N-P-R's Julie McCarthy Reports On The Eruption Of A Major Scandal

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Published October 28, 1996 at 11:00 PM EST

in Japan related to the Aum religious cult. A senior police officer did not report a junior officer, who was a member of the Aum cult, after he confessed to having tried to kill the country's top-ranking policeman.

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