Olson Death as CIA Experiment Sparked Settlement
The 1953 death of Army chemist Dr. Frank R. Olson after LSD exposure in CIA experiments drew criticism as a grave misdeed. The Rockefeller Commission later described his death as self-inflicted and connected to covert drug use. Olson's family sued the CIA and received a $1.25 million settlement, but critics say accountability remains elusive.
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Frank R. Olson
Olson
Central Intelligence Agency
New York
Rockefeller Commission
Seo Gce
CIA
Ford
Lee
Weather fears and climate change stir policy calls
The CIA's interest in climate shifts prompts talk of a national weather modification policy. Senators push bills as studies warn of drought driven disasters in Asia and losses of grain regions in the Soviet Union, while meteorologists caution that a single report does not prove disaster is near.
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CIA
Asia
U.S
University of Wisconsin
India
China
Soviet Union
Moynihan a thorn in the side of many Democrats
George F. Will argues Daniel Moynihan’s U N and Senate ambitions provoke opposition within the Democratic Party. The piece details Moynihan’s controversial U N remarks, alleged racial views, and the strategic question of whether he should run against Sen James Buckley in New York.
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Moynihan
George F. Will Washington
Robert Strauss
Alexander Pope
Strauss
Daniel P. Moynihan
Democratic Party
Moysihan
Senate
New York
U.N
Nixon
White House
Johnson
Bella Abzug
James Buckley
GOP chiefs meet for stop Reagan plan secrecy
Republican leaders and President Ford held a secret session to craft a strategy against Ronald Reagan. They discussed shifting focus to peace and the economy, pressuring Congress, and reshaping Panama Canal messaging, with mixed views on Kissinger and the president's foreign policy.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
Ford
Ronald Reagan
House
John Rhodes
Reagan
Panama Canal
Rhodes
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
Arizona
Carl Curtis
R.neb
Panama
Curtis
U.S
Louis Frey Jr
R.fla
Frey
William Brock
R.tenn
Democratic
Congress
Brock
John Tower
R.-Texas
Milton Young
R.N.D
Democratic Congress
Elford Cederberg
R.mich
Rep
John Anderson
Ill
Anderson
Hugh Scott
Senate
Scott
Age of literary politicians shocks nation era gains
The piece catalogs a garish parade of politician authors from Agnew Ehrlichman Kissinger Reagan Beame and Meany. It notes publishers and White House quarrels over sex scenes and power shifts as writers eschew governance for bestseller dreams.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
NEW York
Spiro Agnew
United States
John Ehrlichman
White House
America
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Abe Beame
East River
Beame
Agnew
Meany
Kissinger
Indian Ocean
Metternich
Ronald Reagan
California
Reagan
Donald Deegan
Panama Canal
Senate
Ehrlichman
Breslin
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James Quillen
Sen. Tower
Nelson Rockefeller
Quillen
Food and Drug Administration
Nutrition Today Society
J. Marylyn Stephenson
Allan Forbes
Food and Drug and Nutrition Today
Joe Spear
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
Saud
Princeton
Lurie
LOS Angeles Times
Saul Bellow
Normal Mailer
Aor Breslin
Allen
Offieilliam Buckley
Chicago
David Halberstam
House of Representatives
Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
Biddeford
Saco
Journal
B.F.C. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Brian C. Thayer
Gladys M. Whitehouse
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