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maintained mutually beneficial ties with a number of Korean officials.
(6) The Moon Organization established the KCFF ostensibly as a nonprofit
foundation to promote Korean-American relations, but used the KCFF to
promote its own political and economic interests and those of the ROK
Government.
(7) The Moon Organization extensively used the names of Senators,
Congressmen, U.S. Presidents, and other prominent Americans to raise
funds and to create political influence for itself and the ROK Government.
(8) A Moon Organization business is an important defense contractor in
Korea. It is involved in the production of M-16 rifles, antiaircraft guns, and
other weapons.
(9) Moon Organization agents attempted to obtain permission from an
American corporation to export M-16's manufactured in Korea. The M-16's
are manufactured under a coproduction
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agreement approved by the U.S. Government, which puts M-16 production
under the exclusive control of the Korean Government. Despite this, Moon
Organization representative appeared-apparently on behalf of the Korean
Government--to negotiate an extension of the agreement.
(10) The Moon Organization attempted to obtain a controlling interest in
the Diplomat National Bank by disguising the source of funds used to
purchase stock in the names of UC members.
(12) The Moon Organization used church and other tax-exempt
components in support of its political and economic activities.
(13) Although many of the goals and activities of the Moon Organization
were legitimate and lawful, there was evidence that it had systematically
violated U.S. tax, immigration, banking, currency, and Foreign Agents
Registration Act laws, as well as State and local laws relating to charity fraud,
and that these violations were related to the organization's overall goals of
gaining temporal power.
Despite the Moon Organization's cooperative relationship with the ROK
Government the UC was far less influential as a religious movement in Korea
than elsewhere. A large proportion of the hundreds of Koreans interviewed in the
course of the investigation said that they had never heard of Moon or the UC until
the early or mid-1970's, when their activities became widely publicized. In the
United States, the UC appears to have had little success in attracting followers
from the Korean community. Most Korean-Americans interviewed expressed
varying degrees of embarrassment or hostility toward Moon and the UC; few saw
them as a positive factor in Korean-American relations.
The subcommittee found that the Moon Organization has had a number of
influential allies in the Korean Government, including Kim Jong Pil, Pak Chong
Kyu, and others.
Although investigations and publicity in the 1976-78 period appeared to have
had an effect on the degree of influence Moon's supporters had with the Korean
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