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Vol.65—No. 179 ( A P ) L E A S E D W I R E A ND F E A T U R E S F R E D E R I C K . M A R Y L A N D S A T U R D A Y , J U L Y 19,197524

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Spacemen todisband

first celestial duplexS P A C E CENTER,Houston

( A P ) — Amer ican an d Soviet spacemencelebra ted a festival of friendshipa b o a r d uni ted ships Friday an dproclaimed ".heir adventure in detente asthe daw n of "a n ew era" for man.

"When we opened this hatch in spacewe were opening back on earth a new erain the history of man," Thomas P. Staf-ford, the Am er ican commander, saidduring a 30-minute news conferencefrom space.

The astronauts and cosmonauts, in ahymn of hope, talked of a vast new age ofcooperation and peace, of factories inspace, of international voyages to newworlds, and of peace among all men.

Televised views of the men dur ing thenews conference showed Stafford andAlexei Leonov, the Russian comman d-er, to get her in the Soviet Soyuzs pacec r a f t . A m er i cans D o na l d K.Slayton and Vance D. Brand weregrouped with cosmonautValeri Kubasovin the Apollo craf t .

The conference came only a few hoursbefore farewells and the final closingofhatches, separating the men of Soyuzan d Apollo for the last time n space. Thespacecraf t will undock and part onSaturday .

Leonov said he viewed their jointspace flight as "only the beginning of agreat hu man journey into outer space,"

and called the adventure "a great,grandiose human effort in space."

Cooperation between men, said Brand,will lead man kind to new and distantworlds.

"The time will come when we'llexplore planets togther," he said. "Itwould bring benefits back to the wholeworld."

Kubasov, wh o became the first welderin space on an earlier Soviet flight,forecast an age when space would createa better life on earth.

"The time will come when space willhave whole plants, factories for the

See SPACEMEN, page A-10

Disaster group formedThe newly established Disaster Coordination Committee held their first meeting Friday at

city hall. Elbert B. O'Keeffe, front left, area cordinator for Civil Defense and Emergency

Disaster Preparedness, briefly discussed the purpose and role of the council.—Photo byWilliam E. Graffam.

County disaster council formed

Former CIA agent describes

the last days with Dr. Olson

By SUSAN C.NICOLStaff Writer

A disaster coordination committee hasbeen established in Frederick County.

The purpose of the committee,according to Elbert B. O'Keeffe, areacor din ato r o f C ivi l Defense andEmergency Disaster Preparedness, is to"make the best use of all communityresources in a major disaster."

O'Keeffe defined a major disaster as"a situation that exceeds the capabilityo f the community."

Representatives o f i n d u s t r y ,emergency services, media, and serviceorganizations, as well as, state an dcounty officials, met at city hall-Fridayafternoon for their first meeting.

"It is the responsibility of thiscommittee," O'Keeffe pointed out, "toknow what resources are available in thearea. You must know who to rely on incertain situations. It is essential, for the

public's safety, to utilize the resources tothe utmost."

O ' K e e f f e br ief ly listed functionalareas and persons who shouldparticipate in preparing a plan for thosespecific situations.

Functional areas noted by O'Keeffei n c l u d e elected off icials , humanresources, (social services, SalvationA rmy, churches, Board of Education);la w e n f o r c e m e n t personnel, f i resuppression (fire marshal, individualfire companies, state and local fireassociations); health an d medicalpersonnel (medical society, ambulanceu n i t s , m o r t i c i a n s , a n d E M Sc o o r d i n a t o r ) ; emergency publ ici n f o r m a t i o n personnel (printed an delectronic news-media); public works(county engineer, roads water, streets,

sewer department personnel, buildingi n s pec to r s , assesso r s ) , andcommunications personnel (C B clubs,ham radio clubs, private industries withradio systems).

O ' K eef f e ins t ructed the disaster

Postal talks improveWASHINGTON ( A P ) - The Postal

Service completed a contingency planFriday which included use of federaltroops to help move the mails in theevent of a strike, but a top postal unionleader said chances of a nationwidewalkout ha ve dropped to less than 10 percent.

