Mingling cheerfully in the DoubleTree Hotel's nondescript lobby one recent Saturday evening, the few dozen attendees of the SMART seminar in Windsor Locks could have been mistaken for any name-tagged conference-goers -- rare stamp enthusiasts or computer programmers on a motivational retreat.

But SMART -- Stop Mind Control and Ritual Torture -- is a support group for alleged victims of serial child abuse at the hands of satanic cults, rogue priests, Freemasons and the CIA.

They were brutalized as children, organizers say, to split their personalities and prepare each child for a secret life as a sex slave, government assassin, blackmail agent -- any number of things.

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