Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revelations. So far the scandal has been focused on cash gifts to U.S. politicians who might have clout in decisions involving aid to the Park Chung Hee regime in South Korea. New revelations continue to reinforce the impression that, as one congressional leader admitted, "there's a lot of Korean money around, and a lot of guys are involved." Among the main figures in the federal probes of Korean influence peddling: former Representative Richard Hanna of California, a silent partner in an import-export business run by Tongsun Park, a Washington-based Korean businessman with a yen for winning...
...short run though, the best hope for snipping the Chinese Connection lies in internecine gang violence. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, rival triads cannot peaceably split the spoils. At least twelve Chinese have been murdered in vendettas, which began last year with the killing of Chung Mon, a 55-year-old kingpin of the traffic. European narcs are now hoping for the type of squealer's revenge that helped smash the dope-dealing Corsican Mafia of Marseille in the early 1970s...
...contribution may be interpreted as an attempt to improve the reputation of Korea and its government in American academic circles. It is clear, however, that the University has not agreed to any constraints on its part in respect to the voicing of antagonistic opinions of the Park Chung-hee regime by any of its faculty members or students. Though it is true that the University accepted the money, it is also true that it would only accept it with no strings attached...
Although the investigation of South Korean lobbying efforts is still in its early stages, enough information has already surfaced to outline a relationship based on widespread bribery and corruption, an extensive and well-financed campaign of influence buying, apparently ordered by South Korean President Park Chung Hee and supervised by the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA...
...South Korea, has been using the same tactics in the U.S. Some 25 South Korean secret-police agents, backed by a network of enforcers, have infiltrated the large South Korean communities in Los Angeles and other cities in search of critics of the regime of South Korean President Park Chung Hee. Exiled journalists have been threatened with assassination and with reprisals against relatives in South Korea. Other dissidents have been beaten. This illegal bullying by the KCIA is proving hard to halt because the presence of foreign intelligence services is often sanctioned...