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REMARKS _ _
Ihen advised that the Director Tolsor
were both out of the city, Hr, I dp asked
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I155 Gand_y"'_"""" received word from a very good i'riend, ___ PaILm Beach, that ehe een o er next ii
oosr ne g at FBI agents had been there two days making inquiries .concerning _ Ir e Kennedy stated that he thought the etoryQnnanllg Ia -lac. --e. 1|-noun-c.-ml I " $Ln 1-c usual enann11ue- Ln--92 B92e92n.---- ---w92l-- .§92l92l-lllil J-Lll_ all -91 B-I LL HUB HQ-l I. PL UBHI-I Dun BIB =1-bu Q
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~ Beach this aftegnoon and gee informed the _ g e. eau ad no _;:o uo _gy1nve'et1 e9n offer and'bacf_not conduct n the / ycin'T' ofger home. §1e_1yi.s adiieed that the Bureau would interview -*0!her next door neighbor who had fugniehed thie information toétiér. " /-7;
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sales department.
A. Briggs Manufacturing Compnnv, twenty rears
as. oh, Time Study man. Cost. stuff like that.
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I5, I guess.
A. I worked at ffhalmers Motor C-ompanv.
short time. Then I worked with Maxwell Motor Coninmiy
the Carl Renda Compalny and Briggs Manufacturing
right. It is in the les.512 onnnzirlznn cums IN rxrsnsqurrn
The Wnn92i:ss. 3? or 38. He has been Working there some ti
The Count. Briey. what is the story on him, right there:
The 9292'1T192'nss. He has been working seven or eight years 1.
he belongs to the union and I believe he has been :1 stem -q F
he is quite active in union matters, but this is what I wnm 1.
Maybe you don't want to have it on the record.
The Counr. All right. off the record.
Discussion o' the record.!
Witness excused.!
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Misc. No. 72052!
In Re: Peiitirln of G'cr'oln K. O'Brien. Proscmlting
for o OI?!-dll? Grrrmii Jury Im:¬atr'gmi0n into the
in the Cotmfy of Wayne
Proceedings had and testimony taken in the above
Honorable Gannon B. Mrnri, Circuit Judge, sitting as 3
nt 1974 National Bunk Building, in the Cit_92' of Detroit,
December 9th. 19-16.
Present: .92Ir. Ralph Garner, Assistant Prosecuting Attomm
Reported hi: Margaret Cameron, Reporter.
STAN1.-.=.Y W._Cocnn.m1-:, being by the Court rst duly :
and testified as follows:
Examination by Mr. GARBER2Q, What is your full n::n1e?A. Sitnniey 9292'ort%C'ot-hrnne.
Q. 9292'l1ere do you live. Mr. och1'nne'?-A. 10-12 Audubon Iiog,
Q. You are employed by the Briggs Manufacturing l
Q. What is your ofeinl title out there ?.-92. Director
Q. Hon long have you held that job?A. Since June.
Q. And your pl'edece.~=sr>r is Mr. Willimn J. lear_v'i-. .
. And were you :l$.~=nt'i:1t d with him before his death:--A
Q. What was your position before Mr. lear_92"s death?-A.
Q. How long have you been with the Briggs Manufacturing
Q. What did you start as? Whht was your rst position
Q. I see, and you continued on up then, up to the stiles end
Q. And now you are the head man of the Purchasing
Q. Now, where were you born, Mr. Cot-hrnne?.~92. Columbus.
The Co1'n1'. You are :1 Hoosier, right?
The I92'rrm:as. 'Ihats right.
By Mr. Gmnnn:
Q. '92Yhen were you horn '3-A_ March 12. 1895.
Q. How long have you lived in Detroit ?A. Oh, I came her!
Q. And then what were you employed nt when YO11 rst came
Q. How many years did you work for them?-A Oh, I
Q. here were you educated ?A. In Madison, Indian-'1.
Q. How far did you no in schon1'?-A. Two rears college»Q. Two years at Hnn092e1'?A. Yes. . _
Q. Now, you are acquainted with the contract that is now In
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' The Covm. You c-ame into the Purehasing Department :1< 3 .- V
The WI'rNEBs. orrect. 1 didnt know any more about it_- '
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W 92an-r How did thew happen to pith on you for I11.l1I_]r!l
The rrmzss. I don 1; know, I am sure.
The Comer. Yon were in the sales departnient. What was §|'>:The;.92.92"9215U
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mu. tl.9292, hrThe Wrrliss. W911, I was sales manager of the Turret Du-,_.,. 1. I- "' 9292 92nine ye are in I-Insland under the sales manager of the English su ;- . 92|;92e'Motor Bodies, Limited. . -rm... /1,.-..... xx.-'1-mi-o 92 1|-A iiL/92JUILL_ VVLIQL . = 92-9292'l.92auc
Subsidiary.
The Cotter. You spent nine years in London?
The Wr'r:92'1-tss. Yes, sir.
The COURT. When? Nine r-ontinuous }e:1rs'?
The Wlrxsss. 1931 to 1940.
The Cocar. Just hefore the war?
The W1T:92'1~:ss. 9292'e had eight rmmtlis ot war. War was derh.-1
1939.
The Cover. You got out in the early days of the war?
The 92921'rxi:ss. iiefore the iliitz. I got out at an on aortmw it...»The CuUR'r_ You must :192 e mot :1 friend of mine, -10%-Ze:rzz<~:_92
The 9292'1T.92'1-zss. Josep 'enned_y?
The __'01RT. The .~'1n1i,rus.~==uior':
The 9292'rT.92t»:ss. Sure. He 9292'J'i:< the one helped us to get out --f ll=-r>
The Toner. lrle not out him:=eif:1ntl 9292'inant went there.
The 9292'1'r:92ESS. Yes.
The COURT. Is he still there. yet?
The 9292'rr.92'1-zss. I believe he is.
Ry Mr. GARBEBZ
Q. 9292'hen did Mr. .lea1'y lie and leave his job over there:-A. Ht 1
the exact date.
Q. Well, when did you go to work thet-e?.-L Ea:-l_r June.
Q. So it would be sometime in Hepteniher or August that 3'1"! 131"! .
tract.'.'A. 1 imagine so. 1 am just guessing, surtnising. I don: k
date.
Q. How did you happenhow did i'ni.~; eontraet hat-pen to r-one 1:
tion?-_-92_ I don't rot-ail now~r:oing throuah the tiles for some ;.u92'l"l
Q. Did you ever examine it?-A. I looked at it, saw when it mu
Q. When was it signed?-A. I don't know.
Q. Is it dated.*-A. I eou1dnt tell you.
Q. Who signed it?.-1. I think M1". Clear}; signed it, if I rel-IIPIIIW
Q. Have there been any changes made in the terms of this M11188
have taken over?-A. Not that I know of.
Q. Did you ever see this order here, which is Grand Jury I-Ixhlbll
never saw that.
Q. Well, ls that still good, that order ?-A, As far as I know.
Q. In other words. you are still selling at those prices as sot I
of April :23, 19-i i'.A. Yes.Q. You have never eountermanded that order or changed ll 51
A. No.Q. Hare you ever checked to see whether this contract was 8 8°
poor contract for the Briggs '?A. No.Q. Do you know whether or not they're losing money under IBI1
A. I vouldnt say. _Q. Do you know what the reason for this contract is?A. PR
the material, I suppose.
Q. Vvhat else?-A. Pardon?
Q. What else':A. Nothing that I know of.Q. Did you ever investigate to see who Carl Renda and Co"1I92"WQ. Do you know who they are?A. I know they are scrap mdm
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one of the Agents of his office while on Capital Hill on official matters called to
advise that -there is a rumor, unconfirmed, going about that the father of the late
President Kennedy passed away this morning. Gillies stated that there has been .-
no verification of this and he is merely passing it along for information. There
have been numerous unconfirmed rumors in the last several days similar to the
above. .
