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A terrible mistake : the murder of Frank Olson & the CIA's secret Cold War experiments / H.P. Albarelli, Jr.
- Title
- A terrible mistake : the murder of Frank Olson & the CIA's secret Cold War experiments / H.P. Albarelli, Jr.
- Author
- Albarelli, H. P.
- Publication
- Walterville, Or. : Trine Day ; Lancaster : Gazelle [distributor], 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 826 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "On November 28, 1953, on of America's greatest mysteries occurred when a Army biochemist working with the CIA fell to his death from a hotel window in New York City. Twenty-two years later it was revealed that the scientist, Frank Olson, had been drugged with LSD days before his death. In 1996, the New York District Attorney's Office opened a murder investigation into Olsen's strange death. And the strangeness surrounding Olson's death only widened..."--from jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Murder of Frank Olson & the CIA's secret Cold War experiments
- Subjects
- Behavior modification > Research > United States
- United States > Central Intelligence Agency
- Olson, Frank R., 1910-1953
- Études de cas
- Case studies
- History
- Biographies
- Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
- 1900-1999
- Intelligence officers > United States > Biography
- Behavior modification > Research > United States > History > 20th century
- Psychological warfare > United States > History > 20th century
- LSD (Drug)
- Psychotropic drugs > Research > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Central Intelligence Agency > Biography
- Olson, Frank R., 1910-1953 > Death and burial
- Military research > United States
- Human experimentation in psychology > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > Case studies
- Brainwashing > United States
- Olson, Frank Rudolph, 1910-1953 > Death and burial
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Case studies
- History
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780977795376 :
- 0977795373 :
- LCCN
- ^^2009934693
- OCLC
- 182733055
- SCSB-11728685
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library