LESLEY STAHL: There was a time, if you were worried about your son or daughter being in a cult, you could get help from a small, nonprofit organization called the Cult Awareness Network, or CAN, for twenty years the nation's best-known resource for information and advice about groups it considered dangerous. Among them was Scientology, a church not known for turning the other cheek. Stacy Young: Someone who speaks publically against Scientology is targeted for a campaign of harassment, character assassination, financial ruin...there's a policy that says specifically, "If possible, ruin them utterly." The classic story of how Scientology destroys enemies of the church now in higher quality. Scientology again compares critics of the church to Nazi and KKK, whereas Scientology itself to Jews and African Americans. Kirstie Alley Anne Archer Jennifer Aspen James Stacy Barbour Lynsey Bartilson Beck Jason Beghe (ESCAPED) Catherine Bell Karen Black Sonny Bono David Campbell Nancy Cartwright Kate Ceberano Erika Christensen Jeff Conaway Chick Corea Tom Cruise Sky Dayton Doug Dohring Jason Dohring Bodhi Elfman Jenna Elfman Richard Elfman Doug E. Fresh Kenton Gray Paul Haggis Isaac Hayes Katie Holmes Nicky Hopkins Tyler Hynes Mark Isham Milton Katselas Jason Lee Geoffrey Lewis Johnny Lewis Juliette Lewis Christopher Masterson Danny Masterson Lisa McPherson Jim Meskimen Sofia Milos Elisabeth Moss Haywood Nelson Corin Nemec Marisol Nichols Judy Norton James Packer Eduardo Palomo Don Pearson Michael Peña David Pomeranz Laura Prepon Lisa Marie Presley Priscilla Presley Kelly Preston Leah Remini Patrick Renna Ernie Reyes, Jr. Giovanni Ribisi Marissa Ribisi Ruddy Rodriguez Pablo Santos Billy Sheehan David Singer Reed Slatkin Michelle Stafford Ethan Suplee John Travolta Greta Van Susteren Persia White Edgar Winter Rick Alan Ross is a private consultant, lecturer, and cult intervention specialist. He began his work as an anti-cult activist and community organizer in 1982. Ross first became concerned about controversial groups and movements in response to a radical religious group that had covertly targeted his grandmother’s nursing home. Since that time he has raised awareness about cults and facilitated more than five hundred interventions to rescue people from cultic situations. Ross is one of the leading experts on cults in the world today. He has consulted with the FBI, the BATF, and various other law enforcement agencies, as well as the governments of Israel and China, on the subject of cults. Ross has been qualified, accepted and testified as an expert court witness in eleven different states within the United States including US federal court. He has worked as an expert analyst for CBS News, CBC of Canada, and Nippon and Asahi in Japan. Ross has lectured at more than 30 universities and colleges including the University of Chicago, Dickinson College, Carnegie Mellon, Baylor, Wuhan University of China, Assumption University of Thailand and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He has also been published within peer-reviewed academic journals on the topic of cults. Regarding his cult intervention work Ross states that historically about 75 percent of the people that he conducts an intervention with decide to leave the group by the end of such an effort. He has done interventions across the United States and around the world. Ross did two successful interventions with the notorious Branch Davidians led by self-styled messiah David Koresh. Ross has appeared in fourteen documentaries and has been interviewed and quoted in media all over the world. For more information about this, and much more: www.CultEducation.com www.twitter.com/RickAlanRoss