How US intelligence agencies hid their most shameful experiments
The 1953 probable assassination of Frank Olson by the CIA could use a little more expansion - and he wasn&#x27;t so much a biochemist as a microbiologist.  He apparently was working on a specific program called ARTICHOKE in 1953 that involved torture and assassination using the MKULTRA arsenal of drugs and poisons:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wariscrime.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;scientist-frank-olson-killed-by-the-cia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wariscrime.com&#x2F;new&#x2F;scientist-frank-olson-killed-by-t...</a><p>Of particular interest is this:<p>&gt; &quot;Cournoyer also told them Olson learned biological weapons, including anthrax, were used during the Korean War, despite denials by the U.S. government. Cournoyer repeated his story in a 2002 German TV documentary film, “Code Name ARTICHOKE,” which can be seen on YouTube.&quot;<p>That would be enough of a reason for the CIA to conduct an assassination. It didn&#x27;t become public that the USA had collected all of Japan&#x27;s biological warfare data and given Shiro Ishii, head of that program, amnesty for his Mengele-like crimes until the 1970s.  If all that had been revealed in 1953, it would have made US denial of the use of biological weapons in North Korea much less plausible.<p>For more background on Olson and the CIA, this paper (Kuzmarov 2020) looks good:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;48645495" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jstor.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;48645495</a><p>&gt; &quot;In 1947, Olson and Rosebury produced a technical monograph after constructing a
special chamber for the study of “airborne clouds of highly infective agents” that recommended the use of airplanes as the “best delivery systems for biological agents.” In May of the previous year, members of Congress hoping to secure support for a $4.6 million naval appropriations bill, leaked to the Associated Press news about a “new germ spray capable of wiping out large cities and entire crops at a single blow, a secret weapon” deliverable from high-flying planes, “far more deadly than the atomic bomb.”&quot;<p>I can guess what happened: under the influence of an unexpected dose of LSD, Olson (a previously straight-laced company man by all accounts) suddenly realized that he didn&#x27;t want to spend his life making bioweapons and torture&#x2F;assassination tools.  Outcomes like that had a lot to do with the CIA giving up on LSD (as well as its later criminalization by the state).