by FourthBase » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:51 pm
I don't know, Chigger, there might be a connection, might not. It's definitely interesting that one Whelan was a Moonie deprogrammer while the other was a Moonie paper founding editor. James Whelan has written a book about Allende, and he seems to be one of the world's leading Pinochet champions.<br><br>BTW, Here's more about that Moonie deprogramming:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/kidnap66.htm">www.skepticfiles.org/cult...dnap66.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>DENVER (AP) -- Britta Adolfsson said Friday she forgives her parents for hiring deprogrammers to snatch her from the Unification Church, but will never again trust them.<br><br>"They (her parents) apologized to me. They promised they<br>would never do it again and they asked for my forgiveness," Adolfsson, 29, told a news conference at a Denver Unification Church. "I understand where they're coming from. They really love me and I love them ... but I feel I can't trust them."<br><br>She said her parents, Tord and Edith Adolfsson, paid thousands of dollars to hire a team of deprogrammers to kidnap her from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church on May 26. The woman said she became a church member about seven years ago after spending a year as an exchange student at a California college.<br><br>Britta Adolfsson told reporters she was not coerced into<br>becoming a Moonie. She said she joined freely because she embraced their "ideals and ideas" about God and life.<br><br>Frightened by "a lot of negative publicity" surrounding the<br>Unification Church and rumors that she would marry again in a mass ceremony, her parents, brother and sister, who live in Sweden, hired the deprogrammers, Adolfsson said.<br><br>"I'm not a kid anymore. I know what I'm doing," she said.<br>"But they (her parents) are simple people ... I feel very sorry<br>for them. They had a lot of confusion and fear. They were worried about me.<br><br>"I am shocked this happened. I did not feel they (parents)<br>would do this to me. We had a good relationship," she said.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>She said it was difficult to believe her parents were involved with Dennis Whelan and his son-in-law, Jimmy Lee Hilzendenger, who allegedly plucked her off East 14th Avenue in Capitol Hill as she walked to a morning appointment.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>When she was pulled into the van Adolfsson said she was sure the five men would rape her. But they drove around for about two hours before arriving at an elegant home with a swimming pool, jacuzzi and horses. There her parents and about seven deprogrammers waited.<br><br> "I was scared, very upset and angry. I was violated. There was no respect shown for me as a human being," she said. Tuesday morning, Adolfsson escaped through a bathroom window while her captors slept in a Kansas house.<br><br> A few days later, Whelan and Hilzendenger, private<br>investigators from Nebraska, were arrested, and her parents were detained by police. The Adolfssons, who returned to Sweden on Friday, will not be charged.<br><br> Whelan and Hilzendenger are free on bond.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/kidnap3.htm">www.skepticfiles.org/cult...idnap3.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>DENVER (AP) -- Two Omaha detectives are free on bond after a judge reduced bail on kidnapping charges to $5,000 each.<br><br> Dennis Whelan, 52 and James Hilzenderger 27, were released Wednesday from the Denver City Jail.<br><br> The men, charged with second-degree kidnapping, conspiracy and false imprisonment, had been held on $250,000 bond. But Denver Judge Robert Crew Jr. reduced the bond after a two-hour hearing.<br><br> Crew said the men may not participate in any deprogramming activities and must remain within a 200-mile radius of Omaha.<br><br> Whelan, reportedly an expert on deprogramming cult followers, and Hilzenderger were arrested last week following the May 26 abuction of Britta Adolfsson, 29, of Sweden from a Denver street. The woman was forced into a van by two men in broad daylight, witnesses told police.<br><br> Authorities have said Adolfsson's parents, Swedish physicist Tord Adolfsson and his wife, Edith, hired deprogrammers to abduct their daughter because they were concerned about her upcoming wedding this summer to a man in a mass wedding in South Korea. No charges have been filed against the Adolfssons in the case.<br><br> Britta Adolfsson reportedly has belonged for eight years to<br>the Unification Church, whose members are known as "Moonies" because of their Korean founder, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, police have said.<br><br> For a week, Adolfsson had been the object of a search by Denver police with the help of the FBI. But Tuesday morning, she ran from a house in Lyons and flagged down Sgt. Buck Causey of the Kansas Highway Patrol. "She said she had been kidnapped," Causey said.<br><br> Adolfsson told authorities several men had held her captive at the house, but they apparently fled before police could search the dwelling.<br><br> The women appeared to have "no physical injuries," as a result of her time in captivity, said Denver District Attorney Norm Early, "but something like this has to affect you emotionally. The terror of being snatched off the street has to be extremely great."<br><br> Two Denver detectives on Wednesday brought Adolfsson back to Denver where she was staying at a hotel, officials said.