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supervision and control over ROFA broadcasting. KCIA director Kim Hyung
Wook and the Minister of Culture and Information helped Pak Bo Hi establish
ROFA by arranging for ROFA to use government facilities. Kim Hyung Wook
viewed ROFA as a means of carrying on work which would otherwise have to be
done at the expense to the Government, at a time when "* * * the Korean
Government was short of money to do this kind of work. * * * " (490)
The KCFF, in turn, had received favors and support from ROK Government
agencies and officials. Already discussed were the free use of ROK broadcasting
facilities for ROFA (which did not involve an actual outlay of Government funds,
but still saved the KCFF money), and ROK Government support for the Little
Angels.
The three Kim Jong Pil aides who were active in the early days of the KCFF--
Bud Han, Steve Kim and Mickey Kim--all went on to assume more prominent
roles in the Government. Steve Kim joined the KCIA, where he served for a time
as liaison to the U.S. CIA. (491)
While KCIA station chief in Mexico City, he
made frequent trips to Washington, and there was reason to believe that Steve
Kim was Tongsun Park's "control officer" in the KCIA. (492)
Pak Bo Hi
acknowledged having a close friendship with Steve Kim and said that Kim was
an early supporter of the UC. (493) Kim frequently assisted the KCFF. (494) Bud
Han was later to become ROK Ambassador to Norway. (495)
Mickey Kim served as an aide to Park Chong Kyu, head of the Presidential
Protective Force, and also became head of the World Tae Kwando (Karate)
Association. KCFF records revealed a number of payments to Mickey Kim and
his karate association. KCFF accounting records referred to his being helpful to
the KCFF in unspecified ways. (496) Kim Chong Hoon, ROFA's operations
director from 1967 to 1972, said Mickey Kim had "helped a lot." (497)
Kim Jong Pil and his aides were not the only ROK officials to assist the KCFF
or to receive favors from it. Yang You Chan, one of KCFF's founders, was a
Korean Government official during most of the time he was associated with the
foundation. Yang was appointed special adviser to the Korean delegation to the
U.N. in 1964, and in subsequent years he served in various special positions for
the ROK Government. During all this time, Yang was serving as an adviser and
executive vice president of the KCFF and later became chairman of the board.
Yang on one occasion instructed a KCFF officer to draft a speech for President
Park of Korea, (498)
on another, he arranged for $2,200 apparently for travel
expenses, to be paid out of KCFF funds for three Korean officials who were on a
trip for the Government. (499) In 1967, KCFF minutes noted that
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Yang was in Korea for the ROK Government upon the invitation of President
Park but would also be doing business for KCFF. (500)
In January 1970, Yang resigned as KCFF's chairman, shortly after his letters
of December, 1969, to ROFA contributors had been received by Congressmen,
Senators, and other prominent Americans. Senator Fulbright, who received one,
later charged that it was part of an ROK lobbying attempt. (501) Yang's letter of
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