, a way to engage the psychoformative action by which, in creating and re-creating many types of symbols, the psyche keeps itself alive.
Why is the Collage Method a psychotherapeutic technique? The Collage Method functions in two ways simultaneously: the Collage Path provides both an open format for personal expression, and an ordered sequence for structural transformation. This double-functioning enables people to tell their personal stories in such a way that the stories open up, the elements become fluid and available to enter into new combinations, and the teller/collage-maker becomes accessible to creative change.
The specific images used by collage makers are important, of course, but the content of these images, and the interpretation of this content, are approached indirectly here: from the ‘bottom up.’ In this approach, the process of discerning and interpreting meaning is enfolded within a re-creation of those mental operations that establish meaning, and, more specifically, establish the capactity to make meanings, in the first place.
In the same way that the progressive logic of psychological development transforms the child’s experience, so also the operations performed upon the collage transform the multi-image field. These structuring operations—highly abstract and elusive in actual life, but in this method foregrounded and made concrete—are the object of the Collage Path.
Re-creating these paradigmatic operations leads to interpretations of the particular, very personal images, configurations, and transformations that appear during the course of a collage process. But, more fundamentally, these operations produce a psychological subject who is capable of forming and using such interpretations: a “collage maker” who is a locus of subjectivity and is, himself or herself, continually under construction.…
Specific images are chosen by collage makers because they are bearers of feeling, or because they serve as emotional catalysts, marking essential positions in what becomes, thanks to their presence, a highly charged emotional space. When these feeling-laiden and feeling-marking images are combined in multi-image configurations, the feelings at play are multiplied by the interactions that occur among all the images. The amount of feeling in the total field can then become nearly overwhelming.
Feelings intensify when strongly motivated images are brought close to each other. A need then arises to re-structure the whole image-field in which these images occur, so that mounting levels of excitation can be made bearable by being channelized in new ways. Successive re-structurations raise the field to progressively higher levels of organization, each new level governed by more complex cognitive principles.
Over the course of a collage process the collage-maker’s core images and key personal symbols, including ones that have been repressed or disavowed, come to light. Given the depth of the developmental sequence that the Collage Path re-creates, and the vividness of the materials it employs, they can scarcely fail to do so. But these symbols emerge here in a formative context, in which the primary object is not symbols but symbolization. This implies that the psychic conditions that will enable these problematic, feeling-laiden symbols to be clearly faced and progressively re-integrated, re-symbolized within a more differentiated self — these symbolizing conditions are, on the Collage Path, re-created along with the symbols they support.
The mind is, inherently, a pluralistic society; a collage is, above all, a contained multiplicity. Hence it is not the action of isolated images, no matter how potent, that motivates the movement we will follow here; it is, rather, energies and tensions generated within multi-image fields that propel it. Accordingly, the cultural background presumed by the Collage Path is the contemporary experience of over-stimulation and fragmentation: the experience of multiple elements proliferating, generating a surplus of feeling, becoming unmanageable. Fragmentation is both a paradigmatic psychological symptom and an inescapable prelude to innovation; a source of anxiety and pain, and an opening to the birth of new form.
Chaos, Creation, & Collage
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Collage/Chaos-creation-collage/Creation-Theory.html
The Collage Method consists of a progressive sequence of physical activities and a closely correlated series of therapeutic interviews.
Taken one by one the physical activities of collage-making appear disarmingly simple, so simple in fact that their significance easily escapes notice. However, when they are taken together, as an integrated series of transformations, a quite surprising symbolism appears. The activities entailed in making and physically transforming collages can then be seen to embody the logic of psychological development. These activities comprise an extended metaphor: they symbolize the growth of the human mind.
This correspondence between a series of ‘simple’ activities on the one hand, and a subtle developmental logic on the other, is the key to the Collage Method. Thanks to this correspondence, the Collage Method enables the collage maker to re-trace, in a forward direction, the path by which the psyche develops in infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
The logic of psychological development is not something one leaves behind as one ‘grows up.’ Childhood is important precisely because it provides access to a universal generative function, which is the logic of creativity in general. The psychotherapeutic power of the Collage Method derives from the fact that it provides a way to re-access this universal logic of creation.
On the Collage Path every step is symbolic. Every step on this path symbolizes some essential increment of symbolizing capability. That is why it is possible to say that the Collage Path symbolizes symbolization. Expressed differently, the collage process provides a ‘user interface’ to the mind’s inner black box, a way to engage the psychoformative action by which, in creating and re-creating many types of symbols, the psyche keeps itself alive.
Why is the Collage Method a psychotherapeutic technique? The Collage Method functions in two ways simultaneously: the Collage Path provides both an open format for personal expression, and an ordered sequence for structural transformation. This double-functioning enables people to tell their personal stories in such a way that the stories open up, the elements become fluid and available to enter into new combinations, and the teller/collage-maker becomes accessible to creative change.
The specific images used by collage makers are important, of course, but the content of these images, and the interpretation of this content, are approached indirectly here: from the ‘bottom up.’ In this approach, the process of discerning and interpreting meaning is enfolded within a re-creation of those mental operations that establish meaning, and, more specifically, establish the capactity to make meanings, in the first place.
In the same way that the progressive logic of psychological development transforms the child’s experience, so also the operations performed upon the collage transform the multi-image field. These structuring operations—highly abstract and elusive in actual life, but in this method foregrounded and made concrete—are the object of the Collage Path.
Re-creating these paradigmatic operations leads to interpretations of the particular, very personal images, configurations, and transformations that appear during the course of a collage process. But, more fundamentally, these operations produce a psychological subject who is capable of forming and using such interpretations: a “collage maker” who is a locus of subjectivity and is, himself or herself, continually under construction.…
Specific images are chosen by collage makers because they are bearers of feeling, or because they serve as emotional catalysts, marking essential positions in what becomes, thanks to their presence, a highly charged emotional space. When these feeling-laiden and feeling-marking images are combined in multi-image configurations, the feelings at play are multiplied by the interactions that occur among all the images. The amount of feeling in the total field can then become nearly overwhelming.
Feelings intensify when strongly motivated images are brought close to each other. A need then arises to re-structure the whole image-field in which these images occur, so that mounting levels of excitation can be made bearable by being channelized in new ways. Successive re-structurations raise the field to progressively higher levels of organization, each new level governed by more complex cognitive principles.
Over the course of a collage process the collage-maker’s core images and key personal symbols, including ones that have been repressed or disavowed, come to light. Given the depth of the developmental sequence that the Collage Path re-creates, and the vividness of the materials it employs, they can scarcely fail to do so. But these symbols emerge here in a formative context, in which the primary object is not symbols but symbolization. This implies that the psychic conditions that will enable these problematic, feeling-laiden symbols to be clearly faced and progressively re-integrated, re-symbolized within a more differentiated self — these symbolizing conditions are, on the Collage Path, re-created along with the symbols they support.
The mind is, inherently, a pluralistic society; a collage is, above all, a contained multiplicity. Hence it is not the action of isolated images, no matter how potent, that motivates the movement we will follow here; it is, rather, energies and tensions generated within multi-image fields that propel it. Accordingly, the cultural background presumed by the Collage Path is the contemporary experience of over-stimulation and fragmentation: the experience of multiple elements proliferating, generating a surplus of feeling, becoming unmanageable. Fragmentation is both a paradigmatic psychological symptom and an inescapable prelude to innovation; a source of anxiety and pain, and an opening to the birth of new form.
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http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.html
Norman Mailer, excerpts from his novel Harlot’s Ghost (1991)
The Family Jewels and the “High Holies”
“Herrick”
The Letter
“Wet jobs” and termination experiments
Fred Marchant, three poems from Full Moon Boat (2000):
“Windows”
“The Collage House”
“The Phoenix Program”
Family sues US over mysterious death of scientist who was drugged during Cold War
WASHINGTON — The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel — not, as the CIA says, that he jumped to his death.
Sons Eric and Nils Olson of Frederick, Md., sought unspecified compensatory damages in the lawsuit filed in federal court, but their lawyer, Scott D. Gilbert, said they also want to see a broad range of documents related to Olson’s death and other matters that they say the CIA has withheld from them since the death.
Olson was a bioweapons expert at Fort Detrick, the Army’s biological weapons research center in Maryland. Their lawsuit claims the CIA killed Olson when he developed misgivings after witnessing extreme interrogations in which they allege the CIA committed murder using biological agents Olson had developed.
The CIA had a program in the 1950s and ‘60s called MK-ULTRA, which involved brainwashing and administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project was investigated by Congress in the 1970s.
Olson consumed a drink laced with LSD by CIA agents on Nov. 19, 1953, the suit says. Later that month, after being taken to New York City purportedly for a “psychiatric” consultation, Olson plunged to his death.
At the time — when Eric and Nils Olson were 9 and 5 years old, respectively — the CIA said he died in an accident and did not divulge to his family that Olsen had been given LSD.
But in 1975, a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released a report on CIA abuses that included a reference to an Army scientist who had jumped from a New York hotel days after being slipped LSD in 1953. Family members threatened to sue, but President Gerald Ford invited the family to the White House, assuring them they would be given all the government’s information. CIA Director William Colby handed over documents and the family accepted a $750,000 settlement to avert a lawsuit.
