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WASHINGTON, June 6 (AP) — House investigators today quoted United States intelligence reports as saying that the South Korean intelligence agency had used the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's followers for demonstrations in this country.

“On at least one occasion Moon received Korean Central Intelligence Agency funds for that purpose,” said a summary of the intelligence reports that was read at a House hearing.

Representative Donald M. Fraser, Democrat of Minnesota, said after the hearing that Mr. Moon left the United States for London shortly before the House international relations subcommit tee tried to subpoena him to testify.

Mr. Fraser, chairman of the subcommittee, said he could not be sure whether Ithe South Korean evangelist was evading the subpoena, which called on him to testify next Tuesday.

A former agent of the Korean intelligence agency testified at the hearing that another agent told him the agency had truckloads of Moon followers brought to Washington for a demonstration in September 1974, but then called it off.

Kim Sang Keun, who defected from the Korean agency, testified that he saw an order from Seoul to stage the demonstration. But he said he did not know if Moon followers had been recruited for it.

At that point Mr. Fraser read a portion of the summary quoting American intelligence reports as saying the chief South Korean intelligence agent in Washington had “arranged with Rev. Moon's group for demonstrations” on Sept. 14, 1974.

Mr. Fraser said the demonstrations were to be against Japan's alleged lack of cooperation in investigating the Korean‐Japanese assassin of the wife of South Korean President Park Chung Hee.

The demonstration was called off, Mr. Fraser said, after the State Department learned of the plans and told the Korean government to call off the protest.

Previously, “the K.C.I.A. had used Moon and members of his Unification Church to stage rallies in the United States in support of Korean government policies and aims,” the summary said. “And on at least one occasion Moon received K.C.I.A. funds for that purpose.”

At a news conference after the hearing, Mr. Fraser said Mr. Moon's lawyers knew before the evangelist left New York City on May 13 that the subcommittee had authorized a subpoena for his testimony. But Mr. Fraser said he cannot be certain that Mr. Moon himself knew, adding that the lawyers now refuse even to confirm State Department information that Mr. Moon is in London.

Later, a spokesman for Mr. Moon's Unification Church denied that the evangelist was trying to avoid an appearance before the subcommittee. The spokesman said Mr. Moon had flown to England as part of a tour of Europe.

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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.

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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.

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Although this report was published in 1978, it was remarkably prescient. Moon’s goals have been confirmed, in the decades since this report, in many published investigations. Moon was a strong supporter of the Religious Right. The fruits of his cash investments are clear to see in the present US.

INVESTIGATION OF KOREAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS Report of the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations  (1978) United States House of Representatives

Conclusions and Recommendations

Also known as the  Fraser Report after the Subcommittee's chairman, Donald M. Fraser.

Printed October 31, 1978, (excerpt from Part C: Investigative Findings, pp. 387-392).

The subcommittee findings regarding the Moon Organization may be summarized as follows:

(1) The UC and numerous other religious and secular organizations headed by Sun Myung Moon constitute essentially one international organization. This organization depends heavily upon the interchangeability of its components and upon its ability to move personnel and financial assets freely across international boundaries and between businesses and nonprofit organizations.

(2) The Moon Organization attempts to achieve goals outlined by Sun Myung Moon, who has substantial control over the economic, political, and spiritual activities undertaken by the organization in pursuit of those goals.

(3) Among the goals of the Moon Organization is the establishment of a worldwide government in which the separation of church and state would be abolished and which would be governed by Moon and his followers.

(4) In pursuit of this and other goals, the Moon Organization has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to gain control over or establish business and other secular institutions in the United States and elsewhere, and has engaged in political activities in the United States. Some of these activities were undertaken to benefit the ROK Government or otherwise to influence U.S. foreign policy.

(5) While pursuing its own goals, the Moon Organization promoted the interests of the ROK Government, and at times did so in cooperation with, or at the direction of, ROK agencies and officials. The Moon Organization maintained mutually beneficial ties with a number of Korean officials.

