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8/17/2004

Is this how Moon hooked Sen. Warner?

From Congressman Donald Fraser (D-Minn.)'s Koreagate report in 1978 (available at Steve Hassan's site).

Neil Salonen provided the PR team with a list of guidelines in June 1974. One of the recommendations was that the PR team:

"Distinguish among the projects and organizations which Rev. Moon has founded, and be aware of which ones a given Member of Congress has supported. In many cases, support of one does not imply support of all--if they are treated as separate projects, then it will be easier for a member of Congress to unite with us on common ground." (390)

Salonen thus illustrated one of the advantages to the Moon Organization of maintaining the facade of separate and independent organizations.

In time, some members of the PR team were able to secure employment in congressional offices. In at least some cases, the Member of Congress did not know the staffer was part of Moon's PR team. (391)

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