I'm delighted to announce that Hank Albarelli will be speaking,
and signing copies of his
staggering new book, A Terrible Mistake, at the McNally
Jackson Bookstore on Monday,
May 10, at 7:00 p.m.
The store is at 52 Prince St., b/t Lafayette and Mulberry.
Be there or be square!
MCM
CIA Gone Wild
H. P. Albarelli's True
Thriller: A Terrible Mistake - The Murder of Frank Olson and
the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments. A Runaway Best
Seller
This book is like an
ticking time bomb on the CIA. The CIA Used Innocent Men,
Women and Children as Innocent Human Guinea Pigs in LSD
Experiments? And Worse.
Taking on the CIA is not for the faint of
heart. It takes toughness, tenacity, and an undisputed moral
compass. It's those core values that compelled Hank Albarelli
Jr. to spend ten years uncovering the dark truths in his
formidable expose: A Terrible Mistake - The Murder of Frank
Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War
Experiments.
This book reveals a rogue government
agency whose defining characteristic is dirty, scorched-earth policies
carried out at any cost. It brings to light of day important new
information from the 1950's heyday of Olson's work, delving into
military and CIA Cold War experimentation, information which Olson's
death was intended to bury. Unwitting citizens were the
subjects of mind-control experiments which lead to the development of
techniques still employed today at Black Sites around the
world. Among the details revealed are efforts to weaponize LSD for
battlefield use and unconscionable tests on innocent civilians,
including children.
Albarelli takes the mystery out of the
darkest corners in CIA's history - and he relates the story with
character, with conviction, and with the blinders off. This is a
riveting read, his text, defiantly disturbing, his writing style
passionately grounded in reality; the whole, mesmerizingly capable of
big, smacking, rhetorical home
runs.
The scenes in his book are filled with
characters deep into intrigue, their identity always in flux, like
floating human jello. And yet these people, some, we discover,
still in power, have the ability to tear somebody in two like they
were a slice of bread. The
conclusions of his detective work fit together like sword and
scabbard. The book reads like fiction, yet we are reminded over
and over again that we are dealing with long-denied
truths.
The hard dirty facts of the CIA's
history come alive as you obsessively turn the pages. You're riveted
as he explores
1950's Military and CIA Cold War Scientific and
Medical experimentation in the fields of Mind Control, Psychological
Operations, Interrogation, Torture, Psycho-Weaponry, Chemical and
Biological Assassination .
Albarelli has racked 10 years of
rough mileage researching this book, culling over 100,000 pages of
classified documents, his track record cratered with deliberate
potholes created by the Manhattan district attorney's office, which
was also investigating the case, was nothing less than an exercise in
squaring off with subterfuge.
I won't reveal the
mystery Albarelli solves, i.e., who killed Frank Olson and why, but
the long build-up describing the various covert operations of the
intelligence agencies, well-documented in the book, builds to a
startling pay-off.
Albarelli gives his readers
so much juicy information, a veritable tsunami of exposed secrets and
incrementing evidence. He details a myriad of
CIA drug experiments and exposes a large number of previously
anonymous physicians and business officials who contracted with the
agency. The experiments resulted in the deaths of a number of
people, permanently destroying the minds of others and
sending many more seeking medical
help.
The human faces of evil
come alive. We become acquainted with
some of the Agency's creepiest characters including: Dr. Sidney
Gottlieb, head of the notorious MKULTRA program, whose mind control
techniques included extensive use of LSD; the evil psychiatrist Dr.
Harold Abramson; various Corsican mafia kingpins; and the ultimate
spy, Pierre Lafitte who was not only ignominiously
descended from the famous pirate captain, Jean Lafitte, he was
also a paid CIA assassin, who just happened to be working as a bellman
at the Statler Hotel the night Olson plunged to his death on a
November night in 1953.
Frank Olson's short descent from
respected biochemist to an obituary footnote didn't take long.
But, there are no statute-of-limitations on
murder.
What did Dr. Olson, a CIA scientist
himself, do to deserve such a violent demise? After having been
previously dosed with LSD, Olson crashed through a closed and shaded
10th story window of the Hotel Statler on 7th Ave in Manhattan. It was
called a suicide. In the 1970's Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld
succeeded in blocking his family's request for a new investigation
into his death. Later, the Bush administration pushed for
the legalization of some of the very torture techniques they had so
successfully protected in the 1970's.
Whose secrets were being
protected?
Hank Albarelli's chiller of a thriller
"A Terrible Mistake, the Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's
Secret Cold War Experiments", a 900+ page volume based on
over 100,000 pages of documents and interviews show how Frank Olson
was actually murdered.
Why? The CIA was hell-bent on perfecting
mind control techniques, including the creation of a "truth drug,"
for use in interrogation of captured enemy operatives and to root out
"the enemies within".
Beginning in the 1940s Project
BLUEBIRD began. These experiments were used on American citizens held
captive in mental hospitals, without informed consent. The CIA also
birthed synthetic THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, used in
Project MKULTRA using human beings as guinea pigs with LSD and
hypnosis.
A TERRIBLE MISTAKE reads
like a roadmap to the drug culture of the 1960s and beyond.
This investigation of unprecedented depth, including numerous first
hand interviews, links yesteryear's electric KoolAid with today's
"shock doctrine."
