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A terrible mistake : the murder of Frank Olson, and the CIA's secret cold war experiments / H.P. Albarelli.
LIBRA JK468.I6 O463 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albarelli, H. P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Olson, Frank R., 1910-1953.
- Olson, Frank R.
- Olson, Frank R., 1910-1953--Death and burial.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Human experimentation in psychology--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Human experimentation in psychology.
- Psychotropic drugs--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Psychotropic drugs.
- LSD (Drug).
- Psychological warfare--United States--History--20th century.
- Psychological warfare.
- Behavior modification--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Behavior modification.
- Intelligence officers--United States--Biography.
- Intelligence officers.
- Behavior modification--Research.
- History.
- Research.
- Human experimentation in psychology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 826 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Walterville, OR : Trine Day ; Chicago, Ill. : Distribution to the trade byIndependent Publishers Group, [2009]
- Summary:
- "On November 28, 1953, on of America's greatest mysteries occurred when a Army biochemist working with the CIA fell to his death from a hotel window in New York City. Twenty-two years later it was revealed that the scientist, Frank Olson, had been drugged with LSD days before his death. In 1996, the New York District Attorney's Office opened a murder investigation into Olsen's strange death. And the strangeness surrounding Olson's death only widened..."--from jacket.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [779]-810) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Bruce Alan Miller Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Albarelli, H. P. Terrible mistake.
- ISBN:
- 9780977795376
- 0977795373
- 9781936296088
- 193629608X
- OCLC:
- 182733055
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