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PAGE TWO SF 89-250 UNCLAS WE HAVE RECENTLY OBTAINED A GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THIS KIND OF BONDED RELIGIOUS SYSTEM BEGINS TO BREAK IP. EVEN PEOPLE WITHIN THE SYSIEM WHO ARE NAIVE ABOUT THE NEGAIIVE ACTIVITIES WILL HAVE HALLUCINAIIONS AND DELUSIONS AND FEAR THAT THEY ARE NOT ONLY LOSING THEIR REL IGIOUS BASE, BUT ARE ALSO GOING CRAZY. THEY WILL NOT TALK ABOUT THIS FOR THOSE REASONS. THEY TEND TO LOOK FOR THE ALTERNAT IVE TO THE MYSTIC SYSIEM. FOR EXAMPLE, INSTEAD OF A RELIGIOUS MYSTICAL SYSTEM, THEY WILL TURN TO AN OPPOSITE SUCH AS A SCIENTIFIC SYSTEM, IN AN EFFORT IO FIND A REASON FOR THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR. EXAMPLES OF IHIS WOULD BE SEEKING A PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PSYCHIAIRIC RATIONALE BECAUSE OF COMPETING REL IGIOUS OR FRIEST-LIKE FIGURE IS NO LONGER SOMEONE THAT THEY CAN TRUST. ANOIHER EXAMPLE OF THIS IS IN THE KIND OF BEHAVIOR GRAMMERS. WE KNOW THAT IN A NUMBER OF MOONEY DEFECTIONS, AS WELL AS RECENT INFORMAIION IN THE CHOWCHILLA KIDNAPPING, THAT THESE HALLUC INATIONS AND DELUSIONS ARE NOT REVEALED TO AGENT INTERVIEWERS. THE BOY WHO ACIED OUT THE HERO'S ROLE IN CHOWCHLLA, INITIALLY REMOVED THE MEIAL PLAIE LEADING TO THE