The CIA and Moral Re-Armament
In his 1989 book, The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative, top spook Miles Copeland brags of the intelligence agency's control over both Moral Re-Armament and L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology movement. Copeland reports that he served in the 1950s as head of an agency entity known as The Political Action Staff. Under this umbrella, his assistant, Bob Mandlestam, developed an operation called "OHP," or "occultism in high places," described by Copeland as "a theory of political activism based on an impressively detailed study of ways in which leaders of the world based their judgments on one form or another of divine guidance." One of Mandlestam's projects was to "plant astrologists on certain world leaders." Another was to deploy "mystics" in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., home to many government figures, who would use "voodoo magic," based on rites prescribed by the CIA itself, to manipulate Congressmen.
As part of OHP, Copeland and Mandlestam began to utilize the Moral Re-Armament movement, which "gave us useful secret channels right into the minds of leaders, not only in Africa and Asia but also in Europe." After this, Copeland writes:
When Bob made similar arrangements with Scientology, ... we were on our way to having a political action capability which would make the highly expensive, largely ineffective and largely overt "covert action" of Bill Casey's CIA seem trivial by comparison. "MRA will him 'em high, and the Church of Scientology will hit 'em low!" Bob liked to boast, and he was right.
Shocking as Copeland's revelations may seem, they barely scratch the surface of the age-old practice of political manipulation by cults. We will take up that matter, below, in the discussion of Moon's theology.
Moral Re-Armament Today
Moral Re-Armament continued to have a strong presence in the U.S.A., especially student layers, up into the 1960s founding of the anti-Vietnam War movement. Despite its anti-Communist, right-wing profile, Moral Re-Armament literature even found its way into the early anti-Vietnam War movement, in which Bertrand Russell played a guiding role. In the U.S.A., the campus-touring spokesman for the anti-war movement in the 1963-64 period was Russell Stetler, a Haverford College graduate student who had studied with Bertrand Russell in London, and returned as the representative of Russell's International War Crimes Tribunal.
MRA's Agenda for Reconciliation front group has been active in Lebanon, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and elsewhere. It was behind the 1992 Clean Elections Campaign in Taiwan, a similar effort in Kenya, and one in Ghana in the May 2000 election. The Moral Re-Armament spinoff International Communications Forum held a big conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia in September-October 2000. Its U.S. headquarters are in Richmond, Virginia, where it runs an organization called Hope in the Cities. Its Gente que Avanza group, active in Latin America for more than 30 years, has trained 800 young people from 20 countries. Other fronts include Farmer's Dialogue, and a women's organization called Creators of Peace.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Moral Re-Armament launched a new front group, Foundations for Freedom, to penetrate into formerly Communist countries. In 2001, Moral Re-Armament changed it name to Initiatives of Change UK. It still holds international meetings at the Caux, Switzerland site, around the theme of reconciliation among the faiths. Tibetan Buddhism's Dalai Lama has attended twice, along with Jewish, Islamic, and Christian leaders. It continues to intervene on behalf of British grand strategy, using benign-sounding front groups to carry out devious political ends. The "role of the individual as an agent for change in an era of globalization," is a leading theme today.
5. Moonrise Over Asia
The rise of Moon's Unification Church, out of the networks of the Buchman Moral Re-Armament organization, took place in the immediate aftermath of the Korean War—in a nation still occupied by hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, and governed by a dictatorship run from Washington. The oft-told tale that Moon was a creation of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, and that the Moon penetration of America, beginning in the 1960s, was primarily a foreign intelligence penetration, is thus a half-truth—and a misleading one. Moon was up and down, a creation of the KCIA. But ask yourself: What was the controlling force behind the KCIA? Think before you answer, for the "obvious" here is also a trap. It was not "the CIA," as populist-minded Americans—and anti-Americans—conceive of it. Behind the popularly misused term, "the CIA," is something both more interesting, and yet less mysterious, than most conspirophiles imagine. If you truly wish to know dark secrets, seek out that historical-cultural cauldron in which the midnight potions of the Russell-Wells "No-Soul Gang" are brewed. Its intoxicating spells work every bit as potently in Asia as in the West, as we shall soon discover.
