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Cho Woo Eukman
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5 percent
Michael Warder
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2 percent
Neil Salonen ...................................................................
1 percent
Daikon (Kenji) Ohnuki ..............................................0.05 percent
Joe Tully
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Robert Wilson
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Tong II's main activity at first was the importation and marketing of ginseng
tea and marble vases from Moon's companies in Korea; later it became involved
in Moon's tuna fishing enterprises.
On the west coast the Moon Organization opened International Exchange
Enterprises. It in turn ran a maintenance company, and owned a travel agency,
Seno Travel Services. Daikon Ohnuki was one of the original directors of
International Exchange Enterprises and owned 100 percent of the stock; in 1974
he transferred this stock to Sung Soo Kim, who was an officer in the travel
agency.
Another officer of both International Exchange and Seno was Choi Sang Ik,
founder of the UC in Japan and San Francisco and for many years a leading
figure in the Moon organization. (307) A former UC member who worked for
International Exchange stated that while the company was denying any link to
the UC she was turning in her pay checks to the leader of the UC organization in
the San Francisco Bay area. (308)
Media enterprises were also set up in the United States based on similar
ventures already begun in Japan. In January 1975, the World Daily News Co.
had been opened in Japan and began printing a daffy newspaper (Sekai Nippo)
there; Mitsuharu Ishii was the president.(309)
In February 1975, Moon has said
in a speech to U.S. members:
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"This year we have to expand our UN campaign, work among all the Senators
and Congressmen with our PR brothers and sisters, and we are going to
establish a university. Another thing we are going to do is to start a newspaper
plant." (310)
In the same speech, Moon said that UC "missionaries" around the world were
to become involved in media activities, including setting up an international
paper, in order "to guide the academic world including professors, the
communications world, and then the economic world."
As Moon predicted, a daily newspaper was opened in the United States--in
December 1976, News World began publication in New York. Among the officers
and directors of the parent corporation, News World Communications, Inc., were
Dennis Orme, president and Michael Trulson, secretary. Orme had been
president of the UC in England and a director of ICF. The News World was
staffed almost exclusively by UC members; for example, the editorial board
included Michael Young Warder, Joachim Becker, Keith Cooperrider, and Hal
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