Resuming the discussion from the end of AFA-6, the program explores the intelligence establishment's use of mind-control cults. After indications that the People's Temple may have been an intelligence operation, the program presents information about the Rajneesh cult suggestive of similar possibilities. Much of the analysis focuses on Reverend Moon's Unification Church.
Mr. Emory hypothesizes that Moon's organization is an extension of the Japanese Patriotic and Ultra-Nationalist Societies, which paved the way for fascism's rise in Japan through a program of political assassinations, intimidation, bribery and propaganda. Superficially Korean, the Moon organization drew heavily on capital and manpower from the fascist infrastructure of Imperial Japan. In the United States, the Unification Church is very well-connected to elements of the American intelligence establishment and the right wing.
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