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5 unusual facts about Cult Awareness Network


Cult Awareness Network

Actor Mike Farrell was one of the members of the board of advisors of the "Old CAN", and Dr. Edward Lottick served as president.

Galen Kelly and Donald Moore, both of whom were convicted in the course of carrying out 'deprogramming', are linked to the "Old CAN" by detractors Anson D. Shupe, Susan E. Darnell, and Church of Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon.

During the litigation proceedings between Landmark Education and the Cult Awareness Network, Landmark Education spent months attempting to compel legal journalist Steven Pressman to respond to deposition questions aimed at obtaining the confidential sources he used for research on his book about Werner Erhard, Outrageous Betrayal.

The CAN predecessor, Citizen's Freedom Foundation ("CFF"), was founded in the wake of the 1978 Jonestown mass murder-suicide, and was run for a time by Patricia Ryan, the daughter of US Congressman Leo J. Ryan (D-Millbrae, California), who died from gunfire while investigating conditions at the Jonestown cult compound in Guyana.

FREECOG

FREECOG became the Citizen's Freedom Foundation before joining many of the parent groups in the 1980's which merged into what became known as the Cult Awareness Network, which is now owned by the Church of Scientology.



see also

Jason Scott

Jason Scott, former member of Life Tabernacle Church; plaintiff in the Jason Scott case case against anti-cult activist Rick Ross & Cult Awareness Network