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AC genlrins telephonically advised this afternoon from Boston thatResident en P am Carpenter of Hyannis Port had informed him the late
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nado ropoatod calls to tho III to no avai
Ir. 0'Dowd infom boon of
istorost to tho Passport Off o s nco s o ns to hotho illogitinato daughtor of tho
a o _,, _ _ r hrothor of Prssidont loanody. .
Io said Ianiifhns song r sons tino to got a passport in
tho lonnody nano, and final. y was successful at tho Anorican
Gonsulato at hblin, Irolan , in havi hor passport anondod 'to road in that nano. dea.-gage: Q7955.9-
923* Ir. ' 4 infornod largo. t and John wogglayo I Ros and 1-.1--%@1§._,aav'¢ rocootlv '
boon in owo 1 Itali ant orit s, no,__n,1_, at
which tins largarot Ianill allogation of prior knowlodgo
oi it-osiiont ionnoéi iii -inatioi, aid Ffiaéffii ooitietwith tho I'll, was obtainod. Ir. 0'IIovd statos further that
infornation pertaining to Ia nrot Iss.1.11's allogod rolatioh-l_.,.ship to Prosidont Ionnod! Is.1>E.1Q[g_?2lI;:1iIqIotiéW Ihié Cg.
Ir. 0'1lowd furaishod oopios of statononts obtained
fron various persons who witnossod ronarks nado by la:-garot
Ianill. Io also furnishod a oopy of a lottor from Iona .
Polio-o Ioadquartors to tho Anorican hbassy in lono, satod
%te'a:' 2, 1954, etiee letter eeteile tte reeeite ef ieter-
wiows oonductod by Iono Polioo. In addition, a sonorandun '
proparod by Ivorott L. "nanron, Chis! of Citizonlhip Ioctioa, -
lnorioan hbassy, Iona, datod loptonbor I4, 1964, was fur-
aishoé by Ir. 0'IIowd. This nonorahclun sot forth additional
info:-nation rogaz-ding this nsttor.
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"I nase is leen rrill, age I8. I live at
is Ii can. s he located throngh
Captain I. I. Gofield, III, IMIO American lnbasny. I an
an lnerican and have lived in Italy for a year and a half.
I an a prefeeeicnal singer; .
"On the norning of leptenber 1, lhdd, I went to
the lobby sf the Iotel Qnirinale in lone to keep an appoint-
nent, pre-arranged earlier by telephone, with lies Josephine
Iennedy and the Oontesea Iolpe. the nesting had been estab-
lished to discuss ny possible engagenent with the Iational
Opera Company, which they clained to he forning in Iaahing-
ton, D. C. I obtained this infornation fron an article in
the !D!; Lily! hhlhlglh a fer days before,
"I was told by line Iennedy that she was the
daughter ef the deceased Joseph Iennedy, elder brother of
the late President to whoa she referred as Uncle Jack!,
Ihe said she night as sell tell the nhole truth of her
story because within three nonths a book was being published
exposing everything anynay. lbs nentioned having had _
great difficulty over her passport, but said that her
identity had finally been established and that Ihcle Jack
had fully accepted her as his niece. they had been close'-
so close, in fact, that she had acconpanied the party when
he nade his last Inropean visit. Ihe spoke glowingly of her
own eye-view of his reception at Iaples and in Dublin.
'lhe spoke for several ninnten about John Iennedy's
sssagination and the investigations following and said that
she personally had received over twenty telephone calls
the night before in Iashington, D. C., threatening that
iohn F. iennedy van to he hilled the following norning in
Dallas. Ihe said she had nade repeated calls to the I.I.l. p
to no avail, and she said whoever had called her nonld havei
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"she adnitted to being the least haoen nenber of
the Kennedy fasily', and said that tvo years ago John Kennedy
had refused her pernission for a projected plan to study
singing in hrope because he did not sent any publicity.
"She spoke of Irs. Jacqueline Kennedy's hatred for
her because of her close relationship with Uncle Jack. Ihe
said she wanted the world to know that lrs. Kennedy is not ,
the ooean of culture and refineneut the Kennedy fenily would
have the public to believe, but only an image invented by _
clever and expensive press agents. ler example: Jackie
thought the "Iona Lisa" was a French paiatingl! nu, said
Iise Kennedy: Jackie sade Jaci's Iife a hell on earth, and
she lies I.! vented everyone to know the truth about it.
"1 have written the foregoing statesent consisting
of one and too-thirds pages and it is true and accurate to
the best of my memory. .
"/s/ Iyleeu lei-rill
Italy
Province of lose
City of lone '
hbassy of the Inited ltates of Aserica
"Before es, Teresa Offie, Consul of the United
Itates of America, in and for the District of lose, Italy,
duly consissioned and qualified, personally appeared
Iverett L. Dasron, a Bonsai of the United Itates of lserica,
Ibo, being duly sworn, -* ses and says as follows: _
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On Ionday, Ieptesber :1, 1004, Ire. Iargaret Iasill,
bearer of Passport Io. I-259390 issued at Iev fork on lay 18,
1964, stated in sy presence, and in the presence of her husband,
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Iaye loeenneig, he can citizen; two Foreign lervioe
Ottioere or the Ilaite ltatee; and two otiiciale of the -
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1 hbaeey of the United ltatee oi America
"Before no Iverett L. naaron Ooneol oi the United
J ltatee oi Aeerlca, in and tor the District of lone, Italy,
duly oonnieeioned and qualified, pereonally appeared IinaIatchkalo rho, ¥l{ duly sworn, depoeee and eaye ae tolloeezI
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1Q "On Iopteaber I3, 1064, Ire. %aret Ielill etated
» to ae betore eeveral Italian aatioaale t t ehe ie the
illegitimate daughter of the late Joeeph Kennedy, Jr. 3'
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"Detox"-e ee, Iverett 1.. llnnron, Gonsnl oi the Inited
Itates oi lnerica in and tor the District ei lone, Italy,
duly connissioned and Qualified, personally appeared Teresa .
iiie, who heing ly sworn, krona and nay: as icllc-cc:
That on leptsnher 31, 1964, when I was present at '
an interview at which the iollowing were present: Ire.
Iargaret Ianill, John Patrick Ianill, Concetta Iheresa Iblpe,
Ire. Kaye loaensweig, and two oiiicials oi the Italian police
headquarters in lone, Ire. Ianill stated that she was the
illigitinate child oi Joseph Kennedy, Jr., and the nicce ei
Jed! Kennedy; that she has written letters to her grandfather,
Qceeph Kennedy, 52., rho in ill, and that ehe ha; received
thank yon notes and candy iron hin, but nothing else. fhl
' she wrote n letter to Ire. lose Kennedy while the latter was
in lwitnerland which was returned hecanse lrs. Kennedy wanted
nothing to do with her; that the late Jack Kennedy assisted
her in tinding enploynent and that she sent a telegran to
Donna Laura Iegni, wife oi the President of the Iepublic 0!
Italy, Antonio Iegni, hecanse knowing that the Kennedy
has had a let oi tronhle recently, what with the nssass na-
tion oi the Bresident, the illness ct her grandfather and the
recent aircrash involving fed, she ielt the Kennedy ianily
could not worry about sending condolences to President legni;
that she received a reply tron Ire. Qigni. that lobby
Kennedy had so tine ior her; that as a child she renenbers
heing held by the hands oi her tether, Joseph Kenned and her
nother in Barcelona, lpain; that she had a sworn statenent
oi her deceased nether which showed that she was the daughter
oi Joseph Kennedy, Jr.; that she gave the docnnent to persons
who were assisting her in establishing her identity as the
daughter oi Joseph Kennedy, Ir., and has not seen the docunent
since, and that she was horn in Iaasachnsetts. U a ¢~}_ J -J _ " " #- "415A or qq12aY
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K*~!»' _'lnhscrihed and sworn to heiore ne this lat day .:-
October, 1964.
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'lubJect: Ibhn IIIILL ltd I110, Iargaret IIIILL aha .'
