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Ted ‘Black Lightning’ Patrick’s practice of ‘deprogramming’, also known as ‘reverse brainwashing’, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultist-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from cults.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Mia Donovan
Actors: Balavanta Das, Hridayananda Das Goswami, Ted Patrick
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