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In
early 1998, Rico Magnelli, Public Relations officer of The Way
International made a proud announcement to the Way staff at
one of the weekday noon time lunch meetings.
The
announcement concerned a recent telephone conversation that he
had with a representative of the Cult Awareness Network (C.A.N.).
In
Magnelli's review of the telephone conversation, he
excitedly and proudly stated that since a new management team
had taken over the C.A.N. organization, they were now
reviewing and revamping some of the information that the
previous management of C.A.N. had been disseminating regarding
The Way International to its callers.
Magnelli
went on to say that C.A.N. was now informing callers that The
Way International was not in their opinion a cult but merely
an organization with differing opinions than mainstream
religions. C.A.N. (according to Magnelli) did not consider The
Way to be dangerous.
This
news was excitedly received by the attentively listening Way
staff.
Magnelli
in closing his announcement said that as a result of the
conversations with C.A.N., The Way had decided to make a
financial contribution to the organization.
John
Reynolds, the new secretary treasurer of The Way, privately
admitted (with a chuckle) months later, that the Way Trustees
had been aware that C.A.N. had been taken over and was
effectively in the full control of adherents of the Church of
Scientology.
The
financial contribution made by The Way was
"substantial."
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