Often

Sixth Annual Army Human Factors Engineering Conference, 3-6 October 1960.

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Publication Date 1960

Renamed Project MKOFTEN in 1964 the term often referring to timing and age of onset and ritual as to habituated a child primarily before age 3 and next age 5 to an environment provided by caregivers to best "help" the child disassociate presumably to "mystic like -trance states" Project OFTEN was often performed upon foster children ,adopted children  and "scoped" children who were speculated to serve as "assets" in various fileds of influence pertaining to entertainment,politics .the sciences or to serve as "obect' (sexual) to power brokers as reward or coersion.

 

 OFTEN was a covert Department of Defense program developed in conjunction with the CIA. A partner program to MKSEARCH, sub -[rpjects of MK Search and MK Ultra involved  prenatal "rendering" of a child in vitro . Aspects of Human Engineering  via MKOFTEN was to "test the behavioral and toxicological effects of certain drugs on animals and humans".Some tests were done to the child's mother (drugs introduced as well as the induction of staged stressors to understand the effects thereof  cortisol's  on the fetus in the .Biological as well as pharamacological  "strssors" were often introduced into the mother's system (viruses,high doses of estrogen or testosterone  by mant doctirs that participated in the research )w

CIA's Operation Often was also initiated by the chief of the CIA's Technical Services Branch, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to "explore the world of "the occult" and "the use of fear insinuated upon the growing child to induce aspects of personality fracturing with ritualized traumatic abuse as to discover perceived inner reaches of the mind normally beyond reach". As part of Operation Often, Dr. Gottlieb and other CIA employees helped create a pseudo name for "these children to be raised on symbols and induced damage to their psyche " -Indigo Children.