The CIA scientist who "fell" from a hotel window nine days after being secretly dosed with LSD

The CIA scientist who "fell" from a hotel window nine days after being secretly dosed with LSD

In November 1953 a group of government men met at a cabin at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. One of them, Frank Olson, was an Army bacteriologist. That evening the CIA's Sidney Gottlieb spiked their after-dinner drinks with LSD without telling them. Olson didn't take it well. Nine days later he went out the window of the 13th floor of the Statler Hotel in New York. Ruled a suicide.

The family accepted it for over twenty years. Then, in the 1970s, the MKUltra papers surfaced and they learned about the dosing. In 1994 they had his body exhumed. A forensic pathologist found a blunt-force injury to the skull that, in his reading, didn't fit a fall through glass. The case was reopened as a possible homicide, then quietly went nowhere.

What gets me is the paperwork detail: MKUltra was supposed to be erased in 1973, but a filing mistake left roughly 20,000 pages in the wrong box, and that's basically all we know from. Everything else was shredded.

Is Olson the one case where the "official story" really doesn't hold, or am I reading too much into a cold autopsy from 1994? Curious what people who know the file think.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson

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u/TipHorror8049 — 3 days ago

Come si scrive un tema perfetto: la tecnica che a scuola non ti insegnano

Ciao ragazzi, spero che questo video possa tornarvi utile per la maturità. In bocca al lupo!

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u/TipHorror8049 — 26 days ago
▲ 2 r/TeenagersITA+1 crossposts

Come scrivere un tema perfetto per la maturità?

In vista della Maturità, tanti ragazzi e ragazze chiedono spesso quale differenza passi tra un tema da 6 e uno da 9 o addirittura 10. Il problema è il metodo, che poi, dal tema, si estende a tutte le cose della vita, dal mio punto di vista.

Questo video parte da un esame di Stato celebre del 1988 e spiega come costruire un tema immaginando di essere dei detective: la traccia come scena del crimine, i documenti come indizi, la tesi come teoria dell'indagine.

Credo possa essere un aiuto per tanti maturandi, e non solo.

Secondo voi, qual è l'errore più comune quando si affronta un tema?

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u/TipHorror8049 — 30 days ago