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A profile of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who after reemerging from a prison sentence for conspiracy and false tax returns, has become a notable figure in conservative-leaning politics, media, and causes.

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00:00Frontline is a presentation of the Documentary Consortium.
00:08Reverend Sung Young Moon has been spending vast sums of money lately,
00:13investing in tourism and industry in North Korea, and trying to buy a university in Bridgeport,
00:18Connecticut for 50 million dollars. But Moon's objectives have remained a mystery.
00:25Now Frontline has completed a revealing year-long investigation of Moon.
00:30According to a highly placed source in the Unification Church,
00:34a top priority mission was to stop this report from airing.
00:41Tonight, the story of Reverend Moon. 15 years ago, Moon was best known as a cult leader.
00:50But today, Moon presides over a financial, political, and media empire.
00:54Frontline investigates the extent of his power and the ultimate sources of his funding.
00:59Here is what disturbs me. It is the lack of knowledge of who is behind it, where the funding is coming
01:06from and what are their ultimate objectives. Tonight, the resurrection of Reverend Moon.
01:19With funding provided by the financial support of viewers like you
01:23And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
01:28This is Frontline.
01:34On February 9, 1991, in Rapid City, South Dakota, more than a thousand people rallied in support of U.S. troops fighting in the Persian Gulf.
01:48USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
01:53USA! USA! USA!
01:54On February 9, 1991, in Rapid City, South Dakota, more than a thousand people rallied in support of U.S. troops fighting in the Persian Gulf.
02:02USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
02:07The rally was sponsored in part by a group of local veterans. Diane Peterson was the rally's principal organizer.
02:14I'm a vet myself, and I had a sister over there, and I really just wanted to do something in support of the troops.
02:24So I organized what I call the Little Yellow Ribbon Walk.
02:27It's great. Money more than I expected.
02:30And I was approached by the American Freedom Coalition, who told me that they had a rally planned for the same day and wanted to merge with me.
02:40The American Freedom Coalition was a group few people in Rapid City had heard of.
02:45And one citizen, Marv Kammerer, was curious.
02:49About the same time, I noticed a billboard on the east side of Rapid City that said,
02:54support our troops, join the Freedom March. And on that same sign was the American Freedom Coalition.
03:05You know, when people buy billboards, it takes money. And local groups don't spend that kind of money.
03:14I get to thinking, where is this? I ask my congressmen and senators, and they don't tell me.
03:20They don't give me the information. So I go to the library, and I find some interesting things.
03:27The American Freedom Coalition is an extension of the Unification Church, Moonies for short.
03:33And find out Unification Church is behind it. That sort of, you know, sort of threw me. I say to myself,
03:40what are they trying to gain from this? Because, you know, everybody's heard of the Unification Church.
03:46We've all heard of the Reverend Moon. What's he got behind it?
03:50I felt a little bit abused, um, because I have, I felt I was used. My influence with the veterans'
03:58organizations was probably a little bit used. The vets were not, did not know who they were
04:04associated with. And that is their own damn fault. One has to be very careful when people start waving
04:12the flag, finding out really what is behind it, what are their motives. We have a weakness in this
04:17country to almost give away the bank if someone waves the flag high enough and long enough,
04:22especially if he packs a Bible.
04:33The day before the Rapid City Rally, the 18th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference was
04:38underway in Washington. Part cocktail party, part political bazaar, part serious examination of the
04:48issues, its sponsors included pillars of the American right, such as the Heritage Foundation
04:54and the American Conservative Union. There was also the American Freedom Coalition.
05:12Robert Grant, President of the American Freedom Coalition, spoke at a conference banquet. In his remarks,
05:19Grant announced that the AFC was sponsoring pro-desert storm rallies, not just in South Dakota,
05:25but in all 50 states. With governors and congressmen and senators and veterans' organizations working
05:33together to send a message across the seas to Saddam Hussein and to the men and women of Desert Storm.
05:43Once again, let's say, God bless America! God bless America! Come on! God bless America! USA! USA! USA! USA!
05:51The American Freedom Coalition's Desert Storm rallies are only the latest effort by Sun Myung Moon
05:57to influence American public opinion. USA! USA! USA!
06:03Moon's unification movement has long supported the projection of American military power overseas.
06:09With a mission to fly and a job to be done, he's missing his wife and his children.
06:23Moon has also consistently promoted a conservative political agenda in the United States.
06:29His efforts have not gone unnoticed at the White House. Douglas Weed was a special assistant to
06:35President Bush, responsible for liaison with conservative groups.
06:40I'd say right now there are probably two groups among conservative organizations that really have
06:47an infrastructure, that have grassroots clout. Concerned Women of America would and American Freedom
06:53Coalition would. Vice President George Bush, the Republican nominee. During the 1988 election,
07:00the AFC printed and distributed 30 million pieces of political literature, including these glossy voter
07:07scorecards. I think the scorecards and some of the independent literature published had an enormous
07:14effect. In fact, we had huge notebooks filled with published materials from a wide variety of organizations.
07:23The best was probably AFCs. There was by far the slickest and the finest produced material.
07:31And when that doesn't cost you anything and is not charged against the campaign and is widely
07:37distributed to mailing lists across the country, that has a very important impact.
07:42We're sponsoring 50 national rallies. The AFC's activities have prompted renewed questions about Sun
07:51Young Moon's involvement in American politics. The AFC calls itself a grassroots organization committed to
07:59supporting conservative causes. AFC leaders deny that their group is an appendage of Moon's movement,
08:07and they are sensitive about the issue. When we asked Robert Grant to discuss AFC ties to Moon,
08:12he refused. In a letter to Frontline, Grant stated, I see no point in speaking with you either on camera or off
08:20camera. Good afternoon, American Freedom Coalition. Please hold. And when Frontline reporter Eric Nadler
08:27visited AFC headquarters, no one would talk. We were just here hoping someone could speak to us. Not at this
08:33time. Okay, not at any time. Thank you. Okay, have a nice day. We had hoped to ask Robert Grant about
08:42allegations that the AFC is violating federal law, namely the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
08:51Just before World War II, Congress passed the act, concerned that Japanese and German interests in the
08:56U.S. were influencing American public opinion. The act states that any organization involved
09:04in political activities and controlled or directed by a foreign principle must register with the Justice
09:10Department. It must also report on its activities and provide detailed accounts of its foreign sources of
09:16funding. Is the American Freedom Coalition a foreign agent? In 1989, Robert Grant wrote in the Washington
09:26Post that more than $5 million, one-third of the AFC's money, came from business interests of the
09:33Unification Church. Church officials say that their money comes from overseas, primarily from Japan.
