Frank Olson — Wormwood Character Profile

About Frank Olson

American biological warfare scientist and CIA employee who was covertly dosed with LSD by Sidney Gottlieb and died under mysterious circumstances after falling from a hotel room window in New York City in 1953.

Frank Olson — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Peter Sarsgaard

Appears in

Wormwood (2017)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (1)

• Frank Olson — Professional Colleague — Sidney Gottlieb (Tim Blake Nelson)

  Both operated within the CIA's covert biological warfare framework.

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