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On luaday night, leptenber I0, 1964, I received
fron Goncetta Iheresa VOLPI Passport Io. 8256374 y
I! lay I, 1964! who stated that she and the niece
late President had been apprehended by the Italian
that day. lies Volpe I found out later she had said
police she was Oontessa Iblpe! said they had beentaken to the Questurn, they hept her waiting for about Z
hours without being told why they were detaining her an had
told her she could go but withheld her passport. they had
continued to hold lies Kennedy, she said. Ihe further said
she and lies lennedy were to appear before the authorities
at 5:66 next ncrning and she asked that sonething be done
before then. lbe said they had no idea why this action was
being taken against then. _
I called Ir. Iackett, Ielfare Officer, and he
said he would call lies Volpe at the llbergo Quirinale after
waking sone phone calls for background infornation.
The Police called Ir. Ihittinghill louday norning
and said 2 pernons had aadc a dcnuncin ngninct 21:: Eennedy.
The Police wanted to know who she was. ler passport had been
issued in the sane of Iargaret IAIILL but it had been anended
at llblin to show hr known as Josephine Patricia IIIIIDI.
Ier husband, John IAIILL, had had his passport anended at
the sane tine at Iublin to show his also known as Carlton J.
lowers!
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If lay
Ilflllld The Police Dr. Iotari, and another officer whose
did not get! accompanied Ir. and Ira. lanill, Iiss
and Irs. lays Iosensweig Passport Io.l259388, issued
l8, 1964! and the lani1l's I children to ny office .-
l:00 p.n. Ir. Ihittinghill and Iiss Offie were presen
In susnary, they told the following story all talked freely,
and often, at tines interrupting each other or talking sinnl-
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"it one tine sr. Iasill used the proiesoioaal wane
Giovanni 111.10. Is had a passport issued in that sane. Ire.
Iasill also had a passport issued is that sane, as well as
their 8 children.
Flrs. Iasill said she was the illegitinate daughter
oi Joseph Kennedy, Jr. who was
wosan tron Iew Inglahd who was
Ier natural parents liwed with
I936 or 1937 and she resesbers
when she was only a year or so
was very young. . -tilled during the war, and a
the daughter of lcandinawians.
her in Barcelona, Ipain about
taking walks with her parents
old. Ier sother died when she
"Hrs. Eosensreig took her i: her care nod sh:
hocane her roster daughter. Irs. Iosensweig had had a
daughter horn in 1924 who disappeared about 1940 her where-
abouts even to this day are unknown, both Ira. lasill and
Irs. losensweig said!. Ire. Iosensweig docnaented Irs.
Iaaill with her own daughter's birth certificate, and that
is the reason that Ira. Iasills passport shows she was horn
in Virginia in 1924, whereas she was actually born in
Iassachusetts about 1035. It so happens she appears to he
such older than her actual age, according to Ire. lanill,
hut that is I thin 01 nature.
to he such older.! She does, in iaot, appear
"Ire. Ianill said she had never intended or
expected that see oi her real nane, Iennedy, would open
up any doors to her and she did not in any way wish to
bring discredit to that sane or the well-known tasily oi
the late President. lbs had actually pronised that iasily
she would not publicise who she was. ltill, she had decided
she wanted to he inown for who she really is, and it is only
tair to her children. Iewerthelese, she had hept it a secret
through the years but it leaked to the press in sons way and
she ouldnt heap it a secret any longer. - .
- "Throughout the conference, Irs. Iasill reierred ;
to sany sesbers oi the Iennedy lalill hy tirst sane. lbs **
said lobby had no tine tor her hut Ted, Jack, and Grandpa
knew who she was. -lhe said when Grandpa gets better 1 as
going to appeal to iii. ier grandother, iho said, ind » -
absolutely retused to_see her. Ont oi context she said
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"Ibo ssid sho hsd hooo wsrnod hy tolophono, soso
woohs hoioro Irosidont lonnody's osssssinstion, thst ho wss_
going to ho shot. lho iniorsod tho III, sho snid. Io snid
also sho hsd boon throotonod on tho phoso hy tho ssso voioo,
snd shortly thorooitor whilo trsvoling on s train hotwoon
low Iorh sno Isshington ouooono shot st hor, jolt sissisg
hor hood, whilo tho trsin was is sotion. lgsis sho istorsod
tho Ill. Ihon hor hnsbsod was throstonod by tho snso voioo,
sou whon ho wss in tho hospitsl soriously ill iron s hosrt -
oporstion, sosoono gsinod ontry to his loos sod tiod o robbor r
tobo oroond his nook, ho ssnsgod to ronovo tho tnho iron his
sock just in tins. - -
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Opors Oospsoy soo our woltsro tilo on this! snd brought s =
snshor oi young lsoricso woson to ltsly in 1959 to trsin
ths sad put on oporstic poriornsnoos nndor thot organisation.
lho wonturo tsilod I'vo hoon told that hr. ltillono sad Ir.
Isurioo losonblstt, hoth Asoricon citizons rosidont in loso,
woro ssong tho porsons who holpod tinsnco it snd lost thoir
iivoitiinti!. iii of the iiigori who hid iigaod a ooatraot
with thos, Irs. Iins Istohhsloti, sad thoir iorsor ssid who
is on ltslinn sstionol, donouncod thon to tho Folios hocooso
oi thoir dohts to thoso two porsoos. Ibr thst rosson Iiss
Yblpo sad Irs. Ihsill woro spprohondod.
'Irs. Ihsill wss told hy tho Folios is sy ottioo
- thst sho would sot ho dotninod st tho Quostnro shy longor
hot it would ho sooossnry to hold s11 oi thoir possports tor
a 2:: days. the Police ==a= this otatoaoot otter !:i tat
hrs. Issill hsd oshod whothor thoy would ho rolonsod it thoy
paid thoir dohts to tho two pooplo wo hsd lodgod oosploint .
sgsinst thos. luring tho oonworsstion thoy ssid thoy owod
thoir hotol o oohsidorshlo ssount hut thoy woro going to psy
it. Irs. losonswoig soid sho woo tinsnoing tho group's stsy_
ll Itsly lhd tilt til hotol D111 ll hor rllponllbllitj. ___ r
'Irs. Istchkslott osso to soo so thst s!toruoon;éé?
lht ozplttteé that the opoto wooturo in L958 hso rninod hor
finsnoislly, Issill hso sot tuliillod tho oontrsot, and ho 1
hsd prootioolly rninod hor woioo with his psrtioolnr typo oi
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e:I vengeance hut ehe relt they ehould not continne to ewindle
innocent pereone, and hring dieoredit abroad to the United
e==~:==. She ea egg.-..Pi-..: et 9:99 et the Qeeetera, at the
:eetura'e requeet. . _ __ ' _ _ -
"Ion day Ire. Iatchhalort iniorned no that the
Iaeille had pronieed to pay both her and their toreer laid T
within 3 nonthe and ehe dropped ohargee ngainet thee. e l
eaid ehe doubted ehe would he paid ehe had advanced her own
eoney to Ir. Ianill tor expeneee which, by contract, he wan
to pay! hut perhape it would etop their rraudulent operation.
Ihe eaid Ire. Ianill, at the meeting at the Queetnra, had '
nehed to eee her ieeediately atter the looting, and at that
tine intorned her ehe wanted to reveal a long held eecret,
that ehe wae the illegitiaate daughter er Joeeph Kennedy, Jr.
Ire. Iatchhalo eald to II ehe doubted Ire. Ia.ni1le clain,
tor ehe had eaid ehe wae the daughter of Italian paronte,
and eonetine later clained ehe wan the daughter or a general.
