-------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MC] BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BRIBED FOR POLL RESULTS PRIOR TO WWII Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:51:56 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/22/99 5:37:12 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lloyd Miller) writes: > Washington Times, Tuesday, January 19, 1999, "Inside Politics," compiled > by Mary Ann Akers: > > FAKE POLLS > > Can public opinion polls be trusted? Not according to Thomas E. Mahl, > whose new book, "Desperate Deception," details the efforts of British > Security Coordination (BSC) agents to drum up support for U.S. > intervention in World War II. > Whenever I see the Washington Times listed as a news source, I think of Sun Yung Moon. A friend of mine wrote an interesting article about his Church. I've copied it here, with permission, and removed her name. Samantha MOONIE DESIGNS ON AMERICAN POLITICS By "The Washington Times" newspaper has long been bankrolled and controlled by Moonie interests. The paper's former editorial page editor, William Cheshire, said he thinks the paper is operating in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. ("Cults and the Media," Cult Awareness Network News, December 1990.) The Act requires foreign controlled businesses to make financial and other forms of disclosure to the Justice Department and was originally passed to expose covert Nazi funding of American newspapers. According to Frederick Clarkson, ETERNAL HOSTILITY, several Moon media executives, including San Kook Han, were Korean CIA (KCIA) officials during the "Koreagate" era in the '70s. Many former Unification Church members accuse the organization of using deceptive recruiting practices and indoctrination techniques that amount to brainwashing. Some report the church strong-arms members to remain in the church against their will. Many who manage to make it out of the cult report that soon after members are indoctrinated, they're coerced to abandon their families and become members of the "True Family" (the Unification Church.) Church members are taught that Rev. Moon is the Messiah and that Rev. and Mrs. Moon are their "True Parents." Clarkson reports that former member Steve Hassan stated the Moonies used social isolation, nutrition and sleep deprivation for indoctrination purposes. When Hassan was first approached and asked recruiters their intentions, they claimed they didn't represent a religious group. Hassan reports that Unification Church recruits are taught that any doubts they have about Rev. Moon are "satanic attacks or evil spirits trying to get in" and are repeatedly told their families are satanic. Members are taught "thought stopping" techniques to prevent doubts about Moon. Hassan's family eventually hired deprogrammers who compared Moon's theocratic goals and fascistic methods to Hitler's. Hassan was so thoroughly brainwashed that during the deprogramming he thought that even if Moon were Hitler, he would follow him. Today Hassan works to help church victims. NBC's "Today Show" exposed the fact that Cynthia Lilley's daughter Cathryn was recruited into the Moonies through a campus recruiting arm, the Moon front group Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP). Cathryn claims she was systematically programmed to see her family as "controlled by Satan" and was coerced to spend long hours raising funds for the church and was forced into social isolation. Religious freedom implies voluntary participation. However, the Unification Church deceives as they recruit, holds people against their will and uses standard brainwashing techniques including isolation, sleep deprivation and doctrinal programming. Our government allows this in part because Moonies (like some other rightwing "religious" organizations) hide their primarily political agenda behind a banner of "freedom of religion." Rev. Sun Myung Moon has worked to get Unification Church tentacles into every phase of rightwing politics. Literally hundreds of Moonie front groups bankroll and work with "conservative" politicians. Moonies send out their members to give the false appearance of grassroot support for political causes. Moon's American Freedom Coalition (AFC) staged pro-Gulf War rallies in all fifty states in 1990 and 1991, including a rally of 400 people at the Statue of Liberty. ("Pro-War Rally Near Lady Liberty: 'Let Freedom Ring' 400 Activists Told," "Bergen County Record," February 10, 1991.) The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) is an international alliance of fascist and Nazi groups, "conservatives," governments and individuals. Frederick Clarkson (ETERNAL HOSTILITY, Common Courage Press, 1997) writes that the head of the Unification Church in Japan was a member of the WACL board of directors for years. "The Japanese section of WACL, Shokyo Rengo, was founded in 1968 as an alliance between top Unification Church officials and leaders of the Yakuza (Japanese organized crime), notably Yoshio Kodama," according to Clarkson. Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), spoke at the annual WACL conference in Tokyo in 1970 and later helped Rev. Moon get into the U.S. by working to overcome his immigration problems. (Robert Boettcher, GIFTS OF DECEIT: SUN MYUNG MOON, TONGSUN PARK, AND THE KOREAN SCANDAL, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1980; Frederick Clarkson, "God Is Phasing Out Democracy," "Covert Action Quarterly," Spring, 1987.) After Congress cut off CIA funding for the contras in 1984, the Moonie- supported WACL helped provide contra arms and money. Moon's front group CAUSA also provided contra money. (John Lee Anderson and Scott Anderson, INSIDE THE LEAGUE: THE SHOCKING EXPOSE OF HOW TERRORISTS, NAZIS AND LATIN AMERICAN DEATH SQUADS HAVE INFILTRATED THE WORLD ANTI-COMMUNIST LEAGUE, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986.) Frederick Clarkson writes that in a November 15, 1979 press statement, former WACL youth leader Allen Tate Wood said that Moon told him to "win the power centers" of the U.S., starting with academia. Wood also stated Moon told him: "Part of our strategy in the U.S. must be to make friends in the FBI, the CIA and police forces, the military and business community ... as a means of entering the political arena, influencing foreign policy, and ultimately establishing absolute dominion over the American people." In the 1970s, the Fraser Senate Investigating Committee looked into "Koreagate." Staff Director of the Fraser Committee, Robert Boettcher, wrote that Rev. Moon strongly disliked American individualism and showed church leaders Nazi training films as examples of how to recruit and train Moonies. (Boettcher's GIFTS OF DECEIT, referenced above.) Then-U.S. Rep. Donald Fraser said the Senate Committee discovered that Moonie leaders were told it was Moon's desire to start political work in the U.S. and that objection to Moon's goals would equal objection to God. (Fraser Committee Report, page 320.) President George Bush was head of the CIA when Koreagate broke in 1976 and knew the above details. Despite that, Bush (1) Did nothing to oppose the Unification Church's deceptive, coercive, brainwashing tactics or designs on our political system, and (2) In 1995 spoke at a series of Moon rallies in the U.S. and Japan. The rallies were hosted by Mrs. Moon's front group Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP). (Jolen Chang, "Asian Fortune," March 1995.) Bush received one million pounds for payment according to the "British Daily Mail." ("Bush and '1M from Moonies,' "Daily Mail," September 5, 1995.) George Bush claimed innocence and gave his only interview on the subject to the Moonie paper, "The Washington Times." Bush praised the WFPF's "great emphasis on family" and told the "Times:" "Until I see something about the Women's Federation that troubles me, I will continue to encourage them." (Peter McGill, et al, "Ed Schreyer and the Moonies," "Maclean's," October 23, 1995; Andrew Pollack, "Bush Host In Japan Tied To Rev. Moon," "The New York Times," September 4, 1995.) Because Bush headed the CIA during Koreagate, he likely knew that when the Moonies talk of "family" they mean the "True Family" of the Unification Church. As former head of the CIA, he must also have known of "The Washington Times" Moonie connections. Frederick Clarkson (ETERNAL HOSTILITY) notes that Moon-sponsored events operate under deceptively conventional sounding names. The Moon-backed "Global Family Festival" sounds conservative, but to church members it refers to the "True Family." In 1994, then-Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), sponsored supporting a "Parent's Day" resolution that turned out to be initiated by the Unification Church. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) addressed Moon's CAUSA-sponsored "American Leadership Conferences" at least five times in 1988 alone. (Frederick Clarkson, "Heaven and Helms," "Washington City Paper," August 18, 1989.) Conservative activists came together at those meetings for strategy sessions and INDOCTRINATION into CAUSA ideology, or "Godism." Rev. Jerry Falwell, Senator Orrin Hatch and CA Rep. Pete Wilson also addressed the conferences. One conscientious moderate Republican, Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) said in 1983: "A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy." ("Ripon Forum," January 1983.) The billions of dollars of Unification Church money -- money used to bankroll "The Washington Times" and certain religious right and Republican interests in the U.S. -- comes partly from Japanese Moonies selling religious artifacts and other items at inflated prices. American Moonies are also used to sell flowers and raise funds. In Japan, over 300 lawsuits have been filed against the Church by members who say they were "duped into paying exorbitant prices for vases, prayer beads or other religious objects, sometimes under pressure from church members who said their relatives would 'burn in hell' unless they donated." (Kevin Sutherland and Mary Jordan, "Once-Generous Japanese Become Disenchanted With Moon's Church," "The Washington Post," August 4, 1996.) Given the Unification Church's totalitarian methods, why is the Moonie- supported "Washington Times" newspaper shown respect by mainstream politicians and TV network news talk show hosts? Why don't powerful U.S. officials conduct another investigation similar to the Fraser Committee's investigation in the 1970s? Moon funnels millions of dollars to rightwing political causes and provides "bodies" for conservative rallies. He helped fund the contras. The religious right and Republican Party can use Moon's money and the "grassroots" support of his brainwashed legions. Rep. Jim Leach was right. The Republican and religious right alliance with Moon can't be ethically justified. Some publications and organizations play down or whitewash Moon's influence in American politics. The alternative media and ordinary citizens who care, should get the word out regarding the Unification Church's recruiting practices (especially the effort to recruit on college campuses) and their publicly stated designs on our political system (as documented in the Fraser Report and elsewhere.) We should also lobby the mainstream media to disassociate itself from the Moonie newspaper, "The Washington Times." --------------------------------------------------