"I would expect that by Sunday nightwe'd come close enough o an agreementto extend for a week or so," said FrancisFilbey, president of the 250,000-memberAmer ican Postal Workers Union, largestof four involved in the talks. Contractscovering 600,000 postal workers expire atmidnight Sunday and the unions have

threatened to strike on M onday.Filbey said wildcat strikes by hismembers are "always a possibility."Bu t he added, "I don't anticipate there'dbe very much support for any strikewhich is not sanctioned by the national1

leaders."Filbey said he expected the unions and

the Postal Service would reach aframework of an agreement by Sundaynight and agree to extend the presentcontra ct for about a week while details ofa new pact are settled.

Frederick's Postmaster John E.Young reaffirmed Friday that he hasheard no definite talk of any local strikeaction by U.S. Postal workers.

Walter E. Sines, president of localchapter 664 of the National Associationof Letter Carriers, declined to commenton contract negotiations as the midnightSunday contract deadline approached.

Meanwhile, negotiations between thePostal Service and the four unionsco n t i nued with the help of federalmediators.

Elsewhere, Assistant PostmasterG enera l James Byrne said, "Themilitary has been alerted"as part of the

precautions taken to deal with either anationwide strike or scattered wildcatstrikes by postal workers.

Two of the unions — representingletter carriers and postal clerks — areunder a "nocontract, no-work" mandatefrom their memberships. A nd unionlocals in several major cities, includingNew York, Philadelphia an d Chicago,reportedly have threatened slowdownsthis w eekend an d wildcat strikesMonday unless a tentative settlement isconcluded.

committee representativesof their tasksas members of the committee. Tasksoutlined by O'Keeffe include: defineresponsibilities, identify the resourceagencies, prepare resource lists,draw-up functional plans, review andrevise plans to best suit needs of personsinvolved.

" W h e n these as s i gnm en t s arecomplete, O'Keeffe remarked, "you willwant to test the plan, revise it ifnecessary and retest it."

The disaster coordination committee,was the brain-child of the FrederickC o u n t y C o m m i s s i o n e r s and theFrederick County Civil Defense andEmergency Planning Agency.

"I look at this program as aninsurance. We'll be the winners if wenever have to use it, but it's something

w e need to have," said CountyCommissioner Lawrence A . Dorsey.

The next meeting of the DisasterCoordinating Com mittee will be A ug . 22at 1:30 p.m. in the board room at cityhall.

AAandel orders

speed crackdownFrederick State Police Barricks "B "

along with all other State Police outpostsreceived a gubernatorial directive fromM ary l and Governor M arvin MandelFriday to "crack down on violators bystrictly en forcing the 55-mile speed limitto the fullest extent of the law."

Th e G o ver no r anno unced in aprepared statement that he was orderinga n o - q u a r t e r , n o - s ec o n d c h a n c ecrackdown on speeding on M ary land' sh ighways.

mere will be no warnings, no secondchances," he said. "Every violator willreceive a speeding ticket carrying a fullfine and an appropriate penalty.

Mande l also said he has directed theMotor Vehicles Administration and hasrequested the courts to show no leniencytoward speeders and impose the fullestpenalties upon convicted speeders.

The governor said he ordered thecrackdown for two reasons, one of themin response to a request to governors forsuch action by Frank Zare, the directoro f the Federal Energy O f f i c e .

Rob ert Lashbrook, a former CIAemploye and the last person to see Dr.Frank Olson alive, has been located andhas told what he remembers of thosedays in Novem ber, 1953 when Olson wasgiven the drug LSD by the CIA and thenappa rently committed suicide severaldays later.

The Washington Post reports in itsFriday edition, that Lashbrook is now ahigh school science teacher in Ojai,Calif. , 80 miles north of Los Angeles.

Lashbrook told the Post he remembersman y details of the meeting at whichthe hallucinogenic drug LSD was givento Olson and three other top levelresearch scientists at Fort Detrickwithout their knowledge.