"luring the oouree of the conference, Ire. Ienill '
etated that ehe, knowing that the Kennedy tanily were very
Inch occupied with the recent naiortnnate niehape which had
occurred a tee yearn ago in the ranily, eent Ire. Iegni a
telograe of eynpathy during Ireeident iegni'e eerione illneee.
lhe eaid ehe eigned the telegrae Joeephine Patricia Kennedy A
nndreceivednreplytronlrmlegni. o___
"At one point in the convereation, Ire. Ineill
etated ehe had loet eynpathy with the Kennedy tanily in the
Inited Itatee otter traveling to Ireland and eeeing the "
text-ertehed eire%t--on e2 the Seeeed: £2.-ail: there. Q-ale
rotor:-ed to eeveral et the latter an "couein Ia:-7' aunt
Jane, etc. , and ehe exhibited e nnnher of color photographe
e! hereelt embracing a nunher et the Irieh lenned7e.."._A
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_ Aliene Ottice "Iona, '
-- " Dctober 3, 1064 4%;-A
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Iaye 1. IJSIIIIIIO and Ooncetta Teresa I01.-PI
"Iith reiorenco to your kind eietter dated " "
Ieptersber 98, concerning the persons nanod above, no wish
to advise you that, acting on a report iron tho Iagnannpoli
Police ltation, this 0iiice has investigated the iolloeing
I.I. nationals who, having lived none tine at the Quirinale
Intel, had contracted debts in has and caused cueplaiats
by their creditors.
"The said II.I. nationals have been idestiiied es:
"-Iargaret IAIILL, born in Virginia on 10.81.1924, holder oi
'lI.i." Passport io. i iiii, issued in ions en iepisloe ' r ii,
1964 ; '
"-John IAIILL, horn in Pennsylvania on 8.4.1910, holder oi
Plllp01't.I0. I 32486, iuod in lone on leptenher I9, 1964 ;
"-Iaye 1. IOBIISIIIG, horn in Lithuania on 10.23.1900, holder
oi 0.8. Passport Io. I 259388, issued in Iashington on
6.13.1964 ;
-"-Ooncotta Teresa V01.-PI, horn in lei York on 9.2.1927, holder
oi lI.I. Passport Io. I 856374, issued in Iashington en 8.9.1004;
"Iith the said persons are also staying at the _
Quirinale Iotel also the minors lichard Alexander IAIILL,
horn in Italy on 9.18.1955, holder oi 0.9. Passport Io. - ~
I 259391, issued in Iashington on 5.13.1964 ; April I. and
Grace P., shone sanes appear on their brother's passport, all
three win: the cmldi-en oi the F-::.i11=. .1-
"Iu the course oi the initial investigations, hos- _
ever, it was iound that Ire. lsnill nae known, and used to 2
introduce herneli, with the nane oi Josephine IIIIIIIJP, ss
nhe alleged that she is the natural daughter oi the elder .
brother rho died in the ear! oi the late President oi the
1: United Itates oi anerioa. Io support ther clain, she produced _.
a photostat oi Page I oi a passport Iliireon the 0.9. hbassy
= in iiihlin had sritten "!h.e bearer in ago goon as iloseph__ino'Patricia Kennedy. . . ~
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*ihii ciicitanci, ii Tot iri iiari, iii iiiilted
in our! werhal request ior your Isbassy's kind interest.
"Ihen subsequently checking Ire. Ianill's passport,
In did iind on page 8 the said inscription,'which had been _
aiiized on an unspeciiied date. J
"It was also iound that on page 5 oi Ir. Iaaills
passport the said U.l. Ihbassy in Dublin! had aiiixed, on .
an uuepeciiied date, the iaecription the hearer is aleo
known as Carlton J. I0lIll'.
Upon their being questioned as to the reasons ier
t in Italy and ior the inscriptions, the Ihnills
- * * that have iii ta thii Gotatti iot irtiitic iiiioi,
ll wishes to periorn in operatic productions and
to study singing.
"Ira. Ianill clained that, to this end, she has
already had several auditions with the sanagers oi the Ian
Carlo Theater in Iaples, oi Ione's Opera and oi Ii1an's La
lcala.
"!re. Qeaenareig clained she is !r!. !a;ill'e
adoptive nother ; lies Volpe identiiied herseli as the
'aanager'.
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criptions on the passports!,
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A *-her true nase is Jbsephine Patricia IIIIIDI, daughter
oi the late Joseph and oi the late Inn Jban 0'Ieil,=31-
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'hs1nce the age ot seven she 11ved in the hone oi her '"
paternal grand!ather', where her tether otter
~w1s1ted her ; -
'-in 1942 she had been placed in the custody or Ire.
Ihye LIIII-IOBIIIIIIG, residing is Les lngeles 3
*-on 5.5. 1947 she sarried a John IOITIII, assuring
en that occasion the sane or Lydia LLIIQ, born in
Iorrolk, va. op 10.81.1924, lest slc! daughter st '
Ire. lbsensweig ; .
'-she took that ease on the advice or Ire. Iosensweig
and or her paternal grandfather who, she alleges,
did not wish her trne identity to be revealed,
hecanse during the previous year her paternal uncle,
the late President of the U.l., had been elected
lepresentative oi Iassachnssets to the 0.8.-bngress ;
'-in l948 she soved with her husband ibstiai! to Iew
Ibrk, where she stayed till Decenber of that year ;
"-aiter two short trips to Iurope in 1949 and 1951!,
1n 1952 she returned to the 0.8.1., settled in Iew '
Ibrk and casually set her paternal uncle, the late
President Iennedy, when she saw tour or rive tines, e
without, however, knowing that he was her !ather's
brother 3
'-at an enspecitied tins e triend of hers, Joan
Ialher, in looking at a picture o1 her father hang-
ing in her hedroon, pointed out to her his sarked
, resenhlanee to John Iitrgerald Iennedy, but she had
so sore opportunities to neet with her paternal encle,
sor conld she get in touch with his ;
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_ docnsente and pictures concerning her origin, which .
.?. e he had in his possession through having received ,j;
§=f ~ then tron an associate o1 his, to ehos she had pre-;;Lér5fr' vionely delivered the ; , 1 .;§%-1
t"c '>she did not insist, hovever, in her request tor ea-5Q
interview with Ir. Iennedy hecanse, a tow sights
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"'-in 1952 she net a Oesare GIIOII and, on his advice, to
_ evade a possible search by the Kennedy fanily, she
began nsing the stage nane of 'Iargherita Gdrosi', I
nnder which she frequented artist's circles ; '
"--on 8.15.1954, having obtained s divorce fron her first
husband Iostini!, she narried in Arlington, 1a., Ir.
John Patrick Ianill ; 1 1 . . -
"-'i'heir narriage, however, ens registered at the office
of the Justice of the Peace nnder their respective
stage nanee of largherite Girosi and Giovanni IILLO ;
"-In 1954, hearing I. I. passports, sade out respectively
to Lydia Ianill Levis and John Patrick Ianill, she and
her hnshand visited Italy where, her first son, lichard
Alexander, van born in lone in 1955 ;
"-In Iovenber 1955 she returned to the 8.5. , taking
residence in In York where, on 4.14.1958 and 7.6.1959,
her two other children eere horn, April llisabeth and "
Grace Patricia ; - '
"-Iibseqnently, Ihen renewing the passports, she succeeded
in having the nee docnnents nade out respectively to
Isrgherita Ill.-ID, nee Girosi, horn at Iorfolk en
'1 - 10.81.1924, Giovanni Iillo and Richard Alexander, April .
'1 Ilisaheth and Grace Patricia liilo single puepert! ;
. "*"-finally, en 5.13.1954 she and her husband obtained in ..
-- Iev York nee passports nade out to largareth IIAIILL,
horn in Virginia on 10.81.1924, John llanill, horn in
e " - Pennsylvania on 8.4.1916, and Richard Alexander, April
.. , Ilisabeth and Grace Patricia lanill single passport!, ~ 5 "iii '3 hearing respectively Ion. I 859390, I 359389 and 135939
_ _ =-n the next eay, she, ner hnehend and her children "-1; --
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on the request oi Ire. lanill hereeli, and on evidence
given-by Ire. Ieye loeenereig and lies Oonottina Teresa
Yolpe, attired on the passport the inscription referred .
to above; _ _ -
"-The etiiaing oi the said inscription, instead, had been
retneed in Iashington, in In Iorh, in Calitornia and
by the I.l. hbassy in London, bot she had insisted on
getting it ci-iii in itdl, on the occaiion of a %ti-g
with the late President Kennedy, he had stated that, '1!
