Word: tongsun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Jaworski was talking tough in Washington, the Korean government was stonewalling a visiting team of U.S. law enforcement officials in Seoul. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and two associates sought a way to question Tongsun Park, Korea's Washington host with the most, who fled the U.S. before a federal grand jury indicted him on 36 violations of federal statutes, including bribery and fraud. After almost 30 hours of wrangling, during which the Koreans insisted they alone should control the interrogation of Park, the U.S. delegation returned home exhausted, frustrated and emptyhanded...
...before Richard Helms begins to think he may never breathe the open air of a U.S. District courtroom, he might consider one of Griffin Bell's more cryptic comments. A Washington reporter took Bell aside after the attorney general announced the 32-count indictment against South Korean businessman Tongsun Park and asked him if Justice planned to prosecute Helms. Bell replied, "It seems to be the season...
...human rights." Rejecting the latest entreaties from Washington, Seoul's Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin observed curtly that "as a fully sovereign and law-governed nation, Korea finds no reason to turn over one of its nationals merely because he is suspected of having violated foreign law." Tongsun Park, who left London for Korea in August just as the Ethics Committee was beginning its hearings, made a similar argument. After a 3½-hr. conference with Park regime officials, he told reporters he would not return to the U.S. Said he: "I am a free citizen in a free...
...extradition treaty with South Korea. But Tongsun Park was clearly operating at least part time on behalf of the Korean CIA before he fled Washington last fall to avoid questioning, and Seoul surely could serve him up if it seemed necessary to appease American critics. Seeking to show that that kind of appeasement might be necessary, a freshman New York Congressman, Bruce F. Caputo, urged the House to lop off $110 million earmarked for South Korea in a foreign aid appropriations bill. Caputo's amendment was defeated by a vote...
...deputy Peter White insisted last week, that there will be "tremendous resentment" among Americans if Seoul does not cooperate. Yet many Congressmen wondered, with reason, if their constituents really care that much; and there was no doubt that some of the lawmakers were just as happy that Tongsun Park in all probability would never come back to talk...