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DATE: TUESDAY, November 29, 1994                   TAG: 9412070069
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

SCIENTIST'S DEATH UNSOLVED

Scientists investigating the 1953 death of Frank R. Olson, an Army biochemist who plunged 13 stories after the CIA drugged him with LSD, announced Monday that they doubted his death was a suicide but had uncovered no evidence to prove a murder.

Olson's family enlisted the group of forensic researchers led by James E. Starrs, a George Washington University law and forensics professor, who announced their findings Monday, the 41st anniversary of Olson's death. The six-month investigation yielded little new information and did nothing to shake long-standing suspicions by Olson's family that he was killed by the government.

However, Starrs said his team's ``nonscientific'' investigation, which included interviews with police investigators and witnesses, was ``starkly suggestive of homicide.''

Starrs cited numerous inconsistencies in accounts of Olson's death at a New York hotel, and he questioned why a suicidal man would leap through a closed window with a drawn blind.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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