Looks like The Grateful Dead could be a CIA project,
look at the connections. Have you found suspect
Department references in the lyrics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is said to
have volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other
psychedelic drugs at the Veterans Administration Hospital in
Menlo Park while he was a student at nearby Stanford University.
Kesey's experiences while under the influence of LSD inspired him
to promote the drug outside the context of the MKUltra
experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie
culture.

Robert Hunter was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter,
translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry
Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Along with Ken Kesey, Hunter was
said to be an early volunteer MKUltra test subject at Stanford.
Stanford test subjects were paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and
mescaline, then report on their experiences. These experiences
were creatively formative for Hunter:

"Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with
foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of
morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade
tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, ever so slowly
type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver
vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding
bells ... By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of
God permit me to remain insane."

Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
> Looks like The Grateful Dead could be a CIA project,
> look at the connections. Have you found suspect
> Department references in the lyrics?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
>
> Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is said to
> have volunteered for MKUltra experiments involving LSD and other
> psychedelic drugs at the Veterans Administration Hospital in
> Menlo Park while he was a student at nearby Stanford University.
> Kesey's experiences while under the influence of LSD inspired him
> to promote the drug outside the context of the MKUltra
> experiments, which influenced the early development of hippie
> culture.
>
> Robert Hunter was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter,
> translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry
> Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Along with Ken Kesey, Hunter was
> said to be an early volunteer MKUltra test subject at Stanford.
> Stanford test subjects were paid to take LSD, psilocybin, and
> mescaline, then report on their experiences. These experiences
> were creatively formative for Hunter:
>
> "Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with
> foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of
> morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade
> tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, ever so slowly
> type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver
> vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding
> bells ... By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of
> God permit me to remain insane."
>
>

Pssst…it’s not a department, it’s an agency…