Editing Cult Awareness Network (section)

===Deprogramming referral kickback scheme – NARDEC===
The National Resource Development and Economic Council (NARDEC) was formed in the mid-1980s and had become institutionalized as a special unit within CAN by 1987.<ref name="discord">Shupe, A. and S.E. Darnell. 2011. Agents of Discord: Deprogramming, Pseudo-Science, and the American Anticult Movement: Transaction Publishers.</ref> The unit's role was to provide referrals to deprogrammers in exchange for a "[[Kickback (bribery)|kickback]]" – either in cash or in the form of a [[Tax deduction|tax-deductible]] "donation" or "commissions" which were then funneled back to national CAN headquarters.<ref name="discord"/>{{r|davis|page=26–28}}

Journalist Nora Hamerman, in writing about the [[Galen Kelly|Dobkowski deprogramming]], referred to CAN as "a clearinghouse for kidnap-for-hire rings",<ref>Nora Hamerman, 1994. "Don Moore: Headed for the CAN". ''[[The New Federalist]]'' Vol. 8, #14. April 25, p. 12.</ref> with her phrase affirmed by scholarly researchers as "an apt description"<ref name=shupe02>Shupe Darnell, & Moxon (2002). The cult awareness network and the anticult movement: Implications for NRMs in America. In Davis & Hankins (Eds.), New religious movements and religious liberty in America (pp. 21-43). Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. They state: "Journalist Nora Hamerman, in writing about the Dobkowski deprogramming fiasco, referred to CAN as 'a clearing-house for kidnap-for-hire rings." This is an apt description. There was a corporate crime basis for CAN's continuance and funding..." (p. 24)</ref>{{rp|24}} of CAN.
Hamerman referred to the "financial symbiosis between CAN and coercive deprogrammers".<ref name="discord"/> 

CAN-associated deprogrammers included [[Steven Hassan]], [[Carol Giambalvo]], [[Rick Ross (consultant)|Rick Ross]],<ref>Melton, J. Gordon. 2001. "The Fate of NRMs and their Detractors in Twenty-first Century America". ''[[Nova Religio]]'' 4 (2): 241–248.</ref> [[Ted Patrick]], [[Galen Kelly]]<ref name=VanityFair>{{cite news |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1993/04/orth199304 |title=Blueblood War |first=Maureen |last=Orth |date=December 2008 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |access-date=2010-03-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012002722/http://www.vanityfair.com:80/magazine/archive/1993/04/orth199304 |archive-date=October 12, 2014}}</ref> David Clark,{{r|davis|page=28,38}} and Robert Point.<ref>{{cite web |title=Main Line Socialite Is Expected To Surrender In Kidnapping Plot Three Men Already Have Been Arrested In A Scheme To |url=http://articles.philly.com/1992-10-01/news/25998215_1_kidnapping-plot-deprogram-abduction |website=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |access-date=2016-01-18}}{{dead link|date=October 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>