He also remembers accompanyingOlson to New York City to see apsychiatrist after Olson had an adversereaction. And he remembers waking upin their hotel room to f i n d that Olson hadplunged through the lOth-floor window tohis death on the sidewalk below.

"I woke up because there was anoise," Lashbrook said. "I turned on thelight and noticed Frank wasn' t there. Isaw the shade. It was one of thosepull-type window shades an d that wa sgoing around an d around and the windowwas broken .. . A nd hen I saw him downon the sidewalk be low ... There's a trainstation there, and a num ber of peoplewere running from the train station toth e s i d e wa l k . . . "

Asked what he did then, Lashbrooksaid:

"As I recall, I called the (hotel) desk. Idon't recall (what I said) except toinform them, and ask them to callsomeone . . . I put on my clothes an dwaited . . . I figured th e police wouldarriv e sooner or later."

Asked if he left the room, he said, "No,I did not. I stayed in the r o o m . . . . It was10 floors up, a distance away. If I'd gonedown, what could I have done, becauseas I say , I saw people running overwhere he was . . . I figured the policewould be wanting to ask questions of( m e ) . "

See DR. OLSON, pageA-8

Judge denies appeal to build complexBy RUTH W . JOHNSON

Montgonery Bureau Chief

ROCKVILLE — Circuit Court JudgeJohn M itchel l has dismissed an appeal

by builder-developer M ilton Polinger toc o n s t r u c t a f i ve - s t o r y apa r t m en tcomplex for the elderly overlooking thePo tomac River .

Judg e M itchell's action marks an end

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to a 10-year battle between citizensgroups and Polinger, who was granted arezoning of the property 400 feet from thePotomac shorel ine by the "DiggsCouncil"in1964.

That lameduck Council wa s ousted

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County Towns Reporter

E M M I T S B U R G — The newcommuni ty swimming pool, built withlargely federal and state funds, will beopened to the public an d dedicated bylocal officials today at noon.

Town CommissionerE. Eugene Myerssaid that the nearly completed $250,000facil i ty will have the following rates forthe ba l ance of this year: family $25.;ind iv idual $15.; six years and under $0.50daily; 7 to 16 years $0.75; 17 years andolder $1.35; except on weekends andholidays the rate for 7 through 16 yearswill be $ 1 and for 17 and older the ratewill be $2.25.

The new Z-shaped swimm ing pool willaccommodate 391 persons, M yers said,while the wading pool for youngsters hasbeen sized to take care of 49 individuals.

Inspecting the site Friday were Myers,J . Norm an Flax , town commissioner,an d J o s e p h K o e h l of F r eder i ckContractors wh o built the pool.

from office after a rash of rezoningse f f e c t i n g t h o us ands o f acres inM ontgomery Polinger has sought sincethat time to build garden apartments onthe property in the Cab in John section of

the county .After a lengthy series of appeals

rangin g all the way to the M arylandCourt of Appeals, which referred thecase back to the county Board ofAppeals, Judge Mitchell put an end tothe struggle by his final denial.

Only after M aryland's highest courttermed the move by the Diggs Council"arbitrary and capricious" did Polingerpropose to utilize the 10-acre tract as asenior citiz en residence.

Opposition to the project was led bythe Potomac Valley League, a group ofapprox imately 20 civic organizations.Norma Spiegel, president, said hergroup is "committed to preserving ther iver and i ts shoreline as a pricelessheritage for generations to come."

Polinger then appealed the countyB o a r d of A ppe a l s dec is i on lastDecember to the Circuit Court after heydenied a petition of the NationalCouncilo f Senior Citizens (NCSC) for a specialexception to build the 428 dwelling unitsfor th e elderly an d handicapped.

The NCSC was to have managed thep r o j e c t for Cabin John Associates,owned by Polinger . The project was tohave includ ed 334 efficiencies and 94one-bedroom uni ts .Citizen organizationsfeared that the development would beth e f i r s t move toward increasingdensities along the river, which is chieflyoccupied by single family homes.

