Wirt Atmar writes:
> > Evidently the connection is not well known because the op-ed you include
> > says [that] Robert Park guesses that it's the petroleum industry,
> > not Rev. Moon.
>
> That editorial was written just shortly after the petition was first sent
> out, when the facts were still unclear. As events later unfolded, the
> connection with the Unification Church with the "Oregon Institute of Science
> and Medicine" became more clear, although both organizations did everything
> they can to keep their connection secret.

I've searched many sources and have yet to find any hint of a connection.  Are you
sure about this?  Maybe it was the Trilateral Commission.

> But as in all current far-right campaigns, a great many deep-pocket donors
> (timber, petroleum, religious organizations, etc.) find common cause and
> intermingle their funds, even if they wouldn't like their associations to be
> made public. The Rev. Moon cannot fund all of these activities by himself,
> but he is actively involved in a surprising number of them.

Yes, Paul Newman donates to a lot of left-wing organizations, too, but that doesn't
mean that it's all a plot to sell salad dressing.

While searching for the alleged yellow peril connections of OISM, I did notice one
thing.  There didn't appear to much if any attempt to discuss the content of the
offending paper (http://www.oism.org/pproject/review.pdf), only its formatting.

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