Rev. Moon Connection to Klaus Barbie/Nazi's
This is excerpted from Robert Parry's book Lost History (pages 200-203):
"Moon's Korea-based church got its first boost as an international organization when Kim Jong-Pil, the founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, brokered a relationship between Moon and one of Japan's leading rightist financiers, Ryoichi Sasakawa. Sasakawa had been jailed after WWII as a war criminial, but was freed, along with Yoshio Kodama , by U.S. military intelligence officials
eager to enlist their help in combatting leftist political forces in Japan.......
In the early 1960's, Kim Jong-Pil's intelligence contacts with these right-wing leaders proved invaluable to Moon, who had made only a few converts in Japan. After Kim Jong-Pil opened the door to Kodama and Sasakawa in late 1962, 50 leaders of an ultra-nationalist Japanese Buddhist sect converted en mase to the Unification Church, giving it a strong base in Japan that remains to this day.....
Through WACL and other political relatioships, Moon built bridges to right-wing forces in South America during the 1970's. As DEA agent Michael Levine noted in his book Deep Cover, the DEA arrested Jose Robeto Gasser in May 1980 for allegedly smuggling 854 pounds of cocaine base. To Levine's amazement, Gasser, the son of a Bolivian WACL leader, 'was almost immediately released' for what Levine suspected were geopolitical reasons. Gasser's father was a leading figure in the coup to overthtrow Bolivia's left-of-center government. The putsch on July 17, 1980, became known as the Cocaine Coup because it gave the drug lords free rein of the country and allowed protected shipments of coca base in Columbia.
Among the well-wishers arriving in La Paz to congratulate the new government was Moon's top lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak. The Moon organization was so proud of its new contacts that it published a photo of Pak meeting with Gen. Luis Garcia Meza, the new ruler. After the visit to the mountainous capital of Bolivia, Pak declared: " I have erected a throne for Father Moon in the world's highest city."
According to later Bolivian government and news paper reports, a Moon representative invested about $4 million in preparations for the coup. CAUSA, one of Moon's anti-communist organizations listed as members nearly all the leading Bolivian coup-makers.
Shortly after the putsch, the neo-fascist shock troops recruited by fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie , moved into the business of transporting cocaine for the drug lords. "The paramilitary units, conceived by Barbie as a new type of SS, sold themselves to the cocaine barons," wrote German investigative reporter Kai Hermann. "The attraction of fast money in the cocaine trade was stronger than the idea of a national socialist revolution in Latin America." (For details, see an English translation of Hermann's work published in Covert Action Information Bulletin, Winter 1986)......
Moon's organization continued to flaunt ints new-found influence in Bolivia. On may 31, 1981 Moon representatives sponsored a CAUSA rreception at the Sheraton Hotel's Hall of Freedom in La Paz. Bo Hi Pak and Gen. Garcia Meza led a prayer for President Reagan's recovery from an assasination attempt......
During the 1980's, Moon's organization demonstrated unprecedented financial strength. In 1982, Moon launched The Washington Times a right wing daily that cost Moon an estimated $100million/year in losses. In 1983 Moon established a financial base in Uraguay with the purchase of the country's third largest bank, the the Banco de Credito, which soon became the center of allegations about money laundering. (For details, see iF Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 1998.
Moon's CAUSA also continued to organize pro-contra rallies in the United States and coordinated contra activities with the right-wing forces in Honduras and other Central American countries. Through the 1980's, Moon's Washington Times aggressively defended the contra operations raised money for the contras after Congress cut off funding. In 1984, the Times also published the first reports about Sandinista drug suspicions, a story that helped the contra cause in Congress while killing a major DEA investigation of the Medellin carte."
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