09:42Media analyst Brent Bozell is a member of the AFC National Policy Board. If it were to come out
09:51that what the AFC is doing is is being done at the direction of the Reverend Moon, it would lose its 50 chapters
10:00overnight. That allegation has been out there since the day that AFC was formed and it hasn't stuck because
10:06nobody has come up with the smoking gun that he's done it. But Moon's influence over the AFC is underscored by this
10:121988 letter Frontline obtained from a source who once worked within the Moon organization.
10:18AFC President Robert Grant, writing to Reverend Moon, thanks him for investing heavily and helping
10:25to bring the AFC into being. Grant concludes by telling Moon, without your leadership, vision,
10:32and the support of your devoted followers, the AFC would not exist.
10:39The last time most Americans paid attention to Sun Myung Moon was nearly a decade ago.
10:53These are the images many still retain of Moon and the Moonies, as his followers once called themselves.
11:09Mass weddings of complete strangers chosen as mates by Moon.
11:13Flower peddling in the street and repeated allegations of mind control and brainwashing.
11:25Who can parents turn to when they realize their children have been innocently enslaved by Moon?
11:32Within one weekend, I was totally, my mind was totally coerced into leaving home,
11:38into leaving my parents, into dropping out of school, into being, thinking that I was working for God.
11:45A federal investigation into Moon's finances led to a 1982 trial on charges of conspiracy and filing false tax returns.
11:56I must tell you that I am innocent.
12:04As a convicted felon, Moon was sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut.
12:12During his 13 months in prison, he faded from public consciousness.
12:16But Moon has been quietly gaining strength in the United States ever since.
12:32He still hints that he is the Messiah, most recently before 500 religious leaders in San Francisco in August 1990.
12:40While Moon remains a controversial spiritual leader, his church in America has a surprisingly small following,
12:52estimated to be no more than 5,000 members.
12:55His movement, once labeled a cult, is now more accurately described as a conglomerate.
13:17From media operations in the nation's capital,
13:20to substantial real estate holdings throughout the United States,
13:24and from large commercial fishing operations,
13:30to advanced high-tech and computer industries,
13:33a Fifth Avenue publishing house,
13:35and literally dozens of other businesses, foundations, associations, institutes,
13:42and political and cultural groups.
13:45Moon and his money have become a force to be reckoned with.
13:48All we know is they are spending a great, great deal in this country.
13:56James Whelan was the editor and publisher of a Moon-financed newspaper,
14:00the Washington Times.
14:01By the way, there are more than its original areas, probably more on influence and
14:18the obtaining of influence, of power, than of any organization I know of in this country.
14:25How and why did Sun Myung Moon amass such power and influence?
14:30The search for answers begins here in Korea,
14:33nearly 6,000 miles from America's shores.
14:46The unification faith is a new religion.
14:50It traces its origins back to Easter Sunday, 1936,
14:53when Jesus Christ supposedly appeared and asked the 16-year-old Moon
14:58to complete God's work on Earth.
15:02Moon's evangelical mission eventually landed him in a North Korean labor camp
15:06where he claims he was tortured repeatedly.
15:09Moon escaped, and according to church lore,
15:11he marched south for weeks carrying a wounded follower on his back.
15:18In 1951, in this shack made of U.S. Army ration boxes,
15:23Moon established his first church.
15:30After the Korean War ended,
15:32several young military officers,
15:34including one named Bo-hee Park,
15:36converted to the new Holy Spirit Association
15:39for the Unification of World Christianity.
15:42As the 50s ended,
15:43Moon and his missionaries left Korea to spread their faith.
15:47Their earliest success came in Japan.
15:59There, the church made political alliances
16:01and quickly established itself as much more than a religious movement.
16:051960 really represents the founding moment
16:09of the Moon organization as a political entity.
16:13Daniel Junis is the author of Moon Rising,
16:16a forthcoming history of the Unification Movement.
16:18But now grafted onto that,
16:21you began to have a whole set of political operations.
16:25And this is where Moon really developed his theocratic ideology,
16:29where politics would be married to religion.
16:371960 was a pivotal moment in U.S.-Asian relations.
16:41The Japanese and American governments signed a treaty,
16:44allowing the Americans to maintain military bases in Japan,
16:47and providing the Japanese access to America's capital and technology.
16:52The signing today of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security
16:56between Japan and the United States
16:59is truly a historic occasion.
17:03The pact also allowed American forces in Japan
17:05to be equipped with nuclear weapons.
17:12In Japan, left-wing political and labor organizations
17:15step up the tempo of their protests against the Japanese...
17:19Thousands stormed the gates of the Japanese parliament,
17:22enraged at the military concessions to the Americans.
17:28Japanese business and political leaders moved to quell the unrest
17:32as brigades of right-wing students staged counter-demonstrations.
17:38Sun Myung Moon's Japanese followers soon took to the streets
17:41as political activities on behalf of conservative business institutions
17:45and their interests became central to the unification movement.
17:52When Moon's missionaries came to America in the 60s,
17:55their activities centered on Capitol Hill and college campuses.
18:01When Moon came to the United States,
18:04his organization would play much the same role in American society
18:07that it was already playing in Japan and South Korea.
18:11During the Vietnam War, Moon worked to build a right-wing student movement
18:18as a counterweight to the left-wing student movement
18:21that was objecting to American military involvement in Vietnam.
18:26And in America, as he had in Japan,
18:43Moon began to move among the political elite.
18:46From Dwight Eisenhower to Strom Thurmond
18:49to Richard Nixon,
18:52Moon has glad-handed and corresponded
18:54with an astonishing array of political figures.
19:05Moon sought to influence the American political agenda
19:08by pouring more than a billion dollars into media.
19:12Moon looked on the media
19:14as almost the nervous system for a global empire.
19:19In the 1970s,
19:20Michael Warder became one of the most important Americans
19:23in the unification movement.
19:25Warder says he had close contact with Moon for six years.
19:30Well, Moon was the brain,
19:31and the media are to be or were to be
19:34the communications vehicle
19:36for his body politic surrounding the globe.
