The CIC, who are a charitable advisory (non-governmental) institution, does not and cannot have an official 'register' of cults. Although they keep records on over 2000 groups, none of these can be formally adjudicated the label of 'cult' without formal investigation and legal procedure by the proper authorities. This has never been done with any of our groups.
This alleged 'record' is simply an externally donated document consisting of partial, inaccurate and purposefully misleading information. Its style, content and orientation reflect propaganda material emanating from those members of an Oxford group who were expelled from our organisation.
It is significant that the main reasons for this expulsion were the very same tendencies toward misinformation and destructive mind control activities that the CIC legitimally seeks to combat. We would draw your attention to the fact that if members of group were to submit a similar report concerning certain people in the Oxford group it would have to be accorded exactly the same weight and significance.
This alleged 'record' also contains different but equally inaccurate data originally put out over 30 years ago by a certain American group who were then trying, mainly for financial advantage, to restrict the spread of Buddhist Kempo in their country by targeting it with 'black' propoganda.

Although this web site seeks to accuse several different organisations of being part of one 'Cult', what they have put in as being the actual text of this 'record' neither defines what this is supposed to indicate, what evidence is it based on, nor what danger the members of these groups are supposed to be in. It also attempts indirectly to denigrate other quite legitimate, independent arts, studies and personal practices such as Kempo, Yoga, Cheirology along with the Buddhist religion.

Although the 'record' alleges that some of the many different organisations we work with, or are affiliated to, are all the same group it is significant that it fails to mention any of the other related organisations we also work with but which the Oxford miscreants had no need to be made aware of during their own period of study.

Most of its content is so incomplete it is erroneous and those who are familiar with our charitable work will wonder how any serious, responsible organisation could be duped into accepting or circulating such information without carefully investigating the people who donated it as well as the organisations it mentions. It must be stressed that none of the persons responsible for the groups named in this 'record' has ever been approached or questioned by the CIC or any other 'cult control' organization whatsoever. On the contrary one of the teachers it targets has worked with the World Congress of Faiths, the Unitarian Church - to which he has contributed articles. and has been commented upon favourably by Fr:Slade the head abbot of the Anchorhold Christian community. He is a member of an advisory board to the Race Relations Commitee and was recently asked to join a United Nations General Assembly humanitarian advisory commitee.

This web page 'report' pretends that our related groups are all under the 'control' of a single teacher (they have never been) and then proceeds, pretending to draw from some unspecified seemingly authoritative external record, to create an incomplete and error-filled account of one particular teacher's life, family and achievements whilst ignoring every other event or attainment of this same teacher's life and work. Particularly, any fact which would clearly disprove the erroneous impression they intend to convey to the unknowing, but which any balanced person would consider relevant or significant. [In point of fact most early students know that the teacher concerned attended 3 different schools, his family actually owned the company mentioned and his other academic studies are clearly unknown to them including the offers made by one Oxford college for him to study there]
He has never made any attempt to hide his personal background and often refers to them didactically in his books and lectures etc. They do not have any relevance to his teaching whatsoever. The numerical statistics for groups they state concern only those which the Oxford group were given responsibility to administrate and no others. As might be expected this group formed a minority.

Whose life this 'record' really intends to represent is not at all clear as within it many quite different persons are all mistakenly conflated into one, who is then misnamed anyway. It fails to mention that the teacher it does target handed over the public teaching of Kempo classes to his various students and colleagues over 20 years ago and since then has been simply one of of several who have fully devoted themselves to Buddhist studies, research and writing. Any cult headed by this teacher would have only one member : himself.

- The publication of of a copy of this alleged 'record' on a web site is frankly surprising, as all properly filed records from the CIC or any similar charitable, independent institution, are supposed to and should be kept confidential to protect the innocent from wanton defamation until any allegations contained in them can be proved. It is also surprising and hard to explain how this alleged 'record', supposedly from a responsible institution, could have been taken and legally reproduced, with added specious comments, only by the one US martial art group that considers our form of Kempo a threat to their continued existence or profitability.

Despite what this web site claims, none of the official organisations that we have so far contacted concerning it, have heard of this 'record'. Several have stated that they always regard such material as highly suspicious unless and until legally proven. Only people directly influenced by the leaders of the Oxford group have left any group.

CONCLUSIONS

This 'record' is wisely ignored by all those with direct personal experience of our aims, teachers and way of teaching. It is clearly the medium for some groups very personal vendetta All current public groups both in GB and overseas continue to study just as before. None of them has been asked to stop, restrict or alter what and how they teach by any government body or authority. Our charitable work continues unhindered.

Many non practicing but long standing members from the groups mentioned and others have stated publicly that their own experiences of study within their respective organisations stand in total disagreement with all that is implied in the above web site. Many others have expressed their willingness to echo these statements.

We are currently discussing and considering various legal actions and restraints that could be placed upon those who circulate such materials. In view of this, we consider it pointless to engage in any debate at this point or give a detailed re-statement of what are already well known public facts (some of which are recorded visually in the BBC News and Religious archives) and other records. Neither do we intend to point out or show exactly where this material constitutes libel and all the penalties thereof for those associated with its distribution. It will not be any surprise to see similar sites set up by these people as their various and devious schemes fail or are halted. All of them can be safely ignored

In the light of this we would appreciate being notified of the names and whereabouts of any person, group, web site etc found to be propagating this alleged 'record' so that they properly informed as to the consequences and appropriate actions taken.