The Early Moon
Based on a 1997 profile by historian Anton Chaitkin and other sources, Moon's biography prior to becoming a mass cult leader, can be summarized thusly:
Yong Myung Mun (the name was later changed to fit a Gnostic doctrine) was born in northwestern Korea in 1920. His parents converted to a Pentecostal sect of the Presbyterian Church when he was about 10. Under North Korean Communist rule in 1946, Moon set up his own Pentecostal church, called the Jerusalem of the East (Kwang-ya). It featured shouting, faith-healing, and a Moon innovation called "blood-sharing." Based on pagan fertility rites, this was the unlimited copulation of the pastor with his female followers. On complaints from Christian churches, Moon was arrested by the North Korean police in 1946 for adultery, and again in 1948. He was tried on charges of bigamy and "social disorder," and condemned to five years of hard labor in a prison camp in Hung-nam. After serving two and a half years, he was released by advancing United Nations forces, and made his way south. He soon left his wife, and, without divorcing her, remarried and went back to holy blood-sharing.
Moon moved to Seoul, South Korea in 1954, where he set up the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, or Unification Church. This occurred in connection with the founding of the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, an organization in the orbit of the Frank Buchman Moral Re-Armament grouping. Moon's lawyer at the time was Robert Amory, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Allen Dulles.
Moon was arrested by the Seoul police in July 1955 for indecent activities causing "social disorder." The newspaper Segae reported July 6, 1955 that dozens of upper-class and university women were sexually involved with Moon. He was arrested again, later in 1955 for his furious fornications. On Oct. 4, 1955, after intervention by intelligence agencies, Moon was absolved of all accusations and freed. There began his free and clear path to emergence as a world figure.[8]
Sasagawa and the Japan Connection
The first Unification Church missionary, Sang Ik-Choi, left Korea on June 16, 1958 to set up operations in Japan. Specialists investigating the origins and current funding channels of the Moon operation are consistently led to the Japanese right-wing figure Ryoichi Sasagawa (1899-1995). A brief digression into the Japan connection will help to clarify the whys and wherefores of the curious rise to prominence of the Reverend Moon's sex cult.
Sasagawa was a shipping magnate in 1930s Japan, associated with the Mitsui Group, the trade and banking cartel which had always been aligned with the British factional interest in Japan. Declared a Class A war criminal (he had been an ardent fascist and regular visitor to Hitler's Germany), Sasagawa, at first, had to keep a low profile during the U.S. occupation. But his post-war fortune was rebuilt with help of Gen. William H. Draper, Jr., the anti-population-growth fanatic who founded the Draper Fund for Population Control and spent a time in occupied Japan as Undersecretary of the U.S. Army. Later, Sasagawa became honorary chairman of the Draper Fund, and was also a co-founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome with Alexander King and Aurelio Peccei. Sasagawa provided much of the official funding for the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, set up June 15-18, 1954, in Chinhae, South Korea, This then crossed over into Buchman's Moral Re-Armament networks, and later became a central part of the Moon operation.
In the late 1960s, just before his move to America, the Reverend Moon made an arrangement with Yoshio Kodama, the post-war leader of the 3-million-strong Japan Youth Federation, which formed a cornerstone of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). Kodama had worked very closely with Sasagawa during the 1960s and 1970s. After the meeting, Kodama's lieutenant, Osami Kuboki, became Moon's chief executive for Japan, and the head of the Unification Church there. After Kodama's death in the 1980s, Moon gained increasing influence over the Japan Youth Federation.
But Kodama was also a silent partner in Japan's organized-crime ring known as the Inagaki-kai yakuza. (The yakuza, Japan's mafia gangs, are the laundry for billions of dollars in Asian drug trade cash.) One of Kodama's chief aides was arrested in Hawaii in 1991 for transporting cocaine under cover of the trading activity of the Sagawa Kyubin trucking company. The firm was run by Susumu Ishii, a founder and leader of the yakuza, until his November 1991 death. Reverend Moon's funder, Yoshio Kodama, was an investor in Ishii's trucking firm. The yakuza's dirty drug money is suspected of being the main source for the suitcases full of cash which Moon's members transport regularly into the United States to fund his enormous influence-peddling and corruption operations. The cash and gold watches, which American ministers and Congressmen routinely accept from Moon, are thus, presumably, paid for by the profits of the Asian drug trade. One might consider that, the next time a parishioner's child dies of a drug overdose.