(6) The Moon Organization established the KCFF ostensibly as a non-profit foundation to promote Korean-American relations, but used the KCFF to promote its own political and economic interests and those of the ROK Government.

(7) The Moon Organization extensively used the names of Senators, Congressmen, U.S. Presidents, and other prominent Americans to raise funds and to create political influence for itself and the ROK Government.

(8) A Moon Organization business is an important defense contractor in Korea. It is involved in the production of M-16 rifles, antiaircraft guns, and other weapons.

(9) Moon Organization agents attempted to obtain permission from an American corporation to export M-16’s manufactured in Korea. The M-16’s are manufactured under a coproduction agreement approved by the U.S. Government, which puts M-16 production under the exclusive control of the Korean Government. Despite this, Moon Organization representatives appeared -- apparently on behalf of the Korean Government -- to negotiate an extension of the agreement.

(10) The Moon Organization attempted to obtain a controlling interest in the Diplomat National Bank by disguising the source of funds used to purchase stock in the names of UC members.

(12) The Moon Organization used church and other tax-exempt components in support of its political and economic activities.

(13) Although many of the goals and activities of the Moon Organization were legitimate and lawful, there was evidence that it had systematically violated U.S. tax, immigration, banking, currency, and Foreign Agents Registration Act laws, as well as State and local laws related to charity fund, and that these violations were related to the organization’s overall goals of gaining temporal power. Despite the Moon Organization’s cooperative relationship with the ROK Government the UC was far less influential as a religious movement in Korea than elsewhere. A large proportion of the hundreds of Koreans interviewed in the course of the investigation said that they had never heard of Moon or the UC until the early or mid-1970’s, when their activities became widely publicized. In the United States, the UC appears to have had little success in attracting followers from the Korean community. Most Korean-Americans interviewed expressed varying degrees of embarrassment or hostility toward Moon and the UC; few saw them as a positive factor in Korean-American relations. The subcommittee found that the Moon Organization has had a number of influential allies in the Korean Government, including Kim Jong Pil, Pak Chon Kyu, and others. Although investigations and publicity in the 1976-78 period appear to have had an effect on the degree of influence Moon’s supporters had with the Korean Government, there were continuing indications that the Moon Organization retained significant support. Many of the activities of the Moon Organization would not raise questions of impropriety if carried out openly and without violations of laws. The subcommittee does not fault the many Americans, Koreans, and others who identified themselves with Moon Organization-sponsored activities such as the Little Angels, or who shared the Moon Organization’s expressed concerns about communism and South Korean security.

However, the Moon Organization’s ulterior motives behind even its most benign activities tended to negate its positive contributions. For example, the Little Angels, a highly accomplished children’s dance group, undoubtedly improved the image of Koreans around the world and in particular contributed to the Americans’ understanding of Korean culture. The Korean Government’s decision to bar the Little Angels from traveling outside Korea was a loss for Korean-American relations. The demise of the little Angels as a touring group followed growing public awareness of its ties to Moon, who -- after founding and quietly backing the group -- increasingly used it to further his political and economic goals. In his own speeches to followers, Moon made it clear that the Little Angels, the annual science conference, and other seemingly philanthropic projects were in reality geared toward his ambitious and carefully thought plans for winning control and influence over political and other secular institutions. Moon, like Tongsun Park, showed a keen understanding of the use of imagery in building political influence. Just as Tongsun Park used his close relationship with a few Congressmen to attract others, Moon used the names and pictures of prominent Americans, Japanese, Koreans, and others to create an image of power and respectability for himself and his movement. The multifaceted Moon Organization thereby obtained the help and cooperation of numerous Americans who had no idea they were contributing to Moon’s plan for world theocracy.

