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THE SECRET WAR: BIO-WEAPONS AND THE CIA is the story of the life and mysterious death of CIA scientist Frank Olson, who worked on secret biological weapons programs and brainwashing techniques for the United States Government.
Forty years after his death, body of former CIA scientist Frank Olsen is exhumed and an autopsy concludes that he was probably the victim of a violent crime. The official version was that he jumped through the closed window of a hotel while being guarded by a CIA agent. His son Eric believes he was murdered by agents because he wanted to leave the CIA.
In 1943, pressured by evidence that the Japanese war machine is vigorously pursuing an horrific chemical and biological warfare program involving terminal experiments conducted upon thousands of Chinese subjects in Manchuria and elsewhere, Camp Detrick is established in Frederick, Maryland as the Army’s top secret center for chemical-biological warfare research. The base is established under the scientific guidance of Dr. Ira Baldwin who invites Frank Olson to join him at Detrick. Frank Olson becomes one of the first civilian scientists to be employed at Camp Detrick.
After the war the US took over the results of German experiments with biological agents on inmates of concentration camps in exchange for protecting the scientists responsible from prosecution. Olson became part of a unit that furthered this research. One of the trials involved releasing an anthrax-like material in San Francisco to chart the possible results of a Soviet bio-weapon attack.
Olson then became involved in Operation Artichoke, a plan to use drugs, torture and brainwashing techniques in order to extract secrets and erase memory. Early experiments were conducted in a CIA base in Germany on prisoners of war or refugees from Eastern Europe who were suspected of being communist spies.
Former Nazi scientists were used on the program, and there seemed to be little concern if death occurred during the course of the experiments. Later, such methods were used to debrief returning soldiers from the Korean War who, as prisoners of war, had confessed to having used biological weapons.
Olson was horrified by what was happening. His wife had told their son that, “Korea really bothered your father.” Former colleagues interviewed in the program imply in the heaviest possible terms that the US did indeed deploy biological weapons during the Korean War. Olson wanted out and consequently was interrogated himself, including being administered LSD, and had an agent assigned to him at all times.
The official version of Olson’s death does not tally with the results of the recent autopsy. The original autopsy was full of lies. Recently mailed anthrax, it is found, originates from the same research centre establishment where Olson worked.