Papa Bush's Cash Cow
The same sources helped pay for the election of current President George W. Bush. In September 1995, when he was seeking money to fund his son's political career, former President George H.W. Bush went on a speaking tour of Japan for the Women's Federation for World Peace, headed by Moon's wife, Hak-ja Han-Moon. After a Sept. 14 address by Mrs. Moon in the Tokyo Dome, former First Lady Barbara Bush declared Mrs. Moon "my sister," according to a small item that appeared the next day in the Moonies' Washington Times. In November 1996, the cash-hungry father Bush toured Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela with Reverend Moon, on a mission to launch a Spanish-language version of the Washington Times for distribution in South America, known as Tiempos del Mundo.
But the Bush family ties to Moon operations preceded all that. According to Japanese intelligence sources, Prescott Bush II ran Asian secret operations for his brother, the first President George Bush. Prescott was an adviser to the just-mentioned Sagawa Kyubin trucking firm involved in the cocaine scandal, and owned by the Moon-connected gangsters Ishii and Kodama. Prescott was also tied in to other Ishii businesses. From 1989 to 1991, he served as a $250,000-a-year consultant to Ishii's Hokusho Sangyo Co., according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reports.
How Japan Became America's Enemy ...
The Japanese connection to the rise of the Moon cult is important for another reason. The presence of the Mitsui group at the center of the Moon and Buchman operations in Japan is a marker for something even more central to understanding the forces behind the Russell-Wells "no-soul gang." Again a step back in history, will make the matter clearer.
When former President Ulysses Grant visited Japan in 1879, at the conclusion of a three-year world tour, he warned the Meiji government against the treachery of the British. Great Britain was then the open enemy of patriotic Americans, and the battle between the American and the British systems the central struggle in the world. How Japan responded to this struggle would be crucial for its future. The fate of China had already been determined a few decades earlier, at a time when America was divided and weaker.
Through two Opium Wars, Britain had subjugated and humiliated China. The first Opium War began in 1839, when China banned the importation of British opium, shipped in from the Indian colony. The British intent was to create the world's largest free market in drugs by addicting the huge population of China's coastal cities. China was no match for British naval power. By the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, she was forced to surrender the ports of Canton, Shanghai, Amoy, Foochow, and Ningpo to British trade, and to cede the island city of Hong Kong entirely to Britain. But worse, China was forced to yield up her population to the scourge of the opium den. The second Opium War from 1856-58, joined in by British and French troops, ended in the Treaty of Tientsin, which forced the opening of ports from the mouth of the Yangtze River north to Manchuria.
In Japan, a pro-American faction developed, which learned the difference between the British and American systems. In 1853, between the two Opium Wars, a Japan previously closed to all foreign contact received U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry, and a treaty of friendship was soon worked out. A circle of reformers grouped around the intellectual leader Yukichi Fukuzawa founded newspapers and a university to educate Japanese political layers to an understanding of the uniqueness of the United States, and argue that Japan adopt America's revolutionary system as a model.[9]
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 overthrew the warlord-feudalist Shogunate, and returned full power to the Emperor, who was under the guidance of a faction of pro-American reformers, steeped in the writings of Alexander Hamilton and the U.S. Constitution. American System economist Erasmus Peshine Smith, the student of Lincoln's ally and economic adviser Henry Charles Carey, was dispatched to Japan by President Grant in 1871 to help guide the economic development program.[10] After the crushing of the Satsuma rebellion in 1877, pro-American reform groups were able to abolish feudalism, nationalize land held by warrior clans, and begin large-scale industrial development.
... And How America Became Its Own Enemy
Similar processes were under way in Germany, under the leadership of American System economist Friedrich List, and in Russia with the help of such figures as the great chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, the author of a plan for industrialization of Russia by railroad development, and the Count Sergei Witte who was allied with the Meiji group in Japan.
