Stephen Kinzer - From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets

Frank Olson died in 1953, but, because of clandestine US government experiments, it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth

I always wanted to put out the documentary here about Frank Oslon, but it was made for TV and so is a bit dramatic which I thought might come over as a conspiracy theory, but now the Guardian has covered the story I think it is okay to put out. 

Frank Oslen was a patriotic Christian Republican who wanted to help his country beat communism. He was an expert in diseases and so he went to work for the CIA to develop deadly toxins. But he wasn't quite cut out for it, though, as he hated seeing all the dead animals each day at the laboratory. Eventually he was sent to Germany where in an ex-Gestapo concentration camp he witnessed someone being tortured to death. It profoundly upset him and the CIA thought he might expose their secret research to the public, so it is alleged they murdered him.

It's strange how our fear of the other works: imagine if this story was about Russian or Chinese communist scientists? Many people would go on to think that all Chinese or all Russians were bad. We might think the Chinese could be capable of such things, but not us.

The Guardian

Stephen Kinzer - From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets