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Pak Bo Hi was a military attache at the Korean Embassy in Washington when
KCFF was incorporated and was not an original incorporator, director, or officer.
Pak, however, testified before the subcommittee:
"The KCFF is truly my idea. I conceived this idea during my tenure as a
diplomat serving in the Korean Embassy." (281)
The subcommittee found considerable documentary evidence which indicated
that Pak was the moving force behind KCFF and that he was working for it and
helping to shape its policies while still employed by the Korean Government.
(282) Pak at the same time was active on behalf of the Holy Spirit Association,
the UC branch he had registered in Virginia. Jhoon Rhee, a trustee of the Virginia
association and a close friend of Pak's, became one of the original KCFF
directors. Another original KCFF director was Robert Roland, who had a close
relationship with Pak and Rhee between 1963 and 1965. Roland told the
subcommittee:
"In early 1964, Col. Pak told of his plans to form the Korean Cultural and
Freedom Foundation. He stated that the purpose of the KCFF would be to gain
influence and raise money for Moon's cause * * * He described it very clearly that
this was a front organization, and that it would be used to gain influence with
wealthy people, government officials. Then he talked very clearly about using it
as a fund-raising organization for the Moon organization."(286)
By early 1964, Pak had already taken steps to make KCFF serve Moon's
cause, at a time when both KCFF and the Moon Organization were in their
formative stages. A December 1963 brochure describing the KCFF--not yet
formally organized--listed a Korean children's dance group called the Little
Angels as the foundation's only proposed project. (284)
The Little Angels had been founded by Moon in Korea in 1962.(285)
Pak
referred to the Little Angels in an application for tax-exempt status which he
submitted to the IRS in 1963 on behalf of his Virginia UC branch. Pak stated that
the branch hoped to sponsor the Little Angels and other projects in the future, but
could not do so then "because of the present pioneer state of the church."
"It is hoped that the future will allow sponsoring a Korean dancing group in
various cities as a means of bringing the Divine Principles to more people and to
thus further the unification of World Christianity." (286)
Largely through Pak's efforts the KCFF, rather than the UC, took
responsibility for sponsoring the Little Angels, although Pak, in his IRS
application, had indicated that the purpose of the group was to help spread the
doctrines of Moon and the UC. Pak explained the KCFF sponsorship of the Little
Angels to the subcommittee:
"Then what happened in 1964, we decided not to combine two things tgether,
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