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paaeport the birth date oi July I5, 1035, since, as
indicated above, her hirth was not registered in the
I111 Population legieter, and she possesses no evidence
in tat respect ;
"-she intends to establish proceedings tor the recognition *
oi the alleged paternity before the conpetent I. I.
authorities, and is end she has already retthe lelvin sic! Ia Belli, Ashe and Gerry legal tirn or .
Ian I'!'I-Tnc eco, n gonery ltreet and ins Lngeles,
6505 Iilehire boulevard, luite 816.
"b! Ir. Ienill states! that :
".-his real sane is John IAIILL, son oi the later Iatrich
and Iary mrnestather Postgate lillo, horn at Johnetorn,
Ia. on 8.4.1916, resident at 8867 Iunny Dunes bad,
Pele spring, Gel. .; _, .. j --
"-he caused the inscription Carlton J. Powers! to he .
attired on page 5 oi his passport because, under the _
I.I. lav, this is pertectly legal ; . ..
,9-be net his site he referred tether as Iargherita
_G1rosi! in Iovenber 1953 ; _
' "'-she told his that her real nane was Josephine Kennedy 3
she indicated that the lennedy tanily oi which she was ,
a nenher was that oi Joseph Kennedy Ir. a person oi
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added that her tether, Joeeph Kennedy Jr. wee a 4- , .,,
lava]. aviator, killed en duty in Ingland in 1044, '__ '
and hinted that her tnmily eitnation wee wery c ~ A
eonplicated, that her mother wan dead, without men-
tioning her name, and that ehe wan iorced to live
nnder aeeumed nnnee, becaoee thin had been iapoeed
on her by the Iennedy temily 3 c ~
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been placed by a eieter at her lather, named Caterina, 1
in the oaetody oi Ire. laye I. loeeneweig and that thin
cuntody wae to laet two er three monthe, and that in- . . .
etead it had iaeted till her marriage ; ' '
"-eubeeqnently he learned that hie wiie'e tether had
eent to Ire. Iaeeneweig many docnmente concerning
hie wi!e'e birth ; ho eaw each docnmente which, Inb-
eequently, were taken away from hie witeyby two y
poiicencn and anew that, in the yeare 1948 to 1952,
hie wire had gone to Ioeton, where her grandtather a
wee Inyor, in order to trace her i'ather'e inniiy, -
without eucoeee ; '
"Ie have aleo qneetioned Ire. lnye I. Ioeeneweig '
and Iiee Ooncetta 'lereea Yoipe, who accompany the lanille
in their Iaropean trip. - _
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lngelee ltation, an unknown nereon turned ever to her
a eeven-year girl, carrying none docunente, whowiag
her aane to be Joeephine Iatricia Iennedy and that
lbe had been baptiaed with the Catholic rite ;
'-the ouetody, which thea laeted tor 7eare,~wae to '
laet a tew nontha, and thererore ehe had not bothered.
to obtain ruller intornation on the girl and en her. .
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her poeeeaaion, which were later taken away by pereone
unknown ;
"-on l0.8l.l924, in Iortolh, va., ehe had given birth
to a daughter, Ieil Anna, regiatered with her riret
hueband'e eurnane LIIII. Ihie daughter uoved to law
Iorh in 1939 and nothing waa heard tron her ; aince ;
lieu 'Iennedy'a' birth had not been regietered, ah .
gave the latter her loet daughter'a birth certificate,
to facilitate her obtaining a naaaport 3 i
'-ehe read a letter addreaeed by Ir. Joeeph P. Iennedy '
to hie daughter, telling her that he waa couing hone
and that he would, without delay, regulariae herpoeition. » -
"line Concetta Tereaa Iblpe etated that :
'-ehe net lieu Kennedy about two yearn ago ; **7 '-
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niece ; ' *-'
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have nan; pointe of reaenblance with the Iennedya' 3 ¥u
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' preaeut at a ueetiug between lien Iennedy' and Ire. $7?
elery IIAI, the aieter or the late Preaident'a !ather$g§=i
ahe claiaa that thia ueeting waa uoat cordial and c§Qc,*+.Q ,_ ,,_.-.,.,.. ___ 1
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- early years with-Ira.-bsensweig, and that her e -»i-=+---=---1
tather Ir. Joseph Kennedy, Jr. had died in the -~:-'~-~;---~ ' .-.
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"-she confined that, together with Ira. Ioseuseig,
she declared to the otiiciala or the I.l._hbassy ~
in Dublin that miss Kennedy's name is Josephine
Patricia Kennedy, tor the purpose oi the issuing
oi a document which could replace her passport,
since Kiss Kennedy clained that the one issued to
her in III Korh had been stolen or lost. 1 -
"Please he advised that this Office, in vies oi
the precarious tinancial conditions oi the atoresaid Ll.
nationals who at present have so neans oi subsistonce in
ltaly and have contracted debts totaling over three million
Lire, even though the creditors tor the tine being have
retrained tron instituting legal actions, as the debtors
have undertaken to pay then in January 1965!, as well as in --_
wisw oi the tact that all oi them have tailed to tile the "
prescribed sojourn declaration, thns violating the pro-
visions of article iii of the ode of Fublic iafety Laws,
has requested Ir. and Ira. Iaaill, hrs. hosensseig and lies
Iolpe to leave Italy by and not later than October .15. ,
"The laaill passports with the aforesaid notations
and the photostatic copy of Page I oi Ira. Iani1l's passport *
have already been delivered, on your request, to your Iission,
which has replaced thes with the passports hearing Io. ,
I 824388 Ir. Kanill! and Io. K 824287 lrs. Iamlll!, issued _
in ks: on 5-vptcah-or 29, 1954. - ; -J - --
"l'he home Iolice headquarters takes this oppor-
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~ Islvia I. lelli, dated Ieptenber ll, 1964, at Ian Krancisoo,
Calitornia, to Ire. Josephine Kennedy, Kotel Quirinale, lose,
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Italy. Ihia lottor indicatos tho tirn ot Iolli, lsho, and
lorry is handling a caso tor Ira. Josophino Ionnody. 1 ,
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A rovion ot tho tilos ot tho lashington tiold ;_____
Ottico ot tho I'll tails to rotloct any intonation idontiti-
ahlo Iith tho nnnos Tho:-osa Volpo, Iina Iatchkalott, lyloon _-
Ion-ill, Josophino Patricia lonnody, Irs. layo bsonswoig, _ '
Richard lloxandor Ianill, April I. lnnill, Graco I. Iasillp "
Ann Jena I.!'!oili §.!= .!1_ye Leela, John %tini, 14%; .1-aria,
largarot Iostiai, Lydia Iostini, Ooaaro Girosi, Iarghorita 1
liirosi, Lydia laaill Loris, Iarthorita Iillo, Carlton J. _ V
Iosors, and nil Anna Loris. j -
tho ti loo ot tho Iashington Iiold Ottico ot tho
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Into:-nation in Iashington Iiold Ottics tilos also
rotloct that ring 1954 ono Ira. Johnny Iaaill claiaod
possossion ot a torgod passport in tho nano ot Lydia Loris
lanill. .
Io intonation Ihatsoovor is availablo indicating
iargarot iaaiii has ovor iroon in diroct contact with tho
Iaahington Iio1d Ottics ot tho I'll at any tiao. .
PROPERTY OF FBI
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QNOTE: Correspondent wrote the Bureau on 7-18-55, reporting afellow worker who had implied her boyfriend was an FBI employee
nndsuchwnsnotthecnse. Theindividual makingsuch statements
Ins roprintely admonished and no further action taken. or:-espondent is otherwise not identifiable in Buiiles
lather oi Presidentgfdy, had been requested to part with someof his prized well? -r ther-or, nndmade n trip to Chicago inthis connection in rtly beiore the assassinption. Bhe thinks thatthis threat was egponsible for President Kennedy's assassination.-. . . 3 an a - ¬:1.:::ch_._.___.
