Minions and Master – an army of obedient servants needed
from Gifts of Deceit – Sun Myung Moon, Tong-sun Park and the Korean Scandal by Robert B. Boettcher (pages 144-148)
An army of obedient servants would have to be recruited and trained to restore the Kingdom of Heaven to earth under Sun Myung Moon. They would have to work as people had never before worked because there had never been such a great mission. They would have to go wherever Moon sent them to raise the $300 million he needed for making his project worldwide and the billions more he needed to control the wealth of the planet. But Moon did not have shiploads of chained tribal people at his disposal when he arrived in America in 1971. Involuntary servitude was against the law. Could he make people think they were actually willing to be slaves?
He got the answer he wanted from idealistic American youth. He and they were ready for each other. They were people in the age group eighteen to twenty-four, in transition from adolescence to adulthood, student to professional, getting in or getting out of school, family life to life alone. For one in search of a coherent view of the world, college had the effect of making things more confusing by presenting so many different approaches to life without identifying one as altogether right. In the “real” world, problems abounded, from family disunity to the threat of nuclear destruction. At best, things were in disarray; at worst, life was chaotic, depressing. Such minds were fertile soil. Their idealism was the key. Describe how happy people would be if discord could be turned into harmony. Show how this can be done through unified love for God. Then play on the distance between what a person thinks he is and what he wants to be. Hold up ideals and make him ashamed of not living up to his own standards. Instill ideas of self-worthlessness. Make him feel guilty about putting concern for himself above group unity. The burden of guilt could be lightened by working as a family with others who believe the ideals can be attained here on earth. The family has a father who will lead the way. The harder one works for Father, the closer one gets to achieving the goal. Follow Father. God has shown him alone the path to perfection because he is the Messiah.
Moon taught a clear strategy for attracting prospective converts. Until the prospect is converted, he must not know that a strategy is being used. Later he will appreciate being deceived because the motive was his own salvation. First, all church members must make as many new acquaintances as possible. Befriend them by taking a personal interest; do not disagree with their views, whether right or wrong. Do favors. Find the right style to use on each kind of person. Classify his personality. Introduce him to a church member with a similar personality, but don’t reveal that he is a church member. Meet together like that two or three times. Get into conversations on current issues, ethics, or morality. Then say, “I know where there are many serious young people talking about things like this,” or “I have heard of some lectures about a new philosophy, very sincere, very interesting, talking about the problems of life. I would appreciate it if you would go with me so I can get your opinion on it.” The prospect will pay attention to the lecture because he has been asked for criticism. When he says it was wonderful, say, “Oh, I don’t know. Not necessarily so.” But suggest going again in order to learn more about it.
Chris Elkins was president of his fraternity at the University of Arizona when John Shea, a recent acquaintance, invited him to attend a lecture about something called the One World Crusade. What he heard was philosophical, nonreligious, and interesting. So he went again each week for a month or more. The One World Crusade was explained as a movement encompassing all aspects of life. He was impressed by the magnetism of the lecturer, Dr. Joseph Sheftick. He and his fifteen or twenty followers had an aura of confidence, friendliness, and sincerity. They related well to his own interests and seemed warmly concerned about him. As the lectures progressed, a Korean named Sun Myung Moon was mentioned as a great teacher, but the main stress was on the coming of a Messiah to build heaven on earth. It dawned on Elkins that Sun Myung Moon must be the Messiah in question, although no one had said he was. During dinner with the group one night, he stated that observation. Dr. Sheftick raised his head, sat up straight, and announced, “We have a new brother: Chris Elkins.”
Elkins did not affirm Sheftick’s declaration, nor did he deny it. He simply went along for the time being. In fact, he was seriously considering joining. The goals were so noble: peace and brotherhood at all levels. Fund-raising didn’t appeal to him, but he could swallow it because he felt he and the movement really belonged together. And the people gave him so much love and attention that he couldn’t just say no. His best friend tried to dissuade him. When his family protested, Dr. Sheftick warned that Satanic forces work best through those most loved.
Euphoria prevailed during his honeymoon period with the Moon cult. Then the atmosphere became more serious. Elkins didn’t like fasting and staying up all night praying aloud with the others. After a couple of weeks, it all seemed too heavy. Driving back to Illinois to visit his mother in the hospital, he was in a daze. He tried to think things out. What had he got into? Was this the life for him, separated from the rest of the world? The love … the concern … heaven on earth… . What if Moon was really what they said he was? Could he risk losing what they offered? From Illinois, he called the group. It felt good to hear their voices. He would return.
He resigned as president of the fraternity. The Moonies sent him to Phoenix to fund-raise by selling peanuts on the street. He was still restless because Satanic spirits were at work inside him, so he was grateful that another member was by his side at all times. His parents wanted the car back, but a leader chided him:
“Who needs it more? Your parents or the movement?”
He was learning. The great crusade required everything he had. The attachment to Father must be total, as Father said:
Your whole body, every cell of your body, every movement, every facial motion, even every piece of hair, every ounce of energy must be directed to this one point.
Just as other members were always with him physically, Father was always with him too:
You must live with me spiritually all the time—while you are eating, while you are sleeping, while you are in the bathroom, while you are taking a bath, taking a rest, even in dreams you can be sitting with me and discussing with me. That’s the only way. This is the secret of our movement. Whoever has that basic, fundamental attitude and that spiritual power will perform miracles.
Spiritual regeneration required mental somersaults. What once seemed true was now false. What once seemed unreal was now real. The world Elkins had known since birth was the product of original sin. The fall of Adam opened the floodgates to Satanic spirits, which had inundated the lives of Elkins’s ancestors. If he gave himself to Moon completely, he could rid himself of that awful heritage and be restored…
Book review:
Robert Boettcher’s Gifts of Deceit insightfully and thoroughly documents the activities and findings of the Fraser Committee. This congressional subcommittee (through its 1978 report) on International Organizations opened a window on a world in Washington which many would prefer to see closed forever.
The report of this committee, informally called the Fraser Report, exhaustively documents and details Sun Myung Moon’s role in working to shape American foreign policy. It further names a whole host of characters including American politicians, military leaders, Korean diplomats, former Japanese prime ministers, not to mention President Dwight D. Eisenhower who, wittingly or unwittingly, wound up acting as agents or surrogates for Sun Myung Moon and his “Unification Church”.
