1 00:00:13,597 --> 00:00:14,765 See you tomorrow. 2 00:00:15,766 --> 00:00:16,975 I love you, Alice. 3 00:00:19,686 --> 00:00:23,190 18,000 boxing fans filled Madison Square Garden tonight. 4 00:00:35,118 --> 00:00:41,291 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... 5 00:00:51,385 --> 00:00:53,387 "The third angel blew his trumpet, 6 00:00:54,846 --> 00:00:57,724 and a big star, that burned like a torch, 7 00:00:58,809 --> 00:01:01,186 fell from the sky 8 00:01:03,021 --> 00:01:07,401 and fell on a third of the rivers and the springs. 9 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:11,989 That star's name is Wormwood. 10 00:01:13,532 --> 00:01:16,994 And a third of the water turned into wormwood, 11 00:01:19,121 --> 00:01:23,750 so many people died from the water, because it became bitter.” 12 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:07,354 AN ORIGINAL STORY FROM NETFLIX 13 00:04:41,907 --> 00:04:45,368 What were you told, when your father died? 14 00:04:46,161 --> 00:04:50,081 I was told that “Your father had an accident. 15 00:04:50,916 --> 00:04:57,130 He fell or jumped out of the window, and he died." 16 00:05:09,726 --> 00:05:11,394 This is the story of my childhood. 17 00:05:12,938 --> 00:05:14,898 When I am awakened 18 00:05:14,981 --> 00:05:19,569 early morning November 28, and led into the living room, 19 00:05:19,653 --> 00:05:23,698 and there sits my father's boss, Vincent Ruwet... 20 00:05:24,741 --> 00:05:26,243 and the family doctor... 21 00:05:27,369 --> 00:05:29,162 and my mother. 22 00:05:32,958 --> 00:05:35,293 It is very early in the morning, 23 00:05:35,377 --> 00:05:38,046 at approximately 4.30 in the morning. 24 00:05:38,129 --> 00:05:42,926 So there is a foggy, dark early-morning light. 25 00:05:43,843 --> 00:05:47,055 Ruwet told me. “Your father was in New York. 26 00:05:47,138 --> 00:05:48,306 There was an accident. 27 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:52,811 He fell or jumped out of the window and died.” 28 00:05:52,894 --> 00:05:54,938 PART OF LIVER FOR CHEMICAL ANALYSIS 29 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:58,733 It totally paralyzed me, 30 00:05:58,817 --> 00:06:04,155 not only because it was the news of my father's death, 31 00:06:04,239 --> 00:06:06,241 it was, in a way, the least. 32 00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:08,159 He had an accident, 33 00:06:08,243 --> 00:06:09,828 and he fell… 34 00:06:10,996 --> 00:06:13,164 ...or jumped out of the window. 35 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,003 How do the two words agree? 36 00:06:23,091 --> 00:06:25,051 If he jumped out the window... 37 00:06:26,177 --> 00:06:27,804 ...so how was it an accident? 38 00:06:30,181 --> 00:06:31,266 But on the other hand, 39 00:06:31,349 --> 00:06:34,769 what does it mean that one fell out of the window of a hotel room? 40 00:06:34,853 --> 00:06:37,188 What does that mean? How does it look? 41 00:06:37,689 --> 00:06:42,360 A big part of my childhood and youth went about juggling those concepts. 42 00:06:43,153 --> 00:06:46,197 How can fall jump and crash, 43 00:06:46,281 --> 00:06:48,742 how can the three concepts be arranged, 44 00:06:48,825 --> 00:06:53,246 so it all makes sense in any way? 45 00:06:53,330 --> 00:06:56,541 How can fall, jump and accident, 46 00:06:56,625 --> 00:06:59,085 how can the three concepts be arranged, 47 00:06:59,169 --> 00:07:03,548 so it all makes sense in any way? 48 00:07:04,132 --> 00:07:06,384 How can the three concepts be arranged, 49 00:07:06,468 --> 00:07:10,764 so it all makes sense in any way? 50 00:07:10,847 --> 00:07:15,810 Behind it, the whole feeling is lost reaction, "your father just died", 51 00:07:15,894 --> 00:07:19,481 because I didn't even understand what they had just said. 52 00:07:20,065 --> 00:07:22,984 To me it was as if something had fallen a bomb down on me. 53 00:07:23,068 --> 00:07:28,406 At that exact moment made no sense anymore. 54 00:07:35,664 --> 00:07:38,959 I need to talk about this somehow, 55 00:07:40,377 --> 00:07:42,879 and my mother would definitely not hear that. 56 00:07:43,922 --> 00:07:47,217 For her it was: "Didn't we already talk about that?" 57 00:07:47,884 --> 00:07:50,553 I had to say: "When did we talk about that?" 58 00:07:50,637 --> 00:07:53,515 "We've talked about that. I have told you all.” 59 00:07:54,975 --> 00:07:57,352 For me it was: "When did you do it?" 60 00:07:57,435 --> 00:08:01,106 “We've talked about it. Why do you keep bringing it up? 61 00:08:01,189 --> 00:08:02,649 Can't you leave it alone?" 