JGeropoulas
The Living Force
“Wormwood”
Wormwood is a well-done mini-series, which include lots of historical photographs. It’s a story poignantly told through Eric Olson, the son of Frank Olson, who began life simply wanting to study agronomy and be a farmer. But his simple ambition was cunningly hijacked, morphing him into an American biological warfare scientist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1953.
In the weeks prior to Olson’s death, his CIA supervisor secretly dosed him and others with LSD as a “truth serum” to ferret out anyone wavering about the CIA’s development of germ warfare being secretly tested during the Korean war. As a result, Olson revealed himself to be very conflicted about how his talents were being exploited for nefarious purposes, and subsequently fell into a state of depression culminating in his request to be “fired” and freed to go on with his life. For security purposes, this was not an option. Instead, the CIA planned his execution.
Nine days later, Olson plunged to his death from the window of a hotel room in New York City. His death has been historically regarded as a suicide during an experiment with LSD, which apparently was designed as a “shocking” cover story to avoid the revelation of even more sinister actions. (One of the many details Olson’s son discovered is that the Department of Justice had an “agreement” with the CIA that no crimes would be prosecuted against them for their activities as long as they were committed related to protecting America’s national security interests—which only bolsters suspicions about all the unrestrained “terrorist” false flags and mass shootings these days.)
But persistent investigations by his son (who became obsessed with solving the mystery of his father’s death to the point of having his body exhumed) point strongly to the fact that Frank Olson was instead set up to be on the 10th floor of the hotel while in NY visiting the CIA’s “psychiatrist”. Later that night, Olson’s long-time CIA associate ”friend” sharing his room unlocked the door so CIA henchmen could come in and club Olson across his forehead with a bat, break out the window and then heave him out the window.
A key piece of evidence the film relies on is a CIA assassination manual from 1953, which instructs agents, "The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface."—a technique also used with General Forrestal and others during that time.
https://www.netflix.com/watch/80226935?trackId=14170066&tctx=0%2C0%2Ccf33bf7c-6385-4683-9810-8e6d6ffaa3d6-29169473&t=0
Wormwood is a well-done mini-series, which include lots of historical photographs. It’s a story poignantly told through Eric Olson, the son of Frank Olson, who began life simply wanting to study agronomy and be a farmer. But his simple ambition was cunningly hijacked, morphing him into an American biological warfare scientist and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1953.
In the weeks prior to Olson’s death, his CIA supervisor secretly dosed him and others with LSD as a “truth serum” to ferret out anyone wavering about the CIA’s development of germ warfare being secretly tested during the Korean war. As a result, Olson revealed himself to be very conflicted about how his talents were being exploited for nefarious purposes, and subsequently fell into a state of depression culminating in his request to be “fired” and freed to go on with his life. For security purposes, this was not an option. Instead, the CIA planned his execution.
Nine days later, Olson plunged to his death from the window of a hotel room in New York City. His death has been historically regarded as a suicide during an experiment with LSD, which apparently was designed as a “shocking” cover story to avoid the revelation of even more sinister actions. (One of the many details Olson’s son discovered is that the Department of Justice had an “agreement” with the CIA that no crimes would be prosecuted against them for their activities as long as they were committed related to protecting America’s national security interests—which only bolsters suspicions about all the unrestrained “terrorist” false flags and mass shootings these days.)
But persistent investigations by his son (who became obsessed with solving the mystery of his father’s death to the point of having his body exhumed) point strongly to the fact that Frank Olson was instead set up to be on the 10th floor of the hotel while in NY visiting the CIA’s “psychiatrist”. Later that night, Olson’s long-time CIA associate ”friend” sharing his room unlocked the door so CIA henchmen could come in and club Olson across his forehead with a bat, break out the window and then heave him out the window.
A key piece of evidence the film relies on is a CIA assassination manual from 1953, which instructs agents, "The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface."—a technique also used with General Forrestal and others during that time.
https://www.netflix.com/watch/80226935?trackId=14170066&tctx=0%2C0%2Ccf33bf7c-6385-4683-9810-8e6d6ffaa3d6-29169473&t=0