Like Tongsun Park and others who conducted pro-ROK influence activities in the United States, Moon and his organization acted from a mixture of motives and objectives. Service to Korea was combined with a desire to advance personal and organizational goals. Like Tongsun Park and others, Moon and his organization attempted to gain influence in Seoul through activities in the United States; to this end, the Moon Organization exaggerated its success in the United States to create influence in Korea and elsewhere. Thus, although the Moon Organization often acted for the ROK Government -- even to the point of accepting money for its services -- control and influence over Korean political institutions was no less a goal there than in the United States. In this respect, the Moon Organization was not an agent of influence for the ROK Government so much as it was a volatile factor in Korean-American relations, capable of distorting the perceptions each country held of the other.

In the United States, for example, Moon has aroused widespread antipathy. To the extent that his organization’s activities here are associated with Korea or the Korean Government, there is potential harm to Korean-American relations. Recent attempts by the ROK Government to dissociate itself from Moon seemed to recognize this problem. However, these attempts at dissociation came only in the context of a public controversy over Moon, investigations into Korean influence activities, and strained relations between the two countries. The misuse of the names of prominent Americans by the KCFF was of concern to U.S. Government agencies as early as 1966. Much of the executive branch’s early awareness of Korean influence activities in the United Sates -- including those of Tongsun Park -- arose from State Department and congressional inquiries into KCFF publicity and fundraising activities. However, these activities were not then perceived to be linked to Moon. Later, when Moon’s activities generated publicity in the United Sates, there were numerous requests to the executive branch, as well as to the Congress and to State and local authorities, for information about Moon and for investigations of his organization’s activities. The response to these inquiries was fragment. Numerous investigations were launched by agencies such as the NEC, INS, and Department of Justice which involved one or another component of the Moon Organization. The subcommittee’s investigation led it to conclude that these investigations were justified and should continue. However, the subcommittee believes that these investigations will be inconclusive and redundant unless they are coordinated with each other and treated as an investigation of essentially one organization.

The subcommittee concludes that the following objective could be met by combining investigative activities related to the Moon Organization into an interagency task force: (1) Consideration could be given as to whether apparently unrelated immigration, FARA, currency, banking, and other violations were in furtherance of a common scheme or plan. (2) All existing information bearing upon the same subjects could be brought together and analyzed; earlier investigations which failed to do this allowed improper influence activities to continue until they caused a major public scandal affecting Korean-American relations. (3) Maximum resources could be employed toward tracing cash and obtaining evidence from outside the United States. (4) Tax money could be saved by combining related investigations and eliminating duplication of effort.

Executive Branch Task Force

(1) The Department of Justice, the SEC, the IRS, and other executive branch agencies currently investigation allegations relating to Sun Myung Moon, Pak Bo Hi, the UC, the KCFF, and other individuals and organizations comprising the Moon Organization (as described in this report) should coordinate their efforts and form an interagency task force.

(2) In addition to continuing present investigations, the task force should address itself to the following issues: (a) Whether there have been systemic and planned violations of U.S. immigration laws and regulations in connection with the importation of large numbers of foreign nationals for purposes of fundraising, political activities, and employment in the Moon Organization business enterprises. (b) Whether there have been systematic and planned violations of U.S. currency and foreign exchange laws in connection with the movement of millions of dollars of cash and other financial assets into and out of the United States without complying with appropriate reporting requirements. (c) Whether U.S. tax laws have been violated through large cash transfers to individuals which were characterized as loans. (d) Whether tax-exempt organizations such as the Unification Church, Freedom Leadership Foundation, Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, and International Cultural Foundation, have engaged in political, business, and other activities inconsistent with their tax-exempt status; and whether these organizations are so closely affiliated with each other and with non-tax-exempt business and organizations so as to render them ineligible for tax-exempt status. (e) Whether there have been systemic violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act by the Moon Organization. (f) Whether there have been violations of currency, immigration, banking and tax laws in connection with Moon Organization investments in the Diplomat National Bank and other businesses in the United States. (g) Whether there have been instances of charity fraud, violations of currency and immigration laws, and abuse of tax-exempt status in connection with the Moon Organization’s control over the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation. (h) Whether there have been attempts to violate, or violations of, the Arms Export Control Act in connection with the manufacture, sale, or attempted sale of M-16 rifles or other armaments by agents of the Moon Organization.