62 00:08:03,942 --> 00:08:07,278 That's how it was. “You can't leave it alone? We have to move on.” 63 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,951 Da Rockefeller report whether the CIA was published, 64 00:08:13,034 --> 00:08:15,829 it contained a grim story about a CIA experiment 65 00:08:15,912 --> 00:08:18,790 with an ignorant citizen, who got LSD. 66 00:08:19,374 --> 00:08:21,835 CIA's experiments with LSD 67 00:08:21,918 --> 00:08:27,007 probably got the civilian scientist Frank Olson to commit suicide in 1953. 68 00:08:27,090 --> 00:08:30,343 But for 22 years was the man's family led to believe, 69 00:08:30,427 --> 00:08:34,180 that he had committed suicide as an isolated, irrational act. 70 00:08:35,306 --> 00:08:38,893 When the story was published of the Rockefeller Commission, 71 00:08:38,977 --> 00:08:43,148 I was called by my brother-in-law. 72 00:08:43,231 --> 00:08:46,151 "You should read the Washington Post today." 73 00:08:46,901 --> 00:08:52,699 So I crashed to Out Of Town News in Harvard Square, 74 00:08:52,782 --> 00:08:54,409 to buy the Washington Post ... 75 00:08:55,493 --> 00:08:59,164 ...and read that article, and I just went completely crazy. 76 00:08:59,247 --> 00:09:01,541 On the front page it was written: "Suicide Revealed." 77 00:09:03,376 --> 00:09:06,755 "The Commission has discovered, that a scientist from the army, 78 00:09:06,838 --> 00:09:11,718 after taking LSD, passed out from the window of a hotel in New York.” 79 00:09:13,261 --> 00:09:17,348 How many scientists could jump out of windows 80 00:09:17,432 --> 00:09:19,642 in 1953 in New York City? 81 00:09:19,726 --> 00:09:21,061 It had to be my father. 82 00:09:21,144 --> 00:09:23,146 But, wait. They didn't call us. 83 00:09:23,229 --> 00:09:25,857 They didn't say it was dad. How do I know? 84 00:09:26,608 --> 00:09:27,942 Maybe it's not him. 85 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:37,869 My sister Lisa and her husband Greg determined immediately, 86 00:09:37,952 --> 00:09:41,873 that the person who may know whether it was Frank Olson or not, 87 00:09:41,956 --> 00:09:44,959 was my father's old boss, Vin Ruwet. 88 00:09:45,043 --> 00:09:47,295 CHIEF OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS CAMP DETRICK 89 00:09:47,378 --> 00:09:50,507 First they got hold of his wife, 90 00:09:50,590 --> 00:09:55,553 who said: “Wine is not at home. He didn't want to know about it anyway. 91 00:09:56,262 --> 00:09:57,138 Goodbye.” 92 00:09:58,056 --> 00:10:01,101 It turned out that he had been over with the CIA 93 00:10:01,184 --> 00:10:03,937 for instructions on the handling of it. 94 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:06,314 He knew the phone would start ringing. 95 00:10:06,397 --> 00:10:08,900 I think the CIA authorized him to 96 00:10:08,983 --> 00:10:12,195 to confirm it. "Yes, that's your father." 97 00:10:12,821 --> 00:10:14,572 But he did nothing more. 98 00:10:18,827 --> 00:10:22,497 DAVID RUDOWSKY THE OLSON FAMILY ATTORNEY 99 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:24,999 I still remember that it was one o'clock in the morning, 100 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:27,961 i was sleeping and eric called… 101 00:10:29,671 --> 00:10:31,798 It was in July 1975. 102 00:10:32,590 --> 00:10:34,926 “Did you see the headlines in the paper today? 103 00:10:35,593 --> 00:10:40,014 The one thrown out of the window is my father." 104 00:10:40,807 --> 00:10:45,979 Dealing with him, both as a friend and now as a client, 105 00:10:46,062 --> 00:10:50,733 to have with the CIA, Congress, the President and the Ministry of Justice to do... 106 00:10:50,817 --> 00:10:54,279 It was in everyone's interest to publish as little as possible 107 00:10:54,362 --> 00:10:56,197 and try to make it go away. 108 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,034 - To keep covering it up? -Yes. 109 00:11:00,618 --> 00:11:02,328 Remember, this was in 1975. 110 00:11:02,412 --> 00:11:03,580 There was a lot going on. 111 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:05,707 The Rockefeller Commission Report, 112 00:11:05,790 --> 00:11:09,836 Congressional investigation of the FBI and the surveillance program... 113 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:12,547 Nixon had gone 114 00:11:13,298 --> 00:11:14,382 great resurrection 115 00:11:14,465 --> 00:11:18,011 and many questions regarding the integrity of the US government. 116 00:11:20,638 --> 00:11:25,518 This is the Rockefeller report which was published this evening, 299 pages. 117 00:11:25,602 --> 00:11:30,315 It says a lot about the illegal activities of the CIA. 118 00:11:30,398 --> 00:11:32,442 That they exceeded their mandate, 119 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:35,904 that they succumbed for the political pressure from the White House. 