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From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 23, 2007 8:02:02 AM PDT
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Subject: Moon as some kind of James Bond 'SPECTRE' and religion
rolled into one:
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/05/well-god-is-in-heaven-and-we-all-
want.html#comments
From one of Jeff's links above, Moon as some kind of James Bond
'SPECTRE' and religion rolled into one:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2006/122706.html
As part of his business strategy, Moon explained that he would dot
the continent with small airstrips and construct bases for
submarines which could evade Coast Guard patrols. His airfield
project would allow tourists to visit “hidden, untouched, small
places” throughout South America, he said.
“Therefore, they need small airplanes and small landing strips in
the remote countryside,” Moon said. “In the near future, we will
have many small airports throughout the world.” Moon wanted the
submarines because “there are so many restrictions due to national
boundaries worldwide. If you have a submarine, you don’t have to be
bound in that way.”
(As strange as Moon’s submarine project might sound, a cable from
the U.S. Embassy in Japan, dated Feb. 18, 1994, cited press reports
that a Moon-connected Japanese company, Toen Shoji, had bought 40
Russian submarines. The subs were supposedly bound for North Korea
where they were to be dismantled and melted down as scrap.)"
and very SPECTRE like, Moon as Dr. No in Uraguay, that location
where Bush family wants to escape to as well:
Moon’s relocation to Uruguay didn’t go entirely without a hitch.
More evidence surfaced about Moon’s alleged South American money
laundry.
In 1996, the Uruguayan bank employees union blew the whistle on one
scheme in which some 4,200 female Japanese followers of Moon
allegedly walked into the Moon-controlled Banco de Credito in
Montevideo and deposited as much as $25,000 each.
The money from the women went into the account of an anonymous
association called Cami II, which was controlled by Moon’s
Unification Church.
In one day, Cami II received $19 million and, by the time the
parade of women ended, the total had swelled to about $80 million.
It was not clear where the money originated, nor how many other
times Moon’s organization has used this tactic – sometimes known as
“smurfing” – to transfer untraceable cash into Uruguay.
Authorities did not push the money-laundering investigation,
apparently out of deference to Moon’s political influence and fear
of disrupting Uruguay’s banking industry.
Still, Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic group, and some
investigative journalists kept up pressure for a fuller examination
of financial irregularities at Moon’s bank. Sometimes, the critics
found their work a risky business.
In January 1997, only two months after the money-laundering flap,
Pablo Alfano, a reporter for El Observador who had been
investigating Moon’s operations, was kidnapped by two unidentified
men.
The men claimed not to belong to Moon’s Unification Church, but
threatened Alfano at gunpoint unless he revealed his sources on
Moon’s operations.
One gunman shoved a revolver into Alfano’s mouth and warned “this
is no joke.” After holding Alfano for 30 minutes, the gunmen
returned the reporter to his house, with a warning that they knew
his movements and those of his family.
Despite the threats, the reporter said he refused to disclose his
sources. But the message was clear: he should drop his
investigation. [fn, FBIS, Jan. 30, 1997.]
Other critics condemned Moon’s heavy-handed tactics. “The first
thing we ought to do is clarify to the people [of Uruguay] that
Moon’s sect is a type of modern pirate that came to the country to
perform obscure money operations, such as money laundering,” said
Jorge Zabalza, who was a leader of the Movimiento de Participacion
Popular, part of Montevideo’s ruling left-of-center political
coalition. “This sect is a kind of religious mob that is trying to
get public support to pursue its business.”
Finally, in 1998, Uruguayan Central Bank president Ramon Diaz
pushed the long-whispered allegations against Moon’s bank into the
parliamentary record. Diaz accused Banco de Credito of violating
financial rules, operating at a constant loss, practicing dubious
credit policies with insolvent customers and holding inadequate
cash reserves.
Diaz demanded that the bank add $30 million in capital within 48
hours or face government intervention.
Within hours, panicked customers pulled $10 million in deposits out
of the bank.
Diaz’s goal of forcing Moon to sell the bank seemed within reach.
One senator claimed that Diaz hoped an Argentine investment group
would step in and take over the bank.
Moon proved, however, that his seemingly bottomless well of cash
could fill the bank’s vaults in a crisis. Before the 48-hour
deadline, Moon transferred $30 million into the ailing bank and
retained control.
Banco de Credito continued to suffer chronic financial troubles.
The bank again slipped into a deficit estimated at $120 million.
