"Steven Hassan: So I went to the leader after I hung up, I said, "My father said, there's a newspaper article that says we have an M16 gun factory. Do we?" And he said, "No, we have an air rifle factory, but we don't have any M16 gun factory."

But my father never followed up and his intention was to help me, but he drove me deeper in, and at that point, the cult said, "It's clear, your father is possessed by Satan. The communist media has gone to him. Cut off contact."'