FBI files on Sidney Gottlieb, George Hunter White and Dr. Frank Olson, persons related to the CIA's Project MKULTRA .
In the 1950s and 60s, the CIA engaged in extensive programs of human experimentation, using drugs, and other psychological means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counterintelligence and covert action purposes.
MKULTRA was the principal CIA domestic program involving the research and development of chemical and biological agents.
This collection contains FBI Files covering
Sidney Gottlieb
An American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's Project MKULTRA. The File covers his destruction of the Project's files.
George Hunter White
White ran a safe house in New York City which people would be lured off the street and then given LSD so they could be watched and filmed from an adjoining apartment through a one-way mirror. White was a former narcotics officer, famous for his obsession to bust Billie Holiday and other famous New York City jazz figures. The files cover the elements of his colorful career.
Dr. Frank Olson
A tragic result of the testing of LSD by the CIA was the death of Dr. Frank Olson, a civilian employee of the Army, who died on November 27, 1953. His death followed his participation in a CIA experiment with LSD. As part of this experiment, Olson unwittingly received approximately 70 micrograms of LSD in a glass of Cointreau he drank on November 19,1953. The drug had been placed in the bottle by a CIA officer, Dr. Robert Lashbrook, as part of an experiment he and Dr. Sidney Gottlieb performed at a meeting of Army and CIA scientists.
Shortly after this experiment, Olson exhibited symptoms of paranoia and schizophrenia. Accompanied by Dr. Lashbrook, Olson sought psychiatric assistance in New York City from a physician, Dr. Harold Abramson, whose research on LSD had been funded indirectly by the CIA. While in New York for treatment, Olson fell to his death from a tenth story window in the Statler Hotel.
