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They have never been questioned as to what they knew about Olson’s death.” 19

    Cheney-Rumsfeld: The “formative” years: Both handled the “limited hangout” under President Ford in 1975, settling with the Olson family for $750,000, a private audience and apology from President Ford, and an apparent end to the uncomfortable issues surrounding Frank Olson’s knowledge of bacteriological warfare by the U.S. in North Korea and the “enhanced” interrogation techniques of Project Artichoke. The Olson family later learned that a “renewed coverup of the truth concerning this story was being carried out at the highest levels of government, including the White House.”
    The following is a verbatim excerpt from the CIA Assassination Manual which was declassified in 1997; this document was written and put out to “agents in the field” only a short time prior to Olson’s death: 20
    Professor Starrs, who led the autopsy team which concluded that the death was actually murder, concluded that the:
2. Accidents
For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated.
The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stairwells, unscreened windows, and bridges will serve. Bridge falls into water are not reliable. In simple cases a private meeting with the subject may be arranged at a properly-cased location. The act may be executed by sudden, vigorous [next word excised] of the ankles, tipping the subject over the edge. If the assassin immediately sets up an outcry, playing the “horrified witness,” no alibi or surreptitious withdrawal is necessary. In chase cases it will usually be necessary to stun or drug the subject before dropping him. Care is required to insure that no wound or condition not attributable to the fall is discernible after death.
Falls into the sea or swiftly flowing rivers may suffice if the subject cannot swim. It will be more reliable if the assassin can arrange to attempt rescue, as he can thus be sure of the subject’s death and at the same time establish a workable alibi.
If the subject’s personal habits make it feasible, alcohol may be used [2 words excised] to prepare him for a contrived accident of any kind.
Falls before trains or subway cars are usually effective, but require exact timing and can seldom be free from unexpected observation.
“ … evidence from 1953 demonstrates a concerted pattern of concealment and deception on the part of those persons and agencies most closely associated with—and most likely to be accountable for—a homicide most foul in the death of Dr. Olson … The confluence of scientific fact and investigative fact points unerringly to the death of Frank Olson as being a homicide, deft, deliberate, and diabolical.” 21
    Olson’s son, Eric Olson, who is Director of The Frank Olson Legacy Project and has literally spent decades researching the circumstances of his father’s death, deserves the last word here and, frankly, no one could put it more eloquently:
“What this means for me is that a national security homicide is not only a possibility, but really it is a necessity, when you have a certain number of ingredients together. If you are doing top secret work that is immoral, arguably immoral, especially in the post-Nuremberg period, and arguably illegal, and at odds with the kind of high moral position you are trying to maintain in the world, then you have to have a mechanism of security which is going to include murder.” 22
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments ; H. P. Albaselli Js.; 2009, TrineDay.
    The Biology of Doom: The History of America’s Secret Germ Warfare Project , Ed Regis, 2000.
    The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson, 2005.
    Code Name: Artichoke; The CIA’s