Same Japanese "smurfing" going on in the USA by the Moon Church:
First-Hand Evidence
In Nansook Moon’s 1998 memoirs, In the Shadow of the Moons, Moon’s
ex-daughter-in-law – writing under her maiden name Nansook Hong –
alleged that Moon’s organization had engaged in a long-running
conspiracy to smuggle cash into the United States and to deceive
U.S. Customs agents.
“The Unification Church was a cash operation,” Nansook Hong wrote.
“I watched Japanese church leaders arrive at regular intervals at
East Garden [the Moon compound north of New York City] with paper
bags full of money, which the Reverend Moon would either pocket or
distribute to the heads of various church-owned business
enterprises at his breakfast table.
“The Japanese had no trouble bringing the cash into the United
States; they would tell customs agents that they were in America to
gamble at Atlantic City. In addition, many businesses run by the
church were cash operations, including several Japanese restaurants
in New York City. I saw deliveries of cash from church headquarters
that went directly into the wall safe in Mrs. Moon’s closet.”
Mrs. Moon pressed her daughter-in-law into one cash-smuggling
incident after a trip to Japan in 1992, Nansook Hong wrote.
Mrs. Moon had received “stacks of money” and divvied it up among
her entourage for the return trip through Seattle, Nansook Hong
wrote. “I was given $20,000 in two packs of crisp new bills,” she
recalled. “I hid them beneath the tray in my makeup case. ... I
knew that smuggling was illegal, but I believed the followers of
Sun Myung Moon answered to higher laws.”
U.S. currency laws require that cash amounts above $10,000 be
declared at Customs when the money enters or leaves the country. It
is also illegal to conspire with couriers to bring in lesser
amounts when the total exceeds the $10,000 figure.
In the Shadow of the Moons raised anew the question of whether
Moon’s money laundering – from mysterious sources in both Asia and
South America – has made him a conduit for illicit foreign money
influencing the U.S. government and American politics.
Moon’s spokesmen have denied that he launders drug money or moves
money from other criminal enterprises. They attribute his wealth to
donations and business profits, but have refused to open Moon’s
records for public inspection.
Still, Nansook Hong’s first-hand allegations and the alleged money-
laundering in Uruguay might reasonably have prompted more questions
in the United States about how Moon could continue lavishing
billions of dollars on U.S. conservative publications and causes.
And Moon bailed out Falwell's flagship enterprises as well, even,
and the Falwell and Moon personnel criss-crossed to make it very
much the same organization:
Covertly, Moon had helped bail out Liberty University through one
of his front groups which funneled $3.5 million to the Reber-Thomas
Christian Heritage Foundation, the non-profit that had purchased
the school’s debt.
I discovered this Moon-Falwell connection while looking for
something else: how much Moon’s Women’s Federation for World Peace
had paid former President George H.W. Bush for a series of speeches
in Asia in 1995.
I obtained the federation’s Internal Revenue Service records but
discovered that Bush’s undisclosed speaking fee was buried in a
line item of $13.6 million for conference expenses.
There was, however, another listing for a $3.5 million
“educational” grant to the Christian Heritage Foundation. A call to
the Virginia corporate records office confirmed that the foundation
was the one run by [Falwell bailout organizers] Reber and Thomas.
In a subsequent interview, the Women Federation’s vice president
Susan Fefferman confirmed that the $3.5 million grant had gone to
“Mr. Falwell’s people” for the benefit of Liberty University.
“It was Dan Reber,” she said. But she could not recall much else
about the grant, even though it was by far the largest single grant
awarded by the federation that year.
For details on the grant, Fefferman referred me to Keith
Cooperrider, the federation’s treasurer. Cooperrider was also the
chief financial officer of Moon’s Washington Times and a longtime
Unification Church functionary.
Cooperrider did not return calls seeking comment.
Falwell and Reber also failed to respond to my calls, though
Falwell later defended his acceptance of the money by saying it had
no influence on his ministry.
...
But the public record also reveals that Falwell solicited Moon’s
help in bailing out Liberty University. In a lawsuit filed in the
Circuit Court of Bedford County – a community in southwestern
Virginia – two of Reber’s former business associates alleged that
Reber and Falwell flew to South Korea on Jan. 9, 1994, on a seven-
day “secret trip” to meet “with representatives of the Unification
Church.”
The court document states that Reber and Falwell were accompanied
to South Korea by Ronald S. Godwin, who had been executive director
of Falwell’s Moral Majority before signing on as vice president of
Moon’s Washington Times.
According to Bedford County court records, Reber, Falwell and
Godwin also had discussions at Liberty University in 1993 with Dong
Moon Joo, one of Moon’s right-hand men and president of the
Washington Times.=
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