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Organization received aid and direction from the Korean Government in
connection with its investment in the Diplomat National Bank.
Whether the Moon Organization did or did not invest in the bank in
cooperation with the Korean Government, it was clear to the subcommittee that
control over the bank was the Moon Organization's objective. It would have
helped the organization keep currency "freely coming back and forth," in Moon's
own words, without attracting the attention of neutral bank officers, and would
have facilitated loans for business investments.
By early 1976, both the Moon Organization, through its investments and
deposits, and to a lesser extent the Korean Government,
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through its control over correspondent banking relationships, were in a position to
influence the future course of the Diplomat National Bank. Adverse publicity
beginning in the spring of 1976 interrupted whatever plans either the Government
or the Moon Organization might have had to use and control the bank. Since
then, the Moon Organization has been preoccupied with explaining its investment
and the sources of funds to investigating authorities, and minimizing the adverse
publicity arising from its attempt to gain control of an American bank.
Conclusions and Recommendations
The subcommittee findings regarding the Moon Organization may be
summarized as follows:
(1) The UC and numerous other religious and secular organizations
headed by Sun Myung Moon constitute essentially one international
organization. This organization depends heavily upon the interchangeability of
its components and upon its ability to move personnel and financial assets
freely across international boundaries and between businesses and nonprofit
organizations.
(2) The Moon Organization attempts to achieve goals outlined by Sun
Myung Moon, who has substantial control over the economic, political, and
spiritual activities undertaken by the organization in pursuit of those goals.
(3) Among the goals of the Moon Organization is the establishment of a
worldwide government in which the separation of church and state would be
abolished and which would be governed by Moon and his followers.
(4) In pursuit of this and other goals, the Moon Organization has
attempted, with varying degrees of success, to gain control over or establish
business and other secular institutions in the United States and elsewhere,
and has engaged in political activities in the United States. Some of these
activities were undertaken to benefit the ROK Government or otherwise to
influence U.S. foreign policy.
(5) While pursuing its own goals, the Moon Organization promoted the
interests of the ROK Government, and at times did so in cooperation with, or
at the direction of, ROK agencies and officials. The Moon Organization
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