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category: "Iran-Contra"
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tags:
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- person
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- religious
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- contra-war
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summary: Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose Unification Church had connections to the Contra support network through its anti-Communist political activities.
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born: 1920-01-06
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died: 2012-09-03
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location: "Kwangju Sangsa Ri, North P'yongan, Korea (now North Korea)"
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Sun Myung Moon was the Korean religious leader whose [[Unification Church]] had connections to the [[Contras|Contra]] support network through its anti-Communist political activities. Moon's organization shared the Reagan administration's anti-Communist ideology and provided support to causes aligned with the Contra war.[^1]
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### Anti-Communist Alliance
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Moon's Unification Church operated as part of the broader anti-Communist network that supported the Contra cause. The church's political arm, the [[CAUSA|CAUSA Foundation]], worked with Latin American anti-Communist movements and had ties to the same [[Central Intelligence Agency]]-connected networks that supported the Contras. Moon's organization participated in the constellation of private groups and foreign interests that supplemented official U.S. support for the Contra war.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 13.
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[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 13.
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