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rency. Drawing on the information relating to the individual units of the Moon
Organization, this section looks at specifics of the issues summarized above: the
cohesiveness of the Moon Organization; its political activities; its ties to the
Korean Government; its economic and financial activities; and apparent
violations of U.S. laws.
Cohesiveness of the Moon Organization
The subcommittee's finding that there is essentially one "Moon Organization"
worldwide, rather than a number of separate organizations "founded" or
"inspired" by Moon but otherwise operating as independent entities, is contrary to
the image Moon and his associates seek to create by carrying on their activities
under the aegis of numerous corporate and other legal structures. UC leaders
and Moon associates have, in many public and official statements, repeatedly
denied or minimized the connections between one Moon-related organization
and another.
As part of their applications for tax-exempt status, Moon's spokesmen have
had to address the issue of the interrelationships that exist in their movement. In
April 1963, in an application to the IRS for tax-exempt status for the branch of the
UC he registered in Virginia, Pak Bo Hi stated:
"The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity is
affiliated only on a doctrinal basis with a movement which began in 1954 in
Korea, at the end of the Korean War * * *
The Association is consequently affiliated with the California organization and
with the Korean and Japanese movements on the basis of the similar and
common doctrine of the gospel of the Divine Principles, but this organization is
totally and independently organized; there is no formal organizational tie with any
other organization. We would, of course, look to the Korean movement as the
fountainhead of the spiritual principles and theological bases of our church, but
outside of this spiritual indebtedness and spiritual common interest, there are no
affiliations or formal connections."(325)
In testimony before the New York City Tax Commission Neil Salonen,
President of the UC of America, was questioned about the relationship between
that church and other "Moon organizations." He minimized the interrelationships.
Asked about the Freedom
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Leadership Foundation (FLF), he said that only one officer of FLF was also an
officer in UC of America. Salonen refused to answer how many beard members
of FLF were UC members. He admitted that the UC had provided 60 percent of
FLF's funds during a recent year, but stressed that this was but a small
percentage of the church's total expenditures.
As for the relationship between the UC of America and Unification Church
International, Salonen asserted there was no connection "other than a spiritual
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