Well, just some thoughts nibbling around the outside of the issue:

• MK-ULTRA Classic(tm) seems like it took weeks in a laboratory setting and, to this day, it seems like every time some big celebrity starts to melt down, they have to get carted off to UCLA Medical Center for weeks on end for some kind of "tune up". But there's no hint that Emerson ever dropped out of circulation like that so I'm presuming that never happened.

• His actions were very specific, and that leads to two sub-points:

  - It wasn't just some "berzerker" switch to send him into rage mode. I think they have the tech to send crowds into riots with EMF, but here no one else seemed affected in the slightest.
  
  - He must have at some point been given specific instructions. As a pilot, he would have known exactly what such action would do if not prevented or remedied quickly. That is, it was a huge deal and a big "programming" implant.
  

• The trigger, I believe, came over innocuous radio traffic. Sirhan Sirhan says the last thing he recalls is a woman saying, "lots of cream, lots of sugar" to him. The alternative is that someone on board "hit him with a beam", but I don't think anyone would volunteer for that duty.

I think this was a very specific technical test rather than aomething wide-spread. With big things you get little anomalies cropping up here and there and I haven't seen even a single one that I would suggest as related.