19:41Warder was responsible for managing News World,
19:45Moon's daily newspaper in New York City.
19:48Moon wanted total control of the media,
19:50so there wouldn't be no independent media
19:53with journalistic integrity.
19:54It would be a media totally loyal to Moon.
19:58In 1977,
20:00Minnesota Democrat Donald Frazier
20:02launched the so-called KoreaGate investigation,
20:05in part a probe into Moon's relationship
20:08to the Korean CIA
20:09and the buying of political influence
20:11on Capitol Hill.
20:13Using its own media,
20:15Moon's organization struck back
20:17in an all-out effort to discredit Frazier.
20:20Mr. Frazier follows the far leftist political line
20:23and is a well-known opponent
20:25of the Korean government.
20:26For him,
20:27KoreaGate was a golden opportunity.
20:29One of Moon's media weapons was this film,
20:36Truth is My Sword.
20:38Moon's aide,
20:38Bohe Park,
20:39led the charge.
20:41What if
20:42you are an agent of influence
20:44for Moscow here on Hill?
20:46If these things are true,
20:48then the government of the United States
20:49is itself in grave danger.
20:52America's very survival
20:54and the security of the free world
20:56are at stake.
20:57Moon wanted a whole series of articles
21:00going after poor Congressman Frazier
21:03who was heading up
21:04the congressional investigations there.
21:07And so we would assign reporters
21:09to try and dig up all the dirt
21:11we could find on Congressman Frazier.
21:14And of course,
21:15I would say to Moon,
21:16I said,
21:16well,
21:16on the one hand,
21:17we're supposed to be doing this,
21:18but on the other hand,
21:19we're competing with the New York Times,
21:21and so there's matters of credibility here.
21:23And he would,
21:23you know,
21:24we'd buster and get angry
21:25at these kinds of things
21:26and say,
21:26just do what I'm,
21:27you know,
21:28ordering you to do
21:28and don't ask him any questions
21:30and that sort of thing.
21:30And of course,
21:31Colonel Park would reinforce
21:32these messages from Moon.
21:34I cannot help but believe
21:36that you are being used
21:37as instrument of the devil.
21:39You,
21:40yes,
21:41instrument of the devil.
21:42I said it,
21:43you else,
21:44who else would want
21:45to destroy a man of God
21:46but the devil?
21:48I didn't appreciate
21:49the accusations
21:50they were making against me.
21:51They were absolutely false.
21:53I think they knew they were false.
21:54Donald Frazier
21:55is now the mayor of Minneapolis.
21:57The fact that they would make them
21:58in a public forum like that,
22:00I was really
22:02totally turned off
22:04and disgusted.
22:06And so history might remember
22:07Donald Frazier
22:08if he remembers him at all.
22:10The Frazier subcommittee investigation,
22:13in fact,
22:13in a strange way,
22:14helped the movement
22:15because for members,
22:16it became this cosmic struggle
22:18of good against evil,
22:19of God against Satan.
22:21And though I walk through
22:22the valley of the shadow of death,
22:24I feel no evil
22:25for thou art with me.
22:27Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
22:30From the standpoint
22:31of the members,
22:32it was Jesus
22:34taking on the Roman Empire.
22:36It was big.
22:37It was cosmic.
22:38The Frazier committee's final report
22:47said Moon was the key figure
22:48in an international network
22:50of organizations
22:51engaged in economic
22:52and political activities.
22:55The committee uncovered evidence
22:57that the Moon organization
22:59had systematically violated
23:01U.S. tax,
23:02immigration,
23:03banking,
23:04currency,
23:04and foreign agents
23:06registration act laws.
23:08It also detailed
23:09how the Korean CIA
23:10paid Moon
23:11to stage demonstrations
23:13at the United Nations
23:14and run a pro-South Korean
23:16propaganda effort.
23:19Michael Hirschman
23:20was the Frazier committee's
23:21chief investigator.
23:22I think we determined
23:23that their primary interest,
23:26at least in the United States
23:27at that time,
23:28was not religious at all,
23:30but was political.
23:31It was an attempt
23:32to gain power
23:34and influence
23:35and authority.
23:37The Frazier committee
23:38recommended that the White House
23:40form a task force
23:41to continue
23:42to investigate Moon.
23:44That never happened.
23:47By the time
23:48Ronald Reagan
23:49was inaugurated,
23:50the idea of investigating
23:52Sun Myung Moon's
23:53political activities
23:54was a dead issue.
23:58Ronald Reagan's presidency
24:00was hailed as the beginning
24:01of a conservative revolution.
24:04Activists from all over
24:05the United States
24:06came to the nation's capital.
24:14Ironically,
24:15with the revolution
24:15seemingly won,
24:17traditional sources of money
24:18for conservative politics,
24:20such as direct mail fundraising,
24:22began to dry up.
24:24But Moon,
24:25a VIP guest
24:26at the inauguration,
24:28soon became
24:28a major funder
24:29of Washington's
24:30new conservative establishment.
24:37Brent Bozell
24:38was one of the young
24:39Reagan revolutionaries.
24:40When the Moonies
24:41entered the political scene
24:43in the early 1980s,
24:47one school of thought
24:48said that
24:50they were
24:51a good organization
24:52and that
24:53because of their
24:54anti-communist
24:55commitment,
24:56conservatives
24:57ought to work with them.
25:02David Finzer
25:02was another conservative activist
25:04who came to Washington
25:05in the early 80s.
25:07Finzer says
25:08he took more than
25:08$400,000
25:09from the Moon organization.
25:11He recalls
25:13one project
25:13the money paid for.
25:16When the left
25:17would run
25:17an anti-South Africa
25:18campaign,
25:19we'd run
25:20an anti-Soviet campaign.
25:21We'd say,
25:21okay,
25:22you want to disinvest
25:23from South Africa?
25:24Fine,
25:24let's also disinvest
25:25from the Soviet Union.
25:26And it was
25:27a successful,
25:29it was a pretty
25:29successful campaign.
25:30We did some neat stuff.
25:31They'd build shanty towns,
25:33we'd build gulags
25:34around them.
25:35Moon's most expensive
25:36political project
25:37was a newspaper,
25:38the Washington Times.
25:45Washington is
25:47the most important
25:48single city
25:49in the world.