In an email, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said that while the agency doesn’t comment on matters before U.S. courts, “CIA activities related to MK-ULTRA have been thoroughly investigated over the years, and the agency cooperated with each of those investigations.” She noted that tens of thousands of pages related to the program have been released to the public.
In a statement, Eric Olson said that the CIA has not given a complete picture of what happened to his father.
“The evidence shows that our father was killed in their custody,” he said. “They have lied to us ever since, withholding documents and information, and changing their story when convenient.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/family-sues-cia-over-mysterious-death-of-scientist-who-was-drugged-during-cold-war/2012/11/28/f9af7b04-39a5-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html
WASHINGTON — The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel — not, as the CIA says, that he jumped to his death.
Sons Eric and Nils Olson of Frederick, Md., sought unspecified compensatory damages in the lawsuit filed in federal court, but their lawyer, Scott D. Gilbert, said they also want to see a broad range of documents related to Olson’s death and other matters that they say the CIA has withheld from them since the death.
Olson was a bioweapons expert at Fort Detrick, the Army’s biological weapons research center in Maryland. Their lawsuit claims the CIA killed Olson when he developed misgivings after witnessing extreme interrogations in which they allege the CIA committed murder using biological agents Olson had developed.
The CIA had a program in the 1950s and ‘60s called MK-ULTRA, which involved brainwashing and administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project was investigated by Congress in the 1970s.
Olson consumed a drink laced with LSD by CIA agents on Nov. 19, 1953, the suit says. Later that month, after being taken to New York City purportedly for a “psychiatric” consultation, Olson plunged to his death.
At the time — when Eric and Nils Olson were 9 and 5 years old, respectively — the CIA said he died in an accident and did not divulge to his family that Olsen had been given LSD.
But in 1975, a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released a report on CIA abuses that included a reference to an Army scientist who had jumped from a New York hotel days after being slipped LSD in 1953. Family members threatened to sue, but President Gerald Ford invited the family to the White House, assuring them they would be given all the government’s information. CIA Director William Colby handed over documents and the family accepted a $750,000 settlement to avert a lawsuit.
In an email, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said that while the agency doesn’t comment on matters before U.S. courts, “CIA activities related to MK-ULTRA have been thoroughly investigated over the years, and the agency cooperated with each of those investigations.” She noted that tens of thousands of pages related to the program have been released to the public.
In a statement, Eric Olson said that the CIA has not given a complete picture of what happened to his father.
“The evidence shows that our father was killed in their custody,” he said. “They have lied to us ever since, withholding documents and information, and changing their story when convenient.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/family-sues-cia-over-mysterious-death-of-scientist-who-was-drugged-during-cold-war/2012/11/28/f9af7b04-39a5-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html
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On November 28, 1953, one of America’s greatest mysteries occurred when a Army biochemist working with the CIA fell to his death from a hotel window in New York City. Twenty-two years later it was revealed that the scientist, Frank Olson, had been drugged with LSD days before his death. In 1996, the New York District Attorney’s Office opened a murder investigation into Olson’s strange death.
http://12160.info/video/mike-rivero-interviews-hank-hp
related : Jack Blood Hank H.P. Albarelli Mar 17 2010
http://12160.info/video/jack-blood-hank-hp-albarelli
Code Name Artichoke - (Full Length)
http://12160.info/video/code-name-artichoke-the-cia-s-secret-experiments-on-humans-full
The CIA's Secret Experiments on Humans
see:
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/9586/Code-Name-Artichoke
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCIENTISTS_DEATH_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-28-16-47-42
Nov 28, 6:21 PM EST
Family sues US over (Frank Olson) scientist's mysterious death
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel - not, as the CIA says, that he jumped to his death.
Sons Eric and Nils Olson of Frederick, Md., sought unspecified compensatory damages in the lawsuit filed in federal court, but their lawyer, Scott D. Gilbert, said they also want to see a broad range of documents related to Olson's death and other matters that they say the CIA has withheld from them since the death.
Olson was a bioweapons expert at Fort Detrick, the Army's biological weapons research center in Maryland. Their lawsuit claims the CIA killed Olson when he developed misgivings after witnessing extreme interrogations in which they allege the CIA committed murder using biological agents Olson had developed.
The CIA had a program in the 1950s and `60s called MK-ULTRA, which involved brainwashing and administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project was investigated by Congress in the 1970s.
Olson consumed a drink laced with LSD by CIA agents on Nov. 19, 1953, the suit says. Later that month, after being taken to New York City purportedly for a "psychiatric" consultation, Olson plunged to his death.
At the time - when Eric and Nils Olson were 9 and 5 years old, respectively - the CIA said he died in an accident and did not divulge to his family that Olsen had been given LSD.
But in 1975, a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released a report on CIA abuses that included a reference to an Army scientist who had jumped from a New York hotel days after being slipped LSD in 1953. Family members threatened to sue, but President Gerald Ford invited the family to the White House, assuring them they would be given all the government's information. CIA Director William Colby handed over documents and the family accepted a $750,000 settlement to avert a lawsuit.
In an email, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said that while the agency doesn't comment on matters before U.S. courts, "CIA activities related to MK-ULTRA have been thoroughly investigated over the years, and the agency cooperated with each of those investigations."
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http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/9586/Code-Name-Artichoke
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCIENTISTS_DEATH_LAWSUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-28-16-47-42
Nov 28, 6:21 PM EST
Family sues US over (Frank Olson) scientist's mysterious death
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel - not, as the CIA says, that he jumped to his death.
Sons Eric and Nils Olson of Frederick, Md., sought unspecified compensatory damages in the lawsuit filed in federal court, but their lawyer, Scott D. Gilbert, said they also want to see a broad range of documents related to Olson's death and other matters that they say the CIA has withheld from them since the death.
Olson was a bioweapons expert at Fort Detrick, the Army's biological weapons research center in Maryland. Their lawsuit claims the CIA killed Olson when he developed misgivings after witnessing extreme interrogations in which they allege the CIA committed murder using biological agents Olson had developed.
The CIA had a program in the 1950s and `60s called MK-ULTRA, which involved brainwashing and administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project was investigated by Congress in the 1970s.
Olson consumed a drink laced with LSD by CIA agents on Nov. 19, 1953, the suit says. Later that month, after being taken to New York City purportedly for a "psychiatric" consultation, Olson plunged to his death.
At the time - when Eric and Nils Olson were 9 and 5 years old, respectively - the CIA said he died in an accident and did not divulge to his family that Olsen had been given LSD.
But in 1975, a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller released a report on CIA abuses that included a reference to an Army scientist who had jumped from a New York hotel days after being slipped LSD in 1953. Family members threatened to sue, but President Gerald Ford invited the family to the White House, assuring them they would be given all the government's information. CIA Director William Colby handed over documents and the family accepted a $750,000 settlement to avert a lawsuit.
In an email, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said that while the agency doesn't comment on matters before U.S. courts, "CIA activities related to MK-ULTRA have been thoroughly investigated over the years, and the agency cooperated with each of those investigations."
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The Sequoia Seminars - 1954 - LSD Therapy - History -> Henry Burton
Sharman ->> Jesus as teacher Canadian Missionaries to China
-->> James Gareth Endicott -- >> Zhou Enlai -->> OSS
Dixie Mission -->> Japan Unit 731 --->>> BioWarfare
Korea ---> Frank Olson BioWarfare and Chemical Warfare - Fort
Dietrick - LSD
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Ok - But what does all this have to do with LSD? You ask .... Frank Olson
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/arti-n13.shtml
TV film on death of Frank Olson
German documentary charges US used biological weapons in Korean War
By Peter Schwarz 13 November 2002 ...
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2010/03/201031761541794128.html
Dirty little secrets (video)
Al Jazeera investigates claims that the US used germ warfare during the Korean War.
Diarmuid Jeffreys Last Modified: 04 Apr 2010 11:25 GMT
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North Korea alleges that the US used biological weapons against Korean civilians during the war– dropping "germ" bombs containing insects, shellfish and feathers infected with anthrax, typhoid and bubonic plague on villages across the country
People & Power - Dirty little secrets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATS4exmEhjY
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=204776.msg1332128#msg1332128
Codename Artichoke—the Secret Human Experiments of the CIA is available in German only from C. Bertelssmann Verlag, Munich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBogdBLCLk
Secret Human Experiments of the CIA
related: Vietnam Mia's left to die and be tortured in China/USSR/North korea:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/pow/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/pow/pdf/McCain_bill.pdf
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Ok - But what does all this have to do with LSD? You ask .... Frank Olson
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/arti-n13.shtml
TV film on death of Frank Olson
German documentary charges US used biological weapons in Korean War
By Peter Schwarz 13 November 2002 ...
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2010/03/201031761541794128.html
Dirty little secrets (video)
Al Jazeera investigates claims that the US used germ warfare during the Korean War.