(3) The task force should use the resources of the following agencies: Department of Justice (including the FBI, Anti-Trust Division, and INS); Department of Treasure; Securities and Exchange Commission; Federal Reserve Board; Internal Revenue Service; and Department of State.

(4) The Department of State should assist the task force in attempting to obtain witnesses, financial data, and other cooperation from foreign governments, particularly Japan and South Korea.

(5) The task force should seen information from appropriate State and local governments and should make information available to State and local governments for use in appropriate proceedings involving enforcement of their laws.

The subcommittee also recommends that appropriate committees of the Congress review certain information pertaining to the Moon Organization. Current U.S. tax laws and regulations made it impractical for the subcommittee to examine the tax returns of such Moon Organization components as the Unification Church International, which was denied tax-exempt status by the IRS. However, there is reason to believe that taxable Moon Organization components derive tax advantages from transfers to tax-exempt components. Since both taxable and tax-exempt organizations are used interchangeably in the Moon Organization, such tax advantages would enable the Moon Organization to pyramid economic power and achieve a substantial advantage over competing organizations. The subcommittee therefore suggests a review by the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee -- which have access to tax returns -- to determine whether transfers of funds within the Moon Organization raise issues which point to the need for legislation to prevent the abuse of tax-exempt status. More specifically, the subcommittee recommends that the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee review the applications for tax-exempt status (where applicable) and the tax returns of Moon Organization entities, including: Unification Church; Freedom Leadership Foundation; Unification Church International; International Cultural Foundation; Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation; Tong-Il Enterprises; One-Way Productions; International Oceanic Enterprises; and News World Communications. and determine whether: (a) Income from abroad is properly reported. (b) Deductions are taken by businesses for charitable contributions to tax-exempt organizations, the actual control of which is in the hands of the same persons and organizations in control of the businesses. (c) New legislation or regulations are needed to prevent tax avoidance and pyramiding of economic power by means of recycling funds through an international organization, part of which is tax-exempt.

The subcommittee has also referred its findings to the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees of the House and Senate, and to the Munitions Control Board of the State Department, with the suggestion that more precise information be obtained without the Moon Organization’s role as a Korean defense contractor. During the investigation, the subcommittee found it very difficult to obtain reliable information about the extent to which Moon industries were involved in weapons production and sales. The Moon Organization has self-proclaimed goals of controlling political and secular institutions and a strident ideology which envisions the formation of a “Unification Crusade Army.” Moon’s speeches forsee an apocalyptic confrontation involving the united States, Russia, China, Japan, and North and South Korea, in which the Moon Organization would play a key role, Under these circumstances, the subcommittee believes it is in the interest of the United States to know what control Moon and his followers have over instruments of war and to what extent they are in a position to influence Korean defense policies.

Of particular concern is the Moon Organization’s involvement in the production and sale of M-16 rifles and other weapons provided to Korea under U.S. aid programs and subject to the Arms Export Control Act. In late 1977, Moon Organization representatives tried to renegotiate a coproduction agreement between Colt Industries and the ROK Government. The circumstances suggested they were secret envoys of the Korean Government which, under the coproduction agreement, has exclusive control over M-16 production. Although the ROK Government said it wanted to produce 300,000 extra M-16’s because of the need to equip its own forces, Moon Organization tried to get Colt’s agreement to export guns to third countries.

The subcommittee therefore recommends: That the House International Relations Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and the corresponding committee of the Senate ascertain whether businesses operated by the Moon Organization are engaging in the production or same of armaments supplied to the ROK Government through U.S. military aid programs, including coproduction agreements. Information about the role played by Moon Organization industries in Korean defense production should be sought from the Appropriate U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

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VIDEO: Drunk on Power: Christian Nationalism’s war on democracy

Rev. Moon’s Rising Political Influence (1989)

Inside Moon’s Washington – Washington Post report (1989)

Moon sought to influence the American political agenda by pouring more than a billion dollars into media.

