Ethics

Another McCain-Rev. Moon Tie

By Ed Brayton

In addition to the previously revealed relationship between McCain adviser Charlie Black and the Rev. Moon -- Black was involved with setting up and inviting people to the now-infamous Moon coronation ceremony in a Senate office building in 2004 -- it has now come to light that McCain was on the board of the U.S. Council for World Freedom, one of the many front groups founded by Moon, in the early days of his political career.

The U.S. Council for World Freedom was an offshoot of Moon's World Anti-Communist League, an organization with ties to right wing dictators and former Nazis all around the world. Investigative journalist Robert Parry has documented these ties, as have Scott and Jon Lee Anderson in their book, Inside the League. Parry reports:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).