Reply #5: Viguerie - another one Moon bailed out and kept in the game

[Cell Whitman]

Moon selected who he wanted to empower, who HE wanted to bubble up on the right - and he financed a mess of them.

Moon has more to do with our political situation than ANYONE. People will see it when they look.


http://www.politicalamazon.com/viguerie.html

"Richard Viguerie says he did some 'pro bono' organizing work for the World Anti-Communist League during the 1970s, and his ties to WACL may have had something to do with his winning the lucrative fundraising contract for the "Children's Relief Fund," sponsored by the Moonies' Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation. That was in 1977--precisely the period when Viguerie was starting to organize the New Right resentment against the Carter administration. New York State charity auditors found that less than 6.3 percent of the $1,508,256 Viguerie raised actually went to needy Korean children. The "charity" went to Richard Viguerie, who netted a fee of more than $920,000."....

"In 1986, Viguerie was on the bring of bankruptcy when the Unification Church again came to his aid financially. In late 1985, Viguerie had been forced to sell "Conservative Digest." In January 1986, eight of his creditors filed suit for a total of $2.3 million owed to them. At the same time, Viguerie had to put his $9 million office building in Fairfax, Virginia up for sale.

"Just as he was about to go under in early 1986, Viguerie won a lucrative account, the distribution of the Unification Church-owned "Insight "magazine. Then in October 1987, U.S. Property Development Corporation controlled by Rev. Moon's right-hand man, Col. Bo Hi Pak, paid $10.06 million for Viguerie's office building. Also in 1987, Viguerie took on the direct mail account of Moonie-dominated American Freedom Coalition (discussed below). Just as U.S. intelligence agencies have financed and organized right-wing political groups throughout the world, it was to the advantage of well-heeled international interests to help build a reactionary political movement within the United States."
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http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon3.html

Another element of Moon's strategy is to approach a conservative leader when he's financially down. Moon quietly infuses money and gains the leader's gratitude. Again, Viguerie is an example of that tactic. When he fell on hard times in the late 1980s, Moon directed more business his way and had a corporation run by Moon's lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak, buy one of Viguerie's properties for $10 million. ( Orange County Register, Dec. 21, 1987 / Washington Post, Oct. 15, 1989)

With Moon's timely intervention, Viguerie survived financially and remains an important fixture in conservative political campaigns to this day. When Iran-contra figure Oliver North ran for the U.S. Senate in Virginia in 1994, his principal direct-mail contractor was Viguerie's company, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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