Diarmuid Jeffreys Last Modified: 04 Apr 2010 11:25 GMT
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North Korea alleges that the US used biological weapons against Korean civilians during the war– dropping "germ" bombs containing insects, shellfish and feathers infected with anthrax, typhoid and bubonic plague on villages across the country
People & Power - Dirty little secrets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATS4exmEhjY
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=204776.msg1332128#msg1332128
Codename Artichoke—the Secret Human Experiments of the CIA is available in German only from C. Bertelssmann Verlag, Munich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBogdBLCLk
Secret Human Experiments of the CIA
related: Vietnam Mia's left to die and be tortured in China/USSR/North korea:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/pow/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/pow/pdf/McCain_bill.pdf
Code Name Artichoke - The CIA's Secret Experiments on Humans (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThqUt6fozhc
More than 40 years after his death, the body of former CIA scientist Dr. Frank Olson has been exhumed. Olson's son Eric is convinced his father was murdered by agents of the American government because he wanted to leave the CIA. Dr. Frank Olson was an expert for anthrax and other biological weapons and had top security clearance. Forensic pathologists at George Washington University performed an autopsy and concluded that Olson probably was the victim of a violent crime. A film by Egmont R. Koch and Michael Wech.
Entire Script:http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articulations/Script-CodeNameArtichoke.html
Articles, films, texts, broadcasts (most recent first):
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.html
See below for other anthrax, BW, Detrick, CIA-history, 9/11, and Iraq-related stories.
“Dr. G: America’s Most Shocking Cases.”
Feature on the Frank Olson case.
Discovery Health Channel.
(Premier 9 PM EDT, April 2, 2010.)
“Dirty Little Secrets.”
One-hour documentary film examines the allegation of American use of biological weapons in the Korean War.
AlJazeera English.
(March 17, 2010.)
Related clip: Japanese Unit 731.
Related clip: Secret Detrick deal with the Japanese.
“Frank Olson's murder is like a nuclear bomb in an 18th century naval battle…”
“LSD, Murder and the CIA: Frank Olson, Enemy Combatant.”
By David Swanson.
Counterpunch.
(March 26 - 28, 2010.)
“Long, strange trip:
Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?”
by Philip Messing.
New York Post.
(March 13, 2010.)
“A Terrible Mistake: H.P. Albarelli's Investigation into CIA Scientist's Murder, at the Crossroads of Mind Control and Assassination.”
By Melissa Roddy
Huffington Post.
(Posted March 4, 2010.)
The Pont St.-Esprit Incident
“Very bad trip à Pont-Saint-Esprit.”
En 1951,un bourg entier du Gard hallucine pendant une semaine. Un journaliste américain prétend avoir percé le mystère : le village aurait été arrosé de LSD par la CIApour une expérience secrète.
Par Loïc Chauvin.
PDF version.
(Les Inrockuptibles, numéro 744 / 3 mars 2010.)
Related links on Pont St.-Esprit:
Interview with H.P. Albarelli.
Red Ice Radio on YouTube.
Telegraph (London).
Government Executive. com
Boing-Boing.
“The Real Roots of the CIA's Rendition and Black Sites.”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Jeffrey Kaye
(Posted February 18, 2010.)
Originally published at Truthout.
“A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments.”
By H.P. Albarelli, Jr.
(Trine Day, Nov. 2009, 826 pp.)
Barnes & Noble.
The Men Who Stare at Goats.
By Jon Ronson.
(Picador Books, Sept. 2004.)
Chapters on the Olson story omitted from the 2009 George Clooney film:
“The 1953 House.”
“Harolds Club or Bust!”
Watch clips from “Anthrax War,” including video from
“The Ghost of Frank Olson.”
“The Ghost of Frank Olson.”
Chapter 4 of,
Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail.
By Bob Coen and Eric Nadler.
(Counterpoint Press, June 9, 2009.)
“Anthrax War.”
Premier on CBC Newsworld, March 29, 2009, 9 PM Eastern.
Docmentary film on the world of biological weapons which takes its point of departure in the anthrax letters sent after 9/11, then follows trail wherever it leads. Includes a segment on the Olson case.
A Canada-France coproduction directed by Bob Coen, produced by Galafilm and TelFrance / Transformer Films for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Société Radio-Canada and ARTE.
Re-broadcast:
“Unsolved Mysteries” segment on the Olson case from 1994, to repeat on Spike TV.
“CIA Coverup.”
(Scheduled: Nov.18, 2008, 9 AM)
Related:
“On the Set:
Unsolved Mysteries; The Life and Death of Dr. Frank Olson.”
A radio broadcast from the set of “Unsolved Mysteries,” recorded during the 1994 filming at the Hotel Belevedere in Baltimore
Also available on iTunes.
Host, Herb Malsman, “Visions.”
The CIA Magician: John Mullholland's Secret Life.
by Ben Robinson,
Lybrary Books, 2008.
“Sins of the CIA.”
Chapter 10 of,
Philadelphia Freedom, Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer.
By David Kairys.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008,
© David Kairys.
Note: Attorney David Kairys and his partner David Rudovsky represented the Olson family in dealings with the U.S. government in the 1970’s.)
“Code Name Artichoke” airs in France.
(August 11, 13, 17, and 23, 2008)
“'This is different:' Son of scientist who died in 1953 compares cases then and now.”
By Karen Gardner.
Frederick News Post.
(The Buce Ivins anthrax letters “suicide” and the Olson case.)
(August 05, 2008.)
“CIA Secret Experiments.”
One hour documentary special:
National Geographic Channel.
Premier: March 10, 2008, 10 PM.
Also airs:
Tuesday, March 11, 12AM.
Monday, March 17, 6PM.
“Memories of a C.I.A. Officer Resonate in a New Era.”
New York Times.
By Scott Shane.
(February 24, 2008.)
In 1960, C.I.A officer Larry Devlin was told by Sidney Gottlieb to kill a Congolese politician, an episode that resonates with today’s debate about the limits of covert actions to counter a different global threat.
“C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Harsh Interrogations.”
By Mark Mazzetti.
(December 6, 2007)
The C.I.A. destroyed the videotapes in 2005 in the midst of congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, according to government officials.
Norman Mailer dead at 84.
(Nov. 10, 2007)
Norman Mailer on the Olson case: excerpts from Mailer’s novel Harlot’s Ghost (1991)
“Defenestration Opera.”
Opera based on the Frank Olson story (one part of a “Defenestration Trilogy) opens in New York.
(October 5, 2007.)
“CIA's darkest secret.”
(CIA release of “Family Jewels”)
By James Carroll.
Boston Globe.
July 2, 2007.
“The Living Weapon.”
PBS documentary film on the history of biological warfare.
(Feb. 5, 2007.)
“Best and Brightest.”
By David Denby.
Review of “The Good Shepherd.”
The New Yorker.
(Issue of Dec. 25, 2006-Jan.1, 2007.)
“Frank Olson.”
Featured article in Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia.
“It Didn’t Start with Abu Ghraib: The Olson Case—
Dick Cheney: Vice President for Torture and War.” (PDF file)
By Jeffrey Steinberg
Executive Intelligence Review.
(Volume 32, Number 44, November 11, 2005.)
“Frank Olson.”
The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories.
By James McConnachie and Robin Tudge.
(Penguin Books, Sept. 2005.)
“Frank Olson: The Man Who Fell Thirteen Stories.”
Chapter 3 of A Voice for the Dead: A Forensic Investigator’s Pursuit of Truth in the Grave.
By James E. Starrs (Professor of Law and Forensic Science, George Washington University Law Center) with Katherine Ramsland. (Conclusion.)
(G.P.Putnam’s Sons,
February 2005.)
“MI6 ordered LSD tests on servicemen: Volunteers fed hallucinogen in mind control experiments.”
By Rob Evans.
The Guardian (London).
(Saturday January 22, 2005.)
“Code Name Artichoke”
Watch the film on Google.
LinkTV & “Code Name Artichoke”
Since the film’s premier in 2002, Satellite channel LinkTV has shown “Code Name Artichoke” more than 100 times. In connection with the film, LinkTV has posted a CIA statement on the Olson case, along with a response from the Olson Family.
(January 19, 2005)
Radio interview with Eric Olson. “The International Connection,” hosted by Greg Duffell and Daniel Besharat (one hour).
CKLN Radio, Toronto.
Originally broadcast on Oct. 6 and Oct. 13, 2002.
Rebroadcast on the “AluhLooyah Show,” Independent Media Center Radio Network (San Diego), 24 minutes into show, Dec. 9, 2004.
“Crazy Rulers of the World.”
TV documentary for British Channel 4 on Sidney Gottlieb and his legacy, including the murder of Frank Olson.
Directed by Jon Ronson.
Based on Ronson’s book The Men Who Stare at Goats.
(Air date in England: Nov. 21, 2004.)
The Men Who Stare at Goats.
By Jon Ronson.
(Picador Books, Sept. 2004.)
“The Terror Doctors.”
Special issue of Freedom Magazine (Vol. 36, Issue 2, Sept. 2004).
“Inside the Sleep Room,”
By Gordon Thomas.
(Article on British psychiatrist William Sargant, Canadian psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, American psychiatrist Louis “Jolly” West; includes discussion of the Olson case.)
“Son probes strange death of WMD worker. He believes agents murdered employee of Army to protect government secrets.”
By Scott Shane.
San Francisco Chronicle.