In 1995, when Albarelli began to
seriously investigate the strange death of Dr. Olson, 42, little
did he suspect his investigations would span over 10 years
and take him down the rabbit hole of history into the CIA's deep
involvement with drugs. Encountering fierce opposition from
varied and surprising forces, he persisted, learning for himself the
harsh lessons one gains in the pursuit of truth.
The seemingly unrelated mysteries
of Dr. Olson's strange "suicide" in New York City in 1953
and the bizarre hallucinogenic outbreak in a small French village in
August 1951 have independently provoked and perplexed serious
investigators as related in countless accounts on the Internet and
televised news features and documentaries for decades. While Olson's
death has long been suspect, little was offered in the way of real
evidence, which now smacks of a classic government
cover up which for years went undetected in the innocence of pre
Vietnam 1950's America. Now, Olson's death can be definitively
ruled a murder and the French outbreak explained as a sloppy
military maneuver which resulted in the callous disregard
of hundreds of innocent unwitting lives, some of whom took their own
lives as an escape from the horror, others were doomed to a subsequent
lifetime of insanity.
The shocks never stop.
In late 1953 a high-ranking official of
the Sandoz Chemical Company meeting with a CIA official made a
startling revelation, that the 1951 so-called ergot outbreak in the
French town of Pont St. Esprit was actually the result of a planned
and secret biochemical experiment which resulted in the deaths of five
people and also caused 300 people to seek medical care or to be placed
in insane asylums for treatment. At the outset of Albarelli's
investigation, the outbreak was but a minor footnote in the bizarre
history of LSD, but over time, fueled by the receipt of several
never-before viewed CIA and White House documents it became amply
apparent that the two events were inextricably
connected.
*
The cursed bread of Pont-Saint-Esprit 50
years ago has turned out to have been a CIA mind control
experiment.
It happened in 1951, a quiet little village in France become struck
with a sudden wave of hallucinations and insanity. It had been
believed for some time that the incident was caused by accidental
bread poisoning but an investigative journalist now believes that it
had actually been an intentional experiment conducted by the CIA
during the cold war.
Today in the French News, was the
startling announcement that the French Government is demanding
explanations from the United States for a mysterious outbreak of mass
insanity in the South Eastern Village of Pont-Saint-Esprit that
occurred almost 60 years ago. 500 hundred people were affected and
there were 5 deaths. The implications could have long range effects on
Franco-American relations.
Motives behind Olson's killing reveal
the identities of the men who committed the act. Ties, hitherto
unknown link Lee Harvey Oswald establishing for instance that young
Oswald was seen by some of these same CIA mind control doctors in New
York City, where so much of this experimentation took place, when he
was only 13 years old and the murder of JFK, as well as to the
infamous French Connection drug case.
The dynamics of state-sponsored
assassination, the alliance in the 1950s and 1960s between the
CIA and organized crime in America become startlingly
clear.
The Artichoke Project, MK/ULTRA,
MK/NAOMI, MK/DECOY and QK/HILLTOP are no longer dusty,
frightening symbols of the past. Many of these Cold War programs
served as the basis and templates for those controversial rendition
and interrogation techniques employed by the Army and CIA today.
Albarelli includes 42 pages of photographs and supporting
documents from the files of The Agency for those in
doubt.
This information has eluded two
congressional hearings in the 1970's and, another requested
investigation by Olson's family, was also blocked in 1975 by Cheney
and Rumsfield. Once you start reading. A Terrible Mistake,
it becomes painfully clear why such determined
attempts were made to keep this information from the
public.
Can the truth change this perception? If
the truth can heal, then this book is a prescription for
accountability. Make no mistake; this book will sear reader's
souls. It is a must-read for anyone who believes that following
our constitution must be mandatory for the pursuit of good government
and our democracy is not for sale for the highest bidder or the
too-clever-for-words machinations of the CIA.
The story has done a
full revolution around the planet! From France to UK, then from Czech
Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Russia to Australia and
Brazil...What's next?
Publisher: TrineDay November
2009 $34.94 USD $38.95
Canada
H.P. Albarelli Jr.
H.P. Albarelli Jr. is an investigative reporter and writer who lives
in the Tampa Bay region of Florida. Other articles he has written
about Frank Olson's death, as well as about the post-9/11 anthrax
investigation, biological warfare, and other subjects, appear on the
World Net Daily web site. Other writings by Albarelli may be found in
WITNESS, a literary journal, and Tampa's alternative newspaper, The
Weekly Planet. A graduate of Antioch Law School, Albarelli has worked
as a researcher, scriptwriter, and technical consultant on several
television documentaries including A&E's recent Investigative
Report on Frank Olson produced by London's Principal Films. In
1977-80, Albarelli worked in the White House under the Carter
Administration and then later served on the Senior Policy Staff for
the Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C.
Albarelli is a former board member of the London-based Transnational
Information Centre and has traveled extensively throughout Europe,
Asia, and Africa. His novel THE HEAP was published in 2005.
Albarelli's book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder Of Frank Olson And
The CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, was published in
2010.
The CIA And
African Americans
The CIA's MKULTRA program went out of its
way to target and select African-Americans as experimental subjects.
Certain Agency documents make incredibly racist statements about
minority groups. Indeed, there is ample evidence that the CIA and
Federal Bureau of Narcotics went out of their collective way to target
African American neighborhoods with the sale of illicit drugs for
funding black ops. This continues today, but nobody wants to speak
about it.
It's no coincidence that so many African
American men are in federal prisons and that prisons are such a viable
private industry today: this was and is all part of the plan, but it
is so much easier to ignore it, until it touches you or your
family.
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