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/whelan90.htm">www.skepticfiles.org/cult...elan90.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An Omaha private detective who expects to be indicted by a Colorado grand jury for the alleged kidnapping of a religious cult member <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>called Colorado a haven for religious cults</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Dennis Whalen said on Monday that Denver authorities have helped make Colorado that way by vigorously prosectuing people who try to help cult victims.<br><br> Whelan, the subject of a grand jury investigation for the<br>alleged kidnapping of a Unification Church member in Denver, said he can think of no other reason why about 15 of the largest cults in the United States are based in Denver.<br><br> "I don't know why one big city in the Midwest has such a big concentration of cults unless they feel safer there</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->," Whelan said at a news conference organized by an organization calling itself the Cult Rescue Defense Committee.<br><br> Committee members said they said they hope to raise money to pay for the legal defense of Whelan and others who may be indicted in the alleged May 26 kidnapping of Britta Adolfsson, a 29-year-old Unification Church member.<br><br> Whelan, 52, said the Unification Church is a religious cult.<br>Church members are sometimes called "Moonies," after their leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of South Korea.<br><br> Whelan said he expects to be indicted with five other Omahans for their roles in what they call the rescue of Ms. Adolfsson.<br><br> The five, who attended the press conference with Whelan, are James Hilzendeger, his son-in-law; Lawrence "Mick" Whelan, his son; Pat Kinney; Judy Kowal, and Jay Hinchman.<br><br> A day after the alleged kidnapping, Denver authorities<br>arrested Whelan and Hilzendeger and charged them with second-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping and false imprisonment. Charges against both were dismissed when the case was submitted to the grand jury.<br><br> Norm Early, Denver County district attorney, told the Omaha World-Herald in a telephone interview that cult members move to Colorado for the same reasons many other people do -- quality of life and scenic beauty. He also said his office would not tolerate kidnappings in Denver.<br><br> "We are not going to have people being kidnapped from the streets of Denver ... for the pecuniary gain of Mr. Whelan or anyone else," Early said.<br><br> He said the grand jury probably won't complete its<br>investigation until mid-September.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/denver.htm">www.skepticfiles.org/cultinfo/denver.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>DENVER (UPI) _ The Swedish parents of a 29-year-old woman arranged for her abduction so she could be deprogrammed from the influence of the Unification Church, according to a detective who has interviewed the parents.<br><br> Authorities are searching for Britta Adolfsson, who was<br>abducted from a sidewalk Tuesday and forced into a van. Two private investigators from Omaha, Neb., _ Dennis Whalen, 51, and Jim Hilzendegor, 27, _ were held today under a $250,000 bond each for investigation of first-degree kidnapping.<br><br> Police Capt. James Fitpatrick said Adolfsson's parents flew<br>to the United States from Sweden last week to hire the investigators to find their daughter and take her to deprogrammers. The parents became alarmed after learning she planned to go to South Korean next month to marry a man she has not met, the detective said.<br><br> "She was going to be shipped out of the country and they were afraid they'd never see her again," Fitzpatrick said. "They're very worried about her mental health."<br><br> A Denver spokeswoman for the Unification Church could not confirm a mass marriage by church founder, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, was planned next month.<br><br> Critics say Moon's church is a cult in which followers are<br>brainwashed. Deprogrammers are people who try to free members from the hold of alleged cults.<br><br> Fitzpatrick said the woman's parents, Tord and Edith<br>Adolfsson, have been in contact with the deprogrammers but may not know exactly where their daughter is. Fitzpatrick said he decided not to arrest the parents because "they are my best lead back to the victim and they are assuring me she is all right."<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Hilzendegor was arrested Wednesday after he was spotted driving through the parking lot of police headquarters while the Adolfssons and Whalen were inside talking with detectives.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Whalen also was taken into custody at that time.<br><br>[<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ]<br><br> "We're praying the police will find Britta," said Peggy<br>Yujiri, who described herself as a missionary for the Unification<br>Church in Denver. "We would like her to do what she wants to do. We want her to be free and to make a free choice about her life."<br><br> Yujiri said the missing woman also is a missionary in the<br>church and had been working on a conference of Christian clergy. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The spokeswoman said Britta Adolfsson lived in a church house in Washington, D.C., before moving to Denver about a year ago.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=fourthbase>FourthBase</A> at: 6/12/06 7:20 pm<br></i>