In addition to reading like a first rate who dunnit Boettcher’s book gives the reader a behind the scenes look at official Washington, which to this day has done nothing about the principal findings of the Fraser Committee: namely that the Unification Church has engaged in systematic violations of U.S law. Banking and currency laws, securities and exchange commission laws, Immigration and naturalization laws and charities fraud laws.
Boettcher’s book is the first book which reveals the global geo-political ambitions of the Moon organization. It is a must for students of foreign relations, students of destructive cults, and for students of the U.S. Constitution – particularly those who take an interest in the first and the thirteenth amendments.
Allen Tate Wood 2001
United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church
Robert Boettcher’s mysterious death – New York Times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifts_of_Deceit
Audio (now in video-form above) and the notes below are from Dave Emory's blog: https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-491-4th-interview-with-robert-parry/
After presenting more discussion about the death of investigative journalist Gary Webb, this interview further documents the bizarre, treasonous and sometimes illegal practices of the Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. A major power broker within the Republican Right, the Moon organization is the very antithesis of the “Family Values” to which the GOP gives lip service. In addition to Moon’s “purification rituals”, in which he has sexual intercourse with various congregants in order to “purify their wombs of the influence of Satan,” the organization has sanctioned horrible abuse of Moon in-laws by some of the True Children, as his offspring are called. Much of the broadcast centers on Moon’s enormous financial apparatus. One of the enduring mysteries about the Moon organization concerns the source of its vast reservoirs of money. Not only does the group have seemingly unlimited sources of funding, but much of the organization’s dealings are conducted in huge cash transactions.. The program highlights the money-laundering mechanisms of the Unification Church, including the use of The Washington Times to launder large sums of money.
Program Highlights Include: The late ‘70’s investigation of the Moon organization that became known as Koreagate; the destruction of the political career of Donald Fraser—the Congressman who led the Koreagate investigation; the lawsuit brought by Moon’s daughter-in-law against his son; the manner in which that lawsuit was quashed; Moon’s fundamentally anti-American views (Moon views the subjugation of the American government and its people as his fundamental goal); Moon’s statement that the United States is so Satanic that “even hamburgers should be considered Satanic, because they come from America.”
1. The program begins with more discussion of the death of the late Gary Webb. After reviewing some of the information presented in FTR#490 about this subject, we mentioned the fact that Webb died of two gunshot wounds to the head, which led some to conclude that Webb was actually murdered. Although there has been a great deal of Internet chatter to this effect, Webb’s family and close friends do not doubt the suicide verdict. “For the record”, so to speak, Mr. Emory is indeterminate on this aspect of Webb’s death—he just doesn’t know whether it was a suicide or not. The item that follows is another of the stories on Robert Parry’s website that covers Gary Webb’s life and work. Listeners can hear Mr. Emory’s reading of Gary Webb’s original “Dark Alliance” series from The San Jose Mercury News in FTR#01.
2. The following story is available at ConsortiumNews.com.
Hung Out to Dry
How Webb’s Series Died
By Georg Hodel
[Editor’s Note: We published the following story in 1997 when senior editors at the San Jose Mercury News were pulling the plug on Gary Webb’s investigation into the Reagan-Bush administration’s contra-cocaine scandal. Our article was written by Georg Hodel, a journalist working with Webb at the Mercury News. We are republishing Hodel’s story now to help readers better understand how Webb’s journalistic career was shattered, beginning his decline toward suicide last week. –Robert Parry, Editor, December 16, 2004]
The “Dark Alliance” contra-crack series, which I co-reported with Gary Webb, has died with less a bang or a whimper than a gloat from the mainstream press.
“The San Jose Mercury News has apparently had enough of reporter Gary Webb and his efforts to prove that the CIA was involved in the sale of crack cocaine,” announced Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, who has »Continue original article»
3. The remainder of the program deals with the profound influence of the Unification Church in the Republican power structure. After reviewing some of the subjects touched upon in FTR#490, Robert highlighted the role of Japanese war criminals Ryoichi Sasakawa and Yoshio Kodama in the Moon organization. (For more about this subject, see—among other programs—RFA#’s 7, 11—available from Spitfire—as well as FTR#’s 84, 291, 446, 451.) Next, the broadcast sets forth the bizarre sexual rituals that Moon—endeared to the Christian fundamentalist right and the “Family Values” crowd—has long incorporated in his organization. “Church officials repeatedly have denied the reports of Moon’s sexual rituals. But the charges received new attention in 1993 with the Japanese publication of The Tragedy of the Six Marys—a book by the early Moon supposedly carried to South Korea. According to Pak’s book, Moon taught that Jesus was intended to save mankind by having sex with six already-married women who would then have sex with other men who would pass on the purification to other women until, eventually, all mankind would have pure blood.”
(Secrecy and Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq; by Robert Parry; p. 78.)
4. “Pak contended that Moon took on this personal duty as the second Messiah and began having sex with the ‘six Marys’ into a kind of rotating sex club. Pak wrote that Moon’s first wife divorced him after catching him in a sex ritual. In all, Pak estimated that there were at least 60 ‘Marys,’ many of whom ended up destitute after Moon discarded them.” (Idem.)
5. “According to the testimony of one ‘Mary,’ named Yu Shin Hee, she met Moon in the early 1950’s and became a follower along with her husband. Devoted to the church, her husband abandoned her and her five children, whom she then put into an orphanage. She, in turn, agreed to become one of just one ‘blood exchange,’ a phrase referring to sexual intercourse. Still, she was required to have sex with other men. Seven years later, a broken woman with no money, she tried to return to her children, but they also rejected her.” (Idem.)
6. “When Moon impregnated another one of the women, Moon sent her to Japan, where she gave birth to a baby boy, according to Pak’s account. Moon later admitted fathering the child, who died in a train crash at the age of 13. But Pak wrote than Moon refused to admit responsibility for other illegitimate children born to the women. ‘By forwarding this teaching, he violated mothers, their daughters, their sisters,’ Pak wrote. (After The Tragedy of the Six Marys was published, the Unification Church denounced the allegations as spurious. Under intense pressure, the aging Pak Chung Hwa agreed to recant. However, his book’s accounts tracked closely with U.S. intelligence reports of the same period and interviews with former church leaders.) (Idem.)
