Boettcher, Robert. Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean Scandal. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. 402 pages.

Robert Boettcher was the staff director of the House Subcommittee on International Relations, which investigated the Koreagate scandal and Moon's ties to the Korean CIA. This is his inside story of the scandal, which involved bribery, corruption, coercion, big business, the arms industry, international trade, front organizations, U.S. Congressmen with their snouts in the trough, and KCIA colonels pouring in bags of cash. By 1977, Koreagate had spawned five investigations, but only one Congressman, Richard Hanna, went to jail.

Rev. Moon survived the scandal despite evidence that he was working for the Koreans. Ironically, he was helped by his conviction for tax evasion, which projected the image of a martyr for religious freedom and allowed him to mobilize support. Today Moonies no longer have to sell flowers at airports; his corporate and media empire spans the globe.

Not surprisingly, the issue of foreign influence that was raised by Koreagate emerged again in the 1992 campaign. Now, however, the same access to power is purchased legally -- through PACs, lobbying, and paying fat salaries to shameless former U.S. trade officials. Have a nice New World Order.
ISBN 0-03-044576-0

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