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...were shown into the office of their host. For the next quarter-hour, President Ford did what he could to apologize to the family of Frank Olson, the Army's civilian biochemist who committed suicide 22 years ago after the CIA had spiked his drink with LSD...
...Giving LSD to someone without his informed consent opens the door to the "ruthless modification of people's minds," declared Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association, after he heard the circumstances of the suicide of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Even if done for security reasons, added Marmor, such experiments as those conducted by the CIA are unethical...
...Army Colonel Vincent Ruwet, a colleague at Fort Detrick, and a man named Robert Lashbrook, who the Olson family later said they believed was a CIA agent. A psychiatric examination of Olson was conducted by Dr. Harold Abramson, now 75, who had done pioneering work on LSD. Abramson found that Olson was suffering from "severe psychosis and delusions," and recommended that he enter a sanitarium...
BRAINWASHING. Concerned over Soviet and North Korean brainwashing techniques, the CIA in the late 1940s and early '50s began testing the effects of behavior-influencing drugs, radiation and electric shock. Many of the records were later destroyed. But the commission learned that the CIA had fed LSD to a number of unsuspecting people between 1953 and '63. In one case in 1953, an employee of the Army developed such serious side effects that he was sent to New York for psychiatric treatment. Several days later, he jumped to his death from the tenth-floor window of his hotel...
...threatened to have "Yippie girls dressed up as whores, but young, you know, and nice" slip LSD into convention delegates' drinks, recruit "Yippie studs whose job is to seduce the delegates' wives and daughters," and spike Chicago's water supply with LSD...