Film references the murder of Frank Olson by CIA

Rating: 10/10 (13 September 2008)

Throughout all of the comments posted about Burn After Reading no one has caught a vital reference in the movie relating to the CIA's role in murdering American citizens; the reference being the somewhat obscure name choice of the character 'Olson', played by Armand Schultz, whose name refers to the bizarre but true tale of the U.S. Army scientist, Frank Olson, murdered by the CIA in 1953. The entire story is too long to post here but an internet search on 'Frank Olson' would turn up sufficient info. The basic information follows and is verifiable: Frank Olson was dosed with LSD, without his knowledge, during the MKULTRA era of psychotropic drug experiments on unwitting American citizens and subsequently suffered a psychotic break and nervous breakdown. After a psychiatrist recommended he recover in a mental institution he was taken to the 10th story of a Manhattan hotel and fell to his death by being thrown through a window. Although the CIA went on record saying he defenestrated himself and ruled his death a suicide, upon exhuming his father's body in 1994 Eric Olson had an autopsy done and it was discovered that his father had received blunt force trauma to his head prior to his fall. Basically, because he was privy to many illegal operations and state secrets and could not be trusted to keep them secret since he was mentally unstable...Frank Olson was murdered by the U.S. government and then the CIA lied about it. ALSO, the CIA has...get this...an assassination manual that includes instructions on how to disguise a murder as a suicide, such as through a fall from a considerable height, about 10 stories. Look it up.