Author probes 1953 death of early Detrick researcher
Originally published March 22, 2012
By Courtney Mabeus
News-Post Staff
Suicide, or killing by CIA?
H.P. Albarelli talks about his book, “A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiment,” Wednesday at Hood College.
The CIA killed Frank Olson because he wanted to leave his work and the organization feared the stories he would tell and information he would share, according to the author of a book about the decades-old but still mysterious death of the Fort Detrick researcher.
H.P. Albarelli Jr., who spoke about his 2010 book, “A Terrible Mistake,” Wednesday night at Hood College, contended that the death — caused by either a fall or a jump from a New York City hotel window — was unintentional and that the CIA planned to bring him back to a psychiatric facility in Montgomery County where they would continue to keep Olson from talking….
…Olson was an early researcher in the biological warfare program at the post, then known as Camp Detrick, until he died in 1953 — nine days after being dosed with LSD during a work retreat at Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County. But it would take 22 years for those drug-dosing details to become public. At the time, the government labeled his death a suicide.
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