A Spy in the CIA — Frank Olson Knew Too Much, So He Fell From a 13-Story Window

On November 19th, 1953, a CIA scientist named Frank Olson sat down for dinner at a remote cabin in the mountains of Maryland. His boss, Sidney Gottlieb, head of the CIA's MKUltra mind control program, poured him a glass of Cointreau. The drink was secretly laced with LSD. Nine days later, at approximately 2:30 in the morning on November 28th, 1953, Frank Olson fell from the 13th-floor window of the Statler Hotel in New York City. The CIA called it suicide. His family was told he had suffered a mental breakdown. They were not told about the LSD. They were not told that Olson had spent his final week trying to quit his job after witnessing what he called "a terrible mistake" in Europe. They were not told that the man in the hotel room with him at the moment he fell was a CIA officer who failed to call the police, failed to remember whether the window was open or closed, and made one strange phone call to a CIA-cleared doctor before doing anything else. For 22 years, the Olson family believed the suicide story. Then in 1975, the Rockefeller Commission exposed MKUltra. President Gerald Ford personally apologized. The family received a $750,000 settlement. They were told this was the complete story. It was not. In 1994, Frank Olson's son Eric exhumed his father's body. A forensic pathologist named James Starrs found two facts the CIA had hidden for 41 years. A hematoma on the left side of the skull, consistent with a blow to the head delivered before the fall. And no glass cuts on the body, even though Olson had supposedly dove through a closed window. Starrs's official conclusion: "rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide." This is the full documented story of Frank Olson, based on: The 1975 Rockefeller Commission Report The 1994 forensic exhumation by James Starrs CIA declassified MKUltra documents The 2012 federal lawsuit filed by Eric and Nils Olson Errol Morris's 2017 Netflix documentary "Wormwood" H.P. Albarelli Jr.'s book "A Terrible Mistake" In this video, we cover: Who Frank Olson was and his role at Fort Detrick What he witnessed in Europe in the summer of 1953 The Deep Creek Lake LSD experiment on November 19, 1953 Olson's 9-day descent toward death The strange behavior of CIA officer Robert Lashbrook in Room 1018A The 22-year cover-up and the Ford apology The 1994 exhumation findings Why the CIA killed Frank Olson and got away with it This is not conspiracy theory. This is the documented history of MKUltra, the most disturbing intelligence operation in American history — and the scientist who was murdered to protect it. NEW DECLASSIFIED OPERATION EVERY WEEK SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS WHAT THEY HOPED YOU'D NEVER SEE #CIA #MKUltra #ColdWar