The GOP's $3 Billion Propaganda Organ By Robert Parry

[Demeter]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/122706.html

THREE PART ARTICLE--VERY IMPORTANT ABOUT REV. MOON AND WHERE HE CAME FROM
SEX, DRUGS, LIES, MONEY, INFLUENCE, AND MORE

The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.

George Archibald, who describes himself “as the first reporter hired at the Washington Times outside the founding group” and author of a commemorative book on the Times’ first two decades, has now joined a long line of disillusioned conservative writers who departed and warned the public about extremism within the newspaper.

In an Internet essay on recent turmoil inside the Times, Archibald also confirmed claims by some former Moon insiders that the cult leader has continued to pour in $100 million a year or more to keep the newspaper afloat. Archibald put the price tag for the newspaper’s first 24 years at “more than $3 billion of cash.”

At the newspaper’s tenth anniversary, Moon announced that he had spent $1 billion on the Times – or $100 million a year – but newspaper officials and some Moon followers have since tried to low-ball Moon’s subsidies in public comments by claiming they had declined to about $35 million a year.

The figure from Archibald and other defectors from Moon’s operation is about three times higher than the $35 million annual figure.

The apparent goal of downplaying Moon’s subsidy has been to quiet concerns that Moon was funneling vast sums of illicit money into the United States to influence the American political process in ways favorable to right-wing leaders – and possibly criminal cartels – around the world.

[Doctor_J]

1. K&R

Robert Parry, along with Amy Goodman and a handful of others, may save this Republic after all.

[IndyOp]

2. It's the same damn cast of characters in nightmare after nightmare...

:(

[Barrett808]

6. Yes, unfortunately it seems organized crime largely runs the world

We call it "The Conspiracy" in the Church of SubGenius.



http://www.subgenius.com

[formercia]

3. Yakuza

the Japanese mafia supply a lot of Moon's money.

[autorank]

4. Thanks for posting. A "Must Read" - I couldn't stop after I started.

Great stuff, pass it around.

KR

[KoKo]

5. Parry's refrences to Argentina and Paraguay brings the Bush recent Paraguay purchase to mind...

from the article...........

Some Nazi leaders faced war-crimes tribunals after World War II, but others managed to make their escapes along “rat lines” to Spain or South America or they finagled intelligence relationships with the victorious powers, especially the United States.

Argentina became a natural haven given the pre-war alliance that existed between the European fascists and prominent Argentine military leaders, such as Juan Peron. The fleeing Nazis also found like-minded right-wing politicians and military officers across Latin America who already used repression to keep down the indigenous populations and the legions of the poor.

In the post-World War II years, some Nazi war criminals chose reclusive lives, but others, such as former SS officer Klaus Barbie, sold their intelligence skills to less-sophisticated security services in countries like Bolivia or Paraguay.
Other Nazis on the lam trafficked in narcotics. Often the lines crossed between intelligence operations and criminal conspiracies.

Auguste Ricord, a French war criminal who had collaborated with the Gestapo, set up shop in Paraguay and opened up the French Connection heroin channels to American Mafia drug kingpin Santo Trafficante Jr., who controlled much of the heroin traffic into the United States. Columns by Jack Anderson identified Ricord’s accomplices as some of Paraguay’s highest-ranking military officers.

[peacetalksforall]

7. I recommend some weekend educational reading. K & R

Keep this kicked so that people can learn.

How many of your friends know this stuff? Do you know it in bits or in pieces?

[Karenina]

8. Kick!

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