Well, what I've honestly read is that the abuse does start through parents. With stuff like the handler pushing needles into the pregnant mother's tummy to aid in traumatizing the poor baby and mother. I also read that when the baby is born, they force certain 'things' (that i refuse to be descriptive with because it's too sad and sick), cause the baby to choke, and then see if she or he survives through it-- if she/he does, they basically have a 'winner' [term used loosely] and come to their own conclusion that the baby is strong and can handle the torture to come.
There isn't always a set itinerary or even an age that is required to begin this type of abuse. I actually think people are even trying to use it independently of larger networks now because the information is readily available on the internet. I have met people who have experienced mind control in day care. However, I don't know whether it was too hard for them to face the abuse starting from their parents yet. It may have been. She was still very young.
Most of the information we have on the subject comes from victims testimonies, which means in order to understand this subject, you have to understand how to hear the victims. It is good if you want to study this subject to study other sources on dealing with victims of abuse. This way you will understand that a lot of time, something like MK ultra is going to be specific to the person. Not everyone likes chocolate ice cream, so chocolate ice cream is not going to be a reward in every case after the abuse. This won't create a love bomb for everyone. So many things are going to be specific to the person. In fact, customization of abuse is another way to isolate the victim. If the victim cannot find another person who can identify with them in their abuse, they are twice as likely to keep silent for fear of being the one where even the most sympathetic person will say something like, "that is so weird."
This is where the term programming because a good metaphor. Programming is a unique process that uses shared functions at times to create unique programs and applications. They can share a function or a piece of code, but that code will be used to produce a completely different program with a different user interface and maybe nothing in common outside of this shared piece of code that is stored within lines and lines of code.
So you can share a process like electroshock, but you can use a different source or a different script. I have heard stories of people who were videotaped being electrocuted. I have heard stories of people who were punished with electroshock. So, for example, the person who was videotaped might feel uncomfortable if everyone was listening to the story of how the person felt when they were punished with electroshock. The person might get responses from the people listening like "you didn't deserve it," or "it wasn't your fault," but the person who wasn't punished with electroshock might start to wonder if they would say the same thing to her if she told her story. So this makes her feel afraid that the people might not feel it was as bad as the other person's story, so she doesn't say anything about it. That is how abuse works. This is how victim's are silenced.
Therefore, what happened is that people studied this process and developed MK ultra from these studies that were taking place long before it was practiced on people in the community or given to the community to practice.
Fortunately, during the r*pe crisis movement, there was a wave of exposure of sexual abuse that had always been taking place for reasons of mind control or not. One of the earliest sexual abuse recovery books was called "The Courage to Heal." This actually happened simultaneously as the MK ultra documents were exposed and released to the public.
If you read early victim stories that came from the r*pe crisis movement that don't always include MK ultra dissociation, there is a trend. Most people who began recovery when the r*pe crisis movement was beginning were much older when they started addressing the abuse they dissociated.
I read a book called My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing published in 1989. She was in her 40's I believe, when she began coping with the way she was abused and how she had hidden her father's abuse for so long. Silencing the Voices was published in 1997 by a woman who also began recovery from abuse as an older woman. Then there was A Nation Betrayed written in 2001 by a victim of early mind control who also didn't begin treatment till she was older or until the r*pe crisis movement brought with it the opportunity for even victims of mind control to heal. These early testimonies of recovering from abuse that led to a dissociative state all began around this time and took different amounts of time until they were able to complete testimonies.
Now, what we are seeing is people beginning this process much younger. People as young as 16 and 17 are already starting to realize that they have been in dissociative states. However, it will probably still take another ten years for this next generation to be able to complete testimonies that will fill in pieces of this puzzle, but there is definitely another force at work exposing what is being done in the darkness.