7. “Moon’s history of sexual liaisons out of wedlock also was corroborated by Nansook Hong, one of Moon’s daughters-in-law who broke with the so-called True Family in 1995 over abuse she suffered at the hands of Moon’s eldest son, Hyo Jin Moon, during their 14-year marriage. Nansook Hong reported in her 1998 book, In the Shadow of the Moons, that family members, including Moon himself, acknowledged that he had ‘providential’ sex with women in his role as the Messiah. Nansook Hong said she learned about Moon’s sexual affairs when her husband, Hyo Jin, began justifying his affairs As mandated by God, as his father claimed his affairs were.” (Ibid.; pp. 78–79.)
8. “ ‘I went directly to Mrs. Moon with Hyo Jin’s claims,’ Nansook Hong wrote. ‘She was both furious and tearful. She had hoped that such pain would end with her, that it would not be passed on to the next generation, she told me. No one knows the pain of a straying husband like True Mother, she assured me. I was stunned. We had all heard rumors for years about Sun Myung Moon’s affairs and the children he sired out of wedlock, but here was True Mother, confirming the truth of these stories. I told her that Hyo Jin said his sleeping around was ‘providential’ and inspired by God, just as Father’s affairs were. ‘No, Father is the Messiah, not Hyo Jin. What Father did was in God’s plan.’ Later, in a discussion about the extramarital sex, Moon himself told Nansook Hong that ‘what happened in his past was ‘providential’ she wrote.” (Ibid.; p. 79.)
9. “As for the sexual purification rituals, Nansook Hong said the rumors had followed the church for decades, despite the official denials. ‘In the early days of the Unification Church, members met in a small house with two rooms,’ Nansook Hong wrote. ‘It was known as the House of the Three Doors. It was rumored that at the first door one was made to take off one’s jacket, at the second door one’s outer clothing, and at the third one’s undergarments in preparation for sex.’ As for Chung Hwa Pak’s Tragedy of the Six Marys, Nansook Hong said Moon succeeded in persuading his old associate to rejoin the church and then got him to disavow the memoirs, ‘I’ve always wondered what the price was of that retraction,’ Nansook Hong wrote.” (Idem.)
10. Moon’s former daughter-in-law, Nansook Hong, was horribly abused by Moon’s son. Her story reveals not only the utter depravity of life within the inner sanctum of the Moon organization, but also sheds light on the vast sums of money that pervade the Moon organization. The source of those vast sums of money is one of the great mysteries surrounding the outfit. “ ‘From very early in our marriage, Hyo Jin has abused drugs and alcohol and is an addict as a result,’ Nansook wrote in the affidavit. ‘He has a ritual of secreting himself in the master bedroom, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, drinking alcohol, using cocaine and watching pornographic films. . . . When he emerges he is more angry and more volatile.’ Nansook described a pattern of abuse which included Hyo Jin beating her in 1994 when she disrupted one of his cocaine parties. ‘He punched me in the nose and blood came rushing out,’ Nansook wrote. ‘He then smeared my blood on his hand, licked his hand and said, ‘It tastes good. This is fun.’’ At the time, she was seven months pregnant.” (Ibid.; p. 278.)
11. “On another occasion, Nansook said he forced her to stand naked in front of him for hours because ‘I needed to be humiliated.’ Meanwhile, Nansook complained that her in-laws did little to confront Hyo Jin. ‘Although Hyo Jin’s family knew of his addictions and his abuse of me and the children, I received very little emotional or physical support from them,’ Nansook wrote. ‘I was constantly at the mercy of Hyo Jin’s erratic and cruel behavior.’” (Idem.)
12. “To finance his personal and business activities, Hyo Jin received hundreds of thousands of dollars in unaccounted cash, Nansook said. ‘On one occasion, I saw Hyo Jin bring home a box about 24 inches wide, 12 inches tall and six inches deep,’ she wrote in her affidavit. ‘ He stated that he had received it from his father. He opened it. . . . It was filled with $100 bills stacked in bunches of $10,000 each for a total of $1 million in cash! He took this money and gave $600,000 to the Manhattan Center, a church recording studio that he ostensibly runs. He kept the remaining $400,000 for himself. . . . Within six months he had spent it all on himself, buying cocaine and alcohol, entertaining his friends every night and giving expensive gifts to other women.’” (Idem.)
13. “Another time, a Filipino church member gave Hyo Jin $270,000 in cash, according to Nansook. She added that Hyo Jin also ordered the Manhattan Center to cover his credit-card bills, which often exceeded $5,000 a month and that he instructed employees to buy drugs for him with the company’s money.” (Idem.)
14. “After fleeing with the children, Nansook said she feared that Hyo Jin would ‘hunt me down and kill me.’ To protect her, Associate Justice Edward M. Ginsburg barred Hyo Jin from approaching Nansook and the children. Taking into account Hyo Jin’s jet-set lifestyle, Ginsburg also ordered Hyo Jin to pay $8,500 a month in support payments and $65,000 for Nansook’s legal fees. Ginsburg ruled that Hyo Jin ‘had access to cash in any amount requested on demand’ from ‘commingled’ church and personal money. Ginsburg noted, too, that Hyo Jin received $84,000 a year from a family trust and earned a regular salary from the Manhattan Center.” (Ibid.; pp. 278–279.)
15. “On July 17, 1996, when Hyo Jin failed to pay Nansook’s legal fees, he was held in contempt of court and jailed in Massachusetts. To free Hyo Jin, the Unification Church’s vaunted legal team sprang into action. The lawyers developed a strategy that portrayed Hyo Jin as a man of no means. They filed a bankruptcy petition on his behalf in federal court in Westchester County, New York. As part of those filings, Hyo Jin’s lawyers submitted evidence that on August 5, 1996, three weeks after his jailing, Hyo Jin was severed from the Swiss-based True Family Trust. The lawyers also submitted a document showing that as of August 9, Hyo Jin had lost his $60,000-a-year job at Manhattan Center Studios ‘due to certain medical problems.’” (Ibid.; p. 279.)
