Show I OWl Reveals Nazi Spies H Hed HedIn ed edIn In Jap Attack on Pearl Harbor WASHINGTON June 14 UP The jp-The The office of war information information information tion 0 W V I reported Monday that German espionage agents and Harbor helped the Japanese prepare their attack on Pearl at least one of them was sentenced to death but hut the sentence later was commuted The report said Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn a nazi agent was tried before a military commission commission commission commis commis- sion in Honolulu on charges of betraying betraying betraying be be- the United States fleet In Pearl Harbor to the Japanese five days ays before the December 7 1941 attack He was convicted on February February February Feb Feb- 21 1942 and sentenced to tobe tobe toe be e shot On October 16 1942 the sentence was commuted to 50 years ears at hard labor The basis for forthe forthe the he commutation was not given Members of Kuehns Kuehn's family have ave been Interned for the duration duration dura- dura tion Ion either in Hawaii or in this country They include Mrs Irs Kuehn her er son Eberhard Martin Kuehn and nd a daughter by her previous marriage Susie Kaete Ruth Kuehn The 0 W I report based on information information in- in formation from the federal burea bu bu- rea eau reau of investigation said Kuehn went to Honolulu in 1935 for the ostensible purpose of studying Japanese and in three years banked more than Picked up on December 8 1941 Kuehn and his wife at first denied they ever had any n negotiations with the Japanese government OWl said adding But increasing evidence from the F FBI B I contradicted their assertions assertions as- as and on December 30 1941 Kuehn signed a statement admitting admit admit- ting ing he had prepared the system of signals for the Japanese consul consul con- con sul ul general which the latter had dispatched to Tokyo in his message message message mes mes- sage of December 3 The signals 0 W N I explained were for use in reporting the movements of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor One such signal was a light in ina a dormer window of a house in Kalama Calama the 0 W V I report said Special agents of the F FBI B I had no difficulty in locating the house with the dormer window It was owned and occupied by Kuehn and his wife Friedel I The They had previously been suspected suspected suspected sus sus- of engaging in espionage activities in behalf of Germany and Japan and had been under Investigation Investigation in investigation In- In by the office of naval intelligence and the military in intelligence intelligence intelligence in- in service of the war department department department de de- de- de as well as the F FBI B I. I These inquiries had brought out the fact that the I Kuehns also had hada a beach house at t Lanikai And another of the signals mentioned in n the message in possession of the he F FBI B I was a light in the beach house at Lanikai Offers Assistance to Japs Highlights of at Kuehns Kuehn's story as reported by 0 W WI I Some time during November 1941 he went to Otojiro Okuda Japan Japanese se vice consul at Honolulu and ind offered to assist the Japanese in n obtaining information about the national defense of the United States Okuda requested first in information information information in- in formation regarding the movement movement movement move move- ment of the American fleet at Pearl earl Harbor second a system of f signals by which information could be conveyed to the tha Japanese fleet The Japanese vice consul thought the first system too complicated com com- and Kuehn submitted a simplified system December 2 together together to- to gether jether with a tabulation of the number end and nd types of American ships hips then in Hawaiian waters On October 25 1941 F FBI B I reported reported re- re ported fourth secretary of the Japanese consulate consulate late ate delivered in cash to Kuehn There was no explanation of f this payment in advance of the theme time me he reportedly offered his services to the Japanese Mrs Kuehn told F FBI B I agents that a son by a former marriage is isnow isnow isow now ow serving the nazi party as an assistant to Propaganda Minister Goebbels He is known as Leopold Kuehn and once was considered for or chief of the German gestapo under Heinrich Himmler Himmier but Reinhard einhard Heydrich d double o a U ubI b I e e- e crossed him and won the post Czech zech patriots killed Heydrich |