120 00:11:35,987 --> 00:11:39,991 It confirms that the US spied the American civilian population, 121 00:11:40,074 --> 00:11:43,202 illegal wiretapping, the opening of private correspondence, 122 00:11:43,286 --> 00:11:48,958 even a drug testing program with the use of LSD on unwitting persons. 123 00:11:49,542 --> 00:11:53,421 We talk to the journalist, as first revealed the story of the misdeeds. 124 00:11:53,504 --> 00:11:56,007 MASSIVE CIA SPYING OF AMERICANS 125 00:11:56,090 --> 00:11:59,344 Seymour Hersh, as a journalist for the New York Times, 126 00:11:59,928 --> 00:12:02,263 did you write an article last December, 127 00:12:02,347 --> 00:12:07,769 where you wrote that the CIA had done a massive, illegal espionage in the USA. 128 00:12:07,852 --> 00:12:10,396 Did Watergate raise your suspicions? 129 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:14,525 While I was working on Watergate with unraveling all the threads, 130 00:12:14,609 --> 00:12:17,779 I met some, one of them was right left the CIA and he said: 131 00:12:17,862 --> 00:12:21,532 "If you think Watergate is crazy, then find out what we've been up to," 132 00:12:21,616 --> 00:12:23,284 and he sounded quite gloomy. 133 00:12:23,368 --> 00:12:26,412 -Was it difficult to write about? -Yes. 134 00:12:26,496 --> 00:12:32,377 THE JOURNALIST WHO DISCLOSED THE MY LAI MASSACRE 135 00:12:32,752 --> 00:12:36,339 Were there people in the CIA, which was literally waiting for 136 00:12:36,422 --> 00:12:39,008 of revealing their employer? 137 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:40,259 It was complicated. 138 00:12:40,343 --> 00:12:44,430 Internally, the CIA had been straining to get the Ministry of Justice involved. 139 00:12:44,514 --> 00:12:48,309 They wanted Colby to do something by what they knew to be a fact. 140 00:12:48,726 --> 00:12:51,312 It was an internal report about violations. 141 00:12:51,396 --> 00:12:52,981 CIA DOCUMENTS: FAMILY JEWELS 142 00:12:53,064 --> 00:12:54,816 Nothing happened. 143 00:12:54,899 --> 00:12:57,694 DISCUSSIBLE CIA ACTIVITIES 144 00:12:57,777 --> 00:13:00,697 CIA'S NARCOTICS ACTIVITIES DOMESTIC CONSEQUENCES 145 00:13:00,780 --> 00:13:03,658 RECENT ACTIVITIES IN THE WATERGATE PROSECUTOR'S AUTHORITY 146 00:13:04,283 --> 00:13:07,412 If the story does not had been published, 147 00:13:07,495 --> 00:13:10,123 probably wouldn't have stayed researched something. 148 00:13:10,206 --> 00:13:12,709 That's just how I look at it. 149 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:18,506 Do you consider the report 150 00:13:18,589 --> 00:13:22,051 as a confirmation of your article from December? 151 00:13:22,135 --> 00:13:23,344 Without a doubt. 152 00:13:23,845 --> 00:13:27,807 Washington has hung himself in the word "massive" for a few months now, 153 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:30,685 how many in the press corps have also done. 154 00:13:30,768 --> 00:13:33,104 I hope they bite the sour apple here tonight. 155 00:13:33,187 --> 00:13:34,188 I don't do that. 156 00:13:44,657 --> 00:13:47,535 Then my father's case 157 00:13:47,618 --> 00:13:50,913 suddenly revealed, 158 00:13:51,539 --> 00:13:54,667 we decided on to call Seymour Hersh. 159 00:13:54,751 --> 00:13:59,422 It is thanks to him, that we even found out about it. 160 00:13:59,505 --> 00:14:01,674 He wrote the first article, 161 00:14:01,758 --> 00:14:05,136 that was presented for a big press conference, 162 00:14:05,219 --> 00:14:07,388 which we held the next day. 163 00:14:07,764 --> 00:14:12,351 So Hersh came to our house, it was in june 1975, 164 00:14:12,435 --> 00:14:15,605 and he entered the front door, and I opened the door for him. 165 00:14:15,688 --> 00:14:19,567 Without introducing himself or saying hello or something, he said: 166 00:14:19,650 --> 00:14:24,739 "This must be it the most indifferent family in all of America. 167 00:14:24,822 --> 00:14:29,619 I can't believe you could live with that robbery history for 22 years." 168 00:14:32,121 --> 00:14:34,832 The next day his article was in the newspaper. 169 00:14:36,584 --> 00:14:38,294 We held a press conference, 170 00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:41,297 which received a lot of attention due to his article. 171 00:14:41,381 --> 00:14:44,467 FAMILY WILL SUE CIA FOR SUICIDE DRUG TEST 172 00:14:46,928 --> 00:14:49,222 We decided to to keep it at home, 173 00:14:49,305 --> 00:14:53,017 because we wanted to feel safer in our own home. 174 00:14:53,810 --> 00:14:57,313 Fort Detrick, where my father worked, lies behind the trees. 175 00:14:57,397 --> 00:15:01,234 If there were no leaves on the trees, would you be able to see Fort Detrick down there. 