ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA
HELP GIVEN TO JAPANESE (Received June 15, 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 14 German espionage helped the Japanese to prepare for the attack on Pearl Harbour. This was revealed in an announcement by the Office of War Information that on December 21, 1942, a military commission at Honolulu sentenced Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn, a Nazi agent, to death on a charge of having betrayed the United States Fleet. The sentence was later commuted to 50 years’ hard labour. No reason for this has been published. Kuehn went to Honolulu in 1935, ostensibly to study Japanese, but in three years he banked more than 70,000 dollars. On October 25, 1941, the Japanese consulate delivered 14,000 dollars in cash to him. Kuehn admitted having prepared for the Japanese Consul-General a system of signals for reporting United States Fleet movements at Pearl Harbour, also a system of signals whereby information was conveyed to the Japanese Fleet. One signal was a light in a window in Kalama, on Oahu Island. Other lights were flashed to sea from Kuehn’s beach house at Lanikai.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22064, 15 June 1943, Page 3
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