[Fedora]

Hassan, a former Moonie who practices hypnosis, is a phony, unethical "expert" who has resorted to kidnapping and suborning perjury.

[Fedora]

The National Resource Development and Economic Council was formed in the mid 1980s and had become institutionalized as a special unit within CAN by 1987.[26] The unit's role was to provide referrals to deprogrammers in exchange for a 'kickback' – either in cash or in the form of a tax deductible "donation" or "commissions" which were then funneled back to national CAN headquarters.[26][27] Journalist Nora Hamerman, in writing about the Dobkowski deprogramming, referred to CAN as "a clearinghouse for kidnap-for-hire rings",[28] referring to the "financial symbiosis between CAN and coercive deprogrammers".[26] CAN-associated deprogrammers include Steven Hassan. . .According to Alexander Cockburn, the role of the Cult Awareness Network and its representatives "may well have been crucial" in the law enforcement actions during the 1993 Waco siege.[68] A series of newspaper articles in the Waco Tribune-Herald and allegations of child abuse by CAN Executive Director Priscilla Coates were followed by increasing interest and investigation by law enforcement. . .In a 1996 joint hearing before the United States Congress on the Waco Siege entitled: Activities of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Toward the Branch Davidians, it was stated[who?] into the record that publicists for the New Alliance Party had circulated a report to Congress and the media called "What is the Cult Awareness Network and What Role Did it Play in Waco?"[1] Testimony was also entered into the record stating, "Their report relied on [conspiracy theorist] Linda Thompson, organizations created or funded by the Church of Scientology and the Unification Church" and a "long-time cult apologist". Cult Awareness Network

[piasa]

Yikes... he admitted to "deprogramming" cult members who were kept tied up through the process. Claims he doesn't do that any more yet says there could be cases requiring it. ...

Arthur Roselle's account in a sworn affidavit also contradicts this account. According to Roselle, "Hassan aided, abetted, and conspired in my kidnapping and in my subsequent false imprisonment."[23] Roselle also accused Hassan of actively assisting in depriving him of sleep, insulting and humiliating him, and treating him like "a captured animal in a zoo," as well as attempting to coerce him into signing a false affidavit exonerating Hassan of the kidnapping claims.[23] No criminal or civil charges were filed.[14]...