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This letter is about to convey the zaniest of all zany
mail which you ever have or will have received. Nevertheless, as _
it has not, as yet, been proven that Lee Oswald perpetrated the act _
which removed our beloved President, I venture to offer you-- not
a straw to cling to but only a hair, ever so brittle. Take it-for what
itisorisnt-worth. m _, 92 5:0
Should you consider this at all, I'd suggest saving time by
just scouting for the veracity of an item I no ' in our paper, shortly
before that fateful Nov. J22. It stated that J ennedy had made a trip
to Chicago-that he was unable to walk or talk. If this is erroneous,thenjust forget about my tlfeary. _ N@_¢l 1
When I read that item, only about 2" long, I'd say, - I
thought-Why should he, in a wheel chair and unable to articulate, make
a trip to Chicago to his mart. when its manager, his son-in-law,
Mr. Schriever, is, undoubtedly, capable of superior supervision
I don't recall that the item stated that the mart was his
destination-but I judged so as I'd previously seen notices to that effect.
After what occurred on Nov. 22, however, I recalled re ' " Th
' that item.-aaznd changed my mind. -and surmised that that trip was made at 1
the request of the underworld-its "either-or"-
If you have read "America; Listen!" by Frank L. _
Kluckhorn a former Ranking Officer of the State Dept. - in which he wro e
the real story of the Kennedy Dynasty-what a wow! -aced its flaunting of
millions in the public's faces-a challenge to the underworld to share a
juicy slice of those h _r of millions. -_ -5-g Y 649- /déééd-" L/053Right or wrong, eory is this:- He nnde that trip to
settle a controversy. He was requested to part with some of his prized
wealth--"either-or" He thought he'd get by with it as easily as everything_ _
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"or" - on Nov. 22- as the whole world knows. 2 -e-:;.. j_ -, i - . '
' .He couldn't attend his son's funeral, due to the fact that - . _
he was "too weak, couldn't walk nor talk due to a stroke," it was claimed, -'
yet he had been getting around as the papers had previously stated: and he I
could have, with the help he had been having, attended that iunera1even
on a cot. , 1- ,_-i _
According to that item I noted about his having made that
trip to Chicago only a few weeks previously, I wondered- was he afraid r
to attend the fimeral? thinking he was next. Rumors heard were that-
Bob feared for his own life - and also that he spent Thanksgiving in his ""-*
own home - not at Hyannisport with the other Kennedy families. - ~
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plot than he has told. A
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to you but I can now rest in peace. -
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built in readiness for the wounded of the forth coming, planned war. - I _ _
would have liked to have seen Bernard Beruch, a Jew, in the White House. ~_
I-Ie"d have pulled us out of the Red. - Are there no more Abe Lincolns? e _,
must the presidents all be millionaires? Why don't we feed our poor & those "
of other countries with the surplus grains the Gov has stored in bins. We
could feed them & the worlds poor with the billions spent foolishly to give '
scientists a kick - reaching the moon God gave for light Prophecies of theBible are being fulfilled. - Mrs ,1, ;, n ' ' r '
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aired and. all pa:-ti;s concerned should be
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clerk was arrested b392ths British nuthcriti
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ident rf the United States, er net! exceeded his
turning ever a number cf the American Enfnassy tc the British Ccurt.
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United States, _and_ charged, before the prcper c
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hard labor in British pris rns. The State Departne
Kent was first dismissed by Ambassador Kennedy, thus losing his rights.
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service rules, and was either an
later.illegal ruse crnswerable only tc the
Joseph P. Kennedy
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"'! her cf the United States Embassy, is the reason for it. The case
' wasbrcught tcj trial in :1 British ccurt in Ncve ber, 19140, after anunexplained l 3-3 crs than six months. An Englisgsclicitcr by the
name :1 F. Gra aw and an English barrister, Maur-ic_ _ 13', were re-
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acme stories abcut it gct into the press. During H nstcn Churchill's
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inent British subjects, among them Captain Archibal " a-asny n. member . " I '
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the inccnsistency that the United
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cut b".-two-..-n Pcland, Britain, and France
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tc which infcrmticn is said to have beethe var that had recently broken
':n the cne hand, and Germany cn
creating hint that the "enemy"
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an. the Western Eurcpean Allies, althcu
the United States. Russia at__this time
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_ chose to drop the charge of informing
"larceny of confidential documents". Konts
The verdict was one of-expediency and under the enemy and change it to
London attorney declared:
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Tyler Kent was sentenced to seven years social imprisonment at
.§ Vandsworth Penitentiary. This means imprisoned with criminalsD =! rather than as a political prisoner. tter s hunger strike which
ended in a hospital cell, he was visited by a member of the United States
Embassy, in London, and shortly afterward transferred to an old monastery
used as a political prison on the Isle of Wight, where he was known to be
up to September 23, 194B. Onehundred and twenty other political prison-
ers, including Admiral Domville, a retired British Admiral, and many
other prominent anti-Churchill Britishers were there imprisoned with him.
About n year after Tyler Kent was sentenced, some details of this{B astonishing case began to leak cut. Kent's ther, a veteran cf
th Spanish=American.War, had served'twent rs in the United
States Consular Service; his mother Mrs. Ann H. P ent, of 2112 wycmingAvenue, H. w., Washington, D. 6.} widowed. drew a Vg Department pension.
The son, Tyler Kent, had entered the State Departmc t Service as a clerk
and had a record for brilliant service. The mother was accustomed to
communicating with her son during wartime through the State Department
mail bag. Not until three weeks after Kent's arrest did his mother know,
from the State Department, even the fact that communication with her son
had ceased, and then all details were refused her. Later Mrs. Kent
learned through the British Embassy in.Washington, D. 0., that the seri-
ousness of the case arose from the fact that it involved Winston Chur-
chill himself. Tho appeals to the State Department for information on
her son's case brought mostly rude rebuffs to this fine American mother
of more than sixty years of age, who had, with her husband, served her
country in many foreign lands. Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge
Long finally received Mrs. Kent,.when she refused to leave the State De-
partment witheut seeing someone. He subjected her to a torrent of angry
words and concluded: when the British are through with your son, we
will prosecute him to the limit of the law." Mrs. Kent asked: "Prose-
cuto him for what, Mr. Long? The Assistant Secretary of State was un-
able to say "for what." ' 'concern the case when, through
F. Graham Maw, the prosecution
All that Tyler Kent and his mother -- and all interested Annricans--/ ask is that the young Embassy clerk be brought home and properly
charged and tried under American law.
Mrs. Kent has been told that Ambassador Kennedy regretted almost
immedi 1y his improper act in turning this young man over to
Britis risdiction and sending two Embassy secretaries -- one
of them Rudo _ ohoonfeld -- to the English court to give supposititious
testimony a t him. Tyler Kent has told a friend who visited him in
prison that A bassadcr Kennedy had on one occasion offered to procure
his release on condition that young Kent would-take oath that he would
never divulge the contents of certain cablegrams coded and decoded
through the previous winter. Kent said he refused the "bribe".
5 In May, 1941, about six months after the sentencing of Kent, the§/ first intimaticns reached Mrs. Kent that there had been secret
cables between Winston Churchill and Franklin D.Roosevclt in which
Tyler Kent was a factor. These intimations were given t rs. Kent by
Robert Scott, a nowspaperman forms ly associated with ' INGTDN POST
and now a circulation man on t TTSBURGH GAZETTE. Sco said, in of-'
fect that the cables had treate " the conduct of the war, including
plans for Angloehmerican cocpo ti , and specifically, the Lend Lease
formula. e also said that promises of full support of British propagan-
da services were assured for Mr. Roosevelts third term campaign as soon
as H1_ ton Churchill should supersede Prime Minister Chamberlain in offic
Mr. Sc tt implied that London and Washington ncwspapcrmen generally ac-
cepted the truth of the stories this was in May, l9hl!, but fear of
ocnseq epcos prevented attaching the information to its true source.l
_ n July, 1941, Hrs. Kent1 ingc, a former classmate of her son and s ppblic relations exportto make what icquiries he could from the British Embassy as to thsent a young man by the name of Otis T.
existence and nature of alleged surreptitious coded cables between Chur-.
chill ani Roosevelt w ich/sho.quspectcd were connected with the imprisfn"
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and decoded at the instructions of Ambassador Kennedy, were sent between
President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, when the latter was still
First Lord of tho Admiralty. Those two officials oi the British Embassy
added: "No did not want to try this case, but since his own Government
and Ambassador insisted, there was nothing else to do." They also said:"Bis mother has been to see us and we hope she is satisfied, because
publicity in this matter would be most embarrassing to both governments."
