Gifts of Deceit
{{Short description|1980 book by Robert Boettcher}}
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| author = Robert Boettcher
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| subject = Politics, South Korea United States relations, Unification movement
| genre = non-fiction
| publisher = Holt, Rinehart and Winston
| release_date = 1980
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| media_type = Hardcover
| pages = 402
| isbn = 978-0-03-044576-7
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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 Robert Boettcher, with Gordon L. Freedman. Freedman had served on the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee staff and had been a producer for ABC News 20/20 prior to his service on the subcommittee.{{cite book
| last = Olsen
| first = Edward A.
| title = Toward Normalizing U.S. Korea Relations: in due course?
| publisher = Lynne Rienner Publishers
| year = 2002
| pages = 36
| isbn = 1-58826-109-3}}
About the author
Boettcher graduated with an M.S. in international relations from Georgetown University and served as a United States Foreign Service officer.{{cite book
| last = Maurer
| first = Harry
| title = Strange Ground PB: An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975
| publisher = Da Capo Press
| year = 1998
| pages = 6, 290–294, 302, 622
| isbn = 0-306-80839-0}}
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. The subcommittee was chaired by Congressman Donald M. Fraser. Boettcher died in a fall in 1984.{{cite news
| last = Staff
| title = Robert Boettcher, Staff Chief In House Inquiry, Dies in Fall
| work = The New York Times
| date = May 30, 1984
| url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E2DA143BF933A05756C0A962948260
}}
Cited by secondary works
Boettcher's work is cited extensively in Farrell's Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century.{{cite book
| last = Farrell
| first = John Aloysius
| title = Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century
| publisher = Back Bay
| year = 2001
| pages = 729, 730, 746
| isbn = 0-316-18570-1}}
The book itself was noted in United States Congressional investigations on "The Cult Phenomenon in the United States", in 1979.United States Congress, Biographical Sketches of Participants, "The Cult Phenomenon in the United States", February 5, 1979, Senator Bob Dole, presiding. Gifts of Deceit is also cited in Breen's The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies,{{cite book
| last = Breen
| first = Michael
| title = The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies
| publisher = St. Martin's Press
| year = 2004
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/koreanswhotheyar00bree/page/271 271, 272, 274]
| url = https://archive.org/details/koreanswhotheyar00bree/page/271
| isbn = 0-312-24211-5
}}
Anderson's Inside the League,{{cite book
| last = Anderson
| first = Scott
|author2=Jon Lee Anderson
| title = Inside the League
| publisher = Dodd, Mead
| year = 1986
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/insideleagueshoc00ande/page/297 297]
| isbn = 9780396085171
| url =https://archive.org/details/insideleagueshoc00ande
| url-access = registration
}}
and is recommended reading by Olsen's Korea, the Divided Nation{{cite book
| last = Olsen
| first = Edward A.
| title = Korea, the Divided Nation
| publisher = Praeger/Greenwood
| year = 2005
| pages = 184
| isbn = 0-275-98307-2}}
and Kim's Dictionary of Asian-American History.{{cite book
| last = Kim
| first = Hyung-chan
| title = Dictionary of Asian American History
| publisher = Greenwood Pub Group
| year = 1986
| pages = 528
| isbn = 0-313-23760-3}}
In addition to political books, Gifts of Deceit is cited in books which analyze new religious movements, including Another Gospel,{{cite book
| last = Tucker
| first = Ruth A.
| title = Another Gospel
| publisher = Zondervan
| year = 1989
| pages = 446
| isbn = 0-310-25937-1 }}
The Future of New Religious Movements,{{cite book
| last = Bromley
| first = David G.
| author2 = Phillip E. Hammond
| title = The Future of New Religious Movements
| publisher = Mercer University Press
| year = 1987
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_m4v9/page/233 233]
| url = https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_m4v9/page/233
| isbn = 0-86554-095-0
}}
Crime, Values, and Religion,{{cite book
| last = Day
| first = James M.
|author2=William S. Laufer
| title = Crime, Values, and Religion
| publisher = Praeger/Greenwood
| year = 1987
| pages = 188
| isbn = 0-89391-411-8}}
Spiritual Warfare,{{cite book
| last = Diamond
| first = Sara
| title = Spiritual Warfare
| publisher = South End Press
| year = 1989
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/spiritualwarfare0000diam/page/252 252]
| url = https://archive.org/details/spiritualwarfare0000diam/page/252
| isbn = 0-89608-361-6
}}
and more recently in Jenkins' Mystics and Messiahs, in 2000.{{cite book
| last = Jenkins
| first = Philip
| title = Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| year = 2000
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/mysticsmessiahsc00phil/page/275 275]
| url = https://archive.org/details/mysticsmessiahsc00phil/page/275
| isbn = 0-19-512744-7
}}
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."{{cite book
| last = Stockdale
| first = James B.
| title = The Ethics of Citizenship
| publisher = University of Texas Press
| year = 1981
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/ethicsofcitizens11stoc/page/141 141]
| url =https://archive.org/details/ethicsofcitizens11stoc
| url-access = registration
}}
The New Republic called it a "most complete account."{{cite magazine
| last = Staff
| title = Brief Reviews
| magazine = New Republic
| date = May 17, 1980
}}
The Washington Post reviewed the work, but stated that portions of the Koreagate Scandal may have been due to media hype.{{cite news
| last = Marro
| first = Anthony
| title = Messiahs, Manipulators and Media Hype
| newspaper = The Washington Post
| pages = Section: Book World
| date = April 20, 1980
}}
See also
References
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Category:1980 non-fiction books
Category:Books about the Unification Church