Moon’s groups lure lawmakers to symposiums and conferences

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The Hill

Moon’s groups lure lawmakers to symposiums and conferences
By Jonathan E. Kaplan and Hans Nichols
AUGUST 4, 2004


The Rev. Sun Myung Moon is undertaking an ambitious and diffuse campaign to influence members of Congress, their top foreign-policy staffs and United Nations ambassadors with an ongoing series of seminars and junkets in New York and Jerusalem and on Capitol Hill.


Groups such as the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP) the Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP), the World Culture and Sports Festival and the Middle East Peace Initiative (MEPI) — all groups that have been founded by or are directly affiliated with Moon — have lured lawmakers, congressional staffers and various countries’ U.N. ambassadors to their symposiums.

But those organizations have not made their association with Moon clear to the participants before they accepted the glossy invitations, attendees say.

At one conference, billed as a symposium between congressional staffers and U.N. ambassadors, Hill aides were somewhat surprised to be greeted at the New Yorker hotel by a gaggle of non-English-speaking Korean women.

The IIFWP’s continuing campaign had its most recent Washington event last April, where Arnaud de Borchgrave, editor at large at United Press International (UPI) and The Washington Times; Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.); and the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the former D.C. delegate to Congress, all spoke at a panel moderated by IIFWP officials.


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http://www.thehill.com/news/080404/moon.aspx

[struggle4progress]

1. Senators and Representatives are supposed to check stuff out ...

... before they get involved. It's part of the job description. Anybody who gets tangled up with the Moonies deserves to be booted out of Congress.

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2. Rev. Moon's submarines, sold to Kim Jong-Il, empower a nuke threat to the

http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/08/rev-moons-submarines-sold-to-kim-jong.html
Jane's Defense Weekly is reporting this week that Kim Jong-Il, unstable North Korean dictator (I wrote about him in the British Guardian) may be able to target California with sea-launched missiles. His know-how, the Reuters story relates, comes from 12 ex-Soviet submarines that fell into his hands. They came with their original launch tubes and stabilizing gear intact. Where does Kim get those wonderful toys?

Funny story: According to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents (which you can browse here), they were furnished by Reverend Moon.


http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/08/rev-moons-submarines-sold-to-kim-jong.html

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3. Thanks for posting that midwayer

Hadn't seen that before.

The guy shouldn't be allowed within 10 miles of the Capitol, much less inside it.