Cheney and Rumsfeld Cover-up from the past?

The San Jose Mercury News has revived the Frank Olson story:

The death in 1953 of a government scientist, Frank Olson, in a fall from a New York hotel window, is one of the most notorious cases in CIA history.

Only in 1975 did Olson's family learn that the CIA had slipped LSD into his drink, days before his death. President Ford apologized for an experiment gone awry, and promised that the government would reveal everything about the case.

But newly obtained documents show that the Ford administration continued to conceal information about Olson -- particularly his role in some of the CIA's most controversial research of the Cold War, on anthrax and other biological weapons.

The documents show that two of the key officials involved in the decision to withhold that information were White House aides Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, today the nation's vice president and secretary of defense...

Yeah, you read that correctly. The implication, however subtle, is that Cheney and Rumsfeld were possibly involved in the cover-up of an assassination.

For more general background on the Olson case, check out this well-written piece by Michael Ignatieff from last year's NY Times Magazine.

(NB: Mercury News link via Progressive Review)