Yeah, but why “MK Ultra”?
Ah, that. Well, from the 1950s to the 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted a program of human experimentation, using drugs, psychological and other means to attempt to control human behaviour. In addition to brainwashing, electroshock, radiation, and a number of other means tried, the CIA clandestinely dosed unwitting human subjects with LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide). At least one suicide is thought to have resulted from the erratic behaviour that resulted in some subjects, who experienced all varieties of mental roller-coaster rides, to say the least. Sneaky CIA researchers even dosed each other, in an equal combination of scientific research and practical jokery. You can read more about these CIA shenanigans at the lighthearted Government Psychiatric Torture Site. But why stop there? You might as well check out here and here. What’s this have to do with this comic strip? Well, it’s mostly a convenient way of re-explaining Joe Avery’s erratic behaviour (and why no