25:51If you can achieve influence,
25:53if you can achieve visibility,
25:55if you can achieve
25:57a measure of respect
25:59in Washington,
26:01then you fairly
26:02automatically
26:03are going to
26:04achieve these things
26:06in the rest of the world.
26:07There is no better
26:08agency or entity
26:10or instrument
26:10that I know of
26:11for achieving power
26:13here or
26:15almost anywhere else
26:17than a newspaper.
26:19The Washington Times
26:21had an immediate impact.
26:23The President
26:23of the United States,
26:24seen here
26:25with Times President
26:26Bohe Park,
26:27said it was
26:28the first paper
26:29he read in the morning.
26:31Moon had money
26:32and he was willing
26:33to spend it.
26:34Paul Weirich,
26:35a co-founder
26:35of the Moral Majority,
26:37refuses to take
26:38Moon's money.
26:39But he hails
26:40Moon's newspaper
26:41as an antidote
26:42to its liberal competitor,
26:43the Washington Post.
26:45The Washington Post
26:47became very arrogant
26:48and they just decided
26:50that they would determine
26:52what was news
26:52and what wasn't news
26:53and they wouldn't cover
26:54a lot of things
26:55that went on.
26:56And the Washington Times
26:56has forced
26:57the Post
26:58to cover
26:59a lot of things
27:00that they wouldn't cover
27:01if the Times
27:02wasn't in existence.
27:03From Washington,
27:04Soon,
27:05Washington Times
27:06columnists found
27:07even greater exposure
27:08on television.
27:09On the right,
27:10Pat Buchanan.
27:13Tonight,
27:14the Propaganda War.
27:16If the Washington Times
27:18did not carry
27:20the conservative columnists
27:22that they carry,
27:23like a Pat Buchanan,
27:24like a Bill Rusher,
27:26like a Mona Sharon,
27:27I wonder if
27:30the television community
27:32would be aware
27:34of them
27:35and would tap them
27:37to use them
27:38in television.
27:40By 1984,
27:42despite his paper's
27:43growing influence,
27:44James Whelan
27:45was unhappy.
27:47When we started
27:48the paper,
27:48there was never
27:49any question
27:49that it would
27:50in any fashion
27:52project the views
27:54or the agenda
27:55of Sun Myung Moon
27:56or the Unification Church.
27:58All to the contrary.
28:00We said,
28:01look,
28:01we're going to put
28:01a high wall in place.
28:03It's going to be
28:04a sturdy wall
28:04and it will divide
28:06us from you.
28:07But Whelan's wall
28:09of editorial independence
28:10was often breached.
28:13Moon himself
28:14gave direct instructions
28:16to the editors
28:17of who, in fact,
28:19calls the shots.
28:21Ultimately,
28:22Moon calls the shots.
28:23The Washington Times
28:24has become
28:26a Mooney newspaper.
28:30Whelan resigned.
28:31Times spokesman
28:32said the dispute
28:33was really over money.
28:35Whelan was later
28:36replaced by
28:36former Newsweek editor
28:38Arnaud de Borgrav,
28:39seen here
28:40in a Moon-sponsored film.
28:42When I was in Europe
28:43recently,
28:43I was delighted
28:44to hear the Washington Times
28:45quoted every hour
28:46on the hour
28:47on the Voice of America
28:48and on the BBC
28:49to worldwide radio networks
28:53that happened to reach
28:54hundreds of millions
28:54of people.
28:56De Borgrav has consistently
28:57denied taking orders
28:59from Moon.
29:00But the man who ran
29:01the editorial pages
29:02under de Borgrav
29:03tells a different story,
29:05William Cheshire.
29:07I protested
29:07to de Borgrav.
29:08I went up to his office
29:09when I saw this happening
29:10and told him
29:11this was unethical,
29:12improper,
29:12unprofessional.
29:13It ought to stop.
29:14Also, it was dumb.
29:15Cheshire and four others
29:18resigned
29:18after de Borgrav
29:19ordered an about-face
29:21on an editorial critical
29:22of the South Korean government.
29:24And told him,
29:25I said,
29:25Arnaud,
29:25we have a problem.
29:26He said,
29:27what's the problem?
29:28I said,
29:28the problem is
29:29you have conferred
29:30with the owners
29:30of this newspaper,
29:32come back downstairs
29:33and demanded
29:34a reversal
29:34of editorial policy
29:36on their say-so.
29:38Questions about
29:39foreign control
29:40of the Washington Times
29:41have persisted for years.
29:43Other journalists,
29:44including Lars Eric Nelson
29:46of the New York Daily News,
29:47have called
29:48for a Justice Department
29:49investigation
29:50to determine
29:51if the Times
29:51violates
29:52the Foreign Agents
29:53Registration Act.
29:55And the Justice Department
29:56doesn't seem to want to know
29:57and I've never gotten
30:00a clear answer from them
30:00as to why they don't want to know.
30:02What have they told you?
30:04They said,
30:04hmm,
30:04that's an interesting point.
30:06They say,
30:06hmm,
30:08we'll think about that
30:10and they never get back to me.
30:12Real question is
30:13why the Justice Department
30:15has such an absence
30:16of curiosity.
30:18Washington Times officials
30:20repeatedly refused
30:21to comment to Frontline,
30:23even when we showed up
30:24with our camera
30:25to press for some answers.
30:28And I've got a film crew here
30:29and I'm looking to see
30:30if there's anyone
30:32that I can interview
30:33at the Washington Times
30:34for the story we're doing.
30:36The answer was no
30:38and when we visited
30:39another Moon-funded publication,
30:41the world and I,
30:43the reception grew even colder.
30:45Yes, sir,
30:45you all are on private property.
30:48You've been told that.
30:49You will wait here.
30:50The Metropolitan Police
30:51will come here.
30:52I'm going to ask you
30:52to leave the property.
30:53Okay.
30:54Okay, fine.
30:55Who are you, sir?
30:56Are you with the
30:57Metropolitan Police Department
30:58or are you with the security?
30:59I'm with the security department.
31:00Of the Washington Times Corporation?
31:01Of the Washington Times,
31:02that's correct.
31:03And I'd like you to leave
31:04right now, please.
31:05Okay, I'll leave.
31:07Why are the police here,
31:08by the way?
31:08Later, the Times
31:10sent this statement,
31:11which said that
31:12the complete editorial independence
31:13of the Washington Times
31:15is well-known
31:16and envied
31:17throughout the newspaper industry.
