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who had joined the ROK Army in 1950. (436)
Han Sang Keuk (aka Bud Han), a
follower of Moon's since the late 1950's, became a personal assistant to Kim
Jong Pil, the architect of the 1961 coup and founder of the KCIA. Kim Sang In
(Steve Kim) retired from the ROK Army in May 1961, joined the KCIA and
became an interpreter for Kim Jong Pil]. He continued as a close personal aide to
Kim Jong Pil until 1966. At that time, Steve Kim returned to his position as KCIA
officer, later to become the KCIA's chief of station in Mexico City. He was a close
friend of Pak Bo Hi and a supporter of the UC. The fourth, Han Sang Kil, was a
military attache at the ROK Embassy in Washington in the late 1960's. Executive
branch reports also linked him to the KCIA. On leaving the service of the ROK
Government, Han became Moon's personal secretary and tutor to his children.
In the period immediately after the coup, Kim Jong Pil founded the KCIA and
supervised the building of a political base for the new regime. A February 1963
unevaluated CIA report stated that Kim Jong Pil had "organized" the UC while he
was KCIA director and had been using the UC "as a political tool." (437)
UC spokesmen claimed that the February 1963 report could not be accurate,
since, as noted earlier, Moon started the UC's predecessor, HSAUWC, in 1954,
before Kim Jong Pil came to power.
The term "organized as used in the report is inaccurate to the extent that it is
equivalent to "founded" or suggests that Kim Jong Pil began the Moon
movement. However, as described elsewhere, the UC took many forms and
names and was constantly undergoing organizational changes. Furthermore,
there was a great deal of independent corroboration for the suggestion in this
and later intelligence reports that Kim Jong Pil and the Moon Organization
carried on a mutually supportive relationship, as well as for the statement that
Kim used the UC for political purposes.
As the Park regime consolidated its power, Moon found himself with well-
placed contacts in the new government. As just noted, two ROK Army officers,
Steve Kim (Kim Sang In) and Bud Han (Han Sang Keuk), had been along with
Pak Bo Hi, supporters and proselytizers for the UC even before the 1961 coup.
(438)
Shortly after the coup, these two army officers, both fluent in English, became
aides to Kim Jong Pil and, in their capacity as interpreters, became closely
associated with other ROK government officials as well. Bud Han, for example,
served as translator during Park Chung Hee's meeting with President Kennedy in
November 1961. Steve Kim accompanied Kim Jong Pil on a tour of the United
States in 1962, which was arranged by the U.S. Government. Pak Bo Hi was a
Korean embassy escort officer during part of Kim's tour. (439)
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The Subcommittee obtained a copy of Kim Jong Pil's itinerary for that 1962
trip, which showed that Steve Kim was part of the entourage which toured the
United States, meeting numerous U.S. officials. While in San Francisco, Kim
Jong Pil stayed at the St. Francis Hotel. There he met secretly with a small group
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