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Frank Olson's Fall: The Death That Exposed MKUltra's Darkest Secrets
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On November 13, 1953, CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb secretly dosed bacteriologist Frank Olson with LSD — nine days later, Olson fell from a New York hotel window. This chapter traces the murder, the cover-up, and the full machinery of MKUltra's human experimentation network.
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November thirteenth, nineteen fifty-three. A man falls from a tenth-floor window of the Statler Hotel in New York City.
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