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon and Koreagate – Robert Boettcher

Politics and religion interwoven

by Robert B. Boettcher (with Gordon L. Freedman) 1980

About a third of this book is available on the web here:

https://tragedyofthesixmarys.com/gifts-of-deceit-robert-boettcher/

Including the Prologue and four chapters. Some photos have been added.

Note: Robert Boettcher died under suspicious circumstances...

Contents

Prologue 1

PART ONE

1 His Excellency 11

2 The Lord of the Second Advent (with notes) 31

3 The Charmer 56

4 The Origins of the Influence Campaign 78

5 Tongsun and His Congressmen 99

6 Minions and Master (with notes) 144

PART TWO

7 Washington Looks the Other Way 189

8 Three Who Stood in the Way: Ranard, Habib, Fraser 213

9 Koreagate 241

10 Inviting Tongsun Back 267

11 Kim Dong Jo: The Still-Untold Story 290

12 Dueling with the Moonies (with notes) 307

13 The Menace (with notes) 325

Notes 351

Index 389

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United States Congressional investigation of Unification Church

1. Fraser Report – Conclusions and Recommendations (1978) 2. Michael Warder comment 3. Moonie “Dirty Tricks” against Donald Fraser, MinPost 2012 4. The Mysterious Death of Robert Boettcher in 1984, New York Times 5. Congressional Information Meeting on Cults 1979 6. Fraser Report: Summaries of Representative Documents including FBI Reports, State Department Memoranda, KCFF Minutes, etc. 7. Bo Hi Pak and the KCFF scam – and Sun Myung Moon’s ROFA scam 8. Bo Hi Pak and the “Unification Church Pension Fund International” 9. Minions and Master (extract from Gifts of Deceit) 10. Gifts of Deceit book review by Allen Tate Wood

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FBI and other reports on Sun Myung Moon

1. FBI Report (San Francisco office) on the UC / FFWPU, September 1975

2. “The Moonies: Government Files Trace Church from Sex Cult to Korean CIA” .    by James Coates   Chicago Tribune, Monday, March 27, 1978

3. “The pull of Sun Moon” by Berkeley Rice   New York Magazine, May 30, 1976

4. Sun Myung Moon and Takeru Kamiyama jailed in 1984 for US tax crimes .   featuring an investigation by Frederick Clarkson

CovertAction Information Bulletin Number 38 – Fall 1991 pages 22-27

https://covertactionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CAIB38-1991-3.pdf

Daniel Junas is a researcher living In Seattle, Washington.

▲ “The policy-makers in the background are the professors. Even though they represent the cultural field, more than anything we need scholars in the scientific fields, in the political, cultural, and economic fields.”1 Rev. Moon

On Labor Day weekend in 1984, 240 academics from 46 countries gathered in Washington D.C. under the auspices of the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS), a front organization of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. The Washington Post portrayed this remarkable scholarly conference as part of an expensive effort by Moon to cleanse his tainted image.2 Ever since Moon achieved notoriety in the 1970s, the media have tended to portray him as a kooky cult leader whose aspirations for political power are not to be taken seriously.

By interpreting the conference and the Moon Organization’s3 efforts to court academia simply as a PR ploy, the Post (which, is the journalistic rival of the Moon-funded Washington Times) underestimated the sophistication of Moon’s strategy. Since its inception, Moon has provided an important link between academia, intelligence agencies, and the political Right. Gaining legitimacy and influence within the academic establishment and having access to its resources have long been central to Moon’s mission.

In 1954, when the Rev. Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity in Seoul, he immediately began proselytizing on college campuses.4 His first political mission in Japan was in 1960 during the massive student-led protests objecting to the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. From that point, with the backing of certain elements of the Japanese Right, Moon worked to build a right-wing student movement. For the next decade and a half, the Moon Organization used this network to respond to similar threats to U.S. foreign policy objectives emanating from student-led protests in South Korea and the United States.