(September 12, 2004.)
(Reprinted from Baltimore Sun, see below.)
“Frank Olson: The Man Who Fell Thirteen Stories.”
By James E. Starrs (Professor of Law and Forensic Science, George Washington University Law Center) with Katherine Ramsland. Excerpt from A Voice for the Dead.
(Forthcoming from G.P.Putnam’s Sons, February 2005.)
“Frederick's 'Candidate' was not Frank Olson, but Frederick itself.”
(Response to Roy Meachum; see below.)
By Eric Olson.
Frederick News-Post.
August 22, 2004.
“MKULTRA.”
Featured article in Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia for August 11, 2004.
Frederick's 'Candidate.'
By Roy Meachum.
Frederick News-Post.
August 4, 2004.
More on the connection of "The Manchurian Candidate" to the Olson Case.
“A father lost.”
Since 1953, Eric Olson has heard more than one explanation for his father's mysterious death. Now he believes it was murder.
By Scott Shane
Baltimore Sun.
(Sunday, August 1, 2004)
“Buried secrets of biowarfare”
During the Cold War, top Army scientists toiled stealthily in rural Maryland to make covert weapons coveted by new enemies.
By Scott Shane
Baltimore Sun.
(Sunday, August 1, 2004)
“How brainwashing came to life and thrived.”
By Jeff Stryker.
San Francisco Chronicle.
(August 1. 2004.)
US Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld Linked to “Murder of CIA Scientist.”
By Gordon Thomas.
www.middleeast.org.
(June 2004)
Gordon Thomas statement on the Olson case, Nov. 30, 1998
“The Frank Olson Murder.”
Serendipity Website.
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments.
H.P. Albarelli, Jr.
(Forthcoming, May 2005.)
“Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the Manchurian Candidate.”
by Maureen Farrell
www.buzzflash.com
(May 18, 2004)
“Acid Drop.”
By Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen.
Chapter 80 of:
The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time.
(January 2004.)
“War and Never Having to Say You’re Sorry.”
By Samantha Power.
The New York Times.
(December 14, 2003.)
“Margaret Singer, a Leading Brainwashing Expert, Dies at 82.”
By Anahad O’Connor
The New York Times.
(December 7, 2003.)
“Mystery Surrounds Death of State Dept. Official.”
By Wayne Madsen
(special to From The Wilderness.)
(November 20, 2003.)
“The Dark Art of Interrogation.”
By Mark Bowden.
The Atlantic Monthly.
(October 2003.)
“Final agony of RAF volunteer killed by sarin - in Britain
As the inquest into the death of a 'human guinea pig' at Porton Down opens, a witness breaks 50 years' silence to recount the horrors he saw”
By Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
Guardian Unlimited.
( September 28, 2003)
“Brainwashed: Where the ‘Manchurian Candidate’ came from.”
By Louis Menand.
The New Yorker.
(September 15, 2003)
Response by Eric Olson to Louis Menand New Yorker piece.
“Scientist was the 'Bane of Proliferators'”
By Judith Miller.
New York Times.
(July 21, 2003)
“British Arms Expert at Center of Dispute on Iraq Data is Found Dead, His Wife Says.”
By Warren Hoge with Judith Miller.
New York Times.
(July 19, 2003)
“The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson” (Part 2).
By H. P. Albarelli Jr.
Crime Magazine.
(May 19, 2003.)
“Ft. Detrick Unearths Hazardous Surprises: Cleanup Finds Debris Of Biological Warfare.”
By Elizabeth Williamson.
Washington Post.
(May 27, 2003.)
“The Front Lines of Biowarfare
Today's Anti-Terrorism:
Effort Casts Early Test Subjects in New Light”
By David Snyder.
Washington Post.
(Tuesday, May 6, 2003.)
“Murray, the Zelig.”
Chapter 18 of,
Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist.”
By Alson Chase.
(New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.)
“The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson” (Part 1).
By H. P. Albarelli Jr.
Crime Magazine.
(December 18, 2002)
“Undercover Government Murder.”
By Kristin Olson.
George Washington University paper for English Dept course on “Ways of Seeing” by Frank Olson’s granddaughter.
(December 2003)
“TV film on death of Frank Olson:
German documentary charges US used biological weapons in Korean War.”
Summary and review by Peter Schwarz.
World Socialist Web Site.
(November 13, 2002)
“Code Name Artichoke: The Secret Human Experiments of the CIA.” [Script]
“Richard Helms, Ex-C.I.A. Chief, Dies at 89”
By Christopher Marquis.
New York Times.
(Oct. 24, 2002)
(On Richard Helms’ role in MK-ULTRA see: “The CIA’s Electric Cool-aid Acid Test,” )
Deckname Artischocke: Die geheimen Menschenversuche der CIA.
By Egmont Koch and Michael Wech.
(Book on the Frank Olson case and its historical context, published in German. Title in English: “Codename Artichoke: The Secret Human Experiments of the CIA.”)
352 pages, includes index.
C. Bertelssmann verlag, München, publisher.
(2002.)
“Government-linked 'suicide' probed
1954 incident bears similarities to death of CIA biochemist”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr.
(September 8, 2002.)
Mindfield: The CIA and Its Secret Experiments with MKULTRA and Germ Warfare.
By Gordon Thomas.
(Extensive treatment of Frank Olson case.)
E-book, available for download.
(September 2002.)
(Gordon Thomas statement on the Frank Olson case, Nov. 30, 1998)
Radio interview with Eric Olson.
“Frank R. Olson CIA Death.”
An examination into the death of Frank R. Olson in 1953 and work by his family at establishing the exact cause. Did Frank Olson know far too much about US germ warfare and mind control to quit his post?
Hosts Greg Duffell and Daniel Besharat
Program, “International Connection.”
CKLN Radio, Toronto.
(August 31, 2002.)
“The CIA, the Bush Gang and
the Killing of Frank Olson.”
By Chris Floyd.
CounterPunch.
August 28, 2002.
“Scientist Was Killed to Stop Him Revealing Death Secrets;
So Did Cheney and Rumsfeld Cover Up a CIA Assassination?”
By Gordon Thomas.
London Sunday Express.
Sunday August 25, 2002.
“Did he jump or was he pushed?”
By Jon Ronson
The Guardian (London)
(Sat. August 17, 200.2)
“ERMITTLUNGSMETHODEN DER CIA:
LSD für hartnäckige Zeugen”
By Matthias Gebauer.
Spiegel.
(August 14, 2002.)
“Agency hushed anthrax scandal.”
By Billy Cox.
Florida Today.
(Aug 13, 2002)
“Code Name Artichoke: The Secret Human Experiments of the CIA.” [Script]
One-hour documentary film on the death of Frank Olson in its international historical context; produced and directed by Egmont Koch and Michael Wech, Bremen, Germany.
(Premier August 12, 2002 on ARD Network in Germany; international version in English available.)
“In reburial, Olsons hope to lay saga of father to rest:
Family has disputed government claims he committed suicide in '53;
Ceremony planned for today.”
By Stephanie Desmon
Baltimore Sun.
(Aug. 9, 2002)
Olson family statement released at Aug. 8, 2002 press conference.
“Familj anklagar CIA för forskarmord”
(“Family accuses the CIA of scientist’s murder.”
By Mats Carlbom.
Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm)
Article in Swedish.
(Aug. 10, 2002)
“Army Scientist Killed by CIA?”
WJLA-TV & Washington, I-Team.
Reporter: Del Walters
Includes video.
(August 08, 2002 8:07pm)
“Scientist's death haunts family.”
By Fredric N. Tulsky
San Jose Merury News.
(Aug. 7, 2002.)
“CIA Scientist Frank Olson”
Report by Daniel Schorr.
“All Things Considered.”
NPR Radio
(Aug. 7, 2002.)
“Sex, Drugs, and the CIA.” (3 Part article)
By Douglas Valentine.
CounterPunch Special Report.
(June 20, 2002)
“The C.I.A.'s Domestic Reach.”
By Tim Weiner.
New York Times.
(Jan. 20, 2002).
“U.S. Selling Papers Showing How to Make Germ Weapons”
By William J. Broad.
New York Times.
(Jan. 13, 2002)
Other anthrax, BW, Detrick, and 9/11-related stories
“Army harvested victims' blood to boost anthrax: Ex-scientists detail Detrick experiments.”
By Scott Shane.
Baltimore Sun.
(Dec. 23, 2001)
“The Coldest Warrior”
(Profile of Sidney Gottlieb; includes extended discussion of the Olson case.)
By Ted Gup.
Washington Post Magazine.
(Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001)
(Transcript of online discussion with Ted Gup, Dec. 17.)
See also, Norman Mailer on Gottlieb.
“Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army's Stocks”
By Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt.
Washington Post.
(Dec. 16, 2001).
(Three of the sites essential to the Frank Olson story—Ft. Detrick, Dugway, and Porton Down—appear in the current investigations into the sources of anthrax.)
Two-part history of anthrax, by H.P. Albarelli, Jr.:
1. “The secret history of anthrax: Declassified documents show widespread experimentation in '40s.”
WorldNet Daily
(Nov. 6, 2001).
