Mark Gagnon

Olson went back to Fort Detrick, but coworkers said that he was just a different person.

He was now talking about wanting to quit his job and that this work in bioweapons was a big mistake and that he felt like he was disintegrating and that

He just seemed paranoid and scared all the time.

He was all of a sudden questioning the very programs that he had helped build.

He wasn't exactly a whistleblower in the press kind of thing, but it was just someone whose internal filter had just melted down and their grasp on reality was slipping away.

From a human perspective, you could see this as just a man cracking under the weight of his conscience, plus this massive break with reality.

But from the CIA's perspective, this is something else entirely.

This is a security breach, right?

This is someone with intimate knowledge of secret interrogation programs and awareness of illegal experiments and U.S.

bioweapons and now wants to be out and potentially talk about things that he shouldn't be.

So if you're running a secret program that technically shouldn't even exist at all, this is the worst case scenario.

And the way the CIA decided to handle it made everything that followed even darker.

The nine days between Deep Creek Lake and Olson's death is where most of this conspiracy comes from.

Every decision within that window matters.

No pun intended.

Olson was clearly on edge, but despite this, the government didn't send him to a normal hospital.

They didn't even really tell his wife what was going on.

And they didn't even pull him from the work to give him time off.

Instead, they sent him to New York to a CIA-connected doctor named Dr. Harold Abramson.

Now, Abramson was an allergist who just so happened to be a part of Sidney Gottlieb's MKUltra network.