DEATH SENTENCE
COMMUTED IN UNITED STATES 50 YEARS’ HARD LABOUR FOR NAZI SPY. CONSPIRED WITH JAPANESE BEFORE PEARL HARBOUR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, June 14. The United States Office of War Information revealed today that Bemaid Kuehn, a German agent and a member cf the Nazi Party, conspired with Japanese spies to betray the United States fleet in Pearl Harbour to the Japanese Government, four days before the attack. Kuehn was tried before'a military commission in Honolulu, found guilty, and sentenced to be shot. Later the sentence was commuted to fifty years’ hard labour. No reason for the commutation 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1943, Page 4
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