Posts Tagged ‘ Sun Myung Moon ’

Iran-Contra’s ‘Lost Chapter’

March 14, 2013
Iran-Contra’s ‘Lost Chapter’

From the Archive: In 1987, amid the Iran-Contra inquiry, investigators found that the scandal fit within a larger Republican scheme for manipulating American public opinion through CIA-style disinformation. But GOP senators blocked inclusion of the chapter in the final report, Robert Parry wrote in 2008.

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How Rev. Moon’s ‘Snakes’ Infested US

September 2, 2012
How Rev. Moon’s ‘Snakes’ Infested US

From the Archive: The death of Rev. Sun Myung Moon at 92 ends the long personal saga of a Korean theocrat whose life intertwined his bizarre religion with threads into organized crime and right-wing politics. Moon also showed how a fortune spent on media could change Washington’s political dynamic, as Robert Parry wrote in 2010.

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