Gifts of Deceit

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Gifts of Deceit
Gifts of Deceit book.jpg
Book cover
Author
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolitics, South Korea United States relations, Unification movement
Genrenon-fiction
PublisherHolt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication date
1980
Media typeHardcover
Pages402
ISBN978-0-03-044576-7

Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean Scandal is a 1980 non-fiction book on Koreagate and the Fraser Committee, a congressional subcommittee which investigated South Korean influence in the United States by the KCIA and the Unification movement, written by , with Gordon L. Freedman. Freedman had served on the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee staff and had been a producer for prior to his service on the subcommittee.[1]

About the author[]

Boettcher graduated with an M.S. in international relations from Georgetown University and served as a United States Foreign Service officer.[2] Boettcher later was the staff director to the House Subcommittee on International Relations, which headed an investigation into Tongsun Park, Sun Myung Moon and the Unification movement.[2] The subcommittee was chaired by Congressman Donald M. Fraser. Boettcher died in a fall in 1984.[3]

Cited by secondary works[]

Boettcher's work is cited extensively in Farrell's Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century.[4] The book itself was noted in United States Congressional investigations on "The Cult Phenomenon in the United States", in 1979.[5] Gifts of Deceit is also cited in Breen's The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies,[6] Anderson's Inside the League,[7] and is recommended reading by Olsen's Korea, the Divided Nation[8] and Kim's Dictionary of Asian-American History.[9]

In addition to political books, Gifts of Deceit is cited in books which analyze new religious movements, including Another Gospel,[10] The Future of New Religious Movements,[11] Crime, Values, and Religion,[12] Spiritual Warfare,[13] and more recently in Jenkins' Mystics and Messiahs, in 2000.[14]

Reception[]

In his work, The Ethics of Citizenship, James Stockdale recommends Gifts of Deceit and states that it is "very revealing", and deals with the "questionable conduct."[15] The New Republic called it a "most complete account."[16] The Washington Post reviewed the work, but stated that portions of the Koreagate Scandal may have been due to media hype.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ Olsen, Edward A. (2002). Toward Normalizing U.S. Korea Relations: in due course?. Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 36. ISBN 1-58826-109-3.
  2. ^ a b Maurer, Harry (1998). Strange Ground PB: An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975. Da Capo Press. pp. 6, 290–294, 302, 622. ISBN 0-306-80839-0.
  3. ^ Staff (May 30, 1984). "Robert Boettcher, Staff Chief In House Inquiry, Dies in Fall". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Farrell, John Aloysius (2001). Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century. Back Bay. pp. 729, 730, 746. ISBN 0-316-18570-1.
  5. ^ United States Congress, Biographical Sketches of Participants, "The Cult Phenomenon in the United States", February 5, 1979, Senator Bob Dole, presiding.
  6. ^ Breen, Michael (2004). The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies. St. Martin's Press. pp. 271, 272, 274. ISBN 0-312-24211-5.
  7. ^ Anderson, Scott; Jon Lee Anderson (1986). Inside the League. Dodd, Mead. pp. 297.
  8. ^ Olsen, Edward A. (2005). Korea, the Divided Nation. Praeger/Greenwood. p. 184. ISBN 0-275-98307-2.
  9. ^ Kim, Hyung-chan (1986). Dictionary of Asian American History. Greenwood Pub Group. p. 528. ISBN 0-313-23760-3.
  10. ^ Tucker, Ruth A. (1989). Another Gospel. Zondervan. p. 446. ISBN 0-310-25937-1.
  11. ^ Bromley, David G.; Phillip E. Hammond (1987). The Future of New Religious Movements. Mercer University Press. pp. 233. ISBN 0-86554-095-0.
  12. ^ Day, James M.; William S. Laufer (1987). Crime, Values, and Religion. Praeger/Greenwood. p. 188. ISBN 0-89391-411-8.
  13. ^ Diamond, Sara (1989). Spiritual Warfare. South End Press. pp. 252. ISBN 0-89608-361-6.
  14. ^ Jenkins, Philip (2000). Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. Oxford University Press. pp. 275. ISBN 0-19-512744-7.
  15. ^ Stockdale, James B. (1981). The Ethics of Citizenship. University of Texas Press. pp. 141.
  16. ^ Staff (May 17, 1980). "Brief Reviews". New Republic.
  17. ^ Marro, Anthony (April 20, 1980). "Messiahs, Manipulators and Media Hype". The Washington Post. pp. Section: Book World.

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