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From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: December 10, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: JAMES MCCONNACHIE;ROBIN TUDGE

EARLY one November morning in 1953, a U.S. Army scientist named Dr Frank Olson hurtled through the window of his tenth-floor room in a New York hotel and plummeted to his death.

According to the inquest, it was suicide.

In fact, it was almost certainly murder - a murder that lies at the heart of what some believe to be one of the most sinister and farreaching conspiracies of modern times.

If the cons...

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