Frederick: Well, with the help of
Viguerie and with others, he helped to create the Conservative movement, but
also the religious right. Now, this is the guy who thinks that Jesus failed in
His mission, and that he was going to be the new Messiah who was going to
complete what Jesus failed to do. And here he was working with fundamentalist
Christians, who trying to do what the religious right does, including Jerry
Falwell and his moral majority.
Now, Falwell was another one who was starting
to fall on hard times in the late 70s and the early 80s, despite appearances of
the contrary, and his Liberty University was in big trouble, and somehow or other,
the Moon organization managed to find a way to covertly provide a loan of $3.5
million dollars to save Liberty University from bankruptcy and going under.
That loan was never paid back to my knowledge.
But they managed to keep that under wraps. Journalist Bob Parry managed to
surface the story. There were a lot of scandals of this nature; [we] find it
where Moon money would suddenly turn up and there would be a scandal and, "Oh,
we didn't know it was the Moonies!" That sort of thing.
Another famous example was one of
the leading Christian Right entities at the time. [In] the Reagan
administration era was something called The American Traditional Values
Coalition, and basically what it was was this gigantic coalition of
televangelists who were the most powerful Christian Right political figures at
the time: Pat Robertson, and Jimmy Swaggart, and Jerry Falwell, and all of
these people, and Tim Lahaye was in charge of it.
But Moon's number two, his main political
figure, Bo Hi Pak, turned up giving $10,000 to Tim Lahaye for the American
Traditional Values Coalition. This became a huge scandal, because within
conservative Christianity at the time, Moon was just beyond the pale;
unacceptable, cult leader, anti-Christian. They just didn't accept it. Any
relationships with Moon had to be under the table, and when they surfaced on
the table, Tim Lahaye was forced to resign. But that's the kind of thing that
went on all the time.
Rob: Now, how much money did Moon and his
church have access to? How big were they?
Frederick: Well, billions and billions
of dollars. Bill had--at least it's been reasonably estimated by investigators
in several countries, journalists and Congressional investigators and the
like--at least a billion dollars has been put into the United States alone.
Rob: And what about other nations? Did Moon
also set up similar operations in France and England and Germany? How about in
relation to the Islamic world? What about his worldwide scope?
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