2. “Feds' involvement in anthrax experiments: Records show conflicting reports about bacterium's use as weapon.”
WorldNet Daily
(Nov. 21, 2001).
(Part II of this history contains important new information on the Frank Olson case, particularly with respect to the European connection.)
“U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits”
By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William J. Broad.
New York Times.
(Sept. 4, 2001).
“Mid-century deaths all linked to CIA? New evidence in Olson case suggests similarities with other incidents.”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly.
WorldNet Daily.
(Sept. 4, 2001).
(To locate all articles published by WorldNet Daily related to the Olson case go to WorldNet Daily and enter “Olson and CIA” in the search box at left side of the page.)
“Evidence builds in CIA-related death: 'Suicide' of scientist preceded secret deal between federal agencies.”
by H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly.
WorldNet Daily
(July 19, 2001).
“New Evidence in Army Scientist's Death,”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly, first published by WorldNet Daily.
(July 6, 2001).
“The ‘Times’ Digs Up Old CIA Death: LSD Story Causes Flashbacks.”
[Review of Michael Ignatieff New York Times Magazine article (see below)].
By Cynthia Cotts.
New York Village Voice.
(April 4, 2001).
“What Did the C.I.A. Do To Eric Olson’s Father?”
By Michael Ignatieff.
The New York Times Magazine.
(April 1, 2001).
NOTE: The NY Times posting of the Ignatieff article includes links to fourteen other articles from the Times archives, spanning a period from 1975 to 1999, on the Frank Olson case and related CIA history, as well as additonal material in PDF format.
“The Sphinx and the Spy: The Clandestine World of John Mulholland,”
By Michael Edwards.
Genii Magazine.
(April 2001).
“The Hersh Alternative: The Investigations of Seymour Hersh”
By Bob Thompson.
Washington Post Sunday Magazine.
(January 28, 2001).
“Justice Delayed,”
By Jonathan Moreno.
Final section of new Postscript to paperback edition of Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans.
(November, 2000).
“The Strange Story of Frank Olson.”
(The Frank Olson story and its connections to the Florida mob.)
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly, Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
(Nov. 30-Dec 6, 2000 issue).
“Vertigo.”
(The Frank Olson story and its connections to the Israeli Mossad.)
By Ronen Bergman, Yedioth Ahronoth (Hebrew newspaper, Tel Aviv.)
(June 6, 2000).
“The Man Who Knew Too Much”
By Mary A. Fischer.
GQ Magazine
(January 2000).
Secrets of the Century: Inside the CIA.
“Mind Control’s Haunting Specter.”
(The Frank Olson story in the context of the history of the CIA and the Cold War.)
Time-Life Books. (2000)
“The Paul Robeson Files.”
By Paul Robeson Jr.
The Nation.
(Dec. 23, 1999).
“Mind Control Murder.”
A&E TV, “Investigative Reports.”
(Hour-long documentary on the death of Frank Olson produced by Principal Films, London.)
(Sept. 22, 1999)
WBAI “Expert Witness” Mike Levine program interview with Eric Olson and Martin Lee (author of “Acid Dreams.”)
(Aug. 3, 1999)
(To listen click link above, then on link to “Archive” page, then scroll down to program audio link for, “Mind Control, Part I.”)
Pacifica Radio (“Democracy NOW!”) interview with Paul Robeson Jr., Eric Olson, and Marin Lee (co-author, Acid Dreams)
(July 1, 1999)
“Cold Justice.”
CNN, “Newsstand: CNN & TIME.”
(March 28, 1999)
Collection of obituaries of Sidney Gottlieb (March 1999).
“CIA Assassination Manual”
WJLA TV-7, Washington “I-Team Report.”
(February 2, 1999)
Gordon Thomas statement
[On the experience of Frank Olson in the summer of 1953 and on knowledge of Olson’s death within the Israeli Mossad.]
(Nov. 30, 1998).
“Terry Lenzner's CIA connection: Watergate attorney shielded agency's ‘Dr. Strangelove’”
By Sarah Foster, WorldNetDaily.com (Nov. 19, 1998).
“MKULTRA in the UK”
WJLA TV-7, Washington, “I-Team Report”
(November 4 - 5, 1998)
“The Olson File: A Secret That Could Destroy the CIA,”
By Kevin Dowling and Phillip Knightley, from The Mail on Sunday (London, Aug. 1998). (Reprinted in Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, June 12, 1999.)
“Scandal”
CBS Cable, “Eye on People.” (1998)
“CIAcid Trip.”
By Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, from The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time: History’s Biggest Mysteries, Coverups & Cabals. (1998)
“Frank Olson File: The CIA’s Bad Trip.”
By Melissa Roth.
George Magazine, “The Spy Issue.”
(Oct. 1977)
“CIA Under Suspicion:
‘Suicide’ of LSD guinea pig probed.”
By John O’Mahony.
New York Post, Sept. 21, 1997
“The CIA: Fifty Years of Spying”
The History Channel-CBS News, “The 20th Century,” Mike Wallace, host.
[Opens with the Frank Olson case.]
(Sept. 17, 1997)
“Mind Control.”
Turner Broadcasting System, TBS.
(Sept. 15, 1997)
“The Experiment.”
Discovery Channel, “Discover Magazine.”
(June 18, 1997)
“U.S. Knew in 1953 North Koreans Held American POW’s”
(On MKULTRA-like experiments done on Americans held captive in 1953 and then executed.)
By Philip Shenon, The New York Times.
(Sept. 17, 1996)
“Conspiracy of Silence.”
Syndicated TV program, “Sightings.” .
(Feb. 26, 1995)
“Eye on Dr. Frank Olson.”
CBS Evening News, “Eye on America.”
(Nov. 28, 1994)
“The Experiment.”
CBS News, “Eye to Eye.” .
(October 10, 1994)
“CIA Coverup.”
NBC TV, “Unsolved Mysteries.”
(Sept 15, 1994)
“On the Set: Unsolved Mysteries; The Life and Unexplained Death of Dr. Frank Olson.”
A radio broadcast from the set of “Unsolved Mysteries,” during the filming of the segment on Frank Olson.
Host, Herb Malsman, “Visions.”
(Recorded August 6, 1994.)
“Altered States of America”
[Interview with Ike Feldman, assistant to George White at the CIA safehouse/whore house.]
By Richard Stratton, Spin Magazine
(March 1994).
“Mission Mind Control.”
ABC News (1979)
“Concerning the Case of Dr. Frank Olson,”
By John Marks, from his book,
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (1979).
“The CIA’s Electric Cool-aid Acid Test,”
By Tad Szulc, from Psychology Today (Nov. 1977).
Sidebar:
“LSD: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”
“The Diaries of a CIA Operative.”
[On George White, operator of the CIA safehouse/whore house, including his connections to the Olson case.]
By John Jacobs, The Washington Post. (Sept. 5, 1977).
“C.I.A.'s Files on LSD Death Found to be Contradictory.”
(on the Colby documents)
By Joseph B. Treaster,
The New York Times
(Jan. 11, 1976)
“CIA Misled Cops on LSD Suicide,”
By Frank Faso and William Sherman
New York Daily News,
(July 11, 1975).
See link to “What Did the C.I.A. Do To Eric Olson’s Father?” for New York Times articles from the 1970’s.
“Suicide Revealed.”
By Thomas O'Tooole
Washington Post Staff Writer
Washington Post, Page 1
(June 11, 1975.)
“Army Bacteriologist Dies in Plunge from N.Y. Hotel.”
Frederick News-Post.
(Nov. 29, 1953).
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.html
See below for other anthrax, BW, Detrick, CIA-history, 9/11, and Iraq-related stories.
“Dr. G: America’s Most Shocking Cases.”
Feature on the Frank Olson case.
Discovery Health Channel.
(Premier 9 PM EDT, April 2, 2010.)
“Dirty Little Secrets.”
One-hour documentary film examines the allegation of American use of biological weapons in the Korean War.
AlJazeera English.
(March 17, 2010.)
Related clip: Japanese Unit 731.
Related clip: Secret Detrick deal with the Japanese.
“Frank Olson's murder is like a nuclear bomb in an 18th century naval battle…”
“LSD, Murder and the CIA: Frank Olson, Enemy Combatant.”
By David Swanson.
Counterpunch.
(March 26 - 28, 2010.)
“Long, strange trip:
Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?”
by Philip Messing.
New York Post.
(March 13, 2010.)
“A Terrible Mistake: H.P. Albarelli's Investigation into CIA Scientist's Murder, at the Crossroads of Mind Control and Assassination.”
By Melissa Roddy
Huffington Post.
(Posted March 4, 2010.)
The Pont St.-Esprit Incident
“Very bad trip à Pont-Saint-Esprit.”
En 1951,un bourg entier du Gard hallucine pendant une semaine. Un journaliste américain prétend avoir percé le mystère : le village aurait été arrosé de LSD par la CIApour une expérience secrète.
Par Loïc Chauvin.
PDF version.
(Les Inrockuptibles, numéro 744 / 3 mars 2010.)
Related links on Pont St.-Esprit:
Interview with H.P. Albarelli.
Red Ice Radio on YouTube.
Telegraph (London).
Government Executive. com
Boing-Boing.
