- ° a ¥, a “f oe . ; . ° FD-302 (Rev. 10-11-63) . . FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION C On Fabruary 9, 1965, Poctor WALTER GEORGE SIKORA advised that on the previous Thursday,\February 4, 1965, ke had kad lunch at Ballantine's Restaurant, 1207 North Dearborn, Chicago, Tilincis, with EUGENLUSS. PANEX, Attashs,.Rolish Consulate-Chicago, and JOZER ANCE Polish Consulats-Caicago.” Ditrror-SISORA statéd tnat\this ~ “ranchéén mésting lasted~approximately 24 hours “from 12:00 noon to 2730 p.m. He advised that this was the first time he had met ANCZURA and that HUGENTUSA PANEK had requested that he bé allowed to accompany them on this occasion as ANCQURA had expressed an interest in meating and talking with Doctor SIKORA .<S ) Doctor SIKORA continued that his impression of ANC@URA was that of an intelligent and dedicated Communist and ons who is very pro-Russian in attitudes. Doétor ; SIKORA further advised that he had determined from ANCZURA that be has been employed for the past sevdéral years in the Visa and Passport Section of the Polish Ministry of Foréign Affairs, and he appeared to be well versed in all matters pertaining to this field. ANCZURA: appsared rather reluctant to discuss frealy much of his personal history and at one point, in response to a question by Doctor SIKORA. as to what ANCZURA had done during the war, ANCZURA . replied that Doctor SIKORA should not expect to find out everything about him during their first meeting. GS) Doctor SIKGRA stated further that ANCQZURA was obviously aware of the fact that he,. Doctor SIKORA, had beén interrogated by the Polish Securty Service (UB) during his visit to Poland in September, 1964. Doctor SIKORA explainsd that ANCEGURA had remarked about his, Doctor t SIKORA's, having had some slight difficulties with the "Burgau of Investigation" in Poland and ke hoped that Doctor SIKORA would understénd that it was necessary for the Polish Government to determine if persons visiting GS y) “On 2/9/65 at Chicago, Tllincis opie Chicago/105-5885 IG) by SA EUGENE A. MC COSH/csm ___Date dictated — 2/11/65 Q . . 7. This A ELDTAM, Bor BU Rendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It.is the. property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. . o = ‘ya t NW 549435 Docld: 32989493 Page 2 ‘ ete
Le 2. csfios-saes_|6) Polaud were sugazedg in actinvits 2. of the Pollak Government. oe Ht K SiiORsA stated that ke did not auestis, on ARCZURS furthee concexsming his knowledge interrogatien as it appeared to him as though @S agaimst the interests op of the above in ANCAURA was abten wpting to make an as@legy for this baving happened, Bostorw SIKORA advised that he did, however, remind ANCAURA and PANEK the: about malt of the time he had besén in Poland Guring this visit bad been taken up by questioning and he therste:;s felt he was justified in being angry wish this tragimagi. Eu addition, he stated he again brottght up the Subget ot bis wisa having been refused by SUS KITA, Gonsud soneral, Polish. Consulate- Chinage, tatitng “kom that ke could net forgive KITA~foxr -havine caused ine TMs difiicotry. ARCAURA then assured him that this would m@gtkaprai 2 aGaia ax nd wnat he, SLKORA, should drop in at the CcoBenlaie and suo Consul General KITA on sows Friday afternden whem the work at the Consulate is finished and they are relaking there. S) Doctor SERORA continusd that during the conversation he vrowalle that ANCEYEA had congratulated him on having oppossi) Sexator GOLDWATER's candidacy for the Presidensy and indicated that they were awere ho had worked for President JORNSON's election. Boctor SIKCHA axplained that for six weeks during the fail of 1964 he had been employed by ths Demooxatic Party to be in ehsrg5 OX Krepaping Polish’ language material and advertisements for uso om Polish Lansuage - radio broadcasts in the United Stetes during the presidential — campaign. He explained that bis name had appeared as such on certain letterkeads OF the Damon eke Pasty duxiag the -Gampaion ami he thoorised tant the Consulate had'-seéan sone letterhes.d or ,récelived inforuation concerning his activitics. : Dactor SEKGRA advised that he informed AMCBURA that he’ had been ecnployed by the Democratic Party but that this did not necessarily indicats hew he had voted. S) hy MW 549435 Doold: 32889483 Page 3 oe ann eee Seren ce ee deme Pee tr fen Tete Semen ome on ons