31:20The Times gained respect
31:22and influence
31:23throughout the Reagan years,
31:25lending editorial support
31:26to causes favored
31:27by the administration.
31:29Freedom fighters
31:30will huddle close
31:31to their radios,
31:32hoping to catch word
31:34that the administration
31:34in America
31:35will remain their friend.
31:43The Contra forces
31:44battling the Sandinista government
31:46in Nicaragua
31:47received editorial support
31:49and money
31:50from the Washington Times.
31:51Here's how it worked.
31:56In March 1985,
31:58Oliver North
31:59wrote this top-secret memo
32:01proposing the formation
32:02of a private foundation
32:04called
32:04the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund.
32:08Its purpose
32:09was to circumvent
32:10a congressional ban
32:12on aid
32:12to the Contras.
32:14Less than two months later,
32:16the Washington Times
32:16announced the birth
32:17of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund
32:19in a front-page editorial.
32:22Times editor
32:23Arno de Borgraf
32:24insisted
32:24he was surprised
32:26at the coincidence
32:26between his paper's initiative
32:28and North's secret project.
32:30The Washington Times
32:32contributed the first
32:33$100,000
32:34to the Freedom Fund.
32:37The worst outcome
32:39we could have
32:39would be the consolidation
32:41of a communist client state
32:43in Nicaragua.
32:45When Oliver North
32:46was questioned
32:47by Congress
32:47about his role
32:48in funding the Contras,
32:49the American Freedom Coalition
32:51rushed to his defense.
32:52The AFC produced this video,
32:57Oliver North,
32:58Fight for Freedom,
32:59which it broadcast
33:00more than 600 times
33:01on over 100 television stations.
33:04The program asked
33:05for donations.
33:06Tax records reveal
33:08that the video raised
33:09more than $3.2 million
33:10for the AFC.
33:12It only takes 30 minutes
33:15for a missile
33:16to get here
33:16from the Soviet Union.
33:18How far do you think
33:19you can get
33:20in 30 minutes?
33:22Another project
33:22of the Reagan administration
33:23was the Strategic Defense Initiative,
33:26SDI,
33:27or Star Wars.
33:28...to destroy any missile.
33:30The SDI system...
33:31It also received support
33:33from the Washington Times
33:34and the American Freedom Coalition.
33:37If you really value life,
33:39if you want your children
33:40and your grandchildren
33:41to get out from under
33:43the threat
33:43of nuclear annihilation,
33:45then please,
33:46please demonstrate
33:47your support for SDI.
33:49Right now.
33:50This pro-Star Wars video
33:52was paid for
33:53and distributed
33:53by the AFC.
33:56We can't stop it.
33:58We can't stop
33:59one damn missile.
34:01All I can do
34:02is watch a million people die
34:03or start blowing up
34:05the whole world.
34:07They are my only choices.
34:10Reverend Moon's organization
34:13has been very supportive
34:14of Strategic Defense Initiative.
34:17Former Defense
34:18and Central Intelligence
34:19official Daniel Graham,
34:21who sits on the AFC
34:22National Policy Board,
34:24co-produced the video.
34:26It's called One Incoming.
34:28It includes a scenario
34:30that I got Tom Clancy
34:32to write for us
34:34and I got Charlene Heston
34:36to do the voiceover.
34:37As for America,
34:40our choice will remain
34:41nuclear vengeance
34:42or nothing
34:43until SDI is deployed.
34:46It cost a lot of money
34:47to produce it,
34:48about $200,000,
34:50and Grant said
34:51it could raise
34:52the $200,000.
34:53Now, Grant is supported
34:55substantially
34:57by the Reverend Moon,
34:59so I'm sure
35:00that that's where
35:01that money came from
35:02to produce that movie.
35:03According to Graham,
35:05the film has been seen
35:06on 400 television stations.
35:09Do what's right.
35:11Let's protect our nation,
35:12our families,
35:13our loved ones.
35:15What has
35:16magnification
35:18moved on the head
35:19to be in this past?
35:22Besides paying
35:23for his own media,
35:24Moon sought to influence
35:25other press outlets.
35:27One vehicle
35:28was the World Media Association.
35:30And the founder
35:33is Reverend Moon,
35:34who is deeply concerned
35:36for the world media,
35:39particularly in the battle
35:40against the communism
35:41all over the world,
35:44who sees that
35:45the role of the media
35:45is so vital
35:46and so important
35:47for the salvation
35:50of our civilization.
35:52The World Media Association
35:54sponsors all expense-paid conferences
35:57and junkets
35:57for journalists
35:58all over the world.
35:59As Bo He Pak
36:01told public station
36:02KQED in 1984,
36:05the unification movement
36:06used the association
36:07as a weapon
36:08in a larger crusade.
36:15But it's a total war.
36:17Basically,
36:19war of ideas.
36:21War of mind.
36:23The battlefield
36:24of the human mind.
36:26This is where
36:27the battle is fought.
36:28So,
36:30in this war,
36:32the entire
36:33things will be mobilized.
36:35Political means,
36:37social means,
36:38economical means,
36:40and propagandistic means,
36:42and the
36:43basically
36:44trying to take over
36:46the other person's mind.
36:48That is
36:49what the Third World War
36:50is all about.
36:51The war of ideology.
36:54that we shall
36:57hold our home
37:00to them.
37:04While waging
37:05its global war
37:06of ideas,
37:07the unification movement
37:08was also fighting
37:09another battle,
37:10to overcome
37:11the stigma
37:12of Moon's 1982
37:14conviction
37:14for tax evasion.
37:16To clear his name,
37:18Moon launched
37:19a campaign
37:19termed
37:20the New Birth Project.
37:21Its strategy
37:23was to show
37:24that Moon's
37:25prosecution
37:25was really
37:27racial and religious
37:28persecution.
37:30I'm here today
37:31only because
37:33my skin
37:33is yellow
37:34and my religion
37:36is Unification Church.
37:38And it's a powerful state
37:40trying to break
37:41one religion.
37:42And what happens
37:42to Reverend Moon,
37:43watch out,
37:44will happen to many
37:45other religious figures.
37:46For thine
37:47is the kingdom,
37:49power,
37:50and the glory
37:52forever and ever.
37:54Amen.
37:57Church leaders
37:57charged the media
37:59were part of the problem.
38:01We don't like it.
38:02We don't like to be
38:03abused by any newspaper.
