The Washington Times, United Press International, Insight Magazine are some of many, many front groups for "father" Moon and the Moonies. The long list of front groups can be found at this link. It is a deliberate practice of Moon to set up nice sounding organizations and get celebrities to speak at their gathings (George Bush senior and Barbara Bush among others).
http://www.freedomofmind.com/groups/moonies/moonies.htm

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Moonies use Washington Times as
                                                                Front Group to Gain
                                                               Power and Legitimacy

                                    On Tuesday, May 21st 2002, controversial religious figurehead, alleged cult leader and
                                    self-proclaimed Messiah Sun Myung Moon, is to sponsoring a banquet celebrating the newspaper's
                                    20th anniversary. A substantial list of host Senators, Representatives and other politicians think they
                                    are supporting just a conservative newspaper, but are unwittingly endorsing the Moon agenda. Mr.
                                    Moon has used the newspaper along with U.P.I. to develop his power base for his ambitions–to
                                    establish and "automatic theocracy" in which he runs the world. Despite a politically conservative
                                    pro-family slant, the Times has also been the paper of choice for several Christian groups who are
                                    apparently unaware of Moon's true theology.

                                    "The public thinks that the Moonies have gone away. They haven't. They have been quite busy in
                                    recent years, focusing their recruitment efforts to politicians, business people and even Christian
                                    clergy," says Steven Hassan, former Moonie, author, licensed counselor and mind control expert.
                                    "They are still deceptive and quite dangerous," Hassan says, "Back in 1974-1976, Moon talked
                                    about setting up a global infrastructure so that when the world economy faltered, we would be there
                                    to feed people and give them jobs."

                                    Moon's stated ambitions include the establishment of a one-world government run as an automatic
                                    theocracy by Moon and his leaders. "Bush's faith-based initiative seems to be ideal to help them in
                                    their quest for a one world theocratic government," Hassan says, "I am sure President Bush is not
                                    aware that Moon has repeatedly said that America (and democracy) is Satanic." Moon's vision of the
                                    Kingdom of Heaven on Earth includes the absorption of all the world religions into Unificationism as
                                    well as the abolishment of all languages except Korean. Core Moonie members do a ritual pledge
                                    service every Sunday morning, bowing before an altar with Moon's picture on it and promising to
                                    fight for the Fatherland (Korea).

                                    Moon is an 82-year old Korean billionaire and convicted felon who served 13 months in federal
                                    prison for income tax evasion and conspiracy in the mid-1980s. Moon owns the Washington Times
                                    newspaper, U.P.I., Insight magazine, The University of Bridgeport (CT) and The New Yorker Hotel.
                                    His empire was part of a 1977-78 congressional investigation which looked at Korean CIA activities in
                                    the United States (list of front groups and report is on Freedomofmind.com).

                                    Tens of thousands of families have suffered because of the deceptive, mind control practices of the
                                    Moon organization. Members are told their parents are Satanic and are kept, sometimes for years,
                                    from visiting their families. While the Moonies have only several thousand dedicated American
                                    members now, there are an estimated 70,000 former members in the United States alone. Many of
                                    these people are still suffering from their involvement with the cult. The Moonies are actively
                                    recruiting in Africa, South America, China and the former Communist countries and have an
                                    estimated 100,000 members worldwide.

                                    While Moon professes upholding high family values to others, he is a hypocrite with major family
                                    problems of his own. His "blessed" eldest son, Hyo Jin (by second wife) are long divorced. According
                                    to ex-wife Nansook Hong's book, "In the Shadow of the Moons," Hyo Jin was physically violent,
                                    emotionally abusive, had a cocaine problem and has been arrested several times. In 1999, Moon's
                                    son, Youngjin P. Moon, then 21, committed suicide by jumping out of a Reno hotel window.

                                    Sun Myung Moon and his wife are considered to be "sinless" and are called the "True Parents" of
                                    humankind. He claims to be the new Christ and is fulfilling what Jesus failed to accomplish. In fact,
                                    Moon believes that until he married Jesus to a Korean church member, Jesus was unable to enter
                                    "Heaven". "I am certain that people are not aware of the real theology of Moon, says Hassan. "What
                                    people have to understand is that destructive cults use deception. Back in 1974, I was told that The
                                    One World Crusade, was "not religious at all." As a Jew, I would never have agreed to be involved if
                                    I had known what the group was really about.

                                    Throughout its history, the Moon organization has been involved with many questionable activities.
                                    The 1977-78 congressional investigation into KCIA activities in the United States stated it had found
                                    evidence that the group had systematically violated numerous federal and state laws. Moon
                                    eventually was convicted and spent thirteen months in jail for conspiracy to evade taxes. In Japan,
                                    his church has been the subject of the largest consumer fraud scam in Japanese history in which
                                    tens of thousands of people were manipulated into giving large sums of money to "liberate their
                                    suffering ancestors." "Moon has not changed his desire to convert the world," warns Hassan.
                                    "Responsible people need to stand up for the principles of freedom and democracy, and not be
                                    deceived and manipulated like I was."