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forth from religious to political or business activities is implicit in many of the
speeches and documents already discussed.
In addition to raising funds and providing a work force for Moon Organization
business projects, UC members who travel in and out of the United States are
vehicles for circumventing or violating restrictions on the international movement
of currency.
Several persons interviewed by the subcommittee staff stated that prominent
Moon Organization figures had admitted bringing in large amounts of cash from
Japan by concealing it on their persons. (350) Since 1972, U.S. law has required
that all persons moving cash in excess of $5,000 in or out of the country fill out a
Treasury report. (351) Japan has similar requirements, as well as limitations on
converting yen to other currencies. (352)
Korea, too, has very strict currency
control laws. Converting won to dollars in order to take money out of Korea,
except in very small amounts, is almost impossible to do legally. (353)
Despite
these laws, the subcommittee found evidence that large sums of cash
maintained in the United States by the Moon Organization had apparently been
brought in from overseas.
In 1974, Moon opened accounts and time deposits at Chase Manhattan with
$995,200, about half in cash, deposited at a time when, according to Moon, most
financial support for his movement came from overseas. (354) Pak Bo Hi
testified that between 1972 and 1974, he received $223,000 in loans from
Mitsuharu Ishii, some of which Pak brought back from Japan himself, while the
rest was delivered to him in the United States. Ail of this money was received in
cash, and Pak could not explain where Ishii--who is a full-time employee in
various Moon Organizations--derived the money he lent Pak.(355)
Pak also
could not explain how $58,000, which he says he received from Ishii via the head
of the Little Angels Touring Co. (he could not remember the person's name), got
into the country; he suggested that perhaps the money had been "divided"
among the Little Angels, each of whom would carry less than $5,000.(356) (Later
in his testimony Pak said he did not think the Little Angels had helped bring in the
money, but he still could not recall how it was brought in.)
Pak's explanation for the nearly $1 million used to fund Diplomat National
Bank stock purchases in the name of UC members likewise apparently involved
massive transfers of cash from abroad. (357)
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The UCI account maintained at the DNB (and later also at Riggs National
Bank in Washington, D.C.) was an important depository for money brought into
the United States. (358)
Money collected in this account was dispatched to a
wide variety of business, church, and personal accounts, usually on orders from
Moon or Pak. In one transfer order in March 1977, Moon sent $100,000 from the
UCI account to a bank in Korea; in an accompanying letter, Pak Bo Hi gave
instructions for this money to be put into individual bank accounts, including over
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