How Reagan-Bush used Moonies & religious right for disinformation campaign

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Key players of the U.S. Christian Right, including Pat Robertson
and Jerry Falwell were instrumental allies of the Reagan State
Department's illegal "Public Diplomacy" operation which targeted
the American people with propaganda and disinformation; all in the
name of "stamping out Marxist subversion."42

THE UNIFICATION CHURCH: Perhaps the most prominent American off-shoot
of WACL was Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. A destructive
religious cult that purports that "Our Master," Rev. Moon is a
reincarnation of Jesus Christ sent to rid the world of communism,
Moon's empire was a key element of the FBI's "active measures"
campaign against CISPES.43

Operating through a front-group, the campus-based Collegiate
Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), Moon activists
began plying the Bureau with information that it obtained through
its infiltration of CISPES chapters throughout the country.44

CARP supplied the FBI with information on CISPES leaders and
activists. Bureau files contained hundreds of entries and names
provided by Moon's theocratic network. The 48 pages of CARP materials
released by the FBI, contain only a small portion of the Bureau's
CARP index. Pointedly, the FBI refused to release any of the entries
held in the Bureau's main file on the Moon organization.45

Bureau informant, Frank Varelli, stated that "The Moonies were a
major support group." Varelli reported that in 1982, agents in the
FBI's Washington Field Office trained a Moon contingent to hold a
demonstration in support of Salvadoran President, Jose Napoleon
Duarte.46

Other FBI-initiated "active measures" campaigns, recalling earlier
COINTELPRO operations, utilized "private" Moon "assets" for a
national campaign of political harassment and disruption. Varelli's
FBI handler, Special Agent Daniel Flanagan, would regularly go to
the SMU campus in Dallas once a month to pay the Moonies for their
support services to the FBI. Moon cadres would start fights on the
SMU campus whenever CISPES held a rally or demonstration. After a
series of violent incidents, CISPES moved off campus.

Such scenarios were duplicated across the country.47

and more...much more.

They are rePUKElicans!!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Now THIS is interesting .....

THE UNIFICATION CHURCH: Perhaps the most prominent American off-shoot of WACL was Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. A destructive religious cult that purports that "Our Master," Rev. Moon is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ sent to rid the world of communism,

Sun Myung Moon has spent considerable time condemning capitalism (as a tool of Satan no less) and greed in general. How in the world can his church embrace the demise of communism?

Too funny for words....