16. “Nansook’s lawyers denounced the bankruptcy maneuver as a devious scheme to spare Hyo Jin from his financial obligations. To corroborate Nansook’s statements about Hyo Jin’s access to nearly unlimited money, her lawyers secured testimony from a former Manhattan Center official and Unification Church member, Madelene Pretorious. At a court hearing, Moon returned from a trip to Korea ‘with $600,000 in cash which he had received from his father. . . Myself along with three or four other members that worked at Manhattan Center saw the cash in bags, shopping bags.’” (Idem.)
17. “On another occasion, Hyo Jin’s parents gave him $20,000 to buy a boat, Pretorious recalled. There was a time, too, when Hyo Jin dipped into Manhattan Center funds to give $30,000 in cash to one of his sisters. The center also gave Hyo Jin cash several times a week to cover personal expenses, ranging from bar tabs to a Jaguar automobile, Pretorious said.” (Idem.)
18. “But Hyo Jin Moon won the legal round anyway. A judge ruled that the federal bankruptcy claim, no matter how dubious, overrode the Massachusetts contempt finding. Hyo Jin was released from jail. After that, the Moon family stepped up negotiations with Nansook to prevent more embarrassing disclosures.” (Idem.)
19. “As those legal battles were playing out, I met with Pretorious at a suburban Boston restaurant. A law school graduate from South Africa, the 34-year-old full-faced brunette said she was recruited by the Unification Church through the student front group CARP in San Francisco in 1986–1987.” (Idem.)
20. Madelene Pretorious discussed some of the mechanisms by which the Moon organization was able to launder vast sums of money. Note that The Washington Times was one of the principal vehicles in this complex scheme. “In 1992, Pretorious went to work at the Manhattan Center and grew concerned about the way cash, brought to the United States by Asian members, would circulate through the Moon business empire as a way to launder it. The money would then go to support the Moon family’s lavish life style or be diverted to other church projects. At the center of the financial operation, Pretorious said, was One-Up Corporation, a Delaware-registered holding company that owned Manhattan Center and other Moon enterprises including New World Communications, the parent company of The Washington Times.” (Ibid.; pp. 279–280.)
21. “ ‘Once that cash is at the Manhattan Center, it has to be accounted for,’ Pretorious said. ‘The way that’s done is to launder the cash. Manhattan Center gives cash to a business called Happy World which owns restaurants. . . . .Happy World needs to pay illegal aliens . . . .Happy World pays some back to the Manhattan Center for ‘services rendered.’ The rest goes to One-Up and then comes back to Manhattan Center for ‘services rendered.’ . . .” (Ibid.; 280.)
22. Moon’s financial apparatus involved the illegal importation of vast sums of cash. “ . . . In Nansook Moon’s 1998 memoirs, In the Shadow of the Moons, Moon’s ex-daughter-in-law—writing under her maiden name Nansook Hong—alleged that Moon’s organization had engaged in a long-running conspiracy to smuggle cash into the Unites States and to deceive U.S. Customs agents.” (Ibid.; p. 281.)
23. “ ‘The Unification Church was a cash operation,’ Nansook Hong wrote. ‘I watched Japanese church leaders arrive at regular intervals at East Garden [the Moon compound north of New York City] with paper bags full of money, which the Reverend Moon would either pocket or distribute to the heads of various church-owned business enterprises at his breakfast table.” (Idem.)
24. “ ‘The Japanese had no trouble bringing the cash into the United States; they would tell Customs agents that they were in America to gamble at Atlantic City. In addition, many businesses run by the church were cash operations, including several Japanese restaurants in New York City. I saw deliveries of cash from church headquarters that went directly into the wall safe in Mrs. Moon’s closet.’” (Ibid.; pp. 281–282.)
25. “Mrs. Moon pressed her daughter-in-law into one cash-smuggling incident after a trip to Japan in 1992, Nansook Hong wrote. Mrs. Moon had received ‘stacks of money’ and divvied it up among her entourage for the return trip through Seattle, Nansook Hong wrote. ‘I was given $20,000 in two packs of crisp new bills,’ she recalled. ‘I had them beneath the tray in my makeup case. . . . I knew that smuggling was illegal, but I believed the followers of Sun Myung Moon answered to higher laws.’” (Ibid.; p. 282.)
26. “U. S. currency laws require that cash amounts above $10,000 be declared at Customs when the money enters or leaves the country. It is also illegal to conspire with couriers to bring in lesser amounts when the total exceeds the $10,000 figure, a process called ‘smurfing.’ In the Shadow of the Moons raised anew the question of whether Moon’s money laundering—from mysterious sources in both Asia and South America—has made him a conduit for illicit foreign money influencing the U.S. government and American politics. . . .” (Idem.)
27. Eventually, the Moon organization’s “funny money” precipitated an investigation by the staff of Congressman Donald Fraser—the probe that became known as “Koreagate”. Note that the special prosecutor chosen to lead this investigation was Leon Jaworski, who was on the board of directors of the MD Anderson Fund (a CIA domestic funding conduit). Jaworski had also been a Warren Commission counsel (present at the interrogation of Jack Ruby, discussed in FTR#108), in addition to his role as Watergate Special Prosecutor. (For more about Jaworski, see—among other programs—G3, available from Spitfire, and Miscellaneous Archive Show M31, also available from Spitfire.) “But the South Korean scheme backfired in the late 1970’s, with the explosion of the ‘Koreagate’ scandal. Representative Donald Fraser, a Democrat from Minnesota, led a congressional probe which tracked Tongsun Park’s influence-buying campaign and exposed the KCIA links to the Unification Church. The ‘Koreagate’ investigation revealed a sophisticated intelligence project run out of Seoul, using the urbane Park and the mystical Moon to cultivate U.S. politicians as influential friends of South Korea—and to undermine politicians who were viewed as enemies.” (Ibid.; p. 84.)
28. “The ‘Koreagate’ investigation traced the church’s chief sources of money to bank accounts in Japan, but could follow the cash no further. In the years since, the sources of Moon’s money have remained cloaked in secrecy.” (Idem.)
