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Used Clothing Collectors Deny They're in a Cult

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By Bryan Noonan

The Pitch | May 17, 2005

Since Planet Aid started in the U.S. in 1997, news reports have questioned its connection to Tvind, a Denmark-based organization that government officials in France and Belgium have declared a cult.

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Tags: Cult Information Centre, embezzlement, Mogens Amdi Petersen, Teachers Group, Uli Stosch

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Kansas City leaders may have shuttered the brothels and torn down the stockyards that once defined the town--and the mobsters may have blown themselves up in disco bombings back in the '70s--but there are still plenty of stories to tell...

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