Columbus Free Press
Bush moons America
by Bob Fitrakis, April 01, 2000
Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush � the son of former CIA
Director George Herbert Walker Bush � found himself in trouble and faltering
after his New Hampshire defeat to Senator John McCain. A shadowy, secretive
and spooky network centered around right wing religious organizations and
causes rushed to his rescue in South Carolina.
At the crux of this network is the Council for National Policy (CNP) founded
in 1981 by the Rev. Tim LaHaye and T. Cullen Davis, members of the
ultra-right John Birch Society with financial backing from Nelson Bunker
Hunt. Currently, the clandestine CNP has over 500 members and serves as the
Who�s Who network of the United States� right wing. At the center of the
CNP, with a seemingly endless supply of questionable cash, is
self-proclaimed Messiah and mind control cult leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
Ron Godwin, Senior Vice President of the Moon-owned Washington Times, and
Robert Grant, President of Moon-affiliated American Freedom Coalition (AFC),
are CNP members. The main function of the Moon organization seems to be
providing media propaganda and financially propping up failing right wing
organizations. In the mid-1980�s when New Right direct mail king Richard
Viguerie fell into debt, Moon�s Unification Church bought his building for
ten million dollars. Viguerie served on the Board of the AFC and has done
mailings for that organization and the Washington Times. When the Rev. Jerry
Falwell fell on hard times, once again, it was the Moonies to the rescue.
Moon has reportedly lost a billion dollars in the 1980�s and 90�s operating
the Washington Times. In 1992, a PBS Frontline investigative report claimed
that a key money source for Rev. Moon�s far-flung world financial empire was
Ryoichi Sasakawa, the self-proclaimed �world�s richest fascist� who died in
1995. At the time of his death, Sasakawa administered a �charitable
foundation� taking in nearly $24 billion a year from a monopoly on legalized
gambling in Japan.
Sasakawa was one of Japan�s foremost fascists in the 1930�s. He modeled his
own private army of 15,000 men and 20 warplanes after Mussolini�s Black
Shirts. After the World War II, Sasakawa, a classified Class A war criminal,
awaited death in a military prison before suddenly being released by General
Douglas McArthur. Also released with Sasakawa was leading Japanese organized
crime syndicate leader Yoshio Kodama of the Yakuza.
The Japanese News Service KYODO released documents linking Sasakawa to U.S.
military intelligence. Declassified documents link Kodama�s release to the
CIA. Both Kodama and Sasakawa played a key role in the rise of the Moon
organization. In 1977, Congressman Donald Fraser launched an investigation
into the Moonie organization. The 444-page Congressional report alleged
Moonie involvement in arms sales, bribery, bank fraud and illegal kickbacks.
Not surprisingly, the report suggested that Moon�s Unification Church was a
tool of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) and was being used to
influence U.S. foreign and domestic policy. The U.S. CIA created the Korean
KCIA and also established the ties between Sasakawa, Kodama and Moon.
Moon, a Korean, and his two Japanese buddies, first joined forces in the
1960�s to form the Asian people�s Anti-Communist League with the aid of KCIA
agents and allegedly financed by Japanese Yakuza money. In 1964, League
money set up Moon�s �Freedom Center� in the U.S. with crime boss Kodama
serving as Chief Advisor to the Moon subsidiary �Win Over Communism.� In
1966, the League merged with the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, a group
with strong fascist ties to form the World Anti-Communist League led by
retired U.S. Major General John Singlaub. Singlaub, a good friend of the
Bush family, serves on the CNP and enlisted paramilitary organizations to
support the contra cause in Nicaragua. These are the FOBs (Friends of Bush),
a shadowy network connected to the CIA, mind control, fascism and arms and
drug-running. Articles
Spring2000