29. “When I inquired about the vast fortune that the Unification Church has poured into its American operations, the church’s chief spokesman refused to divulge dollar amounts for any of Moon’s activities. ‘Each year the church retains an independent accounting firm to do a national audit and produce an annual financial statement,’ wrote the church’s legal representative Peter D. Ross. ‘While this statement is used in routine financial transactions by the church, [it] is not my policy to make it otherwise available.’ Ross also refused to pass on interview requests to Moon and other church leaders.” (Idem.)
30. Nonetheless, the investigation of Moon was, ultimately, unsuccessful and Congressman Fraser’s political career was destroyed. As discussed in RFA#7—available from Spitfire—Fraser’s aide Robert Boettcher (author of Gifts of Deceit about the Moon organization) subsequently jumped, fell or was pushed off a roof in New York City. “In 1978, Fraser got a taste of the negative side of Moon’s propaganda clout as the South Korean religious leader’s new U.S. conservative allies mounted a strong defense against the ‘Koreagate’ allegations. In pro-Moon publications, Fraser and his staff were pilloried as leftists. Anti-Moon witnesses were assailed as unstable liars. Minor bookkeeping problems inside the investigation, such as Fraser’s salary advances to some staff members, were seized upon to justify demands for an ethics probe of the congressman. . . . Moon weathered the Koreagate political storm. Facing questions about his patriotism, Fraser lost a Senate bid in 1978 and left Congress.” (Ibid.; pp. 84–85.)
31. Among the more remarkable aspects of Moon’s ascension in the Republican hierarchy is the fact that he is stridently anti-American. “ . . . Yet, Moon also made clear that his longer-range goal was destroying the U.S. Constitution and America’s democratic form of government. ‘History will make the position of Reverend Moon clear, and his enemies, the American population and Government will bow down to him,’ Moon said, speaking of himself in the third person. ‘That is Father’s tactic, the natural subjugation of the American government and population.’” (Ibid.; p. 239.)
32. More about Moon’s anti-Americanism: “ ‘Reverend Moon looked at me straight in the eye and said, ‘America is Satanic. America is so satanic that even hamburgers should be considered evil, because they come from America’, Stacey said.” (Ibid.; p.
270.)
Three of the six directors of Diplomat National Bank here are attempting to continue the bank's association with its former chairman, Charles C. Kim, who has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with aiding a secret takeover of the bank by South Korean interests.
Last week, the three directors mailed documents asking stockholders of the bank to elect two new directors who they said would also be favorable to allowing Kim, who now is a consultant to the bank, to perform unspecified functions for the bank.
Kim was barred by a court order in September from performing managerial functions for the bank after the SEC charged that he had fraudulently helped South Korean agent Tongsun Park and an aide to South Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon secretly obtain more than half of Diplomat National Bank's stock.
The three directors said in their mailing to the bank's stockholders that Kim should be permitted to continue with the bank because he is "important for the economic well-being and continued growth of the bank."
At the same time that the three directors were appealing to the stockholders on Kim's behalf, the bank received a $2 million deposit - equal to about one-fourth of the bank's present total deposits - from Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. According to one informed source, the three directors supporting Kim have cited this large deposit from the Unification Church as evidence of Kim's effectiveness on behalf of the bank.
Although the court order obtained by the SEC bars Kim from resuming his position as an officer of the bank without approval of the comptroller of the currency or from engaging in other managerial functions, Robert N. Serino, director of enforcement for the comptroller, said it is "possible" Kim could legally solicit deposits or new loan business for the bank.
In addition, Philip N. Smith, the bank's lawyer in proceedings before the SEC, said the order would allow Kim to act as a "marketing consultant."
"We have to determine," Serino said, "if the intent of the order was to keep his (Kim's) influence out of the bank even on a behind-the-scenes basis, and, if so, if these people (the proposed new directors) should be kept out of the bank."
Diplomat was organized in 1975 to cater particularly to Asians living in Washington. In its brief existence, the bank, which has offices at 2033 K. St., NW, has repeatedly figured in newspaper stories and congressional investigations of South Korean influence-buying schemes here. The bank's deposits at the end of last year stood at $7.2 million.
In its complaint, the SEC said Kim and others defrauded those who purchased stock in the bank when it was organized by concealing or misrepresenting its true ownership and failing to disclose the fact that 45 per cent of the bank's demand, or checking account, deposits came from Moon's Unification Church International.
The account, according to the SEC, was maintained by Bo Hi Pak, president of the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation and secret purchaser of 43 per cent of the bank's stock.
Pak is interpreter and a top aide to Moon, who is said by the House Subcommittee on International Organizations to have maintained "Operational ties" with the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
Kim's role at the bank has been the object of a simmering dispute within the board of directors since Kim resigned as chairman under pressure last April. The bank has continued to pay Kim $33,000 a year as a consultant, although the September court order prevents the bank from renewing his consultant contract when it expires in April.
When the bank's current chairman, William Chin-Lee, told Kim to move his offices out of the bank, the three directors who favor Kim - Dr. Magin T. Quiambao, Harry J. Zink, and Dr. Soo Young Oh - wrote to Lee:
". . . it is our belief that Dr. Kim's presence at the bank has a reassuring effect on depositors and therefore is beneficial to the bank. We believe that not permitting Dr. Kim to remain on the premises would run the risk of creating an unsettling effect among the depositors, which might precipitate a run on deposits . . ."
In addressing stockholders, the three directors said in proxy solicitations that they and the proposed new directors intend to allow Kim to "perform such functions for and on behalf of the bank which are not in contravention of the order entered with respect to the bank."
One of the proposed directors, Phillip D. Grub, professor of international business at George Washington University, said he had been asked to serve on the board by Kim, whom, he knew as a student.
"I've seen nothing in his actions to have any qualms about him as chairman of the bank, a position which he had nine months ago," Grub said. However, Grub said he would evaluate facts the board might have before reaching any conclusions on whether to vote to reinstate Kim as chairman.
Grub said he was not aware of the court order preventing such an action without approval of the comptroller. He said Kim told him he was not aware of the secret ownership of the bank.
Describing Kim as a good administrator, Grub said, "Dr. Kim was one of the organizers of the bank. I think it's his baby."
The second candidate, Diosdado Yap, president of Capital Publishers Inc., which publishes congressional directories, said he was never asked if he supported Kim and was surprised when he read in the proxy material that he was a supporter.
"I have no thoughts about Dr. Kim," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, I'll see what is what. If I smell a rat, I have no interest in the matter," Yap said.
