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ee i Kuat Charges CnReturn Home By NEAL PATTERSON and DAVID CHARNAY NEW YORK, Dec, 6 (NY News). Tyler Kent, former code clerk in the Americ'n Embassy at London who overnight became the central] ligure in the greatest Anglo American espionage mystery of World War II, came home from five years in a British jail yester- day to hurl charges of falsehood at “15 erstwhile chief, former Ambas- sador Joseph P. Kennedy. Kent. whose friends have -narged he was frailroaded to prison to forestall his exposure ef alleged secret pledges ex: changed between President Roose- velt and Winston Churchill, be- fore America was drawn into the yar—-also virtually assured him- self of an early seat before a Jongressional investigating com- mittee, Willing to Testify On & Hoboken pier, soon after scoarking from the British rrelghter Silver Oak, Kent de- sared he could give information o the committee now sifting the rearl Harbor disaster, “Not as to ‘ne Pearl Harbor phase, but as ‘gards America's entry into war.’ He said he was willing to testify ‘fore at committee or any +.18T proper authority, but that . didh't know a Republican re- ear! Harbor Committee to all¥him. ve To more than 40 newspapermen @ 34year-old excareer diplomat amitted that embassy Papers ad been found in his London vartment, but avelded comment n former Ambassador Kennedy's ‘alement that they totaled 1,500. “There were some documents in ¥ apartment,” was how Kent at it. “I don’t wish to reveal :eir contents at this time. They cré related to embassy matters." ennedy “Inventions” } “Is it true,” reporters asked, at the information you were iking home went to tie then cutral Italian Embassy and by ry } Acme Telephota Tyler’ Kent Home—After Five Years in; Brifish Prisoii Tyler Kent, former clerk in the U. §. Embassy in Loudon, who spent five ‘years in a British jail for the alleged theft of secret correspondence, is greeted by his mother in Hoboken, N. J. He arrived on the British freighter Silver Oak yesterday. Kont said he tock the documents for the purpose of relaying the information to the cently announced that no charges?! are pending against him here. He was warmiy greeted ai the f pier by his mother, Mrs. Anna H.|' P, Kent, of Washington. widow of | a career diplomat. Mrs. Kent, who jast. saw her son in 1940, has bat- tled unceasingly for his release. pExeD ‘somatic pouch t¢ Rome and n to Berlin?” » “That's pure mrention by Mr. “ennedy. I don’t know whether ny information reached Rome or erlin.” oe . Q.—Is it true there was a phone Tl from the Halian Embassy to _ uur apartment while Scotland . Kennedy. Q--What about the charge that o of your decoded messages ich were left by Anna Wolkoff, White Russian, were found in nearby photographic studio iere they allegedly had been re- ced to microfilm by a German we A—Nothing of that nature was *rged by the British. It was a ve invention of Mr. Kennedy. rries Questions Kent sald he had known Miss Jkoff, operator of an exclusive sadan dress shop and the daugh- - of a former Czarist admiral, 7 ahout six mouths before their rest. He parried questions as ta s friendship with the girl, wha *s convicted with him of violat- . the Official Secrets Act, Miss Wolkoff is still serving a year term. : Asked if he himself was guilty violating that statute, Kent vied: “I wanted to inform the Senate. “gusidered that the documents utained information the Senate ‘ould have, relating to foreign lations." . Q. Did you have any right to ‘“é those documents in your wn %—A. Tinder ordinary rir. ard agents were searching it? A Thats pure renter by pr She was accompanied by a fam-f ily friend, Charles Parsons, of Kennebunk, Me., and two private detectives, former Lts. John Shields and Edward Moran of the New York police, Five Hoboken Police provided a further escort. Kennedy, Chal. le a Speak CHICAGO, Dre. 5 (CTPS), Joseph P, Kennedy, former am- bassador to Britain, teday chal, lenged Tyler Kent, farmer clerk}? in the United States embassy in London, to make public any in- formation he may have that would he of interest to the Amer- ican people. Kennedy is here on a business trip. “If Kent really has anything tog say that would interest the people of the United States, and if there is any truth to his contention that his arrest in England prevented him from making any disclosures there, then now is the time for him to speak out, because the re- Strictions that he alieges existed J certainly do not-exist now that he Is back in the United States,’ the former ambassador said, Os=e ! 4 i= Oy WAN 4 1549 —— ae sere u