Moon’s academic operations reflect both his extensive Japanese backing and his alliance with the US. foreign policy establishment, including a longstanding and complex relationship with the CIA and its South Korean offspring, the KCIA. The International Cultural Foundation (ICF), the umbrella for Moon’s various academic fronts, was founded in Japan in 1968. The ICF’s political arm, the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) was founded five years later, and one of its first projects was a study of Japanese national goals. But PWPA also provided Moon, in collaboration with ex-CIA official Ray Cline, with a vehicle to extend Moon operations into Africa, and to exhort African academics to support the U.S. intelligence community.

The Moon Organization must be seen, therefore, not as an independent entity, but as an extension of the national security state and as a mechanism for linking its proponents around the world. Moon’s academic connections are inextricably linked to this agenda, and despite the religions trappings, Moon on campus is the political and moral equivalent of the CIA on campus.

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1. “Investigation of Korean-American Relations, Report of the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations” (hereafter IKAR), U.S. House of Representatives, October 31, 1978; Appendix, Vol. II, p.1049. 2. Isikoff, Michael, Washington Post, “Moon Spends Millions to Boost image,” September 17, 1984, p. A1. 3. “Although there is no entity named the ‘Moon Organization,’” according to the investigation by IKAR, “the numerous churches, businesses, committees, foundations, and other groups associated with Sun Myung Moon, emerged as parts of what is essentially one worldwide organization under the centralized organization and control of Moon... The subcommittee came to view them as one unit and refers to them in the aggregate as the Moon Organization.” IKAR. op. cit., p. 313. 4. IKAR Appendix, Volume II; op. cit., p. 1293.

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▲ Japanese protest U.S.-Japan treaty. Banner reads: Reject the Road to War! Down With Japanese Imperialism! Let’s Fight Together! 1988.

Japanese Origins In 1955, one year after its founding in South Korea, Moon’s church was rocked by a sex scandal, prompting Moon to seek powerful allies.5 Moon began recruiting South Korean military officers, who later provided important links between the Moon Organization and the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

Meanwhile, in 1958, Moon’s first missionary travelled to Japan, where he later made contact with Ryoichi Sasakawa, a powerful “godfather” of the Japanese Right.6 Before World War II, Sasakawa had been a prominent fascist organizer; after the war, he was imprisoned by the U.S. Occupation authorities as a suspected Class A war criminal. While in Sugamo Prison, he struck an alliance with two other war crimes suspects—his old comrade-in-arms Yoshio Kodama, and Nobutsuke Kishi, who served in Prime Minister Tojo’s wartime cabinet.

In December 1948, this trio was released without trial, leading many to believe that a deal had been struck with the U.S. Occupation authorities.7 Indeed, soon after his release, Kodama went to work for U.S. intelligence and in 1958 he was placed on the CIA’s payroll.8

When Kishi was elected Prime Minister in 1957, his top priority was negotiating a revised Security Treaty with the U.S. Approved by the Japanese Diet under duress in 1951 at the end of the Occupation, this agreement seriously undermined Japanese sovereignty. Kishi, a close ally of the U.S., sought to remove only the most blatantly objectionable provisions, such as permitting the U.S. to intervene in domestic disturbances at the invitation of the Japanese government. He anticipated stiff resistance to the agreement, however, from the communist-dominated Japanese student movement, which, along with a majority of the Japanese people, objected to the suspected presence of nuclear weapons at U.S. bases in Japan, and to the rearmament of Japan then taking place under the political cover of the treaty. In preparation, Kishi called on his ally Kodama to assemble a repressive force consisting of rightists and yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicates.
 In 1960, when Kishi rammed the treaty through the Diet, enormous street demonstrations erupted. Despite Kishi’s preparations, President Eisenhower was forced to cancel a visit to Tokyo commemorating the passage of the treaty and Kishi stepped down as Prime Minister.10 The treaty, however, remained and sealed an economic as well as military alliance.

