I knew deprogramming kidnappers in Minneapolis, they were making a lot of European trips to bring back adult children in cults. I believe they worked for a famous deprogrammer of the time.
We were a partying group at the same primary household and they were always after me to help them, the pay and travel were appealing but I never could figure out how they were not arrested either in Europe or here, although the deprogramming seemed popular at the time culturally.
This is not the same thing. I know what you are talking about.