On November ll, 19111, about one year after the trial and sentencing
of Kent, a revs tie oi thenature of his offense was made on the
floor of the Bri House of Commons in s. question put to theGovernment by Richard R {oh-es, M.P., "Independent Leborite: "Can-
not the Hone Secretary say whether any of these cablsgrams or messages
were sent by the Prim Minister Winston Cruz-chill! behind the back of
the then Prime Minister {Neville Chamberlain!? The answer of Home Secre-
tary Morrison on the floor offarliament was: "No information can prop-
orly be given out about confidential documents which were extracted
from the American E:sbassy."_ e
This extraordinary disclosure on the floor oi the British House-1:! of Commons was almost -- but not quite -- successfully suppressed
' in the American press. Many editors regarded it as too shocking
to use. One large newspaper referred it to legal counsel and was told
shington, D. 0., TIMES-HERALD, ofpliovamber 12,1941, Arthur Sears iennins wrote: ' is-1--I--|_.,_,..,,__ _t!c_t_1t_m.ight be libelous. However, in one early morning edition of the
. _. The understanding here is that not only cablegrams from
, Hr. Churchill to Mr. Roosevelt behind Charnhorlain"s back, but
.- from Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Churchill are involved. rho white
House in response to an inquiry yesterday professed to have no
information on the subject. - . _
"The correspondence was supposed to have related to British
and American policy regarding the European war. Among the quos- -
tions touched upon are said to gee been s more vigorous prose-
cution cf the war than had been achieved by Mr. Chamberlain, and
the possibilities of the United States taking an active part in .
support of Great Britain.
According to one version, the device of lend Lease legis- .
lntion for circumventing the United States Neutrality Lew and
_ the Johnson Act forbidding extension of credit to Britain as a
war debt dersulter was discussed in this secret correspondence
- between the American President and the British Navy head.
"Disclosure of the text of the csblegrams would establishe
whether sir. Churchill invited, or r. Roosevelt cede, soy com-
mltrnonts of the United States Government to a policy of aiding
Britain that was not contemplated by existing United States law.
"From the outbreak of the war the President had been under
fire for permitting, if not encouraging, William C. Bullitt,
American Ambassador to France, and other American diplomts to -
encourage France and Poland to get into the war with promises A
of American support. A
The correspondence between Mr. Churchill and the President
passed through the American Embassy in London. Tyler Kent, A M
clerk in the Embassy, made copies of the Churchill and Roosevelt
cablegrams and showed them to captain Archibald Ramsay, s member
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of the British and American Governments for this breach of trust
was swift and certain.-Q responsibility therefore was traced to young Kent. The vengeance
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Britain, discharged Kent, and the British Government immediately
arrested him on charges of espionage. After Kent had been held
in jail for some time he was given a trial. ,The espionage
B charges roll flat, but he finally was convicted cf larceny of
government documents and sentenced to seven years in prison,
where he now is. ,
_ - Captain Ramsay, who had been shown or-given copies or thcorrespondence was placed under detention under the Defense of
the Realm Act. . _ _
In mid-summer of 1941, after-receipt of the information from th'i i; British Embassy in Fsshington thre-1 hr. wings, hrs. Rent sought
~1 a passport from the United States S te Department to go to Eng-
land.- This was denied her. Mrs. Kent then veiled upon a newspaper-
man with Baltimore connections, Mr. Ian R cfarlane, since heard in
the earl months of l9h# as a news analyst n Station WITH, Baltimore,Maryland? to go to England for her. Mrs. Kent financed his trip on con-
dition that MacFarlane would interview the Englislaselicitor who defend-
ed Kent, and would do his best to interview Kent himself in prison on
the Isle ofwight. MacFarlane reached England by the Atlantic Clipper
in March, 1942. Upon his return from England, MacFarlane reported to
Mrs. Kent that he had been able to accomplish all of these assignments.
He saw Kent on the Isle of Wight. Kent told him that to assignment of
handling the surreptitious cables proyoo upon his mind and conscience.
The oath, taken by all Foreign Service Clerks, is: "I do solemnly swear
or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, etc."
' Kent considered that the assignment forced him to violate his oath,
since he was the accredited public servant or a State Department charged
by Congress, at this time, with preserving the neutrality of the United
States. He asked for a transfer from the Embassy in London. His request
was refused. Ho than made photostatic copies of the cables passing
through his hands and hid them in his room. Kent grow desperate over the
direction th correspondence was_taking, since obviously the President
was committing the United States to war without authorization of Congress
or even the knowledge of the actual government of Britain at that time.
Yet at this very time President Roosevelt was pledging the voters of the
United States that their sons would not be sent into foreign war. Tyler
Kent thn took the step of divulging the cables to Churchill's most active
political opponent in Parliament, the leader of the Right Club, Captain
Archibald Ramsay. The conspiracy was secretly discussed among Rightiste
and anti-Churchill circles in Britain. On Hay 10, l9#0, owing to the
illness of Neville Chamberlain, the ambitions of Winston Churchill were
suddenly realized. Churchill received the government from Chamberlain
amd imediately thereafter the British Ramsay and the American Kent were
seized and jailed. _ _
MacFarlane reported that Kent told him that the exchange of cables1,! began in October, 1939. Churchill was then First Lord of the Ad-
*f miralty. According to Kent, the first message was from Churchill.
Kent gave its content to MacFarlane as the following: General sense
rather than exact quote.! "I am half Anerican and the natural person to
work with you. we evidently see eye to eye. If I could become Prime
Minister of Britain we could control the world." After this first cable,
a few weeks elapsed, then President Roosevelt cabled back for more de~
tails of Mr. Churchill's plan. Thereafter, messages passed at rapid in-i
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throughout the winter Of l939 and 1940, the period of the "phony war".
many were long letters, which Kent was required to code and decode. has
Farlano reported that Kent told him the substance of these messages con-
cerned such subjects as the matter of the transfer of 50 destroyers, the
methods to be used to induce Congress to pass the Lend Lease Bill, and
strategy to be used to bring about the repeal of the American Neutrality
and Johnson Acts. - - ' C
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Iof Kent's photostatio copies of the cables, or at least has their
. ' Before Kent 's transfer from Moscow to London he'had_been reproved
by Russian authorities for his criticism of Soviet methods and Communism,
and was a man who naturally would have been under surveillance by the
Soviet Secret Service in England.
The friends of Tyler Kent suggest that tln Russian Secret Service
might have procured the Churchill-Rosevelt cables either photostatically
or textually by entering Kent's room during his absence. It is also pos-
sible that Russian spies procured the cables in the English court room
wt-.ere,. on demand of the barrister, the cables were exhibited
But the manner in which the Soviet Government gained possession of
the cables is immaterial. The fact of such possession has been substan-
tiated by Colonel A. O. McGuire, an attorney, Southern Building, Washing-
ton, D. C. It puts the Soviet Government in a position to use the im-
proper interchange between the new head of the British Government and
the President of the United States in such manner and at such time as
92might best suit the policy of Moscow. Widespread rumor has it that
Stalin used possession of these cables at Teheran to blackmail RooseveltEats consenting to the Soviet absorption of Finland and other smalluropean states . ~ _ _ ,
7 landing in Newfoundland and continuing to New York by with
him on plane an oat was a free-lance writer, John Br a wen, .usually known as Joh ryan, grands on of William Jenninsyan and son
of our Minister to rk, Ruth Bryan Rhode. John Bryan d interested
himself strongly in the Kent Case an_d the position of the Right Club mem-
bers in England, and had openly criticized both the British and American
governments. Ha had been imprisoned for six months in London and releas-
ed just in time to return on the plane with |4acI-Parlane. He had been ex-
pelled from England with ten shillings and it was Mrs. Kent's money, fur-
nished by MacFarlane, which brought him back to the United States. he
took a room in Greenwich Village, New York City, and began discussing
the Kent Case freely and with vehemence. On January 2, 19144, he was.
found deed in his room. The circumstances, as placed in the police re--
cords of the New York City Police, rennin contradictory and mysterious.
