- CAUSA International
CAUSA International is an ideological and political anti-communist organization created in New York City in 1980 by members of the
Unification Church at the suggestion of Rev.Sun Myung Moon . In the 1980s it sponsored educational conferences for ministers and the documentary film "Nicaragua Was Our Home ". ["Moon's 'Cause' Takes Aim At Communism in Americas." "The Washington Post ". August 28, 1983] [ [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/augustweb-only/8-6-37.0.html Sun Myung Moon's Followers Recruit Christians to Assist in Battle Against Communism] "Christianity Today " June 15, 1985] [ [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1555 Public TV Tilts Toward Conservatives] ,Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting "While conservatives dismiss Bill Moyers' world-class documentaries on our constitutional checks and balances as "propaganda," they never mention PBS's airing of unabashed right-wing agitprop films such as Nicaragua Was Our Home (the pro-contra film produced by Rev. Sun Myung Moon's CAUSA, which funded the contras after Congress' ban)..."] [ [http://www.causainternational.org/top.html CAUSA Foundation website] ]Most of the work of organizing and directing CAUSA fell to longtime Moon aide
Bo Hi Pak , a former South Korean military intelligence officer. Under the direct guidance of Reverend Moon, he played the key role in developing the CAUSA lecture materials and in shaping the content, format, and focuses of CAUSA and the American Leadership Conference, organizations which played a frontline role in educating religious, civic, political, and military leaders throughout the world in the inherent contradictions and limitations of Marxist ideology. Part of the intensity of Dr. Pak's lifelong commitment to freedom and democratic institutions stems from his own first-hand experience of the wanton destructiveness of communism. [http://www.tparents.org/library/unification/books/tims1/Tims1-00-c.htm] Introduction to Truth Is My Sword Volume I - Collected Speeches in the Public Arena by Bo Hi Pak]CAUSA's first executive director was Warren S. Richardson, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist and lawyer. Richardson was an unsuccessful candidate to become an assistant secretary of the
Department of Health and Human Services toRichard Schweiker ; he withdrew from the nomination when it became known he had been general counsel to the controversialLiberty Lobby [ "The Washington Post"] . In 1985 the president of CAUSA-USA was Phillip V. Sanchez, a former U.S. Ambassador toHonduras . CAUSA was active in 21 countries. ["Christianity Today"]References
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