See JUDGE, page A-10

Legislative study tour

taken with Rep. ByronAfter a bill has become law is often a

useless t ime to react.The NationalAffairs Committee of the

Chamber of Commerce of FrederickCounty has been attem pting to study andexplore the issues early, take a strong

stand and then let the Senators andC o ngr es s m en know what the localposition is on specific legislation —

, before they vote.Such an exploratory study mission was

under taken Fr iday when members of thecommittee spent part of the day onCapitol Hill with Congressman GoodloeE . B y r o n ( D - 6 t h ) , with particularemphasis on energy legislation nowbefore the Congress.

P a r t i c i p a t i n g w e r e C h a m b e rPresident William L. Haugh, Execut iveVice President William C. McKinley, E.Robert B owlus, Carl V. Weakley, Ned S.Zeiler, H .R. Burgess, Robert G. Hooper,George J. Barthel, Carl L. Gaites, J.Vernon Summ ers, Craig Hendershot andTom M ills.

Comm it tee C hairman Francis W.Bush Sr., wh o arranged the trip, isrecouperating with a fractured ankle,an d una ble to attend.

Th e co m m i t t ee w as par t icular lyinterested in legislation dealing withenergy, such as HR 7014, the EnergyConservation Act. After discussing the

pros and cons of the bill. CongressmanByron escorted the group to the House

S P A P F R f l R C H l V E ® . . - .

C h a m b e r w h e r e a d e b a t e o nam endm en t s was in progress.

R e p . K e n H e c h l e r ( D - W . V a . )introduced an amendment to exemptcertain parklands and forests and thiswas mee ting exceptions from Rep.

Clarence Brown (R-Ohio).The committee is also interested inS-692, Natural Gas Product ion andConservation A c t , which at this point hasbeen described as an "incredible" billthat should be opposed because it willd i s c o u r a g e th e e x p l o r a t i o n an ddevelopment urgently required by thenation's natural gas consumers.

Rep . B yron told the local delegation heth inks President Ford "i s getting abetter feel of the Congress" an d that ithas become necessary to override fewerof his vetoes. "He's now picking areasvital to the welfare of the country and wear e sustaining him."

Byron hailed "the wisdom of ourf o u n d i n g fathers" in establishing atwo-thirds,vote as necessary to overridea veto in the house originating a bill,noting that "w e (the House) have beenoriginating most of these key bills so thevetoes are ours to contend with."

The House during June had been insession some days from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.,and this month from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m .because of the heavy load of important

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National Affairs Committee visits Byron

Eleven members of the National Affairs Committee of the FrederickCounty Chamber of Commerce an d Chamber officials visited

Congressman Goodloe E. Byron < D - < 5 t h ) in Washington Friday to

discuss p e nding legislation an d Congressional action. Pictured on thesteps of the Capitol Building are, from loft, H.R. Burgess, Carl V.

Wcakl ey , Carl L. Gaites. Chamber President W il l i am L. H a u gh,

Robert G. Hooper, K . Robert B o wlu s , Craig Hendershot,Congressman Byron, George J. Barthel, Ned S. Zrilcr, J. Venwm

Summers an d Chamber Executive V ice President Wil l ia m C.

McK inle y . Cha irma n Fra nc is W . Bush Sr. , recuperating from a

fractured ankle, wa s unable to a t te nd. At right, Byron shows th e

group a mo de l of the new ground support jet fighter being built by

Fai rch i l d Hiller, th e f inal components an d asse mbly at Hagerstown.

Byron ca l le d the 7-year, $55 mil l io n contract "a boon to the economy

of th e area." Many Frederick Countians work at FairchildHi l l er . — News-PostPhoto.

