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But some former employees, including the newspaper's first editor and publisher, James R. Whelan, have insisted that the paper was under Moon's control from the beginning.

Whelan, whose contract guaranteed editorial autonomy, left the paper when the owners refused to renew the contract, asserting that " I have blood on my hands " for helping Moon acquire legitimacy.

Three years later editorial page editor William P. Cheshire and four of his staff resigned, charging that, at the explicit direction of Sang Kook Han, a top official of the Unification Church, then-editor Arnaud de Borchgrave had stifled editorial criticism of political repression in South Korea.