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bond of the heart." (In fact, by January 1977 the national UC had transferred
money to UCI and in turn received over $1 million from UCI.) Salonen called
News World "an independent corporation" to which the church rented space, but
which was funded by UCI; he said that International Federation for Victory Over
Communism had "no connection with the Unification Church in America."
Salonen admitted he was an officer of the ICF, as well as the FLF and the UC,
and that the UC provided funds to FLF and ICF. However, he pointed to a statute
making it legal for one nonprofit organization to donate funds to another.(326)
Salonen, Pak Bo Hi, and other UC leaders have also emphatically denied on
various occasions that the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation (KCFF) is
part of the Moon Organization. Regarding the Little Angels, a KCFF project,
Salonen stated: "The Little Angels and the UC may share the same founder, but
otherwise there is no connection." (327)
In testimony before the subcommittee Salonen said that, so far as he knew,
the KCFF was not directly or indirectly controlled by Moon. (328)
In these and numerous other statements and representations, Moon and his
spokesmen have tried to keep intact the corporate veils which maintained the
outward appearance of separate and independent organizations related, if at all,
only through a common founder or by a loosely defined "spiritual bond." These
spokesmen often turned away questions about the actual relationship between
the UC and other organizations on the grounds that UC membership is
"irrelevant" and that to inquire about the religious background of the members of
a given organization violates constitutional rights.
Central to the official posture maintained by the UC and its spokesmen is the
portrayal of Moon as a founder and spiritual leader, with little or no responsibility
for his organization's fiscal, administrative, and other worldly matters. Before the
New York Tax Commission, Neil Salonen stated:
"Rev. Moon is considered the prophet of the Church and the founder. Other
than that he has no specific relationship."(329)
Salonen went on to say that Moon received "no compensation whatsoever" from
the UC and that expenses paid on Moon's behalf, mostly for travel, amounted to
only a few thousand dollars in a recent year. Salonen did not know how Moon
provided for his
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personal expenses. He said that Moon "provides spiritual guidance to the
movement all over the world," but that he "doesn't direct the affairs of the
organization in an administrative or physical sense."
The subcommittee found, to the contrary, that Moon provides considerably
more than spiritual guidance to his worldwide organization. The statements and
testimony of former members and officials in Moon's Organization, evidence
gleaned from internal UC publications, memos, other documents, and financial
records all show that Moon exercises substantial control over temporal matters.
These include the transfer of funds from one organization to another, personnel
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