“The Real Roots of the CIA's Rendition and Black Sites.”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Jeffrey Kaye
(Posted February 18, 2010.)
Originally published at Truthout.
“A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments.”
By H.P. Albarelli, Jr.
(Trine Day, Nov. 2009, 826 pp.)
Barnes & Noble.
The Men Who Stare at Goats.
By Jon Ronson.
(Picador Books, Sept. 2004.)
Chapters on the Olson story omitted from the 2009 George Clooney film:
“The 1953 House.”
“Harolds Club or Bust!”
Watch clips from “Anthrax War,” including video from
“The Ghost of Frank Olson.”
“The Ghost of Frank Olson.”
Chapter 4 of,
Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail.
By Bob Coen and Eric Nadler.
(Counterpoint Press, June 9, 2009.)
“Anthrax War.”
Premier on CBC Newsworld, March 29, 2009, 9 PM Eastern.
Docmentary film on the world of biological weapons which takes its point of departure in the anthrax letters sent after 9/11, then follows trail wherever it leads. Includes a segment on the Olson case.
A Canada-France coproduction directed by Bob Coen, produced by Galafilm and TelFrance / Transformer Films for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Société Radio-Canada and ARTE.
Re-broadcast:
“Unsolved Mysteries” segment on the Olson case from 1994, to repeat on Spike TV.
“CIA Coverup.”
(Scheduled: Nov.18, 2008, 9 AM)
Related:
“On the Set:
Unsolved Mysteries; The Life and Death of Dr. Frank Olson.”
A radio broadcast from the set of “Unsolved Mysteries,” recorded during the 1994 filming at the Hotel Belevedere in Baltimore
Also available on iTunes.
Host, Herb Malsman, “Visions.”
The CIA Magician: John Mullholland's Secret Life.
by Ben Robinson,
Lybrary Books, 2008.
“Sins of the CIA.”
Chapter 10 of,
Philadelphia Freedom, Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer.
By David Kairys.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008,
© David Kairys.
Note: Attorney David Kairys and his partner David Rudovsky represented the Olson family in dealings with the U.S. government in the 1970’s.)
“Code Name Artichoke” airs in France.
(August 11, 13, 17, and 23, 2008)
“'This is different:' Son of scientist who died in 1953 compares cases then and now.”
By Karen Gardner.
Frederick News Post.
(The Buce Ivins anthrax letters “suicide” and the Olson case.)
(August 05, 2008.)
“CIA Secret Experiments.”
One hour documentary special:
National Geographic Channel.
Premier: March 10, 2008, 10 PM.
Also airs:
Tuesday, March 11, 12AM.
Monday, March 17, 6PM.
“Memories of a C.I.A. Officer Resonate in a New Era.”
New York Times.
By Scott Shane.
(February 24, 2008.)
In 1960, C.I.A officer Larry Devlin was told by Sidney Gottlieb to kill a Congolese politician, an episode that resonates with today’s debate about the limits of covert actions to counter a different global threat.
“C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Harsh Interrogations.”
By Mark Mazzetti.
(December 6, 2007)
The C.I.A. destroyed the videotapes in 2005 in the midst of congressional and legal scrutiny about its secret detention program, according to government officials.
Norman Mailer dead at 84.
(Nov. 10, 2007)
Norman Mailer on the Olson case: excerpts from Mailer’s novel Harlot’s Ghost (1991)
“Defenestration Opera.”
Opera based on the Frank Olson story (one part of a “Defenestration Trilogy) opens in New York.
(October 5, 2007.)
“CIA's darkest secret.”
(CIA release of “Family Jewels”)
By James Carroll.
Boston Globe.
July 2, 2007.
“The Living Weapon.”
PBS documentary film on the history of biological warfare.
(Feb. 5, 2007.)
“Best and Brightest.”
By David Denby.
Review of “The Good Shepherd.”
The New Yorker.
(Issue of Dec. 25, 2006-Jan.1, 2007.)
“Frank Olson.”
Featured article in Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia.
“It Didn’t Start with Abu Ghraib: The Olson Case—
Dick Cheney: Vice President for Torture and War.” (PDF file)
By Jeffrey Steinberg
Executive Intelligence Review.
(Volume 32, Number 44, November 11, 2005.)
“Frank Olson.”
The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories.
By James McConnachie and Robin Tudge.
(Penguin Books, Sept. 2005.)
“Frank Olson: The Man Who Fell Thirteen Stories.”
Chapter 3 of A Voice for the Dead: A Forensic Investigator’s Pursuit of Truth in the Grave.
By James E. Starrs (Professor of Law and Forensic Science, George Washington University Law Center) with Katherine Ramsland. (Conclusion.)
(G.P.Putnam’s Sons,
February 2005.)
“MI6 ordered LSD tests on servicemen: Volunteers fed hallucinogen in mind control experiments.”
By Rob Evans.
The Guardian (London).
(Saturday January 22, 2005.)
“Code Name Artichoke”
Watch the film on Google.
LinkTV & “Code Name Artichoke”
Since the film’s premier in 2002, Satellite channel LinkTV has shown “Code Name Artichoke” more than 100 times. In connection with the film, LinkTV has posted a CIA statement on the Olson case, along with a response from the Olson Family.
(January 19, 2005)
Radio interview with Eric Olson. “The International Connection,” hosted by Greg Duffell and Daniel Besharat (one hour).
CKLN Radio, Toronto.
Originally broadcast on Oct. 6 and Oct. 13, 2002.
Rebroadcast on the “AluhLooyah Show,” Independent Media Center Radio Network (San Diego), 24 minutes into show, Dec. 9, 2004.
“Crazy Rulers of the World.”
TV documentary for British Channel 4 on Sidney Gottlieb and his legacy, including the murder of Frank Olson.
Directed by Jon Ronson.
Based on Ronson’s book The Men Who Stare at Goats.
(Air date in England: Nov. 21, 2004.)
The Men Who Stare at Goats.
By Jon Ronson.
(Picador Books, Sept. 2004.)
“The Terror Doctors.”
Special issue of Freedom Magazine (Vol. 36, Issue 2, Sept. 2004).
“Inside the Sleep Room,”
By Gordon Thomas.
(Article on British psychiatrist William Sargant, Canadian psychiatrist Ewen Cameron, American psychiatrist Louis “Jolly” West; includes discussion of the Olson case.)
“Son probes strange death of WMD worker. He believes agents murdered employee of Army to protect government secrets.”
By Scott Shane.
San Francisco Chronicle.
(September 12, 2004.)
(Reprinted from Baltimore Sun, see below.)
“Frank Olson: The Man Who Fell Thirteen Stories.”
By James E. Starrs (Professor of Law and Forensic Science, George Washington University Law Center) with Katherine Ramsland. Excerpt from A Voice for the Dead.
(Forthcoming from G.P.Putnam’s Sons, February 2005.)
“Frederick's 'Candidate' was not Frank Olson, but Frederick itself.”
(Response to Roy Meachum; see below.)
By Eric Olson.
Frederick News-Post.
August 22, 2004.
“MKULTRA.”
Featured article in Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia for August 11, 2004.
Frederick's 'Candidate.'
By Roy Meachum.
Frederick News-Post.
August 4, 2004.
More on the connection of "The Manchurian Candidate" to the Olson Case.
“A father lost.”
Since 1953, Eric Olson has heard more than one explanation for his father's mysterious death. Now he believes it was murder.
By Scott Shane
Baltimore Sun.
(Sunday, August 1, 2004)
“Buried secrets of biowarfare”
During the Cold War, top Army scientists toiled stealthily in rural Maryland to make covert weapons coveted by new enemies.
By Scott Shane
Baltimore Sun.
(Sunday, August 1, 2004)
“How brainwashing came to life and thrived.”
By Jeff Stryker.
San Francisco Chronicle.
(August 1. 2004.)
US Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld Linked to “Murder of CIA Scientist.”
By Gordon Thomas.
www.middleeast.org.
(June 2004)
Gordon Thomas statement on the Olson case, Nov. 30, 1998
“The Frank Olson Murder.”
Serendipity Website.
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments.
H.P. Albarelli, Jr.
(Forthcoming, May 2005.)
“Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the Manchurian Candidate.”
by Maureen Farrell
www.buzzflash.com
(May 18, 2004)
“Acid Drop.”
By Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen.
Chapter 80 of:
The 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time.
(January 2004.)
“War and Never Having to Say You’re Sorry.”
By Samantha Power.
The New York Times.
(December 14, 2003.)
“Margaret Singer, a Leading Brainwashing Expert, Dies at 82.”
By Anahad O’Connor
The New York Times.
(December 7, 2003.)
“Mystery Surrounds Death of State Dept. Official.”
By Wayne Madsen
(special to From The Wilderness.)
(November 20, 2003.)
“The Dark Art of Interrogation.”
By Mark Bowden.
The Atlantic Monthly.
(October 2003.)
“Final agony of RAF volunteer killed by sarin - in Britain
As the inquest into the death of a 'human guinea pig' at Porton Down opens, a witness breaks 50 years' silence to recount the horrors he saw”
By Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
Guardian Unlimited.
