From what I can tell, seems this is the pattern/history of the problem:

>Crowley invents Thelema
>Thelema enables ritual abuse and sexually blackmailing officials (Crowley was a spy)
>Yay free kompromat! All we have to do is set up cults that attract sex pests and soon we'll have local governments quietly in our pocket.
>WW2 ends, Nazis absorbed into American elite
>Huge boom in Thelema and Theosophy especially in CA and New Mexico
>post war CIA starts getting into brainwashing and figures out abuse causes DID disorder, which can be weaponized
>Neat.jpg, now we can create deniable assets including couriers (Candy Jones) cult leaders (Manson) and assassins (Sirhan Sirhan etc)
>Also targeted mass killers like Henry Lee Lucas who confirmed he was raised and trained in a "Satanic cult" in the Everglades
>Vietnam happens, Operation Phoenix happens
>Phoenix operatives come home and suddenly you have a massive amount of soulless monstrous fuckers with enormous intelligence budgets just walking around
>"Hey what if we franchised out this cult + blackmail + DID trauma mill model to every state in America and possibly Israel as well"
>Years later we have the Franklin Scandal, Programmed to Kill's assessment of mass shooters as programmed weaponized individuals, rumors of "Satanic" cult activity like the Finders Cult, and so on

Obviously devil worship is icky and scary but the real game all along has always been blackmail/control of powerful figures and the manufacture of DID-afflicted programmable human beings. The Satan stuff is mostly just window dressing to allow these two things to happen. But yes, it's all over the place and a huge problem. Unchecked, uncontrolled, probably hundreds of off-the-books ops bankrolling and coordinating the ritual abuse for those 2 purposes. Not a great situation overall.