Editing Aum Shinrikyo (section)

=== 2013 investigation and media coverage ===
[[File:PSIA May 2013 Facility inspection.jpg|thumb|right|PSIA officers conduct a surprise inspection on a suspected Aleph building in 2013.]]

Sometime after April 2013, the [[Public Security Intelligence Agency]] took a photograph inside of Aleph's facilities.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20130808_204027.html|title=元オウムの道場で見つかった公安調査庁長官の「串刺し写真」|website=NEWSポストセブン|language=ja|access-date=2019-06-18}}</ref> In this photograph, a bundle of papers is pierced with a knife on an [[altar]]-like object.<ref name=":0" /> The papers included photographs of PSIA employees and directors, police officers, and lawyer Taro Takimoto, who helped followers leave Aum Shinrikyo.<ref name=":0" /> At least at this point in time, Aleph still displayed portraits of Shoko Asahara and demanded followers' dependence using videos of Asahara.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/141108/afr1411080004-n1.html|title=公安調査官の写真串刺し、教団名隠し勧誘…旧オウム、「反社会性」は継続|last=INC|first=SANKEI DIGITAL|website=産経ニュース|date=7 November 2014|language=ja|access-date=2019-06-18|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110041407/https://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/141108/afr1411080004-n1.html|archivedate=2014-11-10}}</ref>