[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 91 (Thursday, July 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 14, 1994]
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                      THE CIA'S PINOCCHIO SYNDROME

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the CIA said Frank Olson committed 
suicide 40 years ago. The Frank Olson family said the CIA murdered 
their father. Now documents prove that Frank Olson was an unknowing 
participant in a secret LSD experiment at the CIA. All we know is he 
turned erratic. The CIA said he jumped out a window, committed suicide, 
but they never found any glass fragments, and the hotel night manager 
said Frank Olson did not commit suicide 40 years ago. Whom do we 
believe now, Mr. Speaker?
  The CIA said we did not mine the harbors in Nicaragua, we did not 
publish a death threat manual, we had nothing to do with the Chilean 
coup, we knew nothing about Panama 103. Who do we believe, Mr. Speaker? 
I say the CIA, if there is any truth, is suffering from a Pinocchio 
syndrome, and their nose now stretches from Langley to Casablanca, all 
the way to Disney World, to the Congress of the United States.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to know. I want to know what happened to Frank 
Olson. I am asking for a congressional investigation. Is the CIA 
responsible for that death? It is time we find out about that agency.

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