The Political Setup of Moon’s Organization – a 1977 Report.
▲ Former President Eisenhower with Sun Myung Moon in 1965.
extract from The Puppet Master by J. Isamu Yamamoto (pages 25-30)
THE FEAR OF COMMUNISM has often been used to gain allies and intimidate foes. Reverend Moon has capitalized on this phobia. To Moon, communism is a manifestation of the Antichrist. It is no wonder, therefore, that many people have joined forces with him, ignorant of the battle in which they are actually engaged. Communism is not the issue; it is merely a banner which Moon uses to rally a large enough force to exert a powerful influence on our society. Moon has indeed entered the political arena, and it is here that many people feel he must be challenged in order to be defeated.
The Argument The seeds of communism and democracy, Moon says, were in man as far back as the fall. According to the Divine Principle (DP 242), Cain was the fruit of Eve’s illicit love affair with Satan; later, Abel was the fruit of Eve’s love affair with Adam.1 From then on, the history of man has broken into two lines of philosophy, the lineage of Cain and the lineage of Abel.
Cain as the fruit of the first love symbolized man’s relationship with Satan. The political configuration of this relationship has culminated in the form of communism. Abel as the fruit of the second love symbolized man’s relationship with God. The political configuration of this relationship has culminated in the form of democracy. Thus, communism is the expression of Satan and democracy is the expression of God.
These two forms of ideologies, however, were not evident to man for many centuries. The first visible sign of communism and democracy did not come until Jesus died on the cross. “The thief crucified on Jesus’ right side foreshadowed the democratic world,” says Moon, “and the thief crucified on Jesus’ left side represented the Communist world.”2 The thief on the left condemned Jesus in Luke 23:39, while the thief on the right defended Jesus in Luke 23:40-41. At that moment the seed was sown so that those on the left would deny the existence of God, such as the communists do today, and those on the right would proclaim the existence of God.
In recent human history communism and democracy have become realities. The world is, more or less, divided between the two. There are some areas in the world where the line of demarcation is so concrete that walls and barbed wires have been constructed as barriers. The Berlin Wall is one. Another is the 38th parallel in Korea, which is the front line for both democracy and communism; and, at the same time, the front line for both God and Satan.
Korea for Moon is more than a spiritual battleground. He says that Korea is the third Israel and will be the place of birth for the coming of the Messiah. Nevertheless, Korea is not so important that it is the nation where God will save mankind. “My followers in Korea bade me farewell in tears,” says Moon. “I know there are still many things to do in Korea. But working with only Korea would delay world salvation. America must be God’s champion.”3
God has chosen the United States as the nation around which all other nations are to unite, because the United States is the leading democratic nation and was founded on Christian tenets. For these reasons, Moon is concentrating most of his efforts on America. “In other words, I am sacrificing all other nations for the purpose of victory in America.”4 Or again, “The movement for world salvation must begin in this country.”5
Although America is democratic and supposedly Christian and chosen by God, Moon says that she has become self-centered and weary of struggling with communism. “America and her churches are thinking of their own benefits more than God’s purpose.”6 Because of widespread disbelief in God, America is plagued with immorality, crime and conflict. She has strayed from the original goals of the pilgrims and our founding fathers. She is desperately in need of help.
Moon says that he has come to bring America back to God and heal her wounds so that democracy can stand strong in the world. According to the Divine Principle, democracy is God’s political weapon which will annihilate the evil forces of Satan (DP 441-42). “One final war is thus left before us; that is, the war between the ideologies of Democracy and Communism.”7 The defeat of communism, which is the defeat of Satan, will restore the earth back to God and prepare the Kingdom of Heaven on earth for the Lord of the Second Advent.
Korean Oppression Two arms of oppression have presently grasped the people of South Korea; one is the iron arm of political tyranny under the dictatorial regime of President Park Chung Hee; the other is the golden arm of religious fanaticism under the spiritual guidance of Sun Myung Moon.
In November of 1972 President Park officially established a new constitution which extended his powers to resemble those of a dictator. Christian leaders, along with others, fervently opposed Park’s move and demanded a return to a democratic constitution. On January 8, 1974, Park decreed that anyone who protested against his constitution would be tried, convicted and sentenced for up to fifteen years. On February 1, six Christian ministers and evangelists went to prison because of their criticism of the constitution. They did not have the right of a jury in a civil court. Rather, a special tribunal at the South Korean Defense Ministry judged and sentenced them for up to fifteen years. In April of 1975, Park issued a statement that as long as the communists loom as a threat from North Korea, he must continue his despotic policies for the welfare of South Korea.
