The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
Priest Is
 Witness In Spy Case
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He couldn't speak a word of Eng fish, and his Russian was trans lated by an interpreter.
 Thomas J. Dodd, special assistant to the U. s. Attorney General, asked Pelypenko:
 Knew MoIzahn
 Do you know Kurt E. B. Mol zahn"
 T know" answered Pelypenko, who wore his clerical clothing and collar.
 Pelypenko, speaking slowly, said he attended a meeting at the hotel Bismarck, Chicago, in July, 1941, at which were present Gerhardt Will helm Kunze, chief of the German American Bund, count AnaStase Vonsiatsky, and Dr. Otto Willumeit, Chicago Bund leader, all of whom have speaded guilty in this case to charges of spying for Germany and Japan Another defendant Dr. Wolf gang Ebell, Fl PaSo, Tex, also has pleaded guilty.
 Pelypenko related Vonsiatsky had just returned from San Francisco, where he was supposed to contact a Japanese woman agent to give her data on American military facilities.
 Vonsiatsky said he was unable to make the contact, according to Pely- penko, and asked me to help to get Kunze a document facilitating his eventual trip to Europe" Kunze, according to the priest, was to take the information forst to South America, and then to Berlin.
 Kunze said, according to Pely- penko, T would have to visit Pastor Molzahn and together with him ob- tain the documents" Kunze at that time said he and Rev. Molzahn were well-acquainted, Pelypenko testified. The bund chief also told Pelypenko then that the United States was sending aid to Russia through Alaska, but did not go into other details about American military organization.
 Dr. Willumeit and Kunze told Pelypenko, according to the test!- mony, that Kunze's departure from the United States was imperative because If war broke out Kunze would be gone after"
 Later, when Fe1ypenko returned to New York, he was sent two let ters by Kunze containing the re- turn address of Rev. MolZahn s Philadelphia parish on the flaps, Pelypenko related.
 The first letter contained two pho- tographs of Kunze, and the second three.
 Pelypenko said he met Rev. Mol zahn at Philadelphia in May. 194l, for the first time. Before visiting him, Pelypenko said he talked with the German consul at Philadelphia and received note of introduction to the minister. The note was en- tered as evidence.
 At that time, Pelypenko asked Rev. Molzahn what he thought should be done to further Ukrain- ian independence, and the minis ter said, according to the priest there were three things to do.
 First, Pelypenko said, he was told to be active against war and the "warring authorities" at Washing ton.
 Second, to conduct propaganda favoring Ukrainian independence.
 And third, to give information on American factories and military equipment, but Pelypenkos testi- mony did not say to whom this in- formation was to be given.
 Later, Pelypenko said he went on to Washington where he contacted a German named Won Heyden, Secre- tary of the embassy there.
 Dodd asked whether Rev. Mol zahn's name was mentioned at this conference, held at the Hotel Harrington.
 "Yes," said the priest.
 Hartford, Conn, July 30.-(UP) - Aleksi Pelypenko. a Catholic priest toow the stand in the spy trial oi the Rev. Kurt E. B. Molzahn today and speaking through a Russian interpreter, said he became a mem. Der of the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation in 1941 on arrival from Buenos Aires.
 Pelypenko, mystery witness was said by the government in ar earlier statement to have been thu agen through whom Gerhardt VII. helm Kunze, chief of the German. American Bund, arranged meet.