As crazy as you sound, you have me wondering…
>>How do they control children?
I've thought about this a lot. I remember every single second of my life from 18 months on, and I've analyzed every one of those seconds to death the last three years. It seems certain that I've been "handled" by peers throughout my life, but I've been unable to understand the mechanism behind it.
Obviously a spook can't just tell an 8yo kid to cause thing x to happen in person y's life at a certain time, because that kid won't be able to help but go about bragging about how they're mixed up in spooky shit. They can't have that happening. Nevertheless, it seems they were running kids (in the 80s and 90s, at least) somehow, and wouldn't have done so if there was a significant risk of exposure.
Have to admit, it's hard to explain without a spiritual component.