"In 1975, two White House aides named Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld"

[Andy_Stephenson]

He was 9 years old when his mother woke him before dawn half a century ago in Cold War America. Eric Olson came blinking into the living room of their Frederick, Md., home, where his father's boss and friend, Col. Vincent Ruwet, sat with the family doctor.

"The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface," the manual says, adding helpfully: "It will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him."

In Olson's case, it took the government until 1975 to admit to the LSD experiment. When an investigation of CIA abuses exposed the facts in 1975, two White House aides named Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld helped set up a meeting at which President Gerald Ford apologized to the Olson family.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/12/MNG468MM8N1.DTL

[jeff30997]

1. I heard of that story...very troubling.

[tabasco]

2. This was an ugly. ugly crime by our government employees.

At one point, the CIA thugs had Mr. Olson in my county, at a resort cabin, giving him LSD. Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. :mad:

[burythehatchet]

3. truly mind numbing

[Andy_Stephenson]

4. 1953 Alan Dulles and mind control.

Feb.1953: Alan Dulles becomes Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

April 10, 1953: Allen Dulles gives a talk to a Princeton alumni in which he emphasizes “how sinister the battle for men’s mind’s has become in Soviet hands.” Dulles says the Soviets have developed “brain perversion techniques” which must be countered at any price. The development of mind control techniques was seen, on the one hand, as a necessary response to alleged Communist expertise in this area and to Communist ideology itself, which was regarded as something like a drug against which the mind was defenseless, and, on the other hand, as an alternative to waging war with atomic weapons, which could lead to thermonuclear annihilation. The mind control effort comes to assume in the early 1950’s something like the urgency that had been associated with the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Nov. 16, 1953: Prompted by reports (which turn out to be false) that the Soviet Union has purchased huge quantities of LSD, the CIA arranges to buy ten kilos of LSD (one hundred million doses) from Sandoz.