176 00:15:01,317 --> 00:15:05,238 I want to introduce my family. This is my mother, Alice Olson. 177 00:15:05,822 --> 00:15:07,740 This is my brother, Nils Olson. 178 00:15:08,825 --> 00:15:10,785 My sister, Lisa Olson Hayward. 179 00:15:11,369 --> 00:15:12,745 I'm Eric Olson. 180 00:15:13,287 --> 00:15:17,041 We have lived with that here has been shrouded in mystery, 181 00:15:17,125 --> 00:15:19,752 that is, how my father died, for 22 years. 182 00:15:19,836 --> 00:15:23,089 So now this part of our lives, which has been shrouded in mystery, 183 00:15:23,172 --> 00:15:26,134 soon become an extremely public aspect in our lives, 184 00:15:26,217 --> 00:15:27,969 as individuals and as a family. 185 00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:32,807 That shift is concurrent with another shift for us all, 186 00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:34,767 i.e. a shift from believing 187 00:15:34,851 --> 00:15:37,562 that my father's death was a mysterious suicide, 188 00:15:37,645 --> 00:15:39,647 to know that it was the doing of the CIA. 189 00:15:43,734 --> 00:15:47,989 DAY ONE THE OLSON FAMILY HOME 190 00:16:02,587 --> 00:16:03,546 Hello, Alice. 191 00:16:17,435 --> 00:16:20,563 We will mostly be indoors. We actually don't really fish. 192 00:16:20,646 --> 00:16:22,148 Do you believe it? 193 00:16:26,777 --> 00:16:27,778 Okay. 194 00:16:42,752 --> 00:16:43,753 Are you ready, Frank? 195 00:16:45,713 --> 00:16:46,756 -Goodbye. -Goodbye. 196 00:17:42,979 --> 00:17:45,815 New films show the shocking truth 197 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:49,318 behind the communists biological warfare in Korea 198 00:17:49,402 --> 00:17:52,863 and the captured Americans pilots' so-called "confessions". 199 00:17:52,947 --> 00:17:55,074 Film shows the red press conferences, 200 00:17:55,157 --> 00:17:59,287 where American pilots admit dropping bacteriological bombs. 201 00:17:59,870 --> 00:18:03,874 Communist propaganda sends the statements worldwide, 202 00:18:03,958 --> 00:18:06,794 even in the halls of the UN. 203 00:18:06,877 --> 00:18:10,798 The confessions form the basis for an obvious symphony of hatred. 204 00:18:50,004 --> 00:18:51,130 The gentlemen. 205 00:18:52,632 --> 00:18:54,800 We have a lot to discover. 206 00:18:56,636 --> 00:18:57,970 Yes... 207 00:19:20,034 --> 00:19:25,706 If you are nine years old, and you identify with your father, 208 00:19:26,457 --> 00:19:30,044 then is identification at that age something very radical. 209 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:32,963 In that reflection... 210 00:19:34,006 --> 00:19:35,675 finding yourself. 211 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,059 I identified with him a lot then. 212 00:19:49,063 --> 00:19:51,607 And suddenly he just disappeared. 213 00:19:56,362 --> 00:19:59,156 The memories of him are very fragmentary. 214 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:04,078 The trauma of his death really wreaked havoc on many memories. 215 00:20:04,161 --> 00:20:09,083 I vaguely remember that he pushed me on a bicycle. 216 00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:16,966 Well I see the little clip, is it like I'm starting 217 00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:20,428 to fall forward and off the bike. 218 00:20:25,808 --> 00:20:30,271 All that identifying with him, the falling off, etc. 219 00:20:32,565 --> 00:20:34,108 It's crazy to ride a bike, 220 00:20:34,191 --> 00:20:37,945 you are actually constantly falling, 221 00:20:38,028 --> 00:20:39,947 only speed gives you equilibrium. 222 00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:43,701 So there is something with the body, to fall or not 223 00:20:43,784 --> 00:20:47,163 and the movement forward, something with all that and the balance, 224 00:20:47,788 --> 00:20:51,041 it was just very calming to me to ride a bicycle. 225 00:20:51,125 --> 00:20:52,376 I loved it. 226 00:20:54,128 --> 00:20:55,838 Did he teach you that? 227 00:20:57,006 --> 00:20:58,549 Yes. He did. 228 00:21:03,888 --> 00:21:05,806 Do you remember the funeral? 229 00:21:06,223 --> 00:21:07,892 Actually I can't. 230 00:21:08,726 --> 00:21:13,814 I vaguely remember something, that I was sitting on a pew. 231 00:21:14,815 --> 00:21:17,610 It was almost kind of out-of-body experience. 232 00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:19,320 I was there 233 00:21:19,403 --> 00:21:23,491 but not knowing where I was, and what was going on. 234 00:21:23,574 --> 00:21:28,579 I remember much more clearly, that right after the funeral 235 00:21:28,662 --> 00:21:33,334 the whole congregation goes to the cemetery. 