H.P. Albarelli Jr. > Quotes

“MKULTRA had branched out into many additional “avenues to the control of human behavior,” including “radiation, electro-shock, various fields of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and anthropology, graphology, harassment substances, and paramilitary devices and materials.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Between the years 1947 to 1974, oversight of the CIA by the U.S. Congress was virtually non-existent.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“History is on our heels, following us like our shadows, like death. —Marc Auge, Non-Places: An Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“MKULTRA series of projects—there were 144 in all—did not replace Project ARTICHOKE. Instead, the two projects operated concurrently.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Did Frank Olson jump or fall through a shaded, closed window, or worse yet, was he pushed or thrown? And if so, why, and by whom?”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“People often ask writers how and why they pick their subjects. They never ask if perhaps their subjects picked them.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Lafitte turned up in yet another tangle of major, historic proportions during the 1960s. Around the time of the JFK assassination, Lafitte worked for the Reily Coffee Company and then as a chef for the World Trade Mart, both in New Orleans. William B. Reily, an avid anti-Communist, owned the Reily Coffee Company and was closely connected to McCarthyite and rabid anti-Communist Edward Scannell Butler, who were both close to CIA assistant director Charles Cabell, CIA SRS chief Paul Gaynor, and Agency ARTICHOKE official Morse Allen. Readers may recall that alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald also worked as a maintenance man for the Reily Coffee Company in the summer of 1963.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Once one starts on the dangerous path of poisoning one’s own citizens in order to protect them, one enters a zone of lunacy, where anything is possible, where sadists can disguise their maliciousness as patriotic duty.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“In 1984, a group of former Holmesburg prisoners sued the University of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia. Nearly all of the men were African Americans, as were most of the inmates used in all the experiments at the prison.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Cavanagh had made over fifty trips overseas related to CIA Project ARTICHOKE.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“If a person has an understanding of the unlawful nature of a plan and knowingly and willfully joins in that plan on one occasion, that is sufficient to convict him for conspiracy even though he had not participated before and even though he played only a minor part.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Gottlieb’s MKULTRA project would fund the offshoot of QKHILLTOP, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology (later shortened to the Human Ecology Fund).”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“The final stage of covert testing of materials on unwitting subjects is clearly the most sensitive aspect of MKULTRA.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“MKULTRA had been authorized in 1953 by then-CIA Director Allen Dulles, and that “normal procedures for project approval, funding, and accounting were waived.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Journey into Madness, a nonfiction work that details the horrible MKULTRA experiments of Dr. Ewan Cameron in Montreal.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“McCarthyism can be viewed, in many ways, as a means of brainwashing American citizens about the dangers from “reds” who were said to have infiltrated the U.S. government.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“extreme reaction to a test substance could lead to a Bureau request for cooperation from local authorities in suppressing information of the situation.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Assassination was a matter of keeping up with the Joneses. Every other power practiced, and as far as I know still practices, assassination, if need be. —Former CIA Director of Special Operation”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. —Carl Jung”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Launched in 1954, QKHILLTOP’s central purpose was to carefully study Chinese Communist brainwashing techniques and to incorporate the best of these techniques into Project ARTICHOKE. Much of the QKHILLTOP research was conducted at the Cornell University Medical School Human Ecology Study Program.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“research fell into eight categories, the most important being: Clinical Evaluation of Chemicals (especially LSD) on Humans; Hypnosis training; Studies of Chemicals on Totally Unwitting Subjects; Special Problems Involving how to Bring the Chemicals to Unwitting Subjects; and Physiological Studies.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Six separate CIA and Army contracts were awarded to the University of Pennsylvania, starting in 1951 with a “study of chemical warfare casualties in man.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface. Elevator shafts, stairwells, unscreened windows and bridges will serve. —CIA Assassination Manual, 1952”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Goodnow was associated with the Anesthesiology Department at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments

“Richard Helms, had reconstituted the MKULTRA Project and changed its name to Project MK-SEARCH.”
― H. P. Albarelli, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments