Was the anthrax terrorist one of our own? Berg 'terminally interrogated'?

"...A trip to the Frank Olson Legacy Project Web site unearths a world of pertinent information. There is an article from the New Yorker entitled "Where the Manchurian Candidate Came From" and another from the New York Times, asking, "What did the CIA do to Eric Olson’s Father?" There is information on "terminal interrogations" and "collaboration with former Nazi scientists" as well as a 1950s-era CIA assassination manual regarding "the contrived accident'' as "the most effective technique" of secret assassination.


In fact, the Web site provides one-stop shopping for anyone who wants to know the kinds of things the government doesn’t want you to know. But be forewarned, after reading through the research, you won’t view the torture at Abu Ghraib, or Donald Rumseld’s reported role in approving unorthodox interrogation methods in quite the same way. And, relevant or not, news that Nick Berg once worked on a tower in Abu Ghraib will, at the very least, raise an eyebrow.


Moreover, you’ll begin to see that some questions are not, as some would have you believe, the result of an overactive imagination. As the German documentary Code Name ARTICHOKE explained in August 2002: "Eric finds himself wondering about a lot of things. Was the anthrax terrorist one of our own? Is that the reason he hasn’t been caught? Because he knows something no one else should find out about? A secret his father knew, too?"


Certainly, after studying Olson’s case it’s clear: What was once the province of kooky conspiracy buffs has been proven to be grounded in fact. And, in addition to questions regarding the Oct. 2001 anthrax attacks, others surface: Why did George W. Bush and members of the White House staff begin taking the antibiotic Cipro on Sept. 11, weeks before the anthrax attacks? ; How significant were Dr. David Kelly’s concerns that he'd be "found dead in the woods"? ; Did Dr. Don Wiley’s death have anything to do with other scientists who have died under mysterious circumstances? ; And why, as the Christian Science Monitor reports, is there a "deliberate effort to kill scientists," intellectuals and human rights activists in occupied Iraq?


These questions aside, once you absorb the hidden history behind the Manchurian Candidate and compare that with today’s headlines, you can’t help but feel that this is one of the weirdest moments in modern history. And, to make matters weirder, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 (which also hit a bump along the distribution road) promises to draw attention to everything from Iraq-related lies to Bush and bin Laden-related oddities.

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/05/far04017.html

- Something to think about...

- This is a very good article...with links to FACTS about the real CIA and the involvement of OUR government in political assassinations.

...the enlightened bunch.

Thanks for the link. A sobering collection of articles.
I can't comment on the Berg association but the bit about government approved torture, murder and the use of WMD's on innocent civilians rings a bell... except I thought only Iraq was guilty of that.
The hypocrisy is frightening.

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/05/far04017.html
'By 1950 Frank Olson had begun expressing moral misgivings about his work (at Fort Detrick) to his wife and a few of his colleagues. Presumably, he was aware of the division’s experiment in late 1950 to assess the efficacy of certain bacterial strains on human beings. The group released live bacteria over San Francisco. Several people complaining of flulike symptoms rushed to Bay Area hospitals, and later a number of delayed deaths were attributed to the test. . . '

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Statements/FamilyStatement2002.html
'Projects at the CIA Special Operations Division at Detrick involved or related to the following activities:
• Assassinations materials research (e.g. the materials used in the CIA’s attempts to assassination Lumumba in the Congo and Castro in Cuba)
• Biological warfare materials for use in covert operations
• Biological warfare experiments in populated areas
• Terminal interrogations
• Collaboration with former Nazi scientists
• LSD mind-control research
• U.S. employment of biological weapons in the Korean War. '

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'Through the "information retrieval" work Frank Olson learned that in fact -- despite vehement denials by the American government -- the United States was using biological weapons, including anthrax, in the Korean War. '

can get you killed. No less true now than it was in the Fifties.