236 00:21:33,417 --> 00:21:36,837 My mother didn't want that I agreed, so I... 237 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,757 I was followed home to Vin Ruwet. 238 00:21:41,342 --> 00:21:45,054 I remember, that I was suddenly in a room, 239 00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:49,391 which I remember as incredibly empty. 240 00:21:50,226 --> 00:21:51,811 You don't know why you are there. 241 00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:54,355 An extreme alienation. 242 00:21:55,689 --> 00:21:57,191 Cut off from everything. 243 00:21:58,150 --> 00:21:59,902 That is my memory of it. 244 00:22:01,612 --> 00:22:02,905 Wine Rough. 245 00:22:03,531 --> 00:22:04,365 A room. 246 00:22:05,407 --> 00:22:08,035 As a child you have a kind of intuition. 247 00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:11,497 You sense, who you like and dislike. 248 00:22:13,165 --> 00:22:16,210 You don't know why, you don't know what is going on, 249 00:22:16,877 --> 00:22:19,505 but you feel a kind of discomfort in the stomach. 250 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:23,801 I remember being in that house and felt lost. 251 00:22:25,594 --> 00:22:27,596 Where the hell am I? 252 00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:30,933 There wasn't anyone. 253 00:22:31,517 --> 00:22:33,561 "Go in there and wait." 254 00:22:36,272 --> 00:22:38,274 After my father's death, 255 00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:43,028 Ruwet starts coming to our house pretty much every single day 256 00:22:43,112 --> 00:22:45,573 to drink martinis with my mom. 257 00:22:46,407 --> 00:22:47,658 Gin or vodka? 258 00:22:48,158 --> 00:22:49,159 Gin, I think. 259 00:22:49,243 --> 00:22:50,703 Gin. Yes. 260 00:22:51,203 --> 00:22:52,246 Gin. 261 00:22:52,913 --> 00:22:55,791 That was the start of her slide into alcoholism, 262 00:22:55,874 --> 00:22:59,837 and later we read in the CIA documents, we got from Colby, 263 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:03,048 had he been ordered to "keeping track of the wife." 264 00:23:04,049 --> 00:23:08,470 It was a directive to Ruwet, "keep track of the wife." 265 00:23:11,557 --> 00:23:13,642 Vin Ruwet is your father's boss. 266 00:23:15,644 --> 00:23:17,229 Exactly. 267 00:23:17,313 --> 00:23:21,734 In the department for special promotions, a subdivision of Detrick. 268 00:23:22,651 --> 00:23:27,364 My father had been the boss there, but had gone off a few months before. 269 00:23:33,078 --> 00:23:36,790 Ruwet was a military man. He was a colonel. 270 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,294 When you were in his presence, you thought: 271 00:23:40,377 --> 00:23:43,631 "Oh no, now I'm doing something wrong." 272 00:23:44,965 --> 00:23:49,219 I made him nervous from the beginning. 273 00:23:49,303 --> 00:23:51,138 I don't know what I said 274 00:23:51,221 --> 00:23:54,600 but I obviously posted some signs of... 275 00:23:56,477 --> 00:23:59,480 ...that I wasn't...well balanced 276 00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:03,192 in connection with the whole story about my father's sudden disappearance. 277 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:07,821 You must also remember that my father did not die. He disappeared. 278 00:24:07,905 --> 00:24:11,492 When he went to New York, we never saw him again. 279 00:24:13,202 --> 00:24:15,245 He was laid in a coffin in New York... 280 00:24:16,163 --> 00:24:18,374 and transported back to Frederick. 281 00:24:18,457 --> 00:24:22,544 They said, "You must not open it, for he is far too badly prepared. 282 00:24:22,628 --> 00:24:24,380 You shouldn't see that." 283 00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:26,256 So no one saw him again. 284 00:24:32,012 --> 00:24:35,391 My father was a son of Swedish immigrants, 285 00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:37,851 who arrived here approximately in 1890. 286 00:24:40,145 --> 00:24:45,192 He was born in a small mining town, Hurley in Wisconsin. 287 00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:49,697 He attended the University of Wisconsin 288 00:24:50,656 --> 00:24:54,410 to study agronomy, that is, agricultural science, 289 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:57,746 as a kind of generation beyond the farmhouse. 290 00:25:00,124 --> 00:25:04,128 His thesis supervisor and the head of the institute there 291 00:25:04,211 --> 00:25:06,422 was employed to advise the government 292 00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:09,341 about a department for biological warfare... 