Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: Young John Kerry vs. the Moon-backed drug lords

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8/08/2004

Young John Kerry vs. the Moon-backed drug lords

...and other amazing tales from the Eighties at Robert Parry's site. (This guy broke the Iran-Contra scandal, when he worked for AP and Newsweek.)

... The fascists celebrated with swastikas and shouts of "Heil Hitler!" Hermann reported. Col. Arce-Gomez, a central-casting image of a bemedaled, pot-bellied Latin dictator, grabbed broad powers as Interior Minister. Gen. Luis Garcia Meza was installed as Bolivia's new president.

Among the first well-wishers arriving in La Paz to congratulate the new government was Moon's top lieutenant, Bo Hi Pak. The Moon organization published a photo of Pak meeting with Gen. Garcia Meza. After the visit to the mountainous capital, Pak declared, "I have erected a throne for Father Moon in the world's highest city."

According to later Bolivian government and newspaper reports, a Moon representative invested about $4 million in preparations for the coup. Bolivia's WACL representatives also played key roles, and CAUSA, one of Moon's anti-communist organizations, listed as members nearly all the leading Bolivian coup-makers. [CAIB, Winter 1986]

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The [Washington] Times attacked Kerry's investigators first for wasting money [Aug. 13, 1986] and then with obstructing justice [Jan. 21, 1987]. Now, with a clearer picture of Moon's historic ties to drug-tainted officials in South America, the harassment of these investigations takes on a different appearance, of possible self-protection.

Read it and see what you think.

...Wow, and Bolivian general Garcia "Cocaine Coup" Meza -- in remarks apparently made before fleeing from a 30-year sentence for murder, corruption, and ruthless abuse of power -- put in some good words about Rev. Moon and his anti-Communist CAUSA organization, as proudly emblazoned on a Unification Church website. That's the endorsement you want.

... the ideology offers a solid basis for morality and because it makes a frontal assault on those who intend to impose hate and violence as a political system in order to dominate the people and nations which love peace and freedom.

Another shareholder in the brief but exciting Cocaine Coup was Klaus Barbie, Nazi fugitive.

TRIVIA: On the topic of presidential candiate cameos in our saga, Sen. Bob Dole once held a special session investigating the Moon organization.

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"John Gorenfeld: The first man on the Moon"
-- Ana Marie Cox ("Wonkette," Time.com Washington editor)

"Thanks to the superb reporting of John Gorenfeld on Salon.com and his indispensable Web page, Moon's shenanigans are routinely scrutinized. Maybe some of Gorenfeld's discernment will rub off on preachers and politicians."
-- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist

"The scene summoned the moment in Robert Graves's "I, Claudius" when Emperor Caligula declares himself a god in the Roman Senate; a fawning solon instantly offers a prayer."
-- New York Times editorial on the Crown of Peace scandal

"I am happy that our work is being challenged and improved in consistency, openness and coordination, by the accountability your spotlight demands. I am not talking about simply removing stuff from websites..."
-- Moon spokesman the Rev. Phil Schanker

"Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation." -- Moon in 1987

"A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy."
-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)