FRANK R. OLSON

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00144963
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 22, 2024
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: January 4, 1954

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� 7 have been infornedby It. Iashbrtok-that Nrs. Ci_slo-a llas� --
b.'en notified of a -ra7orab1e "-all-- on cc:.--.;.a.**szttio= by 4-'�- P-"-4�11UL -
.. Of Emmleyees Con2ens3.ti3n. I have forvarded the final :=.7--s to .....,, .
- the Bureau and, consecuently, believe this case is closed sc far as .,.
- the 0-,-sg'r.1 Counsel's Office is concarned. It is toss-Th1e t.---7t
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. ra:y be tailed on to helm in connection with the Veterans -:- -..-.
. . istration on the lapsed life insurance molicy� but I trust . any- . .
such "alp -7w-ill be. is the for= of adv4ce rather than actic-. .
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..2. N.7 connents on this case are fairly iinmle. There is no
. dismute as to the facts. All ag-ee on how the e:-eminent is ..
carried out and on the succeeding events as they relate to ,-- - ,
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Dr. Olson. The iamlications are in distute. It is, of c===e,
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:perfectly tossfole that the suicide grew out of a mre-e:cisting ---.
state vtich as not affected by the a4perinent. Bowe-rex, -we ''.12.17.:e.-�- .
. taken the mosition officially that the enmeriment at least :' -.-:'�
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"triggered" the suicide, and; as all the facts tend to =mart � . -
this conclusion, ve should accept it.as final. In any case this --
has bc...^ tha,.mositio4 4"-cm the start of Dr. Gottliez anA Dr. Lsrco,,
yet these t-o, suttortad by Dr. Cihbons� are insistent that it-is �
. acticaIly intossible for this drug to have any harmful after
effects. These two tositions are, to ne, conmletely.inconsistent.
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. 3. If the dr-zg "triggered" the suicide, �erco the trigger -
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itself is.inherehtly.da--erous under certain circunstances- - : .1. -- -
7 an not happy with what sae= to ,--e a ver7 ^4,57.
-. attitude on the tart of TSS re.7-ese,tativas to the--r.y this �
P-cmertme,mt -4---,s conducted and to their re=ars that this is .1=47.t -. -c
one of the ris''s runni-g with sv'er."'i- exte-4--ntato-. I to 1 -�
not eliminate the need for tal:ing ris'sal but 7 do beliv, ,
esmecially whtn hunan health or life is at stake, that :.t. 1t
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