One signature on the proxy solicitation appears to be that of Cheyung Choi, named in congressional testimony last October as a supplier of goods to the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
The former KCIA official who gave the testimony also said he gave Choi $400,000 from Tongsun Park, who is under indictment for his alleged role in the Korean influence-buying scheme.
The proxy material says stockholders should send their votes to Kim, any of the three directors who initiated the proposal or Napoleon Lechoco.
Lechoco is a Filipino lawyer who held that country's ambassador to the United States at gunpoint for 10 hours in the ambassador's office here in 1974. Last May, a jury found Lechoco innocent of kidnaping and other crimes in connection with the incident on grounds of temporary insanity.
Related links below
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report: Korean Intelligence and Lobbying Scandal (1977)
On the KCIA Connection
On Leon Jaworski
Rev. Moon Aide Concedes KCIA Sent Him $3,000 (1978)
House Unit to Query Aides to U.S. in Korea (1977)
Former KCIA Head Says Park Tong Sun was Korean Agent (1977)
President Park Said to Direct Lobbying (1978)
Neil Salonen - KCIA Agents Becoming UC Members is Not Aboveboard!
What the KCIA and the Moonies did to the Editor of the Korea Journal, Song Sun Keun
KCIA Chief Put $250,000 Into Two Bank Accounts (1978)
By Charles R. Babcock - The Washington Post - June 4, 1978
The top South Korean Central Intelligence Agency official in Washington opened personal bank accounts last fall with deposits - mostly cash - totaling more than $250,000.
The official, Chung Tae Dong, who is listed as special assistant to the Korean ambassador here, refused to comment on the purpose of the funds under his control.
An embassy spokesman also declined comment except to say that any large amounts in Chung's accounts are official, rather than personal, funds. None of the money has been spent on lobbying members of Congress, the spokesman added.
A House investigating committee has been seeking testimony from another Korean diplomat, former ambassador Kim Dong Jo, who is suspected of making cash payments to as many as 10 current House members.
Kim also kept large cash balances in personal accounts during his tenture in Washington from 1967 to 1973, investigators have found. At times he withdrew amounts as large as $5,000 in cash, which House investigators feel may have been used for payments to members of Congress.
There is no evidence that the money in Chung's accounts has been used for illegal purpose, but the mystery about the funds has now attracted the attention of House investigators.
Copies of bank records made available to The Washington Post by non-government sources show for instance, that the savings account the KCIA station chief opened last November with a $148,000 cash deposit was still largely untouched as recently as late March.
A checking account that Chung opened last Sept. 26 at the same Union First National Bank branch with a deposit of $107,656.09 has shown more activity, according to the records. It had a balance in late March of about $38,000.
The checking account was opened shortly after a KCIA official in New York sought asylum in the United States. This raises the possibility that the Koreans were transferring to Chung money that had been controlled by the defector, Sohn Ho Young.
There is no ready explanation for the source of the later $148,000 cash savings account deposit, though investigators have found it is not uncommon for the South Korean government to send large amounts of currency to its embassy through the diplomatic pouch.
A House International Relations subcommittee investigating U.S.-Korean relations has been seeking an explanation for the cash balances held by Chung, whom its investigators have identified as the top KCIA official at the embassy.
Chung, who attended Oberlin College in Ohio and received a PhD. from Georgetown University, came to Washington 14 months ago to succeed Kim Yung Hwan as station chief.
Kim Young Hwan was recalled to Seoul after newspaper revelations about South Korean eforts to lobby members of Congress with large cash gifts. His top assistant here, Kim Sang Keun, defected in late 1976 and has been a key U.S. government witness in the influence-buying investigation.
Since Chung has been in Washington, KCIA officers attached to the embassy have kept a low profile, according to federal investigators and members of the local Korean community.
A top priority for KCIA agents in this country has been keeping track of Korean-Americans critical of the regime of President Park Chung Hee.
There have been few complaints of KCIA harassment by these dissidents in the last several months, however.
Related links
Who was Robert Amory Jr., the Moon Network Lawyer that was also the Deputy Director of the CIA?
On Moon’s Political Network and their Deep Connections to Global Terrorism
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report: Korean Intelligence and Lobbying Scandal (1977)
Neil Salonen - KCIA Agents Becoming UC Members is Not Aboveboard!
Neil Salonen should stand trial for committing perjury based on new evidence!
Sun Myung Moon Was Building the Kingdom with M-16 Machine Guns
On David Kim in the Inter-War Periods
A note on Young Whi Kim
What did Chung Hwa Pak know about Moon’s “abnormal method of expansion”?
How Young Oon Kim Allegedly Recruited Bo Hi Pak
Young Oon Kim and Bo Hi Pak were both employed by the Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG)
The Moon Organization and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action
Thoughts on South Korea (R.O.K.) - United States (U.S.) Relations
The Unification Church and KCIA: Some Notes on Bud Han, Steve Kim, and Bo Hi Pak
On Young Oon Kim’s Relationship to Butterwick
Rev. Moon Aide Concedes KCIA Sent Him $3,000 (1978)
Bo Hi Pak - Did you join the Unification Church in February 1957 or February 1958?
1964-1965: Young Oon Kim’s Missing Year
More Questions about Young Oon Kim, and What is Clear
Young-oon Kim joined, but it ended in tears and flames
Programmed to Chill - Bonus Episode 07 - the Korean War, Biological Warfare, COMINT, and MKULTRA, feat. Jeff Kaye
On the Unification Church in Japan and its political (KCIA) origins
Excerpted from the FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW, pp. 19–22 - an article by John Roberts
In Japan...The Unification Church is known variously as SEKAI TOITSU KYOKAI, TOITSU GENRI, OR GENRI UNDO, with numerous variations. The main adjuncts or manifestations of the Church are the KOKUSAI SHOKYO RENGO (International Federation for Victory over Communism of IFFVOC), which is essentially the Japanese chapter or counterpart of the World Anticommunist League/Asian People’s Anticommunist League (WACL/APACL): and the Genri Group under which various student activities are conducted.
In a top position is Professor Juitsu Kitaoka, a leader of the United Nations Association and member of several pro-American rightist organizations. He is described as a violent anti-communist advocating rearmament...Kitaoka is a long-time associate of Dr. Tetsuzo Watanabe, a former film tycoon whose ideas are no less violent.
