One of the weirder aspects of the story of Bud Light making fake woman Dylan Mulvaney its frontman and crashing and burning as a result is that Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth, who several days ago issued the spineless pleasing-no-one non-apology for bringing on Mulvaney, is a former CIA agent.
That strange little resume item raises a series of intriguing questions. Is this whole transgender spokesman thing The Company’s latest version of MK-Ultra, its infamous foray into brainwashing and mind control using LSD and other drugs? Has the CIA realized that it doesn’t need to administer mind-altering drugs to people in order actually to alter their minds?
According to the Senate’s 1977 hearings on the CIA’s MK-Ultra program, agents assigned to that program worked on developing substances that would, among other things, “promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public,” and “alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced.”