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Page A-8 — THE POST, Frederick, Md.. Saturday. July 19 . 1975

The last days with Dr. Olson.( C o n t i n u e d From Page A - l )

In the four weeks since th e C I A' sexperiments w i t h LS D were firstdisclosed, no one has contacted himabout the m atter, Lashbrook said. TheR o ck e f e l l e r commission did not contacthim before it wrote its report onimproper or illegal CI A activities. Hi sformer colleagues at the CIA have no tcontacted him , nor have congressional

investigators.A nd except for one time a week o r two

after Olson's death, he has not contactedth e Olson family in the interve ning 22years, he said.

The Olson fa m i ly announced at a press

conference f rom their Old Braddockhome last week that they are preparingto sue the CIA forseveral million dollars

fo r "illegally and negligently"administering LSD to Dr. Olson and forsubsequent cover-ups of true details andreasons for his death.

Mrs. Alice Olson said at the conference

that she just found out about herhusband's participation in the LSDexperiment a month ago by readingnewspaper reports o f C I A drug

activities."For 22 years," she said, "the only

details the family knew of the immediatecircu mstances sur rounding Frank

Olson's death were that he was taken toNe w Y o r k to see a psychiatrist and thathe jumped or fell to hisdeath."

In a two hour telephone interview,

conducted by the Washington Post,Lashbrook went step-by-step throughsome of the things he remembers f romthat period of his life.

"O f course, the whole thing shook meup quite a lot," he said. "Andas a matterof fact, I was leery of getting a hotelroom high up in a hotel. If Olson haddecided to do something like that, why

couldn't I?"

Lashbrook said he was one of as manyas f o u r CIA employees present whe nLS D was givento four toplevelscientistsf rom the Army's biological warfareresearch center at Fort Detrick inNovember 1953. He did not receive thedrug then, hesaid, but he hadearlier.

The drug was administered on the firstnight of a three-day secret seminar —documents indicate it was Wednesday,Nov. 18 — and the scientistswereno t told

about it until afterward.By the fo l lowing Tuesday, Olson had

developed such severe reactions thatLashbrook took him to New York. Olsondied early Saturday morning.

Lashbrook said he did not tell the NewYo r k police investigating Olson's death

that LSD was involved because hewasn't sure the drug, administered morethan a week earlier, was responsible forthe death. " . . . I t was certainlycontroversial as to what thedirect causeand ef fec t might have been," hesaid.

Whil e he waited for the police, he said,he telephoned a fellow CIA employe inWashington, D.C., as well as the

psychiatrist, a doctor with a highsecurity clearance who had been doingresearch on LSD, to inform them of thedeath.

"I think everybody got prettyfrightened at that point," hesaid. Askedif there was a great deal of fear withinthe C IA as a result, he replied,"Certainly."

Lashbrook, 57, lives in Ojai with hiswif e and three children in a three-storyhouse surrounded by a chain-link fence,according to special correspondentRobert Myers. The neighborhood is anattractive, semirural, older section with

comfortable houses.He said the CIA was his principal

employer f rom 1951 to 1963, after whichhe went to wo r k for the Ventura Divisionof Northrop Corp. A chemist byprofession, he has a PhD and is listed in"American Men and W o m e n of

Science."Another CI A employe who was in the

room when Olson.was given LSD, Dr.Sidney Gottlieb, is listed in the samepublication as a biochemist who, f rom

1951 on, was a "consultant, U.S.Department of Defense."Lashbrook said Gottlieb was the agent

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he telephoned in Washington to i n fo rmhim of Olson's de ath .

L ashbr o o k said he was on ly one of "an u m b e r of " CI A operatives w ho acted asliaison w i t h a wide variety of LSD estingprojects in the Army,and in the NationalIn s t i tu te s of Mental Health.

The CIA reportedly ha s refused toc o m m e n t o n an y aspect of w ha t -happen ed in those drug-test ing

programs.A July 11 letter the CIA to J o hn Mar k s

of th e Center fo r Na t iona l SecurityS tu d ie s here notes:

"Please be advised that the CIA didno t providean y documents or any otherw r i t t e n material on this topic to theRockefel ler commission." It is signedCharles E. Savige fo r Robert S. Young ,

Freedom of Information coordinator.Lashbrook's account does not square

in several important respects w i th anacco u n t given to the Washington PostThu r sday by Armand D. Pastore, w how as assistant night clerk at New York'sStatler Hotel in 1953. Pastore is nowmanager of the Diplomat Motor Hotel inOcean C i ty , M d.