The promotion of the American System of economy, and the concept of a government constituted to promote the general welfare—two ideas virtually banned from American history books in the second half of the 20th Century, remained the central aim of Republican administrations, up through the British-sponsored assassination of a newly re-elected President William McKinley in 1901. (That Republican Party, as distinguished from the thing bearing that name today, was the party of Lincoln. The Democratic Party of the time, and continuing up until the breakthrough 1932 campaign of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was the party of slavery and shareholder values, as it has tended to become again, since the disastrous Presidency of Zbigniew Brzezinski's puppet, Jimmy Carter, and the recent hegemony of the Democratic Leadership Council.)
The secret to what happened to the intellectual tradition that produced the American Revolution, Lincoln, and the post-Civil War industrialization, is summed up in this historical fact. In the last quarter of the 19th Century, America's principal allies were Germany, Japan, and Russia—the very same nations which became her principal enemies in the 20th Century. Worse yet, America became its own enemy, betraying its own history by a still-raging case of collective historical amnesia. There was no irony in it. That was precisely the result which the grandson of Palmerston ally Lord John Russell, and his lower-class sidekick, Wells, had intended.[11]
Buchman Again
The Japanese family cartels which tended toward a pro-British stance from an early point, were Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Shibusawa. The Mitsui banking and trading company complex had been the leading Japanese partner of Jardine Matheson and Company, the Scottish shipping firm which controlled the largest share of the British Empire monopoly in opium. Moral Re-Armament founder Frank Buchman met the Barons Mitsui and Shibusawa (then the Finance Minister) in 1915, when he travelled to Japan on his YMCA-sponsored Asian tour. Later, Buchman came to know intimately Kichizaemon Sumitomo of the Sumitomo cartel, and the entire Shibusawa banking family.
The Baron Mitsui's second son, Takasumi, came to study in England, first at Halford Mackinder's London School of Economics, and later at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1935, Prof. B.H. Streeter, the Moral Re-Armament leader and provost of Queens College, Oxford, invited young Takasumi Mitsui to meet with Buchman. Buchman attempted to use Takasumi for a three-pronged penetration: to push for Anglo-Japanese rapprochement; to intervene into the conflict in China; and, to "bring Japan into a united front with Britain and the Axis powers for a crusade against Bolshevism," in Buchman's words.
It was exactly the geopolitical program which Haushofer had dictated to Hitler as he composed Mein Kampf. No surprise that it should coincide with the program at Oxford, since Haushofer acknowledged he had taken his geopolitical analysis—that whoever controlled the "Eurasian heartland" (Germany, Central Europe, and Russia) controlled the world—from the Coefficients' Halford Mackinder. Buchman and the Oxford Group were hardly alone in their efforts. In 1935, before Hitler turned westward, the policy of bleeding "the heartland," by engineering a confrontation between Hitler and the Soviet Union, was the prevailing policy among the British elite.
Takasumi was induced to return to Japan. "Sumi must become a peacemaker," the pious fraud Buchman intoned. The young Mitsui reached Japan in 1939, where he gave several lectures on Moral Re-Armament before businessmen's clubs, and to a captive audience of Mitsui executives. But the pro-Axis militarists who held the reins of power did not want to hear of collaboration with the British at this late date. His high connections allowed him to escape punishment by the militarists, and Takasumi was permitted to establish a school in Tokyo during the war. Despite his pro-Hitler sentiments, he was also spared punishment during the American occupation, and by 1947 had become the leader of the now widely accepted Japanese branch of Moral Re-Armament.
6. Transformation in Koream
The Korean War provided the venue for the next phase of implementation of the Russell-Wells scenario. The penetration by U.S. military and intelligence circles by that point, was the key to the operation used to create Moon. In the middle 1950s, U.S. military intelligence and the Allen Dulles-controlled CIA operations crowd were all over Korea, training and recruiting assets, and monitoring all political, social, and religious activity under the Sygman Rhee dictatorship. According to former U.S. Air Force Intelligence officer Col. Fletcher Prouty, the securely controlled environment and huge military presence made South Korea an ideal base for the "Secret Team" operations of the notorious Gen. Edward Lansdale, which ranged throughout Asia.
