Watch Wormwood By Jacob G. Hornberger!!!
(2018-01-16 at 14:45:22 )

Watch Wormwood by Jacob G. Hornberger

I have got a movie recommendation for you: "Watch Wormwood", a fantastic Netflix original. Set aside time for binge watching because once you start, you will want to continue watching to the end.

Combining a documentary format with depictions of events with actors, the series focuses on the Central Intelligence Agencys execution of Frank Olson, an American citizen who worked for the United States national-security establishment. More accurately, the series revolves around his son, who has spent his life ascertaining the truth about what the Central Intelligence Agency did to his father.

Frank Olson worked as a civilian for the United States military and the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1950s, when Cold War hostilities between Russia and the United States were a thousand times greater than they are today.

Working in the militarys top-secret chemical section, Olson was connected to Operation MKULTRA, the top-secret Central Intelligence Agency project that subjected unsuspecting Americans to LSD and other chemical agents.

Olson was different, however, from everyone else around him, in that he was stricken with a crisis of conscience over what the government was doing, not only with MKULTRA experiments but also with respect to germ warfare that the United States national-security establishment had waged against North Korea during the Korean War, a war crime that United States officials denied but which international investigators concluded was true. (See "This Must Be the Place: How the United States Waged Germ Warfare in the Korean War and Denied It Ever Since.")

United States officials decided that Olson had become a grave threat to national security owing to the distinct possibility that he might, in his crisis of conscience, reveal the secrets of MKULTRA and United States germ warfare in North Korea to others.

Think about the United States national-security states attitude toward people like Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, and others who have released secrets of the national security establishment to the public.

All of them are considered to have harmed "National Security" by revealing national-security state secrets to the public.

That is how United States officials perceived the threat posed by the conscience-stricken Frank Olson. They could not afford to take the risk that he would suddenly reveal what he knew to the New York Times or some other mainstream publication, especially with respect to MKULTRA and illegal germ warfare against the communists, both of which they were steadfastly committed to keeping secret.

Olson had to be taken care of.

On November 28, 1953, Olson plunged to his death from the window of a 13-story hotel in New York City. Officials labeled it a suicide, which the Olson family accepted.

More than 20 years later, in 1975, the Rockefeller Commission revealed the existence of the Central Intelligence Agencys super-secret MKULTRA project. Even though the Central Intelligence Agency had destroyed MKULTRA records, on orders of Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms, to prevent Americans from learning the full scope of the operation, the Olson family learned that Frank Olson had been subjected to LSD without his knowledge shortly before his death.

The Olson family threatened to sue. At this point, things got stranger. The Central Intelligence Agency immediately confessed to negligently causing Olsons death by giving him the LSD, which, it said, caused him to plunge into depression, which caused him to commit suicide.

President Gerald Ford and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby profusely apologized to the Olson family, both in the White House and in Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. To settle any possible litigation, they got Congress to appropriate a $1.25 million payment to the Olsons.

Why is all that strange? Because the United States national-security establishment never apologizes to anyone and certainly not to the families of people it assassinates.

Think about Rene Schneider, the head of Chiles Armed Forces who the Central Intelligence Agency conspired to kidnap and assassinate in 1970. When the Schneider family sued, the Central Intelligence Agency successfully resisted the case and never even hinted at an apology.

Or think about Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, the two American men who were executed in the United States-supported Chilean coup in 1973. In a top-secret investigation, the State Department determined that United States intelligence had played a role in their execution. No apology to either family.

Or about Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son, both of whom were assassinated without indictment or due process of law. No apology to the al-Awlaki family.

So, why the open confession and profuse apologies in the Olson case?

To disguise what they had really done. By confessing to negligently causing Olsons death with the LSD experiment, they eliminated the threat of a lawsuit that could have led to the truth - that they had in fact murdered Olson to ensure his silence, thereby protecting "National Security."

In 1994, Eric Olson had his fathers body exhumed and a second autopsy performed. The first autopsy stated that there were cuts and abrasions on Olsons body. The second autopsy observed that there were none. The second autopsy also found a large hematoma on the left side of Olsons head and a large injury to his chest, neither of which could have happened from the fall. According to Wikipedia, the head of the autopsy team, James Starrs, professor of law and forensic science at the George Washington National Law Center, called the evidence "rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide."

Did anything ever come of this? Come on!!! This is the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon we are dealing with. This is "National Security" we are talking about.

What Justice Department prosecutor or United States federal judge is ever going to question or challenge the national-security establishments assassination of people in the name of "National Security"?

Watch Wormwood on Netflix. Or read an excellent book about what they did to Frank Olson: "A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the Central Intelligence Agencys Secret Cold War by H.P. Albarelli".

You will learn a lot about how evil is committed in the name of "National Security" and about a sons courageous and persistent search for truth about the national-security states murder of his father. But like wormwood, it is likely to leave a bitter taste in your mouth.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!