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State of Fort Detrick, Edgewood Arsenal, Aberdeen Proving Ground and Fort Meade, where the CIA dosed Frank Olson at Deep Creek Lake in 1953 and the Army's remote-viewing unit began in 1977.

Fort Detrick and Deep Creek Lake

Frank Olson, an Army bacteriologist and CIA contractor, worked on biological weapons at Fort Detrick in Frederick. On November 18 and 19, 1953, Sidney Gottlieb convened a retreat of about ten Technical Services Staff officers and contractors at a cabin at Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland, where Olson was among those given LSD without warning; he died in New York nine days later.12 The Army gave LSD to soldiers at Edgewood Arsenal in a parallel program.1 Garland Williams of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics helped establish the Office of Strategic Services training schools in Maryland and Virginia.3 Frank Wisner, who had directed the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination, retired to his farm in Maryland under psychiatric care and shot himself on October 29, 1965.11

Remote Viewing

The Army's remote-viewing program began at Fort Meade in 1977 under the name Gondola Wish, and continued as Grill Flame, Center Lane and Sun Streak before the Star Gate name.4 At Aberdeen Proving Ground, John Kramar was chief of the Ground Warfare Division of the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, which evaluated Grill Flame in 1979, and the Aberdeen physicist Evan Harris Walker was named principal investigator of a 1978 Army request to fund a remote-viewing machine.56 Eldon Byrd studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on living systems at the Naval Surface Weapons Center at White Oak.7

Accelerationism and the Zizians

The federal case against members of The Base, 8:20-cr-00033, was brought in the District of Maryland; William Garfield Bilbrough IV of Denton pleaded guilty in December 2020 to conspiring to transport and harbor the Canadian reservist Patrik Jordan Mathews, whom he had driven east from Michigan after August 30, 2019.8 In April 2025 the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center, the state's fusion center, published an advisory describing The Base's founder, Rinaldo Nazzaro, as having "for years garnered suspicions of being a Russian intelligence asset."9 On February 16, 2025, Jack LaSota of The Zizians was arrested with Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank near Frostburg in Allegany County, where they were living in two box trucks, and prosecutors moved to try the group's members together in Maryland.10

Sources

  1. Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Henry Holt, 2019; Marks, John D. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. Times Books, 1979, ch. 5. ↩
  2. Albarelli, H.P. A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments. Trine Day, 2009. ↩
  3. Kinder, Douglas Clark, and William O. Walker III. "Covert Connections: The FBN, the OSS, and the CIA." The Historian 53, no. 4 (1991); Marks, ch. 6. ↩
  4. Central Intelligence Agency, "Proposed Star Gate Management Strategy," c. October 1995, CIA-RDP96-00791R000100150002-0. ↩
  5. "John Winston Kramar," obituary, McComas Family Funeral Homes, January 20, 2026; U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity, "Project Grill Flame AMSAA Phase I Efforts," Interim Note No. 15, July 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080005-8. ↩
  6. Department of the Army, DAMI-ISH, draft, "Request for Funding, FY 79, Re: Parapsychology - Feasibility for a Hard Copy 'Remote Viewing' Machine," July 7, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100080003-0; "Dr. Evan Harris Walker," obituary, McComas Family Funeral Homes, August 2006. ↩
  7. Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown, 2017, pp. 104-107. ↩
  8. U.S. Department of Justice, District of Maryland. "Member of 'The Base' Pleads Guilty in Maryland," case 8:20-cr-00033-TDC. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/member-violent-extremist-group-base-pleads-guilty-maryland-federal-charges-transporting ↩
  9. Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center. "US Neo-Nazi Group with Russia-Based Leader Calls for Targeted Ukraine Attacks." April 2025. https://mcac.maryland.gov/2025/04/us-neo-nazi-group-with-russia-based-leader-calls-for-targeted-ukraine-attacks/ ↩
  10. U.S. Department of Justice, District of Maryland. "Alaskan Individual Charged with Possessing Firearms and Ammunition as a Fugitive from Justice." June 2025; "Members of violent Zizian cult to face trial together in Maryland." The Baltimore Banner, 2026. ↩
  11. As cited on the Frank Wisner page (Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, 2007; Thomas, The Very Best Men, 1995). ↩

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