Building the Student Right The treaty struggle, which marked a watershed in the U.S.-Japan relationship, represents the true founding moment of the Moon Organization as a political entity. Moon’s first missionary had founded the Japanese Unification Church—known as Genri Undo—on the eve of the treaty struggle, and by some accounts, Moon himself served as a go-between competing right-wing factions during preparations for the demonstrations.11 In 1960, Moon also adopted anti-communism,12 as he adjusted his ideology to suit the political needs of his new Japanese allies.
 In the wake of the treaty struggle, Kishi and Sasakawa were working together to organize numerous student organizations.13 These efforts followed the outlines of a comprehensive strategy devised by right-wing academic Juitsu Kitaoka to build a right-wing student movement and rid Japanese campuses of Marxist influences.14 Genri Undo became an essential part of this strategy. A decisive moment came in late 1962, when Osami Kuboki, a leader in Kishi/Sasakawa student fronts, apparently engineered the conversion of 50 leaders of a Buddhist sect to Genri Undo.15

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5. op. cit., IKAR, Appendix,  p. 1170. 6. John Roberts, “Happiness Ginseng from Earth-Conquering Moonies,” Far Eastern Economic Review, June 23, 1978, pp. 57-60. 7. This pattern was a familiar one in the wake of World War II. Placing its highest priority on eliminating anti-fascist resistance movements—often dominated by left and communist elements—U.S. postwar planners threw their support behind the same fascist leaders they had so recently fought. In Italy, Germany and France, as well as in Japan, war criminals, fascists, nazis, and collaborators were recruited to battle the “international communist menace” and support U.S. interests. 8. The single best source on the postwar careers of Sasakawa, Kodama, and Kishi is David E. Kaplan and Alec Dobro, Yakuza (New York: Macmillan, 1986), pp. 63-69 and 78-83. 9. Jon Halliday, A Political History of Japanese Capitalism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975), pp. 201-2. See also: George R. Packard, III, Protest in Tokyo (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1966). 10. Kaplan and Dubro, op. cit., pp. 83-7. 11. Roberts op. cit. 12. IKAR Appendix, Volume II; op. cit., p. 1030. 13. Hayahi Masayuki, “OISCA,” AMPO, Vol. 19, No.1, p. 2, et seq. 14. Ivan I. Morris, Nationalism and the Right Wing in Japan: A Study of Post-War Trends (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1960), pp. 285-88 15. Jeffrey M. Bale, “‘Privatizing’ Covert Action: The Case of the Unification Church,” Lobster (Hull, UK), #21.

http://www.8bitmode.com/rogerdog/lobster/lobster21.pdf

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▲ Sen. Strum Thurmond (R-S.C.), left, Juanita Castro (Fidel Castro’s sister), and Ryoichi Sasakawa, then-president of the World Anti-Communist League, after a WACL rally In Tokyo.

Also in 1962 Moon’s primary student front, the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), was founded.16 Kitaoka subsequently became a key official in Moon’s Japanese operations, while Kishi became a front man and Sasakawa a behind-the-scenes patron.17

16. Op. cit., IKAR, Appendix, Vol. II, p. 1297. 17. Roberts, op. cit.

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Happiness ginseng from earth-conquering Moonies – Japan 1978

How Sun Myung Moon bought protection in Japan

A huge Moon Church scam in Japan is revealed

▲ The Tribune article was also published in the St. Petersburg Independent on March 28.

Chicago Tribune  March 27, 1978 WASHINGTON — Once-secret government files released by a House subcommittee trace the so-called “Moonie” church from its origins as a small-time Korean sex cult to a worldwide organization operated by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.

The documents, soon to be the subject of public hearings, indicate the Unification (Moonie) Church was used by the Korean government as part of a lobbying effort in the U.S. Congress.

Diplomatic cables said that the church patriarch, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, headed a Korean cult that “interprets the Bible in sexual terms.” The KCIA decided to use Moon in a scheme that grew to include other Koreans bribing congressmen, the documents said.

A U.S. Central intelligence Agency report, marked “unevaluated” and written in February 1963, said that Lt. Col. Bo Hi Pak of the Korean army was working to expand the church into Washington under the direction of Kim Chung-pil, the director of the KCIA.

