Word: congressmen
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...figure in the affair is Tongsun Park, 41, a Washington-based South Korean entrepreneur with reputed links to the KCIA, who has admitted giving gifts of as much as $10,000 to some Congressmen (TIME, Nov. 8). According to recent disclosures, however, KCIA spooks have been masterminding a much broader operation designed to win special commercial and political advantages for South Korea...
...Justice Department and the State Department are investigating alleged payments, running into six figures, by South Korean agents to at least a score of present and past Congressmen. One investigator told TIME that the affair could be "horrendous," possibly involving "bribery, income tax evasion, espionage and misuse of national security information...
...wife Elaine had taken an envelope containing $10,000 in cash as a "gift" from Tongsun Park. Democratic Congressman John Brademus of Indiana says he received $4,700 in campaign contributions from him in 1972 and 1974. Investigators are looking into the possible involvement of other Congressmen, including Democrats Otto Passman of Louisiana (the recently defeated head of the House committee that handles foreign aid), Robert Leggett of California, Joseph Addabbo of New York and Republican William Broomfield of Michigan. They are also examining Park's association with at least two former Congressmen: Cornelius Gallagher of New Jersey...
Before he hastily decamped for Korea, Park admitted to an associate that he gave up to $10,000 each to some Congressmen because "he liked them." Denying any formal ties to the South Korean government, Tongsun Park also told associates, "I'm not an agent, but that Suzi Thomson-there's an agent if I ever...
...Washington Post took part, as did two of the most conservative newspaper columnists in the U.S. Gloria Steinem and the Knicks' Bill Bradley were there, and so were a former Heisman Trophy winner, a Nobel Laureate, a Navajo tribal leader, nine college presidents, 15 mayors and Governors, 14 Congressmen and Senators, and scores of businessmen, teachers, lawyers and economists. The occasion: a two-day conference held in Washington by TIME on the subject of leadership...