Frank Olson
Civilian Army employee at Fort Detrick whose death in 1953, a week after unwittingly consuming LSD administered by CIA, is the reason the MKULTRA cryptonym became publicly known during the 1975 Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee investigations - on the Director of Central Intelligence's own account.
In the consciousness threadRuled into the consciousness thread on 3 September 2026 by reading this entity's record. The deciding phrase is this entity's own: "unwittingly consuming LSD administered by CIA". An editorial classification; it rests on no page and does not claim to.
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→ MK-ULTRAhis 1953 death is why the cryptonym became publicProject MKULTRA, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modificationprinted p. 4 checked against the pageCaveat The causal claim is Turner's own: he gives Olson's death as the reason MKULTRA surfaced during the 1975 investigations. No date more precise than the year is given for the death anywhere on the pages read.
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THE DAY IS A PLACEHOLDER, NOT A FACT. The hearing says only "In 1953". The -01-01 form is this corpus's marker for a year known and a day not; it is not a claim that anything happened on 1 January. No birth date is recorded.
Printed 4 of the 1977 joint hearing, read by eye: "In 1953 Dr. Olson, a civilian employee of the Army at Fort Detrick, leaped to his death from a hotel room window in New York City about a week after having unwittingly consumed LSD administered to him as an experiment at a meeting of LSD researchers called by CIA." The year is the record's; the day is not stated and is not claimed.