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Yong), who was later a counselor at the Korean Embassy in Washington.
Several references to Mickey Kim were made in early KCFF correspondence; a
March 1964 letter recounted a briefing Pak Bo Hi gave the Korean Ambassador
about the plans for the KCFF. Mickey Kim had been appointed Embassy Project
Officer for cultural activities "with particular emphasis on the Freedom Center."
(448)
The Freedom Center, (449) was a project of Asian People's Anti-Communist
League (APACL) and was promoted and subsidized by the Korean Government.
The manner in which the Freedom Center came to be adopted as a proposed
KCFF project reflected the foundation's shift from a cultural to an ideological
emphasis.
When the first brochure describing the KCFF was prepared in December
1963, the stated objectives of the KCFF were to support cultural, educational,
and religious activities; the Little Angels was the only project then contemplated.
(450)
In January 1964, Kim Jong Pil was named first Honorary Chairman of KCFF
(Pak Bo Hi had supplied Admiral Burke with Kim's resume, since Admiral Burke
did not know anything about Kim). (451) By the spring of 1964, Kim had arranged
for the Freedom Center to become KCFF's primary project. (452) A revised
brochure was prepared. Instead of claiming cultural, artistic, religious, and social
welfare activities as the foundation's only activities, it took a strong anti-
Communist line:
"Its [KCFF's] primary mission is to tell the American people why, in support of
firmly established Government policy, we have drawn a line against further
communist aggression in Asia and have dedicated American lives and treasure
to the unswerving maintenance of this policy." (453)
In explaining the KCFF's support of the Freedom Center, the brochure
disclosed that the Korean Government had already provided $796,231 in
subsidies to the project. (454)
In an April 1965 letter, Pak BO Hi stated that Kim Jong Pil had been the one
to urge the KCFF to support the Freedom Center as one of its initial projects.
(455)
The KCFF could not itself afford to support the Center at that time, but its
officers agreed to have it serve as a repository for American donations. (456)
At the same time that Kim Jong Pil was maneuvering the KCFF into adopting
one of his (and the Korean Government's) projects, Pak was arranging for KCFF
sponsorship of the Little Angels, the
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group Moon had started. It was during this period that Pak told Robert Roland of
his plans to use the KCFF and the Little Angels on behalf of both Rev. Moon and
the Korean Government. (457)
Between 1965 and 1968, Pak received no salary from the KCFF, although
he worked there full-time and virtually ran it. Pak's work for the KCFF was made
possible: (1) through the quick action of the Korean Government in granting him
a discharge from the army and allowing him to return to the United States to
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