Mark Gagnon

Now, this is not necessarily because the Olsons were wrong, but because, according to the court, the statute of limitations had passed.

It ended the same way every Olson investigation seems to end.

No official answer.

So, in the end, the story of Frank Olson isn't just about a guy falling from a hotel window.

It's about what happens when...

you know, secrecy of these programs becomes more important than accountability, right?

Olson started as exactly the kind of person the Cold War needed, right?

He was educated and smart and willing to work in secrecy and do all the things that were asked of him.

But once he started to ask the wrong questions and started to show a little bit of doubt, the system that he helped build

had no way to release him.

So whether you believe that he was murdered or that his death was the result of this botched attempt to contain a crisis, or maybe he really killed himself, one thing is certain, that everything that happened after he died seems to point to an institution more interested in ultimately protecting itself than being fully honest with the truth.

Because when a government admits that it drugged its own scientists without consent, covered it up for 22 years, destroyed records of the program, then insisted that they're telling the truth about everything else, it's difficult to believe anything, right?

Like, you know, if this is what they'll admit, then what are they covering up?

So the next time you hear like MKUltra mentioned is like, you know, some crazy conspiracy, maybe it happened, maybe it didn't.

For Frank Olson and his family, this is not a theory.

This is a real program where...

with a real tragedy and a real government cover-up.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the abridged history of the scientist Frank Olson.

I mean, yeah, dude.

I'm like...