How Moon Makes Millions

The overall worth of the Unification Church in the United States is about $35 million. Moon's private residence in Tarrytown, New York, cost the church $625,000. Here his converts are indoctrinated. According to one such British student, they find themselves in a prisoner of war camp, being watched over by 16 stone goons and imprisoned by barbed wire and locked gates. They were told that if they accepted Moon's teachings they would become part of a world wide force of supermen able to save decadent and communist Britain

Col Pak lives in a more modest $115,000 home in Fairfax County, Virginia, which doubles as the headquarters of his personal real estate business and a branch of the church.

While some of Moon's money comes from the profits of his south Korean holdings (estimated at $15 million), most of it is raised by church members. In return for no wages and spartan room and board, many Moonists work long hours in church enterprises. In the United States these include a printing company, petrol stations, restaurants and a business consulting firm. Last year two New Zealand Moonists turned to burglary in order to keep up their payments to the church.