A cable sent to Washington from the American embassy in Seoul on August 26, 1966, describes an initiation ceremony for the church involving sexual relations. The cable said the church refers to such initiation as “baptizing.”

The author of the cable quoted Thomas Chung, president of the Korean Students’ Association in Washington, as saying: “Colonel Pak was in trouble because he had attempted to initiate into his church (i.e. to have sexual relations with) the wife of a visiting ROK (Korean government) official (either the minister of national defence or the chief of staff).”

The cable continued: “According to Chung, the matter had been hushed up, but only with difficulty, and Pak had nearly lost his job because of it.” That cable also quotes another intelligence source: “He said that the church interprets the Bible in sexual terms and maintains that religious experience is interrelated with sex. MUN Son-myong (sic), leader of the church, was once arrested because of the sexual practices of the organization.” continued… LINK

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United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

Contents 1. Fraser Report – Conclusions and Recommendations (1978) 2. Michael Warder comment 3. Moonie “Dirty Tricks” against Donald Fraser, MinPost 2012 4. The Mysterious Death of Robert Boettcher in 1984, New York Times 5. Congressional Information Meeting on Cults 1979 6. Fraser Report: Summaries of Representative Documents including FBI Reports, State Department Memoranda, KCFF Minutes, etc. 7. Bo Hi Pak and the KCFF scam – and Sun Myung Moon’s ROFA scam 8. Bo Hi Pak and the “Unification Church Pension Fund International” 9. Minions and Master 10. Gifts of Deceit book review by Allen Tate Wood

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▲ Kim Jong-pil, head of the KCIA, in Japan in 1964

On-line Interview on “the Inkwell”

#176:  David A. Mason  (mntnwolf)  Friday 14 June 2002

> is Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church of any influence in Korea?

The Short Answer:  Used to be, due to his strong anti-communism and emphasis on the re-unification of Korea.  The military governments tolerated him, used him, were used by him. Moon used to play golf regularly with Kim Jong-pil – “the brains behind” the 1961 coup and 18-year Park Chung-hee reign. For a while he was one of the few South Koreans that northern dictator Kim Il-sung would deal with.

The Moonies still own a lot of businesses and real-estate here, have some Professors on their side, etc.  But his drive to have the U C accepted as a Christian church has mostly failed, as all the other Christian churches reject them.  Anti-communism doesn’t get you even a cup of coffee anymore. Lots of businessmen and religious leaders are talking to Pyeongyang, trying to make deals. ... And, most of all, Moon is real old now, and his “church” empire will probably fall apart after him – looks like a one-generation cult, tho a remarkably successful one...

One social-impact thing the UC is still active in is matching up & marrying cross-race couples, mostly poor desperate Korean men with poor desperate Chinese & SE Asian women.  Most of the [men] are not UC believers, tho, but just go along to get a spouse.  When the girls discover the ugly reality here in Korea, they get pretty angry, some run...  Many other churches are doing this lucrative business now too, not just the Moonies.  My (Filipina) wife knows quite a few of these cases by now, involving Filipinas.  Not one of the unions is happy or stable   :-(

http://www.san-shin.org/interview-6.html

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In the tumult of post-war Korea, Kim Jong-pil was always there

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Moon’s 21 year course to 1967 and Kim Jong-pil’s meeting with the UC in San Francisco

“Kim Jong-pil would see that the Park regime gave its blessing to the activities of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church.”

The Moon Organization and the KCIA – ‘Privatizing’ covert action

Gifts of Deceit – Robert Boettcher

United States Congressional investigation of Moon’s organization

Robert Parry’s investigations into Sun Myung Moon

Politics and religion interwoven

Allen Tate Wood on Sun Myung Moon and the UC

Politics and religion interwoven

Japanese woman recruited and sold by FFWPU to a Korean farmer

Why did a Japanese UC member kill her Korean husband?

6,500 women missing from FFWPU mass weddings

“Apology marriages” made by Japanese UC members to Korean men