History
The Cult Information Centre was initially founded in 1987 and gained charitable status in the United Kingdom, in 1992. Ian Haworth is founder and current General Secretary of the organization, and he had previously been involved with the Council on Mind Abuse. According to Arweck's Researching New Religious Movements, Ian Haworth and an associate had previously lost a court case in Canada that was brought by Werner Erhard against the Council on Mind Abuse organization. Arweck writes that Haworth went bankrupt after losing the case to Erhard, and left Canada for Britain. Later in an article in the Sunday Mercury, Ian Haworth was quoted as stating that the Cult Information Centre received complaints in Britain about the actions of Landmark Education, which the article described as being linked to Werner Erhard's est movement. Similar statements from the Cult Information Centre were reported in an article on The Forum.
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