Among Park’s few religious allies in South Korea are Rev. Moon and his Unification Church. Just as the Christian Church has taken an active part in opposing the Park regime, so has Moon taken an equally active part in support of it. Moon has established a training school located just outside Seoul in Sutaek-ri village, to which the South Korean government annually sends thousands of civilian officials and military personnel for training in the techniques of anti-communism.
▲ The UC training center located just outside Seoul in Sutaek-ri (Guri).
Moon also heads the International Federation for Victory over Communism, which actively combats communism around the world. Thus, Moon has the favor and support of the government, while at the same time he, as a “religious” leader, lends the administration the aura of respectability.
Communism is the boogieman that Park and Moon constantly employ to arouse fear in the hearts of their countrymen so that they will remain in their protective arms. Tolerating one evil to be rid of a worse one is not so unique. Park does this to maintain his authoritarian rule; Moon does it to allure anti-communist Christians. Both succeed well in camouflaging their dubious activities by creating a subterfuge in their campaign against communism.
Meanwhile the Park regime has created the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), an image of the American CIA. The KCIA has been involved in several plots of questionable espionage, such as the abduction in 1973 of Kim Dae Jung (the losing candidate in the 1971 presidential election) from his Tokyo residence and his forced return to Korea where he was jailed. Not known for its subtlety, the KCIA’s harassment of Koreans in America became so blatant in 1973 that the State Department ordered an FBI investigation of KCIA activities in the United States. Nevertheless, because of Park’s anti-communist stance, American officials have tended to look away when the rights of South Koreans have been violated.
By 1965, while Moon made his first visit to the United States, his influence in his homeland was strong enough that he was able to have a 45-minute audience with former President Eisenhower. The President agreed to allow his name to be used on the letterhead of the Moon-created Korean Cultural Freedom Foundation, as did Harry S. Truman and Admiral Arliegh Burke.
The head of the foundation is Colonel Pak, whom Korean émigrés contend maintains close ties with the KCIA, and whom many others suspect has strong links with the American CIA. Before joining Moon’s movement, Pak came to the United States as a military attaché for the South Korean Embassy. According to Philip Agee, an ex-CIA agent and author of Inside the CIA, “military attaché” almost always means an “intelligence” man.
▲ The Unification Church “Little Angels” visit Park Chung Hee and his wife in December 1971.
Moon and his followers deny any collaboration with Park’s government. They contend that to speak out would just lead to a tightening of the screws. It is interesting, however, that Moon’s prosperity coincided with Park’s military takeover of South Korea. Furthermore, it is commonly understood in South Korea that to have the wealth which Moon has one must be on the most intimate terms with the government.
Nevertheless, if there is any intelligence connection between Moon and the Park regime, it is almost certainly limited to the very top level of the Moon organization and probably involves the organization in lobbying or public relations work for the Korean government and not intelligence collection. FLF (Freedom Leadership Foundation, headed by Moon) Secretary General Gary Jarmin asserts, “Even if Park got more dictatorial, we would support him.”8
Japanese Connection One of the more common stories circulating within the Unification Church is how Moon and other Koreans suffered during the Japanese occupation in World War II. What is not circulated is that President Park himself was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during the war and that certain Japanese industrialists who were in part responsible for the repression of Korean Christians are now among Moon’s major allies.
Kishi Nobusuke [the grandfather of Shinzo Abe who was assassinated in 2022], who was a member of the Imperial Japanese Wartime Cabinet, heads Moon’s International Federation for Victory over Communism. He was a Class A war criminal after the war and went on to become Prime Minister of Japan in 1957 through 1961. A close friend of his is Sasagawa Ryoichi, who is the chief financial backer and organizer of the “Genri Undo,” a religious organization [in Japan] started by Moon in the 1960s.
Sasagawa was also a former Class A war criminal, who spent time in the Sagumo Prison with Nobusuke. He has long been involved with the Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League and has played an important role in Japanese politics. With his vast fortune acquired from shipbuilding, gambling and reputed links with organized crime, Sasagawa not only influences the Japanese government but supports Moon’s Unification Church. Church officials deny that Sasagawa is actually a member of the Unification Church in Japan, but Col. Pak does admit that Sasagawa is Moon’s chief ally in the battle against communism.
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