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become a KCFF officer ("They say it is unprecedented," Pak wrote at the time);
(458) and (2) subsidies from UC members, who paid living expenses for him from
1965 to 1968. (459)
Korean officials also helped Pak operate the KCFF by
allowing him the use of Government facilities, arranging entertainment for
prospective contributors, and providing other types of assistance. (460)
In 1964, both Presidents Eisenhower and Truman authorized the KCFF to list
them as honorary presidents. Their names were in turn used to convince other
celebrities to lend their support. (461)
By 1965, KCFF had acquired a large and unwieldy Board of Directors,. albeit
one of well-respected Americans and Koreans. In June 1965 an "executive
committee" was established to oversee KCFF operations. (462)
In July 1965, Roland wrote Admiral Arleigh Burke, then president of KCFF, to
ask that his name be removed as a director. He told Burke of Pak's activities on
behalf of the UC (463) and warned that Pak intended to use the KCFF for "the
financial support and propagation of the ideology of The Holy Spirit Association
and its leader, Mr. Sun Myung Moon of Seoul, Korea." Roland enclosed excerpts
from an early UC publication, New Age Frontiers, which indicated that Pak and
Jhoon Rhee intended to use the KCFF to serve Moon. (464)
Admiral Burke stated that Roland's letter disturbed him, particularly the
allegation that Pak intended to use the KCFF to support the UC. He had never
heard of Moon or the UC and had understood Pak to be a Buddhist. Admiral
Burke checked, with Yang You Chan, who supported Pak and who also said he
believed Pak to be a Buddhist. As a result of this and other incidents, Admiral
Burke concluded that the KCFF had to be carefully watched. Since he did not
have time to do so, in August 1965 he submitted his resignation.
Admiral Burke and Robert Roland were the first of a number of KCFF officers,
employees, and directors to resign over allegations of misuse of the KCFF to
serve the interests of Moon.
In 1966, the KCFF launched a new project called "Radio of Free Asia"
(ROFA), which was to broadcast anti-Communist themes to North Korea, China,
and other Communist countries. This project, like the Freedom Center, was
subsidized and to a large degree controlled by the Korean Government, including
the KCIA. As
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with other KCFF projects, the influence of both Kim Jong Pil and Rev. Moon was
present in its establishment and operations.
Lawrence Mays was appointed international chairman of ROFA on July 14,
1966. (465)
In August, Mays, Pak Bo Hi, and Yang You Chan traveled to Korea
to inaugurate ROFA. While in Korea, Mays learned that U.S. Embassy officials
there were hostile to the radio project, in part because of the background of some
of the participants.
Mays said that on his last day in Korea, Pak Bo Hi took him to a secret
meeting at which Moon and a member of the Korean National Assembly were
present. Moon congratulated Mays on the radio project and presented him with a
pair of silver chopsticks. In an interview with subcommittee staff, Mays picked
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