NW 54943 Docld:s25989483 Page 4. 4, CG (108-5885 ]6) in the future. In addition, ANCAURA furnished Dogtor... SIKORA with a Polish translation of an article writtsr by + eater eee an Oditor af ths Gorman language newspaper WAbSEG mTiblished in Chicago which appeared in that paps» on D ember 37, 3964. According to-ANCAORA this aLtiale contained several distortions of fact concerning conditions ia‘ Poland which the author allegedly cbserved 4 during a recent trip to that area. ANCEURA xequestéed that Doctor SIKGRA attempt to correst these distortions and diseredit ERBE during Doctor SEIEGRA's subsequent radio broadcasts in Chicago. Yo assist him in doing this ANCZURA provided Dostor SYRGRA with a list of some criticisms of the articis from the Polish point of view. Doctor SIKORA stated that ke advised ANCAURA that he would read the articles wéentioned BEd CoOUSsider ANCAURA'sS suggestions concerning it -G) iso curing this conver sation ANOZURA mentioned zi 'tAbendpost" who had been’ fire for aliegedly opposing peo-Nazt syitpathiies on the part of "the - paper. ANCZURA indicated that he was aware that KONDICH 2d prepared an anti-German article after leaving the "Abend ost and that this articles had beén published in one of%@hicago's Polish language néwspapers. ANCEGRA commented SLO NKORDICH ‘might have been useful to them but since he was no longer associated with the “Abendpost" his usefulness was therefore diminished. G ) Roctor SUKORA mentioned to the interviewing ~ Agents that me was acquainted witk KRONDICH as he, Doctor SYKORA , handles Polish languages advertising for Trans World Aivlines and that at one time Trans World Airlines had censidersd opening an office in Yugoslavia and KGNDICH had been interested in hd@udling Yugoslav matters in Chicago for Trans World Airlines S) Fen am,
Res (WALTER GEORGE saan ‘In regard to Urs. bella Erbe above interview, the. f£o[lowite fe noted? mentioned’ in the Nata 0 eee Mrs.‘Erbe, during the course of the interview conducted by Special Agents of the Chicago Diviste of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in December, 1964,\concerning another matter, advised that she was_born on October 10, 1922, in Czechoslovakia, and is of Sugdeten~German background. She was. “préviously married to Helnuth Erbe, a German national, who died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War IXY, Mrs. Erbe is currently married to Franciszek Przysiezny, an American citizen of ‘Polish extraction, She is known professionally as Izabella ., Erbe and holds' the position of City Editor of the Chicago German - Language newspaper, "Abendpost” .(S) . Mrs. Erbe advised that in September, 1964,:she, called at the Polish Consulate, Chicago, to obtain & vise to travel to Poland to visit her husband's brother, WladislTaw Praysiegny, who . _Lives__in..the,-town- of~Nanyslow in the province OA Opolet"" Mrs . Erbe was interviewed for two hours in ‘the office a @ consul on the. second floor of the Consulate, She identified a photograph: ‘of Jozef Anczura as being the person who interviewed her. At that time he told her that the Polish Government would .consider issuing her a visa to travel to Poland if she would write nothing upon ‘her return that would be critical of Poland, Anczura told her that following her trip to Poland, he wished she would call upon him again and he requested that she submit to him any articles that she might publish concerning her trip im Poland prior ‘to their appearance in Chicago newspapers. ‘Mrs. Erbe advised that she had no intention of submitting any grticles to Anczura for’ his review.prior to their publication. In September, 1964, CG TZ, o has furnished reliable information im the past, advised that thesPolish Consulate, Chicago, -requested permission of the PoliskN\Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue a visa to jzabelia Olivia Praysiezny, bern October_10,, 1922,,.in. Czechoslovakia, an“ OfTicralkeor”"4-German “HéwSparer in Chicago, who desired to” visit her husband's brother in Poland.) * SECRET NW 549435 Doocld: 32989483 Page 5
