Steelworker swims the length of Deep Creek Lake
Gus Brickner, a Charleroi steelworker, planned to start swimming earlier in the day, but it was just too cold and rainy. Instead, he entered Deep Creek Lake at the Green Glade inlet at 7: 20 a.m. Using the crawl and overhand stroke, he maintained a steady pace as he began swimming. He passed the Glendale Bridge at 11:45 a.m. and the Deep Creek Bridge shortly after 1 p.m. When he left the water at the Deep Creek Lodge at 3:30 p.m., he had become the first person to swim the length of the lake on August 22, 1958. “The distance has been variously estimated to be as much as sixteen miles, but this was being discounted this week by people who are acquainted with the technical construction of the lake,” The (Oakland) Republican noted. None other than Frank Corliss, the Read more…
LOOKING BACK 1953: CIA doses men with LSD at Deep Creek Lake (Part 1)
Two bottles of Cointreau sat on the table in front of Frank Olson. Both were open. Both were the same. He reached out for one of the bottles to pour himself an after-dinner drink. He was relaxing in a cabin with other men who had been forced to attend a three-day retreat at Deep Creek Lake from 11/18-20. He hadn’t wanted to attend. He was having doubts about the ethicality of his work. He didn’t need to about the results of the work in which he was involved at Camp Detrick, in Frederick. He needed to think and clear his mind. He knew the men he was sharing the large cabin on the lake with. They were members of the Special Operations Division and the CIA. Vincent Ruwet, Olson’s division chief and friend, had picked him up at his house Read more…
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