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NAZI RADIO STATION IN GREENLAND. PRISONERS INCLUDE AGENT OF GESTAPO. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, October 11. The United States Navy has 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, according to an announcement by the State Department. This is the first reported activity . by American armed forces in the United States-proteeted Danish island. The announcement said a patrol ship intercepted and inspected a Small Norwegian steamer. Examination of the personnel revealed that the vessel had been dispatched to Greenland by the Nazi authorities in Norway to establish a radio station from which to send to the German authorities weather reports and other military information. A search of the Greenland coast revealed a radio station manned by a Gestapo agent and two other Norwegians who had previously disembarked from the Norwegian vessel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1941, Page 5
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165CLOSED DOWN BY THE AMERICAN NAVY Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1941, Page 5
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