L ashbr o o k said the police arrived inpr o bab l y no t more than 10 minutes, andthat h e w a s awakened by Olson'sacc ide n t sometime after 3 a.m.

Pastore said it couldn't have beena f t e r 3 a.m. because th e doormanw ho

notified him of the accident w ent o f f d u tyat 2 a m

"Sometime before 2 a.m. th e doorman

came to me and told me someone cameou t the w i n d o w , " Pastore said. "He wasl y in g o n the sidewalk when I got therean d he was still alive and trying tom u m b l e something but I couldn't makeit out. It was al l garbledand I was tryingto get his n ame. We got a priest, and hestopped m u m b l i n g before they got him inth e ambulance.

"I w e n t and checked at the desk andsa w there were tw o people there. I we n tup and started to knock and then decidedthere might be troubleso I sent down fo rthe police and waited . . . waited abouton e half-houran d then I went in with thepolice. We opened th e door and there was

this fe l low sitting in the bathroom withhis head in his hands. He had on hisundersh orts or his pajamas. He wasn't

dressed." :

Pastore said that "on the sidewalkOlson was b roke up something awful."

Lashbrook said he was told at the timethat the scientists he worked with hadagreed among themselves in advance

that they w ould be given LSD, bu tw i t h o u t know ing exactly when it w ouldbe administered.

"It was my understanding that

everyone i n v o l v e d ha d agreed in

principle," he said. "I was not presentw h e n this wasdone."

Some of the scientists had taken LS Dbe f o r e , an d f o r some it was their firstt i m e , he said. Olson, he said, was af i r s t - t ime r . He did not recall whether adoctor was present, but said,"... Therew o u l d have been one immediately

available."

Lashbrook said he did not attend anyother meetings where Olson or thepeople w ho worked with him were givenLS D but he refused to say whether hehad participated in other meetingswhere people were given LSD.

The meeting on Nov. 18, 1953, beganwith a technical discussion that includedthe subject of LSD, Lashbrook said. In

the evening, when work was over and thescientists were in a "free period." notdiscussing business, the LSD wasadministered. "I think it was in anafter-dinner liquer or something like

that."Lashbrook said he was "not toosure"

whether someone on the inside, or the

outside, decided who should be givenLSD "and n any case, I don't really

w a n t to name them."He didn' t want to comment on whether

the d rug was put in the drinks before oraf te r they were brought into the room.

"You see, I don't really know a lot of

things . . . I don't really know what Ishould say and what I shouldn't."

As Lashbrook recalled it, Olson acted"no d i f fe ren t f rom anyone else," afterbeing given LSD. "The general effect issome agitation, confusion. In general the

effect is such it makes it difficult for aperson at n igh t to go to sleep, and as Irecall, that went on. People jabberedaway until late at night and early the

next morning."He recalled no emotional upsets or

tendencies toward violence.Early the following week, Lashbrook

said, he learned that Olson was showingsigns of being upset. "... Somewhere,

.and I don't know exactly where, the

decision was made that Dr. (Harold)Abramson (a New York psychiatrist)

was probably in the best position to helpout. He was familiar, he had donepioneering work with the material... Iguess arrangements were made forOlson to see Dr. Abramson."

Al tho u gh Lashbrook knew Abramson,

they said little to each other, he said,because someone had^briefed Abramson

on the case before theyarrived."Wejust didn't walk incold," hesaid.Lashbrook said he saw no signs of

undue disturbance in Olson on the

Friday night before hedied."If he had, I would have stayed up all

night with him," he said."We had dinner

at the hotel together. He seemed quitenormal... just Smalltalk. He didn't talkabo u t anyth ing that bothered me ...W ha t probably happened was that thissort of brought out something in the pastthat bothered him. and I never reallywas able to determine just exactly what

this was."

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