CIA Cover-Up Suit Over Scientist’s Fatal LSD Fall Dismissed (1) (2013)

 CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War / Koude Oorlog, Project Paperclip, United States of America USA, Vietnam
dec 152014
 

A lawsuit accusing Central Intelligence Agency employees of murdering military scientist Frank Olson in 1953 after he raised concerns about testing chemical and biological weapons on people without their consent was dismissed. The suit, brought by Olson’s family in federal court in Washington, was filed too late and is barred under an earlier settlement, a judge ruled today. Eric and Nils Olson alleged their father, who the CIA admitted was given LSD a few days before his death, didn’t jump [lees verder]

CIA Wants Out of ‘Human Guinea Pig’ Case (2011)

 CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War / Koude Oorlog, Project Paperclip, United States of America USA, Vietnam
dec 152014
 

OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) – The CIA asked a federal judge to dismiss it from a case in which U.S. veterans claim the government used them as human guinea pigs in Cold War-era drug experiments. The CIA claims veterans can’t sue the it because they cannot prove they took “secrecy oaths.” Vietnam Veterans of America filed a class action against the Army and CIA in 2009, claiming that at least 7,800 soldiers had been used as guinea pigs in “Project Paperclip.” [lees verder]