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Won had attempted to give Ikeda the money, but she refused; Yang then turned
to Pak, who persuaded Ikeda to take the money. Pak said he did not know
whether Ikeda's expenses during her speaking tour were originally paid by the
UC, or even what her job was at that time.
549
Pak's testimony about the Ikeda incident was marked by inexplicable lapses
of memory and gaps in his knowledge. Pak first identified Ikeda as a Japanese
UC member whom he had known for many years. Later, when Ikeda was quoted
in the Japanese press as having denied being a UC member (a denial she later
recanted), Pak testified that he really didn't know whether she was a UC member
or not, but assumed she was because her husband was a member. Between
Pak's first mention of the payment to Ikeda during his testimony before the
subcommittee on March 22, 1978, and his next appearance on April 11, 1978,
Ikeda traveled from Tokyo to New York where she met with Pak before returning
to Tokyo. Questioned about that meeting, Pak could not recall when or where the
meeting took place and did not know why Ikeda made the trip to New York or
how her expenses were paid.
550
Even if Pak's testimony is accepted on its face, it constitutes an admission
that KCIA money was used to reimburse a UC member for services on behalf of
the Korean Government and, further, that Pak helped the KCIA persuade the
woman to take the money. This incident, together with others such as the
planned anti-Japanese demonstration in 1974, lent additional support to
executive branch reports that the Moon Organization had been used by the KCIA
and other ROK agencies to carry out Korean Government policies and had been
rewarded by the Government for these efforts.
Pak Bo Hi's testimony before the subcommittee brought to a head the intense
propaganda campaign being conducted by the Moon Organization against the
subcommittee and its chairman.
551
This campaign illustrated again the
cohesiveness of the Moon Or-
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ganization, as the economic, political, and other components were mobilized to
work toward a single goal. Moon businesses provided Japanese TV crews to
tape subcommittee hearings, later edited for use on Korean television and in
"documentaries" shown to UC members. Brochures glorifying Pak Bo Hi were
prepared by Moon printers and distributed to UC members, who were also
mobilized to attend the hearings and to campaign against the subcommittee
chairman in a Senate primary race. Moon newspapers such as News World and
The Rising Tide propagandized against the subcommittee and cast Pak Bo Hi in
a martyr's role. The Capitol Hill PR team and other UC members at times spread
rumors that the subcommittee chairman and staff members were Communist
agents or sympathizers.
552
There was reason to believe that parts of the campaign were coordinated with
the Korean Government, which had embarked upon a similar--though apparently
less intense public relations effort of its own. As early as May 1977, Clyde
Wallace told subcommittee staff that he had been approached by UC members
to work on a story linking the subcommittee chairman to Communism. Wallace
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