1 05-29-87 09:41 aed Moon follower abducted for deprogramming DENVER (UPI) _ The Swedi

   1 05-29-87 09:41 aed

   Moon follower abducted for deprogramming

   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.

   Authorities  are  searching  for  Britta  Adolfsson,  who  was
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.

   Police Capt.  James Fitpatrick said Adolfsson's  parents  flew
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.

   "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."

   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.

   Critics  say  Moon's  church  is a cult in which followers are
brainwashed.  Deprogrammers are people who try  to  free  members
from the hold of alleged cults.

   Fitzpatrick   said   the   woman's  parents,  Tord  and  Edith
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."

   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.
Whalen also was taken into custody at that time.

   "We're praying  the  police  will  find  Britta,"  said  Peggy
Yujiri, who described herself as a missionary for the Unification
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."

   Yujiri said the missing woman also  is  a  missionary  in  the
church  and had been working on a conference of Christian clergy.
The spokeswoman said Britta Adolfsson lived in a church house  in
Washington, D.C., before moving to Denver about a year ago.