38:05We don't like to be
38:06abused by the media.
38:07And we're not
38:08going to take it.
38:09But an adroit
38:10use of the media
38:11was part of
38:11the unification plan.
38:14Moon bought
38:14full-page ads
38:15in leading newspapers
38:16and sent videotapes
38:19explaining his theology
38:20to other religious leaders
38:22at a cost
38:23of more than
38:23four million dollars.
38:26Press conferences
38:27outside Moon's prison
38:28helped spread the word.
38:30Today,
38:31we have witnessed
38:32a travesty
38:33of the judicial system
38:33of our United States.
38:35The Reverend Sun Myung Moon
38:36has been
38:37unjustly convicted.
38:38Reverend Moon,
38:39like myself,
38:40is a minority
38:41here in this country.
38:42And we don't have
38:44the popular views
38:45of the mainline churches.
38:47We are about liberation.
38:51The New Birth Project
38:53worked,
38:54and Moon was born again
38:55as a martyr to bigotry.
38:59After he left prison,
39:01it was celebrated
39:01by more than 1,700 clergy
39:03at this God and Freedom
39:05banquet in Washington.
39:08Ironically,
39:09and perhaps historically,
39:10there is something
39:11similar here
39:12to other religious movements.
39:14From this persecution
39:16has come the greatest support
39:17and acceptance
39:18of the unification movement.
39:20Part of the New Birth Project
39:22employed familiar Moon tactics.
39:25In July 1985,
39:27a front organization
39:28was formed
39:28called the Committee
39:29to Defend the United States Constitution.
39:32Moon insider,
39:33David Pinser,
39:34was asked to join the board.
39:35We executed
39:37all of the documents,
39:38and I understand
39:39the incorporation
39:41was incorporated
39:41the very next day.
39:44Now,
39:44that was the last
39:46I heard
39:47of the Committee
39:47to Defend the United States Constitution
39:49for about two years.
39:53Finzer now claims
39:55that he didn't learn
39:55until much later
39:56that the Committee
39:57to Defend the United States Constitution
39:59was a front group.
40:00All of the money
40:02was spent
40:03for publications
40:05or advertising
40:06or events
40:08that supported
40:09Reverend Moon.
40:11We found
40:12a magazine
40:13that was put out
40:15under the Committee's name.
40:17My name was
40:17listed as one of the directors
40:18that I'd never seen before.
40:20We found a check
40:22that showed
40:22that to the printer
40:24it was something like
40:24$174,000
40:26printed for that.
40:28Now,
40:28the real purpose
40:28was not,
40:29I can tell you what it was not,
40:30it was not
40:31to support
40:32religious liberty.
40:33What it was
40:33was
40:34to support
40:36and sanitize
40:37Reverend Moon's name
40:38to give the appearance
40:39of independent support
40:41instead of
40:42wholly owned,
40:43bought support
40:44to make him
40:44some kind of
40:45a First Amendment hero.
40:47Moon ultimately
40:48went to the top
40:49in his effort
40:50to clear his name,
40:51seeking a presidential pardon
40:53for his crimes.
40:55The point man
40:56was Max Hugel,
40:58a former
40:58Reagan campaign official
40:59and one-time
41:01deputy director
41:01of the Central Intelligence Agency
41:03in charge of
41:04covert operations.
41:06It is so important
41:07to have
41:09a superb
41:10intelligence agency.
41:12Hugel was forced
41:13to leave the agency
41:14in the wake
41:15of a stock scandal.
41:16Can you tell us
41:16why you're not choosing
41:17to stay on and fight?
41:20Hugel later
41:20went into business
41:21with Jonathan Park,
41:23the son of
41:23Bohe Park.
41:24Through two huge
41:26sound blocks
41:26are the best outfitted
41:27teleproduction studios
41:29in the region.
41:30Hugel worked with Park
41:31to expand Moon's
41:32electronic media empire
41:34while also
41:35brokering contacts
41:36between Bohe Park
41:38and Vice President
41:39George Bush.
41:40In this April 1988 memo
41:43to Unification Church
41:44member Mark Lee,
41:46Hugel offers
41:46to arrange for Park
41:47to have his picture
41:48taken with the Vice President
41:50at a cost
41:51of $50,000.
41:53Hugel also promises
41:55to try to get Bush
41:56to write to Park.
41:58Two months later,
41:59Bush did write to Park
42:00and told him,
42:02I hope we can meet again soon.
42:05Did they discuss
42:06a pardon
42:06during their meeting?
42:08Neither President Bush
42:09nor Bohe Park
42:10would comment
42:11to Frontline.
42:12Later in 1988,
42:21Hugel also
42:22recruited the law firm
42:23of one of Ronald Reagan's
42:24best friends
42:25to assist in Moon's
42:26pardon effort,
42:28former Senator
42:28Paul Laxalt.
42:32The friend who understands
42:33you creates you,
42:34a wise man once said.
42:37Paul created
42:37because he always
42:39understood
42:39and for that I am
42:41and shall always be great.
42:44Laxalt's law firm
42:45was paid $100,000
42:46up front
42:47and $50,000 a month
42:49to obtain
42:50a presidential pardon
42:51for Moon.
42:52According to billing
42:53submitted by the lawyers,
42:55Laxalt was directly involved
42:57in the pardon effort.
43:00This petition
43:01for executive clemency
43:02was delivered
43:03to the Justice Department,
43:05accompanied by letters
43:06from Senator Orrin Hatch,
43:07publisher William Rusher,
43:09civil rights leader
43:10Ralph Abernathy,
43:11endorsing the pardon.
43:14The Washington Times
43:15also became involved
43:16in the pardon campaign.
43:18First,
43:19editor Arnold de Borgrave
43:20wrote a letter
43:21from the editor.
43:23It was not really
43:23a letter to the editor,
43:24it was a letter
43:25to President Reagan,
43:27urging President Reagan
43:29to grant
43:29Reverend Moon
43:30a presidential pardon.
43:33Later,
43:34the Times ran
43:35this article
43:35examining Reagan's record
43:37on pardons.
43:38After it appeared,
43:40Laxalt's partner,
43:41Paul Perrito,
43:41became alarmed.
43:43Perrito warned
43:44Bohi Pak
43:45that if a case
43:46can be made
43:47that the church
43:47allegedly controls
43:49and dictates
43:49the activities
43:50of organizations
43:51such as
43:52the Washington Times,
43:53this will affect
43:54our credibility
43:55and could materially
43:57damage our
43:57prodigious efforts.
