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A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments by H. P. Albarelli


From Peter Levenda�s Foreword for A TERRIBLE MISTAKE:

I don�t want to give away the story that Hank has uncovered, or any of the juicy details or important discoveries that will change the way you look at this case. You need to read this book carefully, cover to cover, to understand the enormity of what transpired that autumn evening in midtown Manhattan.

The number of interconnected links between people, places and events is astounding. Familiar names like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld turn up, as well as Warren Burger and Rudolph Giuliani, Howard Hughes and Robert Maheu; less familiar names like John Rousselot � an American congressman and John Bircher accused of being involved in the assassination plot against President Kennedy � also make an appearance.

A walk through Hank Albarelli�s masterful presentation of the Frank Olson case is like a tour of American political and cultural life during the last sixty years or more...and, at the same time, it is a descent into a very particular hell. (Is there such a thing as negative nostalgia?)

Dr. Frank Olson's passport, image hat tip to "A Terrible Mistake"

Here we read of CIA�s interest in the occult, in Edgar Cayce, UFOs, parapsychology, and in the strange visions of the Book of Ezekiel � I am not making this up.

Here we read of so many other victims of the mind control programs that we are forced to accept that Frank Olson represents only the tip of a satanic iceberg. Innocent people were falling like flies all over America in the 1950s, like the textile plant workers in New Hampshire who were infected with anthrax without their knowledge because their mill was doing work on the side in chemical and biological weapons research. Or the detective in Houston, Texas who committed �suicide� by shooting himself in the heart � twice.

If anyone has any doubts that Congress should investigate cases of torture and human rights abuses allegedly carried out by members of the intelligence community during the Iraq conflict, one only needs to review the Frank Olson case. Our failure to fully investigate this scientist�s death in 1953 contributed to further and ongoing abuses throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

The very people � Cheney and Rumsfeld � who defended CIA�s actions in those cases when news of the CIA and military programs were exposed in 1975 would be defending them again decades later in a different guise and a different arena. In those days, it was MKULTRA, MKNAOMI, MKOFTEN, MKCHICKWIT, and of course Operations BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE.

These are legendary names today; the stuff of pulp fiction and celluloid fantasy. But real people were drugged in those programs without their knowledge or consent. Men. Women. Children. Prisoners. Psychopaths. Prostitutes. Foreigners. Many of them were never the same again.

Some went insane.

Some died as a result.

And no one was held accountable. Travel to the the web site, click here.