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in any way involved in financing the DNB stock purchases. (233)
Use of the term "Moon Organization"
By April 1977, when the Investigation of Korean-American Relations began,
although the subcommittee had received a wide variety of specific allegations
concerning Moon and the organizations associated with him, the subcommittee
had little understanding of the scope and nature of his movement. It soon
became apparent that he was the key figure in an international network of
organizations engaged in economic and political as well as religious activities.
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 direction and control of Moon. This
organization began as a small movement started by Moon in Korea in 1954. In
the diversity of its functions and basic organizational structure it now resembles a
multinational corporation, involved in manufacturing, international trade, defense
contracting, finance, and other business activities. However, it goes beyond that
in that it encompasses religious, educational, cultural, ideological, and political
enterprises as well. In the training and use of lower ranking members, it
resembles a paramilitary organization, while in other respects it has the
characteristics of a tightly disciplined international political party.
Among the many organizations there is continuous and close interaction,
principally in the form of personnel moving back and forth among organizations,
intermixed finances, use of one component or another component as if both were
one and the same, and, of course, the figure of Moon. Because of the close
interrelationship of the various organizations, the subcommittee came to view
them as one unit and refers to them in the aggregate as the Moon Organization
in this report.
Goals of Moon
Before reviewing the components and activities of the Moon Organization, it is
useful to look at various writings and speeches of Moon in which he discusses
the goals of his movement and the
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means required to achieve them. Within that context, the Moon Organization
becomes more comprehensible.
In many public statements and in applications for tax-exempt status, the goals
of the Moon movement are said to be religious. Actions which appeared to be
clearly political or economic to outsiders were explained as necessary means to
achieve religious goals. The apparent contradictions in many of the activities of
the Moon Organization are explained by Moon's overriding religious goal--to
establish a worldwide "theocracy," that is, a world order which would abolish
separation of church and state and be governed by the immediate direction of
God. As Moon explained to his followers:
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