WIDOW SEEKING PENSION IN CIA DRUG-DEATH CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600070055-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: July 2, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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ARTICLE i'1PP SID WASHINGTON STAR
6 N P E_.Z 2 JULY 1978
Widow Seeking
Pension in, CIA
Drug-Death Case
UnitedPreeelnterea& I ?` Y
The widow of Dr. Frank Olson,. a
Maryland biochemist. who jumped to.
his death in 1953 after unwingly
taking LSD in 'a CIA experiment, is
seeking a government pension she
forfeited for :- ? a:::*75,000 monetary
award. -` . _._
Alice Olson 'and her three children
are trying. to. regain the pension
under bills sponsored. in both houses
of Congress by Sen. Charles Mathias,
R-Md., and Rep. ~Goodloe Byron, R-
Md..,
111976 the family forfeited the pen-
sion in exchange for an authorized
$75,000 monetary award.
Bob Atkinson, an. aide to Byron,
Said the pension was-"inadvertantly"
dropped in the 1976! agreement. He
saia-the pension could be worth mom
than the award.
. But he said it was. not clear how
much the monthly pension would be.
Olson surrendered her husband's
pension to seek the monetary award
after learning 22 years after his
death that he had unknowingly taken
LSD given him by a CIA agent.
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