The Cult Awareness Network Web site is located at www.cultawarenessnetwork.org
2005
- July 24, 2005 Scientology comes to town, By Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
...the Pittsburgh office of the Church of Scientology, the controversial religious movement that recently captured international headlines when celebrity disciple Tom Cruise became increasingly public...
...Officials of the former Cult Awareness Network were quoted in a 1991 Time magazine special report ("The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power") that no group prompted more telephone pleas for help than did Scientology.
By the late 1990s, a lawsuit had forced the network into bankruptcy. The "new" network is run by the Foundation for Religious Freedom, which is connected to Scientology...
- January 30, 2005 Defending against its critics, Mark Sommer, The Buffalo News, Buffalo, New York
The Cult Awareness Network used to receive more calls about Scientology than any other group.
That was before a hail of lawsuits helped Scientologists take over the network...
..."We're up against people who don't want us to succeed," said Teresa Reger, president of the Buffalo church...
...The Cult Awareness Network was the nation's largest repository of information on cult-like organizations between 1978 and 1994...
...Stephen Kent, a professor of sociology at the University of Alberta who has written extensively about Scientology, said Fair Game sanctions Scientologists to crush its enemies...
..."Fair Game no longer exists, and it hasn't for years and years and years," Reger said...
2003
- March 3, 2003 Big Brother and your browser, by Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Justice Department is experimenting with an Internet crime-fighting technique that raises novel legal, technical and privacy concerns...
...What appears to be the first case of this sort arose in 1996, when the Cult Awareness Network--which warned of the dangers of unconventional religions--was sued into oblivion by the Church of Scientology. A bankruptcy court judge placed the group's assets including cultawarenessnetwork.org up for auction--and the winning bidder was--you guessed it--Scientology.
Mark Rasch, a former federal prosecutor who's a vice president at Solutionary in McLean, Va., represented Cult Awareness Network during its demise. After Scientology gained control of cultawarenessnetwork.org and promptly began reading e-mail sent to the old addresses, Rasch told me on Friday, "people thought they were communicating confidentially with an anti-cult group when they were talking with their enemies."...
2002
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1999
- September 9, 1999 Scientology's Revenge, New Times Los Angeles via the Wayback Machine (For years, the Cult Awareness Network was the Church of Scientology's biggest enemy. But the late L. Ron Hubbard's L.A. -Based religion cured that --By taking it over. Contains mature language.)
- March 23, 1999 Award against anti-cult group upheld, Seattle Times (...Jason Scott...He sued the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), and the Supreme Court agreed it must pay up...The people involved in the Supreme Court case say they are in a group called CAN, but a Scientologist now owns the name. The group that sprang from the name purchase espouses the opposite views of the old CAN. Many Scientologists belong to the new CAN...)
1997
- Video December 28, 1997 The Cult Awareness Network, 60 Minutes, CBS News via YouTube
via CBS.com - Video Store
Lesley Stahl investigates allegations that the church of Scientology harassed and finally took over the opponents, the Cult Awareness Network.
- December 28, 1997 Can the Cult Awareness Network, 60 Minutes via BurrellesLuce (the Church of Scientology's alleged efforts to get rid of CAN)
- December 19, 1996 Group that once criticized Scientologists now owned by one, CNN.com
...the Cult Awareness Network...
...In a bizarre twist of fortune, the organization that was once the most vocal critic of Scientology is now owned by a member of the controversial church...
- 1996 States, Private Groups React, Washington Post (The Chicago-based Cult Awareness Network...The network was sued by critics and dismembered in bankruptcy court in 1996. A Church of Scientology member bought its logo and name in the proceedings.)
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- Group that once criticized Scientologists now owned by one, CNN.com, December 19, 1996
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