( September 28, 2003)
“Brainwashed: Where the ‘Manchurian Candidate’ came from.”
By Louis Menand.
The New Yorker.
(September 15, 2003)
Response by Eric Olson to Louis Menand New Yorker piece.
“Scientist was the 'Bane of Proliferators'”
By Judith Miller.
New York Times.
(July 21, 2003)
“British Arms Expert at Center of Dispute on Iraq Data is Found Dead, His Wife Says.”
By Warren Hoge with Judith Miller.
New York Times.
(July 19, 2003)
“The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson” (Part 2).
By H. P. Albarelli Jr.
Crime Magazine.
(May 19, 2003.)
“Ft. Detrick Unearths Hazardous Surprises: Cleanup Finds Debris Of Biological Warfare.”
By Elizabeth Williamson.
Washington Post.
(May 27, 2003.)
“The Front Lines of Biowarfare
Today's Anti-Terrorism:
Effort Casts Early Test Subjects in New Light”
By David Snyder.
Washington Post.
(Tuesday, May 6, 2003.)
“Murray, the Zelig.”
Chapter 18 of,
Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist.”
By Alson Chase.
(New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.)
“The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson” (Part 1).
By H. P. Albarelli Jr.
Crime Magazine.
(December 18, 2002)
“Undercover Government Murder.”
By Kristin Olson.
George Washington University paper for English Dept course on “Ways of Seeing” by Frank Olson’s granddaughter.
(December 2003)
“TV film on death of Frank Olson:
German documentary charges US used biological weapons in Korean War.”
Summary and review by Peter Schwarz.
World Socialist Web Site.
(November 13, 2002)
“Code Name Artichoke: The Secret Human Experiments of the CIA.” [Script]
“Richard Helms, Ex-C.I.A. Chief, Dies at 89”
By Christopher Marquis.
New York Times.
(Oct. 24, 2002)
(On Richard Helms’ role in MK-ULTRA see: “The CIA’s Electric Cool-aid Acid Test,” )
Deckname Artischocke: Die geheimen Menschenversuche der CIA.
By Egmont Koch and Michael Wech.
(Book on the Frank Olson case and its historical context, published in German. Title in English: “Codename Artichoke: The Secret Human Experiments of the CIA.”)
352 pages, includes index.
C. Bertelssmann verlag, München, publisher.
(2002.)
“Government-linked 'suicide' probed
1954 incident bears similarities to death of CIA biochemist”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr.
(September 8, 2002.)
Mindfield: The CIA and Its Secret Experiments with MKULTRA and Germ Warfare.
By Gordon Thomas.
(Extensive treatment of Frank Olson case.)
E-book, available for download.
(September 2002.)
(Gordon Thomas statement on the Frank Olson case, Nov. 30, 1998)
Radio interview with Eric Olson.
“Frank R. Olson CIA Death.”
An examination into the death of Frank R. Olson in 1953 and work by his family at establishing the exact cause. Did Frank Olson know far too much about US germ warfare and mind control to quit his post?
Hosts Greg Duffell and Daniel Besharat
Program, “International Connection.”
CKLN Radio, Toronto.
(August 31, 2002.)
“The CIA, the Bush Gang and
the Killing of Frank Olson.”
By Chris Floyd.
CounterPunch.
August 28, 2002.
“Scientist Was Killed to Stop Him Revealing Death Secrets;
So Did Cheney and Rumsfeld Cover Up a CIA Assassination?”
By Gordon Thomas.
London Sunday Express.
Sunday August 25, 2002.
“Did he jump or was he pushed?”
By Jon Ronson
The Guardian (London)
(Sat. August 17, 200.2)
“ERMITTLUNGSMETHODEN DER CIA:
LSD für hartnäckige Zeugen”
By Matthias Gebauer.
Spiegel.
(August 14, 2002.)
“Agency hushed anthrax scandal.”
By Billy Cox.
Florida Today.
(Aug 13, 2002)
“Code Name Artichoke: The Secret Human Experiments of the CIA.” [Script]
One-hour documentary film on the death of Frank Olson in its international historical context; produced and directed by Egmont Koch and Michael Wech, Bremen, Germany.
(Premier August 12, 2002 on ARD Network in Germany; international version in English available.)
“In reburial, Olsons hope to lay saga of father to rest:
Family has disputed government claims he committed suicide in '53;
Ceremony planned for today.”
By Stephanie Desmon
Baltimore Sun.
(Aug. 9, 2002)
Olson family statement released at Aug. 8, 2002 press conference.
“Familj anklagar CIA för forskarmord”
(“Family accuses the CIA of scientist’s murder.”
By Mats Carlbom.
Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm)
Article in Swedish.
(Aug. 10, 2002)
“Army Scientist Killed by CIA?”
WJLA-TV & Washington, I-Team.
Reporter: Del Walters
Includes video.
(August 08, 2002 8:07pm)
“Scientist's death haunts family.”
By Fredric N. Tulsky
San Jose Merury News.
(Aug. 7, 2002.)
“CIA Scientist Frank Olson”
Report by Daniel Schorr.
“All Things Considered.”
NPR Radio
(Aug. 7, 2002.)
“Sex, Drugs, and the CIA.” (3 Part article)
By Douglas Valentine.
CounterPunch Special Report.
(June 20, 2002)
“The C.I.A.'s Domestic Reach.”
By Tim Weiner.
New York Times.
(Jan. 20, 2002).
“U.S. Selling Papers Showing How to Make Germ Weapons”
By William J. Broad.
New York Times.
(Jan. 13, 2002)
Other anthrax, BW, Detrick, and 9/11-related stories
“Army harvested victims' blood to boost anthrax: Ex-scientists detail Detrick experiments.”
By Scott Shane.
Baltimore Sun.
(Dec. 23, 2001)
“The Coldest Warrior”
(Profile of Sidney Gottlieb; includes extended discussion of the Olson case.)
By Ted Gup.
Washington Post Magazine.
(Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001)
(Transcript of online discussion with Ted Gup, Dec. 17.)
See also, Norman Mailer on Gottlieb.
“Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army's Stocks”
By Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt.
Washington Post.
(Dec. 16, 2001).
(Three of the sites essential to the Frank Olson story—Ft. Detrick, Dugway, and Porton Down—appear in the current investigations into the sources of anthrax.)
Two-part history of anthrax, by H.P. Albarelli, Jr.:
1. “The secret history of anthrax: Declassified documents show widespread experimentation in '40s.”
WorldNet Daily
(Nov. 6, 2001).
2. “Feds' involvement in anthrax experiments: Records show conflicting reports about bacterium's use as weapon.”
WorldNet Daily
(Nov. 21, 2001).
(Part II of this history contains important new information on the Frank Olson case, particularly with respect to the European connection.)
“U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits”
By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William J. Broad.
New York Times.
(Sept. 4, 2001).
“Mid-century deaths all linked to CIA? New evidence in Olson case suggests similarities with other incidents.”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly.
WorldNet Daily.
(Sept. 4, 2001).
(To locate all articles published by WorldNet Daily related to the Olson case go to WorldNet Daily and enter “Olson and CIA” in the search box at left side of the page.)
“Evidence builds in CIA-related death: 'Suicide' of scientist preceded secret deal between federal agencies.”
by H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly.
WorldNet Daily
(July 19, 2001).
“New Evidence in Army Scientist's Death,”
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly, first published by WorldNet Daily.
(July 6, 2001).
“The ‘Times’ Digs Up Old CIA Death: LSD Story Causes Flashbacks.”
[Review of Michael Ignatieff New York Times Magazine article (see below)].
By Cynthia Cotts.
New York Village Voice.
(April 4, 2001).
“What Did the C.I.A. Do To Eric Olson’s Father?”
By Michael Ignatieff.
The New York Times Magazine.
(April 1, 2001).
NOTE: The NY Times posting of the Ignatieff article includes links to fourteen other articles from the Times archives, spanning a period from 1975 to 1999, on the Frank Olson case and related CIA history, as well as additonal material in PDF format.
“The Sphinx and the Spy: The Clandestine World of John Mulholland,”
By Michael Edwards.
Genii Magazine.
(April 2001).
“The Hersh Alternative: The Investigations of Seymour Hersh”
By Bob Thompson.
Washington Post Sunday Magazine.
(January 28, 2001).
“Justice Delayed,”
By Jonathan Moreno.
Final section of new Postscript to paperback edition of Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans.
(November, 2000).
“The Strange Story of Frank Olson.”
(The Frank Olson story and its connections to the Florida mob.)
By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and John Kelly, Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
(Nov. 30-Dec 6, 2000 issue).
“Vertigo.”
(The Frank Olson story and its connections to the Israeli Mossad.)
By Ronen Bergman, Yedioth Ahronoth (Hebrew newspaper, Tel Aviv.)
(June 6, 2000).
“The Man Who Knew Too Much”
By Mary A. Fischer.
GQ Magazine
(January 2000).
Secrets of the Century: Inside the CIA.
“Mind Control’s Haunting Specter.”
(The Frank Olson story in the context of the history of the CIA and the Cold War.)
Time-Life Books. (2000)
“The Paul Robeson Files.”
By Paul Robeson Jr.
The Nation.
(Dec. 23, 1999).