Organiser of the APACL in Japan, Watanabe became international president of the WACL/APACL, the IFFVOC’s alter ego. Watanabe was closely connected with US Army intelligence and maintained relations with prominent McCarthyites in the U.S.
GENRI leaders, by their own admission, have been collaborating with the KCIA, and their movement worked in alliance with other organizations, notably the centrist SOKA GAKKAI and ultranationalist groups such as underworld boss Yoshio Kodama’s Youth Thought Study Society, and of course the IFFVOC, established jointly by Moon and gambling czar Ryoichi Sasakawa in 1967...Later, however, under president Sasakawa, a more presentable line-up of complaisant politicians, businessmen and scholars was mustered.
The IFFVOC was based originally on Sasakawa’s Federation of Motorboat Racing Associations...It appears that the IFFVOC serves Sasakawa as a private police force for his motor-boat courses...Sasakawa’s remarks indicate that he considers it as patriotic militia in reserve for political crises, similar to Hitler’s brownshirts and the uniformed militarist party that Sasakawa, a self-proclaimed fascist, organised during the 1930s.
...the Moon Machine established the World Peace Academy (WPA) in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. The Japan Chapter, set up in 1974, is reported to include among its consultants James Stewart of the Asia Foundation (an old CIA front) and Masahide Kanayama, a paid lobbyist of the South Korean Government and allegedly of the KCIA. One of the WPA’s activities is the International Congress for World Peace, to be held in Japan this summer under the co-sponsorship of the International Cultural Foundation, another Moon front. The WPA seems to have enlisted the active support or participation of the potent Japan Federation of Employers Associations, the Japan Productivity Centre, the Nomura Research Institute and the Mitsubishi Research Institute in its National Goals project for the study of Japan’s strategy in the 1980s.
The Moon Machine in Japan operates a...trading firm known as TOITSU SANGYO (Unification Industries) which raised eyebrows several years ago by importing several hundred shotguns and powerful air rifles manufactured by the Reverend Moon’s munitions factories in South Korea which assemble M‑16 rifles on a knockdown basis under US license and manufacture parts for the same weapons. Significantly, the shotguns and air rifles mentioned above were imported for the militant IFFVOC...
The picture is admittedly no more than an out-of-focus snapshot of the tip of the iceberg. Some of the Japan connections have been revealed or hinted at in the Koreagate investigations, but so far there has been no general expose...However, it has been reported that 200 Japanese right-wing politicians receive financial support from the Unification Church and its affiliates, or directly from the KCIA. This may be an understatement since at least 2,000 prominent Japanese politicians, businessmen and scholars as well as underworld bosses lend their support to Moon’s movement.
It may be recalled that Kishi, once a key figure in General Tojo’s World War II cabinet, became one of the most passionate spokesmen for Dr. Frank Buchman’s MORAL REARMAMENT (MRA) in the 1950s and 1960s. The striking similarities between the moral precepts and secular programmes of MRA and Moon’s church is of interest here because the latter was born as an international movement at the very time when MRA was swiftly declining in Japan. Following the upheaval over the Security Treaty in 1960, which forced his resignation as prime minister, Kishi declared with characteristic hyperbole: “But for MORAL REARMAMENT, Japan would be under communist control today.” Curiously, little heard about MRA after the early 1960s. Instead, there was much bombast about the Asian People’s Anticommunist League, in which Kishi played the same role as elder statesman and spokesman. There are reports that in 1959 or thereabouts Moon played go-between for an alliance between the MRA leadership and the APACL. When the World Anticommunist League and IFFVOC were formed in late 1966 and 1967 respectively, Kishi again came to the fore...
Revelations of the Fraser and Jaworski committees somehow stopped to exposing well-documented Korean depredations in Japan. Perhaps for diplomatic reasons, the US Government preferred to confine its investigation to events that occurred in the US, ignoring the fact that the Korean scandal is trilateral, with operations that involve and affect all three countries.
Also conspicuously absent from the investigation is evidence linking the CIA with the KCIA, its creation, and its grandchild, the Unification Church.
In court of law, the existence of such a link could not be proved but clues are everywhere. One of them is a series of documents (Supplement to Part 4) submitted in the March 1968 hearings of the Zablocki Committee. The concern a William A. Curtin Jr. and the Korean Freedom and Cultural Foundation. Curtin, an Army intelligence colonel, had been attached to the office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1959–60, he served a tour as adviser to the South Korean Army. In September 1960, he made a brief official trip to Japan and South Korea “where he met various ranking Korean government officials.”
His activities until his retirement in 1962 are not specified, but thereafter he devoted his time conning prominent Americans into lending their names or financial suport to the non-existent Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation (KCFF). This was nominally to promote friendly relations between the two countries in commemoration of the Korean War, but in practice it was used to raise funds for propaganda, suborning of American politicians and funding KCIA operations in Japan and Korea as well as the U.S., according to Department of Justice reports.
The foundation was formally registered in 1964 by Curtain (vice-president) and two American dummy directors. Astonishingly, the two honorary predsidents were REAL presidents — Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower — and the KCCF president was Admiral Arleigh Burke of World War II fame.
The honorary chairman of KCFF was Kim Jong Pil, founder of the KCIA who used the Unification Church as his tool. Serving as vice-presidents were Dr. Yang Yu Chan, ROK ambassador to Washington, and (later) Pak Bo Hi, the Reverend Moon’s right-hand man. The board of directors and advisory board — more than 100 persons in all — is a veritable roster of the American political and financial elite. How Curtin, reported by the FBI to be a dipsomaniac and a sick man (he died in 1965), could have assembled such a brilliant array of supporters is puzzling indeed. Probably, the dignataries did not inquire too deeply into the affairs of the organization whose overt activities included the promotion of the Little Angels of Korea choral group and financial support for the APACL Freedom Centre (APACLFC) in Seoul, Korea, which was also a client of Asia Foundation...
