The Painful Truth has been graciously been given the original color issues of the Ambassador Report that came out in June of 1976. For many decades the most any of us have seen online has been either scans or the articles painstakingly typed out and posted. Check the first three issues here:
All of the Church of God related sites, blogs and newsgroups that exist today owe their existence to these foundational works. Ambassador Review/Report set into motion the ultimate downfall of the church into hundreds and hundreds of irrelevant little groups that do not have the ability to ever match what the mother church originally accomplished. The corruption was massive and widespread at that time and still is today in the hundreds of splinter groups.
The widespread use of the internet that exploded in the early 1990's brought the corruption into the living rooms of church members around the world. The church could no longer cover up or keep secret things that they were doing. From the denials that doctrines were changing to exposé's of lying evangelists starting new churches, the stories became tangible evidence that things were no longer "kosher" in the Church of God.
Because of this widespread exposure countless Churches of God have never been able to accomplish the dreams and lofty goals they wish for.