44:00Any last thoughts
44:01for us,
44:02President and Mrs. Reagan
44:02on your way out?
44:04Any last thoughts?
44:05Ronald Reagan
44:05never pardoned
44:06Sun Myung Moon.
44:08Moon's pardon application
44:09is still pending
44:10before the Bush administration.
44:13Max Ugel,
44:14Paul Laxalt,
44:14and Paul Perrito
44:15all refused to comment.
44:18Ronald Reagan
44:19also declined to comment.
44:23Is the New Birth Project
44:24continuing?
44:26In June 1991,
44:28Inquisition,
44:29a new purportedly
44:30independent investigation
44:32of Moon's 1982
44:33tax fraud prosecution,
44:35was released
44:36by a Washington publisher,
44:38Regnery Gateway.
44:41Its author,
44:42Carlton Sherwood,
44:43is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
44:44investigative reporter
44:45who once worked
44:46for the Washington Times.
44:49Inquisition
44:49has a curious history.
44:51It was printed
44:52once before
44:53by an obscure
44:54publishing house
44:54called Andromeda.
44:56The phone number
44:57listed for Andromeda
44:58in a leading
44:59publishing directory
45:00is the home phone
45:01of former Reagan
45:02National Security Council
45:03official Roger Fontaine,
45:06an ex-reporter
45:07at the Washington Times.
45:09When we called,
45:11Fontaine's wife Judy
45:12answered and said
45:13she knew nothing
45:13about Andromeda.
45:15Then she told us
45:16that the company
45:16was bankrupt
45:17and that Inquisition
45:18was published
45:19by Regnery Gateway.
45:22Alfred Regnery
45:23is the head
45:24of Regnery Gateway.
45:25That's not unlike
45:27a lot of other books
45:27we've published.
45:29It's a story
45:30that deals
45:31with the First Amendment,
45:33which is something
45:33that's very dear
45:34to publishers,
45:34of course.
45:35Alfred Regnery
45:36was told by
45:36Carlton Sherwood
45:37that the Moon
45:38organization
45:38would purchase
45:39100,000 copies
45:41of Inquisition,
45:42at least according
45:43to former
45:43Washington Times
45:44editor James Whelan,
45:46another Regnery
45:47Gateway author.
45:48But Alfred Regnery
45:49denies it.
45:51I never said that
45:51to Jim
45:52and I've never
45:52had any conversations
45:54with, what's his name,
45:55Bo?
45:56Bo Hippock.
45:57I'm not even sure
45:57who he is.
45:59One week after
45:59talking to Regnery,
46:01Frontline obtained
46:01a copy of a letter
46:02addressed to Sun Myung Moon.
46:05The letter was written
46:06by James Gavin,
46:07a Moon aide.
46:08Gavin tells Moon
46:10he reviewed
46:11the overall tone
46:12and factual contents
46:13of Inquisition
46:14before publication
46:15and suggested revisions.
46:17Gavin adds
46:18that the author,
46:19Mr. Sherwood,
46:20has assured me
46:21that all this
46:22will be done
46:22when the manuscript
46:23is sent to the publisher.
46:25Gavin concludes
46:26by telling Moon,
46:27when all of our suggestions
46:28have been incorporated,
46:30the book will be complete
46:31and in my opinion
46:32will make a significant impact.
46:35In addition to silencing
46:36our critics now,
46:37the book should be
46:38invaluable in persuading
46:39others of our legitimacy
46:40for many years to come.
46:44Although he refused
46:46an on-camera interview,
46:47Carlton Sherwood
46:48told Frontline
46:49that the unification movement
46:50exerted no editorial control
46:52over his book.
46:55When we visited
46:56Gavin's office
46:57in McLean, Virginia,
46:58our request for an interview
46:59was refused.
47:01Excuse me.
47:02Many questions about
47:11the unification movement
47:12remain unanswered,
47:14but none is more pressing
47:15or perplexing than this.
47:17Where does all the money
47:18come from?
47:20The Moon Organization
47:21has spent an astonishing amount
47:23in the United States.
47:24more than $800 million
47:28on the Washington Times,
47:30hundreds of millions
47:32on national periodicals,
47:34tens of millions
47:36on electronic media,
47:38at least $40 million
47:40on New York newspapers,
47:42more than $10 million
47:44on a New York publishing house,
47:47millions on World Media
47:49Association junkets
47:50and conferences,
47:52millions more
47:54on new right organizations,
47:56including the American
47:57Freedom Coalition,
48:00well over $100 million
48:01on real estate,
48:03including the New Yorker
48:04Hotel in Midtown Manhattan,
48:06at least $40 million
48:08on commercial fishing operations,
48:11and at least $75 million
48:14on the New Birth Project.
48:16It all adds up
48:17to more than a billion dollars.
48:20But most of Moon's operations
48:25in America
48:25are losing money.
48:27Virginia Commonwealth University
48:29professor David Bromley.
48:30Most of the unifications
48:32movement businesses,
48:33as far as I can tell,
48:34have lost substantial sums
48:36of money.
48:37Again, the best example
48:38is the Washington Times,
48:40which may have lost
48:40as much as $50 million a year,
48:42a major loser.
48:45So where does the money
48:47come from?
48:48Moon himself told
48:49the Senate Judiciary Committee
48:51in June 1984,
48:53the money comes from overseas.
48:55Several hundred million dollars
48:57have been forward
48:59into America.
49:03Because this nation
49:04will decide
49:05that destiny of the world,
49:08these contributions
49:09are primarily coming
49:11from overseas.
49:13But from where overseas?
49:14not from Korea.
49:16According to the Far Eastern
49:17Economic Review,
49:19many of the church's businesses
49:20in Korea
49:20are performing poorly
49:21or need to make
49:23major new investments.
49:26For nearly two decades,
49:29it has been reported
49:30that one major moon patron
49:32is Ryoichi Sasagawa,
49:33one of the richest men
49:34in Japan.
49:35Sasagawa's money
49:41comes from his monopoly
49:42on the motorboat
49:43racing industry.
49:47Legalized gambling
49:48on the sport
49:49is a $14 billion
49:50a year industry
49:51in Japan.