Another project of KCFF was Radio of Free Asia (ROFA), established in 1966 with General Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral Burke, and Ambassador Chang as honorary heads and Pak Bo Hi as executive director. On the advisory council were six senators, 12 congressmen and eight state governors as well as Richard Nixon and Ed Sullivan. ROFA raised political funds for dubious destinations and beamed pro-American propaganda to Asia during the Vietnam War. The US Department of Justice heard many complaints about ROFA...and in 1971 showed signs of investigating it on suspicion of violating the Foreign Registration Act and abusing its privileges as a tax-free foundation.
Through divine providence or other means, Pak Bo Hi secured the legal services of Robert Amory Jr., former deputy director of the CIA and a law partner of Thomas G. Corcoran, an adviser to the CIA and a prominent lobbyist for the ROK and Taiwan. The Justice Department dropped the investigation like a radioactive potato, and the KCFF and ROFA continued their work for the KCIA unmolested until the Koreagate investigation brought them out into the shrivelling glare of public opinion.
These revelations do not tell us who or what is behind the Moon Machine’s brash operations in Japan. However, the Fraser Committee in Washington has been under increasing pressure from some quarters to investigate not only the US angle but also corrupt US-Tokyo-Seoul connections.
Related links below
Yasue Erikawa: An Often Unrecognized Asset
The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA) by Koichiro Osaka
On the Unification Church Inheriting the Moral Re-Armament Movement’s Role (and Resources on the MRA)
A Japanese Import Breaking through in Korea - Yasue Erikawa in a FFWPU (UC) publication in November 2009 about working in South Korea. Erikawa on Kook Jin, “"Kook-jin nim is very spiritual, and at the same time, very intelligent. Whom could I introduce to him? It was so difficult to think of a person who could interact with and work with Kook-jin nim…“
“Japanese Bridgehead” - on how the UC gained power in and through Japan
The IFVOC in Japan, and the UC’s Presence in Okinawa
CIA’s Front Organizations: Unification Church And WACL
The CIA in Japan After WWII
On the Unification Church in Japan - excerpted from Moonwebs
IFVOC’s Founding (According to the UC)
On the 1962 Reorganization of the Unification Church as a Political Tool of Japan, South Korea, and USA
The CAUSA Kingdom
The Unification Church and KCIA: Some Notes on Bud Han, Steve Kim, and Bo Hi Pak
Saving The World With Mass Marriages | TO THE MOON Part 1
This is the story of the Sun Myung Moon and the rise of the Unification Church. I first noticed them at the mass wedding in South Korea in early 2020. While doing research the story just became bigger and bigger and I knew I had to cover them. This is Part 1 of that story.
Chapters:
00:00 Prologue
06:10 The Early Life of Sun Myung Moon
09:08 Basic Practices and Theology of The Unification Church
13:37 Unification Church and KCIA
14:56 The 1970's, Nixon and Watergate
18:39 Koreagate
22:03 "Weak" Democrats
24:04 Bo Hi Pak Vs Donald Fraser
26:24 Koreagate Report
28:11 The Moon Organization
30:15 The Washington Times
33:02 Background Of The Washington Times
35:14 Inchon: The Worst Movie Of All Time
37:11 Reagan Loves Times
38:40 Pruden and Coombs Leadership
44:08 The Death of Heung Jin Moon
46:31 Black Heung Jim Nim
48:42 Moon's Pardon Denied and The Cold War
51:53 Moon and Nicaragua and The Contras
58:41 Moon and Bolivia and Klaus Barbie
01:06:54 End of The Cold War
01:08:09 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) And American Freedom Coalition (AFC)
01:09:46 Moon And HW Bush
01:11:44 Moon In The 1990's And Chinagate
01:13:26 Moon and Korean Reunification
01:16:22 Nansook Hong In The Shadow Of The Moon
01:19:15 The Tragedy Of The Six Marys
01:22:31 Moon's Last Actions
01:25:00 Why Moon?
By Richard Halloran
The New York Times
Dec. 3, 1977
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2— House investigators plan to leave on Monday for South Korea, where they will ask American officials for the names of persons in the executive branch of the United States Government who knew about the six years of alleged covert efforts by the South Koreans to influence American policy.
Seeks Data on ‘Executive Branch Awareness’ of Seoul's Efforts to Influence American Policy
The Investigators, from the staff of the House International Relations Committee's Subcommittee on International Organizations, under the chairmanship of Representative Donald M. Fraser, Democrat of Minnesota, have long been collecting information on the extent of “executive branch awareness” of the Korean operation and what was or was not done about it.
The investigative group, consisting of seven persons led by Robert Boettcher, the senior member of the subcommittee's staff conducting the Korean inquiry, also hopes to question Korean officials about how much of the lobbying plan was executed.
A spokesman for the Korean Embassy here said he did not know what would be the response of Korean officials in Seoul to requests for interviews from the investigators.
The House investigators will seek information on operational ties between the Korean Government and the Rev. Moon Sun Myung, the leader of the Unification Church. Mr. Fraser said last summer that the subcommittee had evidence of such ties but gave no details. Spokesmen for Mr. Moon have denied such affiliation.
In other developments, a spokesman for the Korean Embassy denied that Seoul ever had a plan for Korean Central Intelligence Agency operations in the United States last year. The plan was made public on Tuesday by Mr. Fraser's subcommittee, and was said to be authentic by a K.C.I.A. defector.
Another committee conducting a Korean investigation, the House ethics committee, has subpoenaed the personal papers of former Representative Otto E. Passman, Democrat of Louisiana, a onetime power over foreign aid
Mr. Passman was the second prominent former Congressman to have his papers under subpoena. The first was the former House Speaker, Carl Albert of Oklahoma. press reports from Oklahoma said that Mr. Albert had removed some of his papers from files at the University of Oklahoma before they were sealed.
I've been told that Leon Jaworski's endorsement of George H.W. Bush for his presidential run was one way he tried to create distance from the Moon organization and his past connections to them. He was even recognized as a “Special Prosecutor in the Watergate and Koreagate investigation” in Bush’s running materials. That said, Jaworski resigned as a special prosecutor in 1974 following his work on the Watergate scandal. Jaworski was the one who went through Nixon's unedited tapes, including the "Smoking Gun tape". In 1977, Jaworski reluctantly agreed to serve as special counsel to a House Ethics Committee investigation to determine whether members had indirectly or directly accepted anything of value from the government of the Republic of Korea.
