The state, that bloated parasite feeding on taxpayer blood and treasure, will stop at literally nothing to dominate the individual mind. When bombs and spies aren't enough, they go straight for the psyche. And when chemicals fall short, apparently, they turn to witches, demons, and star charts. Because... National security, bro.

The State's Obsession with Controlling Minds: Project MKOFTEN and the Descent into Occult Madness

Project MKOFTEN was a late-1960s DoD/CIA offshoot tied to MKULTRA (the infamous LSD-dosing mind-control umbrella) and its successor MKSEARCH. Official declassified docs describe it straightforwardly: testing behavioral and toxicological effects of drugs on animals and humans. Test subjects included prisoners (like at Holmesburg Prison, aka "The Terrordome"), military personnel at Edgewood Arsenal (that charming Maryland spot where they gassed and LSD'd their own soldiers), and animals. Edgewood was basically the state's chemical playground — mustard gas, BZ (the hallucinogenic incapacitant), you name it. Frank Zappa's dad even worked there as a chemist, which is a weird fact we'll discuss in the near future.

The program ran under the Army's Chemical Corps with CIA funding and involvement. Sidney Gottlieb — the "black sorcerer" of the CIA, the club-footed chemist who headed MKULTRA — gets name-dropped in connection, though direct ties to the wilder claims are thin in primary sources. MKOFTEN/CHICKWIT (its sister project) gets brief mentions in Church Committee hearings (1975–76), where CIA brass admitted responsibility for the whole MKSEARCH family but downplayed specifics. Most MKULTRA files were shredded in '73 on orders from the top, so we're left with fragments.

Now, the entertaining part — the script's occult angle. Rumors persist that MKOFTEN branched into parapsychology, black magic, demon summoning, remote viewing, and recruiting occult figures to weaponize the supernatural. Think mediums predicting assassinations, astrologers timing ops for "weakened enemy morale," rituals inducing "spiritual terror," or psychics mapping Soviet subs from a lab couch. Names thrown around include:

• - Sybil Leek (famous British witch/astrologer, sometimes linked to Church of Satan circles)
• - Anton LaVey (Church of Satan founder—alleged consultations or influence)
• - Andrija Puharich (parapsychologist/inventor who dabbled in psychedelics and "non-human entities")

Some accounts claim operatives scouted black magic practitioners, demonologists, Kabbalists, and numerologists from New Orleans witches to Princeton scholars. Aleister Crowley's ceremonial magic supposedly got studied for psy-ops potential. By the early '70s, operatives allegedly freaked out over poltergeist-like effects, trance states, and "doors to hell" they couldn't close — requesting their own psych evals.

Is this rock-solid? Not really. Primary declassified material (DOD memos, Church/Rockefeller probes) sticks to drugs, toxins, and behavioral testing — no smoking-gun docs on demon summoning or hiring LaVey for rituals. The occult stuff floats in secondary sources, podcasts, books on CIA weirdness, and whistleblower/conspiracy lore (Kathy O'Brien's ritual abuse claims tie in, but they're heavily disputed). Parapsychology did bleed into other programs (Stargate for remote viewing came later), and Cold War paranoia about Soviet "psychotronics" drove a lot of fringe research. But MKOFTEN as full-on satanic psy-ops? That's where it veers into speculation.

From our perspective, though, the distinction barely matters. The state already proved it would dose unwitting citizens with LSD, torture via sensory deprivation, and experiment on prisoners and soldiers without consent — all to crack the code of control. If they chased ghosts, demons, or astrological warfare too, it just shows how desperate and unhinged the ruling class gets when "by any means necessary" is the operating principle. The real horror isn't the occult—it's the presumption that the powerful get to treat free individuals as lab rats in the name of "security."

The Church Committee blew the lid off MKULTRA in '75, sparking outrage over government abuse of its own people. Public exposure killed (or drove underground) the overt programs, but the mindset? That lingers. The state never stops probing for total dominance — whether through chemicals, hypnosis, or whatever woo-woo edge they can exploit.

Bottom line: MKOFTEN reminds us the leviathan fears nothing more than an uncontrollable mind. When it can't break you with force, it'll try drugs, rituals, stars — anything. And when the experiments go sideways? "Redacted for national security." Classic statism: violate every boundary, then classify the receipts.

Stay free, question everything, and never trust a spook with a budget... What's your take on how deep the occult rabbit hole really goes here?