293 00:25:10,426 --> 00:25:13,887 ...and he calls my father and asks him to follow him. 294 00:25:13,971 --> 00:25:17,891 It is important to remember, how fast the whole transformation was, 295 00:25:17,975 --> 00:25:23,355 from being a researcher in a laboratory and be interested in growing things, 296 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:27,735 to be involved in biological warfare and in killing things. 297 00:25:27,818 --> 00:25:31,822 My mother always said, that when he came home for lunch, 298 00:25:31,905 --> 00:25:34,742 could she see the look on his face, 299 00:25:35,367 --> 00:25:38,412 that the experiments that morning had gone well 300 00:25:38,495 --> 00:25:40,873 which meant that all the monkeys were dead... 301 00:25:41,874 --> 00:25:45,127 ...and that always was very traumatic for him 302 00:25:45,753 --> 00:25:47,087 watching the monkeys die... 303 00:25:48,922 --> 00:25:50,048 ...in the laboratory. 304 00:25:50,132 --> 00:25:53,635 UNITED STATES ARMY MAIN ENTRANCE FORT DETRICK, FREDERICK, MARYLAND 305 00:25:53,719 --> 00:25:55,262 This is Fort Detrick, 306 00:25:55,345 --> 00:25:59,767 where approximately 600 military and civilians scientists research together 307 00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:02,978 in the army's biological laboratories 308 00:26:03,061 --> 00:26:06,190 to protect our country against a biological attack. 309 00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:11,528 A biological attack 310 00:26:11,612 --> 00:26:14,782 would most likely come in the form of an invisible cloud, 311 00:26:14,865 --> 00:26:18,911 so it is important to study those clouds, or aerosols. 312 00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:23,916 Chemical, biological warfare cannot be ignored. 313 00:26:25,292 --> 00:26:29,296 The preparation of a defense against chemical-biological warfare 314 00:26:29,379 --> 00:26:32,674 belongs to the army's special corps for chemistry. 315 00:26:32,758 --> 00:26:34,718 USA WILL PRODUCE BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS 316 00:26:34,802 --> 00:26:37,930 FRANK OLSON, BIOCHEMIST CAMP DETRICK 317 00:26:38,013 --> 00:26:40,974 CAMP DETRICK BIOCHEMIST 318 00:26:41,058 --> 00:26:45,854 DEPARTMENT FOR SPECIAL ACTIONS, EVALUATION AND PLANNING SECTION 319 00:26:45,938 --> 00:26:48,690 TOP SECRET 320 00:26:48,774 --> 00:26:52,778 DAY ONE DEEP CREEK LAKE 321 00:27:02,496 --> 00:27:03,497 The bombs are gone. 322 00:27:08,293 --> 00:27:12,464 You have taken over from Dr. Olson at the right time. 323 00:27:15,551 --> 00:27:19,555 We look forward to to continue cooperation with the CIA. 324 00:27:46,999 --> 00:27:50,043 I don't understand why someone betrays his country. 325 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:54,464 Those men were not...weak. 326 00:27:54,548 --> 00:27:58,594 They were just… susceptible to certain influences. 327 00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:00,429 Remember... 328 00:28:02,973 --> 00:28:06,727 ...they have methods, which we are only just beginning to understand. 329 00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:09,521 We are desperately trying to keep up. 330 00:28:10,522 --> 00:28:13,859 It is pseudo-science. It is a waste of government resources. 331 00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:22,326 It is much easier to break a man, than you think, dr. Olson. 332 00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:27,789 May the enemy be confused. 333 00:28:28,624 --> 00:28:29,791 Cheers to that. 334 00:28:58,278 --> 00:28:59,404 The gentlemen. 335 00:29:01,448 --> 00:29:06,161 TSS has started a new program... 336 00:29:07,537 --> 00:29:10,958 ...named MK-ULTRA. 337 00:29:11,959 --> 00:29:13,919 The program must 338 00:29:14,002 --> 00:29:17,965 help us with better understand human behavior… 339 00:29:19,007 --> 00:29:21,551 ...who we are, what we do, 340 00:29:21,969 --> 00:29:26,598 and more importantly, what we could reveal. 341 00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:35,816 In this cold war, is the most dangerous weapon information. 342 00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:40,445 When a couple of frightened boys confess before the eyes of the whole world, 343 00:29:40,529 --> 00:29:43,824 does it diminish the credibility of our country. 344 00:29:44,408 --> 00:29:46,493 We have to find a way 345 00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:50,247 to hold those lies on. 346 00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:56,962 You are the men who knows the secrets. 347 00:29:59,006 --> 00:30:02,009 We are the men who keep the secrets. 348 00:30:03,010 --> 00:30:06,555 Our coexistence depends on trust. 