One key reminder of the bigger picture is necessary, before turning to the details of the recruitment and transformation of the sex deviant, who now imagines himself the Messiah.
The war in Korea had marked a decisive advance for the British Utopian influence over the United States, in many ways. President Truman's 1951 firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who would not accept the "limited war" concept central to the Russell-Wells doctrine, was a marker for the growing influence of the Utopian faction in the U.S. military. After World War II, traditionalist military men had fought against the development of a Central Intelligence Agency separate from the military branch intelligence services, and lost. As the Utopians gained control, the military intelligence services as well were penetrated and corrupted into instruments of Utopian policy.
After 1945, the whole military-strategic environment was shaped by the bomb. The unnecessary dropping of the only two fission weapons in the U.S. arsenal on a Japan that was already negotiating a surrender, was the greatest triumph of the Russell-Wells faction. Just as Wells had called for in The Open Conspiracy, the demonstrated existence of a weapon too terrible to contemplate, opened the way to soliciting nations to the surrender sovereignty to a world entity. Bertrand Russell's role, from his post-war call for a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Union, to his position in brokering relations between Kennedy and Khrushchov in the Cuban missile crisis, was central. One cannot properly make sense of any significant development in the post-war world without grasping the central influence of that Russell-Wells Utopian doctrine in shaping them.[12]
The Rise of the Sex Deviant
For obvious reasons, every detail of Moon's turning and recruitment by Western intelligence services cannot be known. His 1955 imprisonment on sex offenses was likely the scene for the recruitment effort by American-trained Korean intelligence operatives. Some time after Moon's jailing, four Korean military officers with U.S. intelligence training joined the Moon cult. The four were later to become operatives of U.S. intelligence asset Maj. Kim Jong Pil, the founder of the KCIA and the man who installed the Park Chung Hee regime in a 1961 coup.
These four early Moonies were:
*Â Kam Jan In (a.k.a. Steve Kim), who served as Kim's interpreter and later became KCIA station chief in Mexico City, where sources report he was instrumental in establishing connections between Moon and the drug cartels;
*Â Hang Sang Keuk, later Korean ambassador to Norway, where he served as liaison for the Moon organization to the Captive Nations organizations of Communist East Europe.
*Â Hang Sang Kil, who became Moon's personal secretary after serving as liaison with the U.S. Department of the Defense at Korea's Embassy in Washington; and
*Â Col. Bo Hi Pak, who still runs Moon's U.S. operation, and was originally the link between the Korean Embassy and the U.S. National Security Agency, according to Robert Boettcher's Gifts of Deceipt.
Moon was absolved of all charges, and released from his South Korean jail cell on Oct. 4, 1955. A few days later, his Unification Church acquired a Buddhist temple at Chong-Padong in Seoul, which became its headquarters. By the end of 1955 there were 30 Unification Church centers throughout South Korea, spreading Moon's Gnostic gospel. Even so, the scandals did not subside. Segae in 1957 alleged Moon to have had orgies with 70 students.
One of Moon's early disciples, Chung Hwa Pak, broke with him, and made public charges that Moon practiced his sex rituals with, among others, six married female disciples. Moon claimed that these women were preparing the way for the virgin, who would marry him and become the True Mother. The charges were made public in the widely circulated text The Tragedy of the Six Marys, later published in Japanese. Pak later returned to Moon's payroll, and recanted his accusations.
KCIA chief Maj. Kim Jong Pil reportedly relied heavily on two important sources to fund KCIA covert operations: first, Japan's Class A War criminal, Ryoichi Sasagawa; second, Israeli slimeball Shaul Eisenberg. Eisenberg, who is at the center of more politically tainted shady business dealings than one can shake a judge's gavel at, brokered deals with the Japanese for the KCIA's Kim; he may also have been the go-between in establishing Walker Casino and resort near Seoul in 1962, which provided a money-laundering capability for covert operations.
Many of these facts come up in exposés, such as Boettcher's, and in the 1978 Fraser Committee hearings before Congress. The common error is in implying primary intent to the KCIA or even to the interests of the Moon cult itself. As we have seen, the mother lies elsewhere.
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