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8/20/2004

Magazine: Mystery submarine company founded by Moon

From the Japanese newsmagazine Shukan Bunshun, February 3, 1994 (I'll have a scan online soon), these claims about the four Moon-married men who brokered nuke-tube submarines to North Korea:

• Their company, Toen Shoji, was established February, 1991, with $300,000 in capital
• The office was in an apartment (talk about mixed-use zoning -- ed.)

Thanks to private investigator Larry Zilliox of Virginia and Japanese Weekly Post journalist Kazumoto Ono for their help.

...this has been officially dubbed "Underwatergate" by Graham.

...I've gotten a better translation. Kaz, having gone over it again, says the article reads:

According to a government official, Toen Trading is a Unification-Church affiliated company, created on the direct orders of Sun Myung Moon, but this has not been confirmed yet.

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