49:54For more than
49:55a half century,
49:56Ryoichi Sasagawa
49:57has been one
49:57of the primary
49:59political brokers
50:00inside Japan.
50:02Author Pat Choate,
50:03whose book,
50:04Agents of Influence,
50:05examines Japan's campaign
50:06to shape America's
50:08policy and politics.
50:10When Reverend Moon
50:11expanded his operations
50:12inside Japan,
50:14he asked Sasagawa
50:16to be one of the
50:18principal advisors
50:19to his church
50:21inside Japan.
50:24Many of their operations,
50:26the Sasagawa operations,
50:28the Moon operations,
50:29seem to parallel each other.
50:31They operate in many
50:32of the same ways,
50:33giving away money,
50:35a great deal
50:36of attention
50:37to media
50:38and media organizations,
50:40the establishment
50:41of think tanks
50:42and other policy
50:44organizations
50:45that operate
50:46across national borders,
50:48and the maintenance
50:49of a very
50:51right-wing
50:52conservative focus.
50:53Sasagawa's right-wing
50:59associations go back
51:00more than 50 years.
51:02In 1939,
51:03he flew to Italy
51:04to meet Benito Mussolini,
51:06whom he called
51:07the perfect fascist.
51:09He formed
51:10one of the most radical
51:13of the fascist parties
51:14inside Japan.
51:16He was one of those
51:18individual business leaders
51:19that was calling
51:20for war
51:21with the United States.
51:27Immediately after the war,
51:28Sasagawa was arrested
51:30and imprisoned
51:30by the U.S. Army.
51:33Sasagawa was sent
51:34to prison
51:35with two other
51:35suspected war criminals,
51:37Yoshio Kodama
51:38and Nobosuke Kishi.
51:41Kodama went on
51:42to become a leader
51:43of the Yakuza,
51:44or Organized Crime Syndicate
51:46of Japan.
51:49Kishi went on
51:49to become Japan's
51:50Prime Minister.
51:52All three men
51:53reportedly played
51:54key roles
51:55in the early days
51:56of the Moon Organization.
51:58Kishi had emerged
52:00as a frontman
52:01for the Moon Organization
52:02in Japan,
52:04and Sasagawa
52:05served as an advisor.
52:08He was the behind-the-scenes
52:09power broker
52:09who was manipulating
52:11the Moon Organization.
52:14Moon,
52:14in his own speeches,
52:15refers to
52:17his Japanese friend
52:18who is quite wealthy,
52:20Mr. Sasagawa.
52:23In 1967,
52:25Moon and Sasagawa
52:26are reported
52:26to have formed
52:27the Japanese chapter
52:28of the World
52:29Anti-Communist League,
52:30which funded
52:31anti-communist insurgencies
52:33worldwide.
52:34Thousands cheered Moon
52:35at this 1970 rally
52:37in Tokyo.
52:39Today,
52:39Sasagawa denies
52:40providing any financial
52:42or political assistance
52:43to Moon.
52:44Sasagawa told Frontline
52:46that he only met Moon once,
52:4825 years ago.
52:49Yet Moon,
52:50in a 1973 speech,
52:52claimed he was
52:53very close to Sasagawa,
52:55and Bohe Park
52:56called Sasagawa
52:57Moon's chief ally
52:58in the battle
52:59against communism.
53:00if they're using
53:02substantial amounts
53:03of the Japanese money
53:04is that they're not only
53:05running a Korean agenda,
53:07but they're also
53:07serving as political mercenaries
53:09for the Japanese.
53:11And it should be a matter
53:12of great concern.
53:14Support our troops!
53:15Support our troops!
53:17Support our troops!
53:19Moon has been operating
53:22in the United States
53:23for 30 years.
53:24Whether Americans know it or not,
53:26the Reverend Sun Myung Moon
53:27is a force
53:28in their political lives.
53:30I am America
53:35my home sweet home
53:42But some Americans
53:45are suspicious of Moon
53:46and question whether
53:47his political activities
53:49are in the interest
53:50of America.
53:50Here is what disturbs me.
53:55It is the lack of knowledge
53:57on the people
53:58who are being taken in
53:59by this activity
54:01of who is behind it,
54:03where the funding
54:04is coming from,
54:05and what are
54:05their ultimate objectives.
54:07This should be
54:07the ultimate
54:08congressional investigation
54:10is to lay all this out
54:12before the American people,
54:13bring it into the sunshine,
54:15and stop it.
54:17Since 1978,
54:19Congress has demonstrated
54:20little interest
54:21in investigating Moon.
54:23And when we visited
54:24the Justice Department,
54:25officials there
54:26had nothing to say.
54:27I'd like you to
54:27come down and answer
54:28the question
54:29why the Justice Department
54:30isn't investigating
54:33the Washington Times
54:34under the Foreign
54:34Agents Registration Act.
54:39Mm-hmm.
54:39Mm-hmm.
54:42No comment is your answer.
54:44We asked the White House
54:46to comment on
54:47the Unification Movement's
54:48activities in America.
54:49We asked specifically
54:51about Bo He Pak's
54:521988 meeting
54:54with Mr. Bush
54:54at his home,
54:56about the President's
54:57knowledge of the campaign
54:58to obtain a pardon
54:59for Sun Myung Moon,
55:01about the help
55:01that the American Freedom Coalition
55:03gave his election campaign,
55:05and whether the President
55:07thought his Justice Department
55:08should investigate
55:09the Washington Times
55:10for possible violations
55:12of the Foreign Agents
55:13Registration Act.
55:14The White House
55:16declined to comment.
55:19Finally,
55:20Reverend Moon
55:21also refused
55:22to talk to Frontline.
55:29But in this
55:30church-sponsored film,
55:31Reverend Moon
55:32in America,
55:33he had this to say.
55:34Now,
55:35whether positively
55:36or negatively,
55:37America knows me,
55:39and it happened quickly.
55:41At least,
55:41I have America's attention.
55:43Because of that,
55:44I will be able
55:45to tell the people
55:46the truth of God,
55:47the new revelation.
55:49The worst treatment
55:50America could give me
55:51is to ignore me.
55:53Now,
55:54I can preach the truth.
55:55I can preach the truth.
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57:29the CIA's controversial
57:30chief of counterintelligence
57:31in the 1960s,
57:33became recklessly obsessed
57:34with uncovering
57:35a KGB mole
57:36inside the CIA,
57:38the spy hunter
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