REV. MOON AIDE CONCEDES KCLA SENT HIM $3,000

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• Publication Date: March 23, 1978
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Rev. Moon Aide
Concedes KCIA
Sent Rim $3,000
By Charles R. Babcock .
Washington Post Staff Writer
Agency delivered $3,000 in cash to the
testimony yesterday.'
received money from the KCIA. The
House international organizations
the Korean government.
received the money in $100 bills from
Sang Keun Kim, a KCIA agent who
sought asylum in the United States
in late 1976.
as a fa qr to Yang Doo Won, a high-
ranking KCIA official in Seoul.
Pak said that on a later trip to
Kt r a, he passed the money on to a
member of the Unification Church
wanted 'o reimburse the woman for
nist speaking tour in Korea, he said.
KCIA, rather than another govern-
ment agency, would handle the reim-
bursement. -
that they did not find Pak's explana-
Tongsun Park appeared for the first
time before a federal grand jury in
Washington yesterday.
His questioning focused on-his re-
lations with former Rep. Otto E. Pass-
man (D-La.), sources said. This raises
the possibility that the Justice De-
partment is near a decision on seek-
ing an indictment against the long-
time chairman of the House. ? appro-
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his support for increased shipments!
of Food for Peace rice to South. Korea.
Passman has denied .the allegations.
Park received about $9 million in
commissions on rice sales from 1970
to 1975. . '
Pak's appearance before the House
subcommittee yesterday was forced
under a federal court order, according
toa Rep. Edward Derwinski (R-Ill.) the
ranking minority member of the sub-
committee.,
Pak, 47, had cited First. and Fifth
Amendment protections in refusing
an earlier subcommittee attempt to,
gain his testimony. But a U.S. District
Court judge recently signed a "use
immunity" , order, which forces testi-
mony,,sources said. .
His . appearance opened with the
dreading of a 50-page statement crit-
acizing the subcommittee. and press I
for' maligning the church. He closed
fir' reciting The Lord's Prayer. His en-
tire testimony was recorded on video
and audio tape for, the Unification
Church. '
The articulate 47-year-old former
korean army colonel said he regret-
ted accepting the money from the
KCIA because he feared his explana-
tion might be distorted.
. Pak said he presumed the money
and , a six-page handwritten letter
from Yang, who earlier had been the
KCIA station chief in Washington; :
came into the United States through
the embassy's diplomatic -pouch.
He -said it was the only occasion on
which he took money from the KCIA.
Earlier in the day he had sworn that
"not a penny came from the Korean
government and not one direction"
during the mid-1960s when he worked
.without salary for the Korean.. Cul-:
'.tural and Freedom Foundation.
`; That Washington-based tax-exempt
corporation raised millions of dollars.
!.over the years for anti-communist ra-
dio broadcasts from Seoul. - =
During the hearing yesterday, Rep.
Donald M. Fraser (D-Minn.), the sub-
committee chairman, questioned Pak
about. several indications'--of-connec-
tions between; the Korean "government
and Moon-church-related - people and,,
organizations. He. appeared to be es-
,'Jury referral...
Pak made these ' points in his'
answers:
,? . He denied taking part in or know-
ing about meetings in the Korean
Blue House, the presidential mansion,t
,in the fall of 1970 where U.S. .inteili-j
gence reports said his name was men-`
tione as part of a government-spou-
-sored lobbying effort in tie nited
-,States.
? He acknowledged approaching
`President Park Chung Hee in the fall
of 1970, though, to urge that he send. a ,
letter to American contributors to Ra-
. dio of Free Asia, which-sponsored
anti-communist broadcasts.
He furnished the committee with a
letter from Sen."Strom Thurmond (R-
'S.C.) which said the State Department
had no objection to the Korean presi-
dent's letter. A Thurmond aide said
;yesterday the senator had no recollec-
tion of either Pak or the letter.
? He met Tongsun Park through i
former Korean ambassador Yang You
Chan and asked Park to join the.
KCFF board in. hopes "maybe wel
could squeeze some money 'out ofd
him. Park never contributed to thei
group's projects, however, he said.
? He explained a $100 gift in 19681
from KCFF to a key aide to the Blue
House security chief as "a reality of
life" in Korea. "It helps to have a!
friend in gov.ernment," he said.
The subcommittee will resume ques-,
tioning Pak on April 11, after thel
`Easter recess.
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