349 00:30:07,806 --> 00:30:10,976 Tonight we will put the… 350 00:30:12,394 --> 00:30:13,687 ...trust tested. 351 00:30:16,148 --> 00:30:20,736 At this point you feel enough slightly unusually comfortable. 352 00:30:21,778 --> 00:30:23,405 We have poured 353 00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:26,241 a potential truth serum 354 00:30:26,325 --> 00:30:28,785 in your liqueur. 355 00:30:32,164 --> 00:30:33,790 You are some spasmagers. 356 00:30:36,710 --> 00:30:38,462 You are actors. 357 00:30:41,506 --> 00:30:46,094 i think that you will be on stage tonight, dr. Olson. 358 00:31:04,154 --> 00:31:08,867 DAVID KAIRYS THE OLSON FAMILY ATTORNEY 359 00:31:08,950 --> 00:31:13,121 Rod Hills, Counselor to the President, called me at home. 360 00:31:13,914 --> 00:31:17,417 My name was in all the media. I thought it was a friend's prank. 361 00:31:17,501 --> 00:31:21,004 “President Ford want to say sorry to Alice Olson. 362 00:31:21,088 --> 00:31:23,632 You can come on Monday. All of them." 363 00:31:23,715 --> 00:31:27,094 I thought, “Great. That will make Alice happy." 364 00:31:27,177 --> 00:31:30,847 But then I thought, that it could force the end of it. 365 00:31:31,431 --> 00:31:33,975 And it wasn't over at all. We hadn't even started. 366 00:31:34,059 --> 00:31:36,853 I sensed that they tried to short circuit it. 367 00:31:36,937 --> 00:31:39,398 -And they would, wouldn't they? - Yes, of course. 368 00:31:39,481 --> 00:31:41,733 They tried to shut us up. 369 00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:50,200 Only a few days after the press conference we were in the White House. 370 00:31:53,286 --> 00:31:56,206 In a way is it seared into my memory, 371 00:31:56,289 --> 00:31:58,917 but in a very irregular manner. 372 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,879 Certain things I remember. I haven't a continuous memory of it all. 373 00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:07,217 But certain moments of it I can clearly remember. 374 00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:09,594 First, we were almost late. 375 00:32:09,678 --> 00:32:12,889 We were stuck in a traffic jam on the ring road 376 00:32:12,973 --> 00:32:16,977 and had to drive in the emergency lane and whiz past the cars 377 00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:20,772 and do everything possible to reach The White House on time. 378 00:32:20,856 --> 00:32:23,900 We were ushered in quite quickly. There was no waiting time. 379 00:32:23,984 --> 00:32:27,362 So, we were taken straight in in the Oval Office, 380 00:32:28,071 --> 00:32:30,198 and there stood Gerald Ford. 381 00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:34,119 He had a certain warmth... 382 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:39,458 like my mother reacted very strongly to. 383 00:32:42,043 --> 00:32:45,380 I was quite mesmerized myself just by... 384 00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:48,008 the beauty of the room. 385 00:33:07,903 --> 00:33:12,199 When the president looks at you and says: "It hurts us", 386 00:33:12,824 --> 00:33:15,452 it is a very intense moment. 387 00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:19,372 Ford didn't actually say very much about something 388 00:33:19,456 --> 00:33:22,959 about what he was apologizing for. 389 00:33:23,043 --> 00:33:25,212 Later I discovered that they advised him against it. 390 00:33:25,295 --> 00:33:27,380 FORD APOLOGIZES OPPOSITE THE OLSON FAMILY 391 00:33:27,464 --> 00:33:31,551 Mr. Ford apologized today and expressed the people's sympathy 392 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:35,305 and promised that the family would get all the facts about Olson's death. 393 00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,557 SHOCKING EVIDENCE 394 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:40,894 Then they said to us, 395 00:33:40,977 --> 00:33:45,524 that they were terribly sad, had happened 396 00:33:45,607 --> 00:33:48,360 that they would compensate us, 397 00:33:48,443 --> 00:33:53,156 but that they were afraid of, that if we went to court we would lose. 398 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,160 If we lost, we wouldn't get it, we had the right 399 00:33:57,244 --> 00:34:02,249 so therefore it would be much better to do it in Congress. "We'll help you." 400 00:34:02,832 --> 00:34:06,836 Later, when I got White House Correspondence... 