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vA hie i) 2 ‘ orl ‘ 48) PAGETWO -: oe 2 Nazi Consul Is; lq Charged ac SPY) Frit Wiedema ann Heads Vast Espionage Setup in All Americas, Woman Say states ceneeteaneemene inemeomnee e “SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 (P).-= Consul General Fritz Wiedemann was represented Wednesday as head- ing a German espionage ring throughout the Americas, and as hav- . ing ordered his agents to obtain se- cret information “beneficia] to Ger- many .. . in its conquest of the Western Hemisphere.” 1. The allegations were infa com- plaint filed for Mrs. Alice &Crockett, former wife of a United States ATIDY officer, who asked $8,000 she said Wiedemann owed her for a trip to Germany ip his behalf in 1639. The complaint set forth that: Wiedemann received more than $5,- 000,000 from the German govern- ment for “espionage activity, that he employed many persons for such purposes, and that it wegipe duty of the Princess Stephanie Hoheniohe, whom the United States is seeking to deport, to pay these employes,’ The reniainder of the complaint was made up of statements which Mrs. Crockett said Wiedemann made to her. — “Statements” Repeated. _ He was alleged to have told her that he obtained information “to » + determine by what method the Pan- ama Canal could be made useless,” that he employed officials of the United States Gavernment, that he hired workmen in Vita] industries to “foment class hatred,” that he en- couraged strikes te undermine Unit- ‘ ~ ed States defensive strength, and that he directed the German-Amer- ican Bund. . : Wiedemann iso was represented having saig he “worked together” with Henryf/Ford and Col. Charles Lindbergh, and that he (Wiedemann) was “active in secretly storing large quantities of ammunition,” partic- ularly in the Fast and ti New Jer- sey, “to be used by the... bund -.. in fighting against the United , States Government.” ~ Seni LU ORO Rage ASTER Riemmeeemnai - The cdmplaint said Wiedemann | ant a nom om Tenn = -~ told Mra Crocyett he. had pleced . Friedhe raeger in charge of ty-Ract oo Germ. opaganda division, _Dr. Maines chmr in charge ¢ New York division, ‘and Hermapf Schwinn in charge of the West Cdast division. Wiedamann consul general there .wihCemann, cont ners since early in 1929, denied all such charges when a similar suit was filed by Mrs. Crockett in superior court, and his attorney termed the action a “shakedown.” “Check Up” Trip. The consular official was a su- perior officer of Adolf Hitler in the World War, and was Hitler's person- al aid and confidant from Jan. 1, 1935, until coming here Mre, Crockett’s complaint said Wiedemann owed her $3,000 for six months’ service and $5,000 in} expenses for visiting Hitler and ofher; high officials in Germany and ascer-| taining that they believed Wiede- mann was “properly fulfilling” his duties as consul general and in the “espionage service.” The trip, the complaint said, war taken after Wiedemann had a “se- rious misunderstanding”. with the German government. The complaint asserted that Wiede- mano remarked he “used” Colone! Lindbergh “to lull America and Americans into a sense of false se- curity and into believing that Amer- fea was and is safe from Germany and German attack.” It said, too. that the consul general had stated he “worked together” with Ford “in furthering the German and Nazi ~ rr ~ hid cause in the United States. STORY FORD AIDED BUND I8 “TERMED “OUTRAGEOUS LIE.” | DETROIT, March § (%. — Com- eee on a complaint filed in Hederal court in San Francisco, 1 A. [Capiz attorney for the Ford Motor PCspizr. » said Wednesday night that “any statement that Henry Ford 4s working alone or with anyone else to further any foreign cause what- ever ig an outrageous lie.” Caplzzi referred to the complaint by Mrs, Alice Crockett against Fritz Wiedemann, German consul-general at San Francisco, in which Wiede- mann was said to hgve received more than €5,000,000 from Germany for espionage inthe United States). and elsewhere in the Western Hemi- phere. _ The complaint, alleging that Wiede- mann directed German-American Bund activities in the United States, said Wiedemann told Mrs, Crockett that he “worked together with" Col. Charles A, Lindbergh and Henry Ford.