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PACETWO + ’ Nazi Consul Is | >-Charged as Spy Fritz Wiedemann Heads Vast Espionage Setup in All Americas, Woman Says. SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 (#).— 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- b cret information “beneficial to Ger- 7 many . .. in its conquest of the Western Hemisphere.” The allegations were inf'a com- plaint filed for Mrs, Alice #Crockett, former wife of a United States Army Officer, who asked $8,000 she said ‘Wiedemann owed her for a trip to Germany in his behalf in 1839. The complaint set forth thal ‘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 wegthe duty of the Princess Stephanie ffoheniohe, whom the United States is seeking to deport, to pay these employes,’ The rentainder of the complaint was made up of statements which Mare Crockett said Wiedemann made er. “Statements” Repeated. ‘He was dlleged to bave told her that he obtained information “to determine by what method the Pan- ama Cana] could be made useless,” that he employed officials of the United States Gavernment, that be hired workmen in Vital 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 also was represented having saif he “worked together” with HenryfFord and Col. Charles Lindbergh, and that he (Wiedemann) was “active in secretly storing large quantities of ammunition.” partic sey, “to be used by the . . . bund ~. ~ in fighting against the United States Government” ~ yore - ¢ ~ ‘The odmplaint said Wiedemann: told Mra. Cro he had placed| ‘Dr. FriedhelmMraeger in charge of ‘08 Germ: vision, Dr. fathias charge of ew York the West .Wiedemann, consul general here since early in 1939, 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 » 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. Mrs, Crockett’s complaint said Wiedemann owed her $3,000 for six months’ service and $5,000 in expenses for visiting Hitler and other! 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, was taken after Wiedemann’ had s “se- rious misunderstanding”. with the German government. ‘The complaint asserted that Wiede- mann remarked he “used” Colone! Lindbergh “to ill America and Americans into a sense of false se- curity and into believing that Amer- {ca 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 cause in the United States.” STORY FORD AIDED BUND I8 “TERMED “OUTRAGEOUS LIE” DETROIT, March 5 (%. — Com- enting om a complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco, 1. A. Capizzi, attorney for the Ford Motor Company, said Wednesday night that| “any statement that Henry Ford 4s working alone or with anyone else to further any foreign cause what- ever is 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 have received more than $5,000,000 from Germany for espionage inthe United States’ and elsewhere In the Western Hemi- sphere. ‘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