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According to the government's version of events, as part of the MKULTRA experiments, Olson was dosed with LSD without his knowledge, and he suffered a Nervous Breakdown . The CIA sent him to New York to see one of their Psychiatrist s, who recommended that Olson be placed into a mental institution for recovery. On his last night in Manhattan , Olson threw himself out his hotel room window. He fell to the pavement ten stories below and died. His family had no idea of the details of the accident until the Rockefeller Commission started uncovering some of the CIA's MKULTRA activities. In 1975 , the government admitted that Olson had been unwittingly dosed with LSD. White House staffers Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney arranged for President Gerald Ford to meet with the Olson family and personally apologize on behalf of the United States government. The government offered them an out of court settlement, which they accepted. Frank Olson's son Eric does not accept the government's explanation, and he has devoted his life to researching the circumstances of his father's death. Eric Olson believes that his father was Murder ed by United States government agents after he began developing reservations about his work and attempted to resign. Retired Army intelligence agent Norman G. Cournoyer, one of Olson's closest friends at Fort Detrick, also denies that Olson committed Suicide , relating that Olson openly expressed grave reservations about whether the United States should be developing biological weapons. Another retired colleague from the Fort Detrick biological warfare division, William P. Walter, concurs. He relates that at the time of Olson's death, his colleagues were divided on the question of whether he committed suicide or was killed. In 1994 , Eric Olson had his father's body exhumed. The Forensic Scientist in charge of the examination, Professor James E. Starrs of the George Washington University , determined that Olson had suffered some form of Blunt Force Trauma prior to falling out of the window, and called the evidence "rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide". Based on his findings, the Manhattan District Attorney opened a homicide investigation into Olson's death in 1996 but was unable to find enough evidence to bring charges. REFERENCES IN POP CULTURE
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