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Frank Rudolph Olson (July 17, 1910 – November 28, 1953) was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked at Camp Detrick (now Fort Detrick) in Maryland. In rural Maryland, he was covertly dosed with LSD by his CIA supervisor and, nine days later, plunged to his death from the window of a New York hotel room. Investigation by the NYPD showed his death to be a suicide, but some allege murder by the CIA after his family exhumed his body in 1994 and found evidence that he was unconscious when he exited the window. ==Biography== Olson was born in Hurley, Iron County, Wisconsin and earned both B.S. and Ph.D. degrees (Bacteriology, 1938) at the University of Wisconsin. He worked for a time at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and then served as a captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. As a civilian, he was recruited to Camp Detrick, and to the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories, by the distinguished UW scientist Ira Baldwin, the technical director there. (Baldwin had been his departmental advisor at UW.) At Camp Detrick, Baldwin worked with industrial partners like George W. Merck and the U.S. military, to establish the top secret U.S. bioweapons program beginning in 1943, a time when interest in applying modern technology to warfare was undergoing a boom. Olson's duties included experiments with aerosolized anthrax.〔Ignatieff, ''Op. cit.''〕 After 10 years, he was a senior bacteriologist at the program.〔 At some point, while assigned as a civilian U.S. Army contactor, Olson began working as a CIA employee with the CIA's Technical Services Staff (TSS), run by Sidney Gottlieb and his deputy Robert Lashbrook.〔 Some of his CIA colleagues were involved in the MKNAOMI-MKULTRA program, previously known as Project Artichoke and earlier, Project Bluebird. It was a program to explore the possible espionage and military uses of psychotropic drugs. The CIA reported the program, in part, as a countermeasure to the supposed Soviet effort to create a "Manchurian Candidate." The author Ed Regis reports that the meeting at which Olson was dosed with LSD took place at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland: Olson asked to quit the biowarfare program the week after the retreat: Olson subsequently suffered severe paranoia and a nervous breakdown. The CIA sent him to New York City to see one of their physicians, who recommended that Olson be placed into a mental institution for recovery. This was Harold Abramson, an allergist-pediatrician, who was helping with the CIA on the psychotropic research into the effects of the drug.〔Regis, ''Op. cit.'', pg 158.〕 The ensuing police report showed that on his last night in Manhattan, Olson purposely threw himself out of the window of his thirteenth-floor hotel room at the Hotel Statler, which he had been sharing with Lashbrook, dying shortly after impact. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Olson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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