| HW 54943 Doold:32989483 Page 6 e: (WALTER GEORGE smxonky 6) In regard to AndrewsKondich, montioned in the above interview of Dr. Sikora, CG Ta3> who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised“in November, 1964, that Kondich was a former editor of the Chicago German language ‘newspaper , “Abendpost™, who had been fired as amy intriguer", * Kondich _ prepared an article for publication inthe October, 1964 edition. of the magazine, “Focus/Midwest", in whieh he alleged that the West German Government, with its enbassy in Washington and its Consulate in Chicago, had sought to influence German American voters toward the political right and particularly the candidacy of Sendtor Barry Goldwater for President, Kondich also accused the West German Governient of indirectly encouraging a rebirth of Nazism through various German American organizations and individuals in the Chicago. area whom he stated had facist histories. It was the opinion of this source that Kondich had purposely distorted the role of the West German Government in this matter and some of thé individuals who he describes aS pro-Nazi he@ve renounced any such sympathies long @g0. Kondich, in-his article, did describe the German ‘American Net onal 1 Congress (DANK) as being prosNezi and | “Gértain individuais counected. p With the~organization as’ being’ pro~Nazi and according to the informant ; tnis description of them is at, least partially accurate, The ‘Source has asserted that in his opinion Kondich is pro-communist an ee *nrofessional intriguer” Who y while - editor of thé "Abendpost", was<primar ily concerned with x posing as many German American leaders ‘as possible as being pro-Nazi. | . ; There’ follows a translation from Polish to English of ‘the article which originally appeared on December 17, 1964, in the "Abendpost" [and was furnished by Anczura to-Dr. Sikora? Ys) "It is now our country, our children were born here™ "In the 3rd section of our report from our member editor - IdZabella Erbe '~ who enjoyed, at the invitation of the Foundation for European Probiens , 2 weeks in Germany. , she ‘gives her impressions ‘of her trip from Berlin to’ Wroclaw which is temporarily under Polish administration, —STeRES-
‘Re: faLre GEORGE STKORA [qj “The train connection from Berlin to Posnan to Wroclaw was excellent, .Probably more from curiosity than from a sense of obligation the Polish customers clerk inspected my baggage. He was friendly and shortly I. realized that _ he'was well informed about American conditions, ' In Poznan I got on the train bound for Wroclaw, . First class was, | vacant and,...dirty. ‘Still worse appeared the,more recessed ; places. . Soon: had company. A railroad worker Byrearing ; f° like a trooper said: ‘Our children'don’t have unything to eat, but still our govertiment feeds well the children from . ' Africa. who coms here’, .His colleague ‘was less friendly and ‘ quickly dragged the *national traitor’ from the compartnent:, -Naturally, I did not catch a glimpse of him anymore...At . the station in Wroclaw, in spite of. the late hour, 1:06. 1 in the morning, the traffic was lively. Several taxis (model Anno Domini) stood in front of the station, ‘T contracted for one of them. The muddy streets were empty and deserted, We’ tried’ to obtain a room in four hotels’, But all were either filled or due to my ‘western appearance ° ; . ZL was left no choice but to go by taxi a distancerof 46 Km to Namysiow. Relatives of my husband lived there, The arrival waS such a great surprise, that in. spite ofa - lasting fear as a result of hitting a trée during the ‘taxi . ride, it seemed very pleasant to ma. “I was greeted a 0 < i Santa Claus. .Evén the smallest gift , called’ forth from % the ' 2 children wild Indian dancing... The arrival of:an aunt , from America?’ was’ equal here to winning the. main: ‘prize. ‘int a lottery;. ., “ ‘ "During my 2 day stay z went sightseeing. to several various ° neighbofing . villages which ‘pregented @ troubled and ‘desperat&. picture. . Baris without siding » in order to have something. to burn; coal aut here is more costly - than diamonds - in. spite of the fact that the péople are sitting on coal, The coal here, however, is intended for export or sold on the black market, The farms, are, to , be sure, wealthier = ‘but, this still renains ‘from the oot Germans ~. aad: theyexedutre aswell, a ‘violent _Penovation. _ ' SPY « . . ene ; . * ee ee eed ro - & = NW 34943 Doold:32989483 Page 7 - b . .