Mar 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Frank Olsen, a government scientist, seemed to be a pretty much unknown, normal, everyday 42 year old American male. That is until he jumped from room 1018A of the Statler Hotel in New York, and died on the Seventh Avenue sidewalk right across from Penn Station. Even at the time his suicide did not draw much attention. He was simply post diagnosed with depression, and it was stated that he had came to New York seeking psychiatric treatment. His wife and family had to deal with the loss of their loved one, and try to put the pieces back together while believing that this man had chosen to take his own life and leave them in pain. It was not until 22 years later that the truth was discovered.

When the Rockefeller Commission Report was released in 1975, a whole array of crimes against the common man by the CIA was reported. The truth of Olsen’s death was among the questions that were finally answered by the Commission Report’s release. Olsen’s death was a direct result of the LDS dosages that were given to him days prior by his colleagues. This shocking revelation led to President Gerald Ford apologizing to the family and giving them a $750,000 civil payment for his wrongful death.

It was also suggested when this report was released that the CIA had also experimented on unknowing citizens of New York by spraying LSD into the New York subways. According to H.P. Albarelli Jr., author of “A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments,” spent over ten years looking through the pages of the report. He claims that this story is very true…that the CIA did release aerosol LSD into the air in the New York subways. One statement in the pages that seems to support his story says, “The BW [biological weapon] experiments to be conducted by representatives of the Department of the Army in the New York Subway System in September 1950, have been indefinitely postponed.” This came from a declassified report of the FBI from the Baltimore Field Office, dated Aug.25, 1950, according to the Huffington Post.

There are those who question the validity of the claim, of course. In another article, written about the suspicion that the CIA had released LCD into the air in France, Steven Kaplan, a history professor at Cornell University stated, ” As for pulverizing it [for ingestion through the air], that technology was not even possible at that time.”