Box 407
35. August 1, 1977: Tongsun Park at King College.
Wonder if it's the same Tongsun Park?
For some backround, click here. From the article:
Like so many American scandals, no one ever quite got to the bottom of Koreagate. It just drifted away with the arrival in the White House of a new Democratic administration, which badly needed the Congressional leadership of Tip OÍNeill--one of the Congressmen implicated in Koreagate. William Safire kept the heat on Tip O'Neill after Jimmy Carter became President, citing a document that the FBI had seized in Tongsun Park's house claiming that prior to O'Neill's April 1974 visit to Seoul, "Mr. O'Neill specifically requested us to provide [fellow] Congressmen with election campaign funds and their wives with necessary expenses." The Justice Department had withheld this document for three months, according to Safire, perhaps because of worries that by-then House Majority Leader O'Neill would be embarrassed.[22]
In July 1978 Safire attacked the Justice Department's handling of Koreagate (for example, waiting until Tongsun Park had fled the country before indicting him), and predicted that its investigation was ending--"not with a bang, but a whimper."[23] Shortly thereafter I happened to sit next to a Justice Department official on an airplane. He told me everyone knew the investigation was being shut down because it had gotten much too close to Congressional Democrats.