He needed an operation and he had almost no contact with anyone from the group. One night, after being up for 3 days, a very sleep-deprived Hassan crashed his van and ended up in the hospital. His regional commander ordered everyone on his team to raise a minimum of $100 a day, or else they could not go to sleep. Much later he was reassigned to be captain of a MFT team. He slept 3–4 hours a night, 7 days a week and became a lecturer of the doctrine, called the Divine Principle. He was selected by top Japanese leader Kamiyama and groomed to be a front man. Next was cutting him off from his family and friends, dropping out of college and sending him out to recruit. But they had hooked him and within a week returned to attend a second 3-day workshop. They manipulated him to stay for the 3-day workshop, but he refused to stay for the 7 day workshop.
He wanted to leave but back then there were no cell phones and he had no transportation. As the van drove into Belvedere estate, it was the first time he heard the word church or that it would be a workshop.
They invited him to the center for dinner, which led to more visits and lectures and they pressured him to attend a weekend workshop. His girlfriend had rejected him, and they said they were students and he thought they were interested in him. Steve Hassan first joined the Church in the 1970s, and is part of what we would call “The First Generation.” He was recruited in college by three women who at first denied that they were part of a religious organization, let alone the Unification Church.
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