[4] Family, Action, Information, Rescue (FAIR) was founded by MP Paul Rose in 1976 to address enquiries from constituents and complaints from parents about their adult children joining NRMs.

[6] Yet Elisabeth Arweck adds that FAIR's "commitment to raise cult awareness was tempered by repeated warnings against witchhunts".

[7] The organization renamed itself as "Family, Action, Information, Resource" in 1994[8] in order to denote a concern "more with the place of these cults in public life and governments than with the issues of recruitment and brainwashing, although these remain[ed] important.

"[9] FAIR was initially perceived as supporting "deprogramming", but then publicly distanced itself from it,[10][11] citing such reasons as high failure rates, damage to families and civil liberty issues.

[14] In 1987, an ex-FAIR committee member, Cyril Vosper, was convicted in Munich on charges of kidnapping and causing bodily harm to German Scientologist Barbara Schwarz in the course of a deprogramming attempt.