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$50,000 to an account maintained by Kim Won Pil (Kim at the time was a UCI
director). (359)
These transfers from the UCI account to various Moon Organization
businesses--whose officers and directors overlap with UC and other nonprofit
components of the organization--are discussed elsewhere,(360)
but it should be
noted that the UCI financial records characterized these businesses as
"subsidiaries" of UCI. (361)
There is evidence that Moon Organization facilities, particularly the KCFF,
were used to bring money out of Korea to the United States, specifically by
having an individual make a loan to the KCFF office in Korea, which was then
repaid out of KCFF funds in Washington. Chung Il Kwon, former Korean Prime
Minister and later National Assembly Speaker, transferred $40,000 to the United
States in 1971 using this technique; (362) Lee Kwang Jae, a Washington
broadcaster, brought in $20,800 in 1975 through the KCFF.(363)
A number of
"scholarships" awarded by KCFF appeared to have been covers for currency
transfers from Korea. (364)
Political activities by the Moon Organization
Moon Organization spokesmen, well aware of U.S. restrictions on political
activities by tax-exempt groups, frequently explained seemingly political activities
in religious terms. Neil Salonen maintained before the Subcommittee "* *.* our
feelings regarding the philosophy and doctrines of Communism are not political
feelings, they are spiritual religious feelings * * * "(365) An application of this
religious anti-Communism was the UC's attitude toward North
Korea, which was seen as the purest embodiment of Communism.
God's chosen nation, South Korea, must therefore triumph over its northern
adversary. Thus, the UC could assert that U.S. troops must remain m South
Korea as a "religious teaching." (366)
Based on this and similar doctrines, Moon's followers engaged in
a wide variety of activities which they would later characterize as
"religious." Support of Richard Nixon during the impeachment
proceedings was not political, but rather an effort "* * * to get
people to think more in terms of turning to God for their answers
to Watergate." (367) A Capitol Hill public relations team, organized
to develop contacts with Senators and Congressmen, was similarly
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characterized as part of an effort to remind legislators of spiritual values.
Demonstrations at the U.N. and elsewhere were portrayed in terms of
religious opposition to Communism. Even participation by UC members in a
Moon Organization fishing business was said to be part of their spiritual training
because "it requires great patience and is a test of the mind and body" and
because it is "a religious experience" symbolic of fishing for the souls of
men.(368)
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