NAZI RADIO STATION
DISCOVERY IN GREENLAND AMERICANS TAKE TWENTY PRISONERS WASHINGTON, Oec; lVpitt.)' oct - 1L The United States Navy captured and disposed of a German,arctic outpost operating a radio station* in Greenland and is bringing 20 prisoners, including an agent of the Gestapo and a group of Norwegian Quislings, to an American port. An announcement to this effect was'made bfc the State Department. This is the first reported activity by American armed forces in a United. States protected Danish island. The announcement said that a patrol ship intercepted and inspected a small Nor>fregian steamer and the examination of; revealed that..;.the vessel had been despatched to Greene lijhd by" the Nazi authorities in NorM&y to establish a radio station from •vpich would be sent to the German althorities weather reports and other nplitary information. |A search of the Greenland coast restated a radio station manned by the dfcstapo agent and two other Norwegians who had previously disembarked from- a-Norwegian vessel
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24736, 13 October 1941, Page 6
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159NAZI RADIO STATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 24736, 13 October 1941, Page 6
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