“Mind Control Murder.”
A&E TV, “Investigative Reports.”
(Hour-long documentary on the death of Frank Olson produced by Principal Films, London.)
(Sept. 22, 1999)
WBAI “Expert Witness” Mike Levine program interview with Eric Olson and Martin Lee (author of “Acid Dreams.”)
(Aug. 3, 1999)
(To listen click link above, then on link to “Archive” page, then scroll down to program audio link for, “Mind Control, Part I.”)
Pacifica Radio (“Democracy NOW!”) interview with Paul Robeson Jr., Eric Olson, and Marin Lee (co-author, Acid Dreams)
(July 1, 1999)
“Cold Justice.”
CNN, “Newsstand: CNN & TIME.”
(March 28, 1999)
Collection of obituaries of Sidney Gottlieb (March 1999).
“CIA Assassination Manual”
WJLA TV-7, Washington “I-Team Report.”
(February 2, 1999)
Gordon Thomas statement
[On the experience of Frank Olson in the summer of 1953 and on knowledge of Olson’s death within the Israeli Mossad.]
(Nov. 30, 1998).
“Terry Lenzner's CIA connection: Watergate attorney shielded agency's ‘Dr. Strangelove’”
By Sarah Foster, WorldNetDaily.com (Nov. 19, 1998).
“MKULTRA in the UK”
WJLA TV-7, Washington, “I-Team Report”
(November 4 - 5, 1998)
“The Olson File: A Secret That Could Destroy the CIA,”
By Kevin Dowling and Phillip Knightley, from The Mail on Sunday (London, Aug. 1998). (Reprinted in Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, June 12, 1999.)
“Scandal”
CBS Cable, “Eye on People.” (1998)
“CIAcid Trip.”
By Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, from The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time: History’s Biggest Mysteries, Coverups & Cabals. (1998)
“Frank Olson File: The CIA’s Bad Trip.”
By Melissa Roth.
George Magazine, “The Spy Issue.”
(Oct. 1977)
“CIA Under Suspicion:
‘Suicide’ of LSD guinea pig probed.”
By John O’Mahony.
New York Post, Sept. 21, 1997
“The CIA: Fifty Years of Spying”
The History Channel-CBS News, “The 20th Century,” Mike Wallace, host.
[Opens with the Frank Olson case.]
(Sept. 17, 1997)
“Mind Control.”
Turner Broadcasting System, TBS.
(Sept. 15, 1997)
“The Experiment.”
Discovery Channel, “Discover Magazine.”
(June 18, 1997)
“U.S. Knew in 1953 North Koreans Held American POW’s”
(On MKULTRA-like experiments done on Americans held captive in 1953 and then executed.)
By Philip Shenon, The New York Times.
(Sept. 17, 1996)
“Conspiracy of Silence.”
Syndicated TV program, “Sightings.” .
(Feb. 26, 1995)
“Eye on Dr. Frank Olson.”
CBS Evening News, “Eye on America.”
(Nov. 28, 1994)
“The Experiment.”
CBS News, “Eye to Eye.” .
(October 10, 1994)
“CIA Coverup.”
NBC TV, “Unsolved Mysteries.”
(Sept 15, 1994)
“On the Set: Unsolved Mysteries; The Life and Unexplained Death of Dr. Frank Olson.”
A radio broadcast from the set of “Unsolved Mysteries,” during the filming of the segment on Frank Olson.
Host, Herb Malsman, “Visions.”
(Recorded August 6, 1994.)
“Altered States of America”
[Interview with Ike Feldman, assistant to George White at the CIA safehouse/whore house.]
By Richard Stratton, Spin Magazine
(March 1994).
“Mission Mind Control.”
ABC News (1979)
“Concerning the Case of Dr. Frank Olson,”
By John Marks, from his book,
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (1979).
“The CIA’s Electric Cool-aid Acid Test,”
By Tad Szulc, from Psychology Today (Nov. 1977).
Sidebar:
“LSD: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”
“The Diaries of a CIA Operative.”
[On George White, operator of the CIA safehouse/whore house, including his connections to the Olson case.]
By John Jacobs, The Washington Post. (Sept. 5, 1977).
“C.I.A.'s Files on LSD Death Found to be Contradictory.”
(on the Colby documents)
By Joseph B. Treaster,
The New York Times
(Jan. 11, 1976)
“CIA Misled Cops on LSD Suicide,”
By Frank Faso and William Sherman
New York Daily News,
(July 11, 1975).
See link to “What Did the C.I.A. Do To Eric Olson’s Father?” for New York Times articles from the 1970’s.
“Suicide Revealed.”
By Thomas O'Tooole
Washington Post Staff Writer
Washington Post, Page 1
(June 11, 1975.)
“Army Bacteriologist Dies in Plunge from N.Y. Hotel.”
Frederick News-Post.
(Nov. 29, 1953).
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Other anthrax, BW, Detrick,CIA-history, prisoner-interrogation, and 9/11-related stories
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Contents.html “The Mystery Of The Dead Scientists: Coincidence Or Conspiracy?” By Ian Gurney (Rense.com. July, 20, 2003) “Officials Say Documents Tie Scientist to Anthrax Attack.” By Scott Shane and Eric Lichtblau. New York Times. (August 7, 2008.) “Scientist’s Suicide Linked to Anthrax Inquiry.” By Scott Shane and Eric Lichtblau. New York Times. (August 2, 2008.) “Our Own Antrhax: Dismantling America’s weapons of mass destruction.” By Ed Regis. Harper’s Magazine. (July 2004.) Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran Edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne. History and documents from the National Security Archive. (2004) “Coup d'etat: The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the CIA on June 3rd and 4th.” By Michael C. Ruppert. Fromthewilderness.com (June 8, 2004.) “Regarding the Torture of Others.” By Susan Sontag. New York Times Magazine. (May 23, 2004.) “Lesser Evils.” New York Times Magazine. By Michael Ignatieff. (May 2, 2004.) “When Frontier Justice Becomes Foreign Policy.” By Thomas Powers. New York Times (July 13, 2003.) Seymour Hersh on the new CIA assassination policy A Reporter's Life, New Yorker online (December 16, 2002.) “Bush Has Widened Authority of C.I.A. to Kill Terrorists.” By James Risen and David Johnston. New York Times. (December 15, 2002.) “‘Dr. Death’ And His Accomplice.” (Dr. Wouter Basson and Dr. Larry Ford.) By Mike Wallace. “60 Minutes” (CBS) (November 3, 2002.) “Latin Death Squads and U.S.: A New Disclosure.” By Diana Jean Schemo New York Times. (Oct. 22, 2002) Robert Jay Lifton interviewed on the Post-9/11 World. Interview with Bill Moyers on PBS, “Now.” (October 18, 2002.) “U.S. Secretly Tested Bioweapons.” By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. New York Times. (Oct. 9, 2002.) “BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR: Anthrax probe ignoring foreign links? Critics question FBI's emphasis on homegrown scientist” By H.P. Albarelli Jr. WorldNet Daily. (Oct. 8, 2002.) “BIOLOGICAL WAR-FEAR: Did Army cause anthrax outbreak in mill? Documents related to '57 research project leave unanswered questions By H.P. Albarelli Jr. WorldNet Daily. (Oct. 7, 2002.) “A Verdict in South Africa.” ( On the acquittal of Dr. Wouter Basson, the head of the South African apartheid regime's top-secret chemical- and biological-warfare program.) By William Finnegan The New Yorker. (April 22, 2002) “Detrick's security lapses date to 1980s; Anthrax not first biological agent to disappear from base.” By Nicole Belanger. Frederick Country Gazette. (Jan. 24, 2002). “Army Lost Track of Anthrax Bacteria: Specimens at Md.'s Fort Detrick May Have Been Misplaced or Stolen ” By Rick Weiss and Joby Warrick. Washington Post. (Jan. 21, 2002). “U.S. Germ Warfare Research Pushes Treaty Limits” By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William J. Broad. New York Times. (Sept. 4, 2001). Related articles and cases “A Dead Spy, a Daughter's Questions and the C.I.A.” By Alan Feurer. New York Times. October 23, 2007. For two decades, Charlotte Dennet has been trying to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash of an Army transport plane carrying her father over Ethiopia in 1947. . “Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber.” By Alston Chase. The Atlantic Monthly. (June 2000) “Acid, Americans and the Agency” [On the Stanley Glickman-Kronish case.] By Russ Baker, London Observer. (Feb 14, 1999) (Link to Second Dircuit court decision on the Kronish case). “Meet Sidney Gottlieb -- CIA dirty trickster” [On the Stanley Glickman-Kronish case.] By Saraah Foster, WorldNet Daily. (Nov. 19, 1998) “British psychiatry: from eugenics to assassination.” By Anton Chaitkin, Executive Intelligence Review. (Oct. 7, 1994) “Anatomy of a Public Interest Case Against the CIA, Part 1.” Part 2. Part 3. [On MKULTRA research in Canada.] By Joseph Rauh and James Turner. (1990). “25 Years of Nightmares.” [On Ewen Cameron, Harvey Weinstein, and the Canadian Case.] By David Remnick. The Washington Post. (July 28, 1985)
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