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around the world. (IFVOC was originally called the International Federation for
the Extermination of Communism). It was formed in 1968 and was
headquartered in Seoul; its Japanese affiliate, called Shokyo Rengo, was also
formed in 1968, while the American affiliate, the Freedom Leadership Foundation
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(FLF), was incorporated in the District of Columbia in 1969. In 1977, the FLF
directors were: (264)
Neil Salonen, president; W. Farley Jones; Philip Kent Burley; Kim Young Oon,
George Edwards; Dan Fefferman; Jon Schuhart; Nora Martin Spurgin; and Judith
Barnes.
Most of the FLF's financial support came from the UC.(265) FLF obtained
Federal tax exemption as a nonprofit educational organization "dedicated to
developing the standards of leadership necessary to advance the cause of
freedom in the struggle against communism.(266) Moon was listed as its
founder. One of FLF's principal activities was the publication of a newspaper
called "The Rising Tide." In 1977, Neil Salonen was the publisher, Michael Smith,
executive director, and Dan Fefferman and Hal McKenzie, among the associate
contributing editors.
Alan Tate Wood, president of FLF in 1970 and a UC member for 4 years, told
the subcommittee that Moon had personally ordered the expansion of his anti-
Communist organization into the United States and saw the FLF as a means of
influencing and controlling American institutions:
"* * * in 1970 when I visited Korea, and I had several private audiences with
Mr. Moon, he told me that as president of the Freedom Leadership Foundation, it
was my responsibility to begin a campaign in the United States to win the power
centers in the country."
At that time, he said: "FLF will probably win first the academic community."
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Wood further quoted Moon: "Once we can control two or three universities,
then we will be on the way to controlling the certification for the major professions
in the United States." Wood believed, despite stated purposes to the contrary,
that Moon conceived of the FLF as a political arm of the movement.
Wood described the early opposition of some UC members toward engaging
in political activities:
"At this stage in the Movement's development, the general membership was
politically unsophisticated. The idea of a political arm was new. The purists in the
movement who believed that a church should have nothing to do with polities
voiced strong opposition. It was pointed out to them that the Church in Japan and
Korea carried out extensive anti-Communist political programs.
They were told that it was Master's expressed desire to begin political work in
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