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- 1975 - 1978 (Creation)
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Guinea-pigs: Frank Olson'. Copies of newspaper cuttings describing the 1975 reopening of the case of Dr Frank R Olson who apparently committed suicide after being an unwitting subject of CIA testing of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in Nov 1953. Also reports of the Presidential apology to the Olson family, and thee black and white negatives of images of Olson family's audience with US President Gerald Ford, 21 Jul 1975. Also contains notes of interviews with Col Vincent L Ruwet present during administering of LSD to Olson, Mrs Herbert G Tanner, wife of HG Tanner unwitting subject of LSD test with Olson; Dr Benjamin Wilson worked on Chemical Corps test projects; Lyman Kirkpatrick, CIA Inspector General who investigated Olson's death; and Sidney Gottlieb, the doctor involved in the testing project; copy of article by Tad Szule 'The CIA's electric kool-aid acid test'; copies of censored memoranda from US Department of Army relating to Olson's death.
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