401 00:34:08,463 --> 00:34:12,551 including memos between Cheney, Rumsfeld and others, 402 00:34:13,552 --> 00:34:15,554 I understood what had happened 403 00:34:15,637 --> 00:34:20,058 for they say quite plainly, that if the trial proceeds, 404 00:34:20,141 --> 00:34:23,186 will the family have the right to information, 405 00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:25,105 which they would not give us. 406 00:34:25,188 --> 00:34:26,940 THE WHITE HOUSE 11 JULY 1975 407 00:34:27,023 --> 00:34:31,027 They had to make sure that the family did not proceeded with the trial. 408 00:34:31,111 --> 00:34:33,530 SECRET MEMORANDUM TO: DON RUMSFELD 409 00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:37,534 HIGHLY CLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY 410 00:34:37,617 --> 00:34:39,119 IN CONNECTION WITH LITIGATION 411 00:34:39,202 --> 00:34:40,954 Someone had a bright idea. 412 00:34:43,123 --> 00:34:44,916 Invite them to meet the president. 413 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,460 WILLINGNESS TO MEET IN PERSON 414 00:34:47,544 --> 00:34:52,507 We are the only ones throughout the history of this country, 415 00:34:52,591 --> 00:34:58,471 who ever got an apology from the President in the Oval Office... 416 00:34:59,472 --> 00:35:03,935 for the unintended consequences of government policy. 417 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:07,522 You really have to stop for a moment and think: 418 00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:10,233 "Wow. How often does that happen?" 419 00:35:11,526 --> 00:35:14,696 Zero times. It just doesn't happen. 420 00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:19,075 And it worked. They made us drop the lawsuit. 421 00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:23,163 Instead, we continued with what was left a private bill in Congress. 422 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,542 I had three goals. 423 00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:32,380 One was presentation of all information about my father's death. 424 00:35:32,464 --> 00:35:36,593 Then an assurance from the CIA that, that it would never happen again, 425 00:35:36,676 --> 00:35:40,555 that they admitted that it was a criminal act, 426 00:35:40,639 --> 00:35:44,184 and the third was a financial one compensation for the family. 427 00:35:44,267 --> 00:35:47,479 After the meeting with the president today I think we all felt 428 00:35:47,562 --> 00:35:49,773 a kind of healing effect 429 00:35:49,856 --> 00:35:54,944 in his apologetic and compassionate words on behalf of the American people. 430 00:35:55,028 --> 00:35:57,155 We all reacted positively to that. 431 00:35:57,739 --> 00:36:00,075 The tragedy that befell the family, 432 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:02,619 was deep and very real, 433 00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:06,289 and the government was behind it, and it shouldn't have happened. 434 00:36:06,373 --> 00:36:07,832 But it is unique, 435 00:36:07,916 --> 00:36:13,088 and it should be said that an American family could call a press conference 436 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:16,675 and receive communications via the press 437 00:36:16,758 --> 00:36:18,843 and to the President of the United States. 438 00:36:18,927 --> 00:36:21,680 For me it is a huge tribute to our country. 439 00:36:24,516 --> 00:36:27,894 When did you start comparing it to Hamlet? 440 00:36:27,977 --> 00:36:30,814 A long time passed, before I said, “Wait. 441 00:36:31,690 --> 00:36:33,066 There's something here." 442 00:36:33,942 --> 00:36:37,737 All that with the ghost of Hamlet's father, 443 00:36:38,321 --> 00:36:39,656 "do you remember me?", 444 00:36:40,281 --> 00:36:42,867 that you have a task ahead of you. 445 00:36:45,829 --> 00:36:48,331 Remember me. 446 00:37:00,051 --> 00:37:03,930 Hamlet cannot forget the crime. 447 00:37:05,390 --> 00:37:09,310 -Without destroying everything around him. -Including himself. 448 00:37:09,394 --> 00:37:13,148 He is not a distant observer, who can solve this 449 00:37:13,773 --> 00:37:15,650 without being broken by it. 450 00:37:19,988 --> 00:37:22,866 It affects everything. He starts making mistakes. 451 00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:27,036 It is not known whether he has run off the track. He probably doesn't know that either. 452 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,749 You lose the basic assumptions, 453 00:37:30,832 --> 00:37:33,126 because man questions everything. 454 00:39:01,005 --> 00:39:03,466 Full... Full confidence. 455 00:39:08,054 --> 00:39:10,139 Full confidence. 456 00:39:16,563 --> 00:39:18,314 Full confidence. 457 00:39:29,659 --> 00:39:31,995 Welcome, Dr. Olson. Sit down. 458 00:39:44,924 --> 00:39:47,010 Lyrics by: Sheila N. Hasahya 459 00:39:49,010 --> 00:39:51,010