Since this incident -- or accident -- MacFarlane has indicated a desire
to disassocinte himself from the case, or mention of the case, giving
as his reason a fear for the personal safety of Tyler Kent.Ian Rose MacFsrls.ne returned to America by plane in Sogtember, 19%},
During the week of July ll, 19414, Mrs. Kent received a letter from!
England transmitting information that her barrister, Mr. Maw, being a- -ware that British authorities might be considering the release of Tylerb
Kent from prison, had applied for a cancellation of the deportation or-
derwhich has stood over Kent's head since his imprisonment. Mr. Maw
stated his belief that it would be unwise for Kent, for reasons of bodi-
ly safety, to re-enter American jurisdiction or leave British jurisdic-
tion until the government in the United States becomes more friendly to-
ward his client. - .
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in Congress, and other circles. They remined unknown to the larg-
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2£ !a reprint gf thgeenging rticliiin Egg Uaihingtons Dit¬., ¬IMEi-it to him LDThey Sigmund heaozn"wl:gge2Eits rgzeigt au§r§r Ret at gnzg
wrote back asking him to comment on its contents, paying especial atten-
tion to par'graph 5 which related in effect that Roosevelt and Chur-chill had planned Lend Lease by cablegram a year before the American
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'On May 15, l9##, Mrs. Kent received a cable signed by her son,
Tyler Kent, from prison, reading: "Newspaper story essentially true."
A few days later she received a lengthy letter from her son confirming
the original story~about the Churchill-Roosevelt cablegrsms publishd
in November, l9#l. Beginning June 17, l9B,'the long story reached the
American press, on the disclosures made in ttm British House of Commons.
The most complete story came through the CHICAGO TRIBUNE Foreign Service, .
signed by Larry_Ruo. All of these items passed through British censor-
ship, which is controlled by the Churchill government, indicating thatthe Government no longer feels obligated to conceal the circumstances of 2
the interchange between Churchill and Roosevelt which arranged for the ,
abandonment of its neutrality by the United States.. § ' .
. ' Obviously the disclosures oi the Kent Case cables can only label
Hr. Churchill as clever, even though irregular and captions toward a L
superior. But they stigmatize the President of the United States as F0
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.having proceeded in entire disregard of the Constitutional procedure to "which he is sworn by oath of office; l
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The disclosures from England on the Kent Case were.brought out on " { the floors of the United States Senate and House of Representatives a
' on the afternoon of June 19, 19th, and on several successive days.
A debate between Senator Henrik Shipstead, Senator Tom Connally, Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, and a number of others over the Kent Case occupies
several pages in the Congressional Record of June 19. Senator wheeler
related that long ago he had asked Secretary Hull in writing how an AHBTQ -
ican Embassy member could be tried in a secret British Court for stealing
papers that wont through-the American Embassy. The State Department sent '
a special representative to mcllify Senator wheeler. The State DePart- .
monts wish was to hush up the matter. Senator Connally, Chairman'cf
the Foreign Relations Committee and Administration Floor Leader, had to
rush to a telephone to call up the State Department to find out how to
answer the charges of Senator Shipstead. Thereupon, Connally claimed
that the United States Government had waived Tyler Kent's diplomatic
immunity and that he was then prosecuted under British Law. But Senator
Connolly did not make clear th charge. The Ccnnally statement does not
hold water, for Tyler Kent was sentenced on the charge of stealing docu
meats, which, if stolen at all, were stolen from the AMHICAN EMBASSY in
AMERICAN EMBASSY CODE -- certainly no affair of the British Government
at the time. That Government would indeed have.arrested Churchill for
secretly sending cables without passing them through censorship in war-
time, cables which went behind the back of the then British Government,
and in essence conspired for the downfall of that Government. There-
fore, the British part in the case is entirely illegal or ultra-official
and the crime, if any, was against the American Government only. '
Ke t's trial by a British Court therefore remains n complete travos-
justice and a thoroughly illegal action. Consul General John
G rhardt, now Chief of Foreign Service Personnel in the State De-
partment Washington, was the only American observer allowed to be
present in the Kent trial. He was placed under oath not to disclose any
details of the hearing. He has known Kent since the latter's boyhood.
He told Mrs. Kent, after his return to this country, that "Ty1er.did
nothing reprehensible, but merely was unwise in the way he went about doiofit." Mrs. Kent saw Ambassador Kennedy after his resignation from his
London post. She asked him if her son hld been rightly accused of bein
a sp e replied that there was no basis whatever for that suspicion. i
Halts rohan, CHICAGO TRIBUNE correspondent, states that Kennedy told 1
him: an very much ashamed of the part I played in the Kent Case - _ ,
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j. V., Washington, D. 6.!, the mother of Tyler Kent, sent a resume
of her son's case to the delegates of both the Republican and Demo-
cratic Conventions. Upton Close, the radio commentator, gave the Kent
, ' Case nationwide publicity on several occasions. Newspapers featured it.
t Millions of Americans became sensitized to the presence in the New Dealcloset of a Kent Case skeleton ranking in importance with the Pearl Her- 9292
bor skeleton. Then, on September 2, 19414, the State Department issued a -lengthy defense of its surrender or young Kent to British authorities. F -
le 5°21?'3..Z§.3l'Z.§°biZ§§°Z§i-.§ ii.;.°--.§£;1°¬. £§§i3{¬¬d'2° ° 21321 I F : e o sathe long release by the State Department -.on September 2 relative to Tyler »
"Kent loft entirely unanswered the point on which the American people de-
mand an investigation; i.e., the existence or non-existence of secret
pre-war agreements made by the President oi the United States without
the advice and consent of the Senate . . ."92'ery few people besides his mgghemilalge interested in Tyler Kent per se, But one hundred and thirty
o on Americans are vitally concerned to know whether or not it
ishgrue that in time of nes, one gear bei+o:h-if the Lend Lease Bill and- on ir measures were nu. ....- ore ....e senate .......' ad men leaned 'wt~.:eoncm American President and the British 1-mi-y he-;.d'." On September 5, 1941:
ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy also vent to bat for the New Deal.
Kennedy admitted, however, that copies of 1500 cablegrams had been found
in Tyler Kent's room, but did not acknowledge the nature of the cable-
_ grams. News of-the Kennedy statement reached Kent in prison and thei %gish"a§;.r£¬§é;i§ssileglteédrizim ti wire his another on SePteneer 1%»3 ' 86.
The latest chapter in this fantastic case occurred September 26,- I l9h4. on that date the Washington, D. C. TIMES-HRALD headlined:
"British Free Ramsay, Tyler Kent s Friend." With adequate pres
s-are from hack-heme constituents upon Congressmen, the Kent Case seems
sure -to boil over as soon as Congress reconvenes. Why should an American
citizen whose forebears fought in every American var be impris onod abroad
. in outright denial of his diplomatic rights, when even his Parliamentary
friend has been released?u
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_; ' Tyler tent nae leateaoed to eevea iearav aecialu iamriaanbat t t ".'""tf= -" '-i%iw-a-uh Feaitentiary. aaam cned with eriailaai: 3; L; ; 7 3 rather than aa a pcliticalvgiecaer. A tor a etrihe cinch ;';_;_. oadud in a hoepital cell, he rae ited ha: aedser at United Staten -', ;= . tuba-air, iahcaden and ehertlzgftervard naferrad to an old aonaeter-3, U;_='- aaod ae a political risen :1: lale otight when he nae lnovat to he_ . up to lefteiher as One-hmdned and ouch other political nriaoa-~34» . _ en. inc wading main bolnille, a rem-ea a:-nun aaau-a1, and mg 1-,.» _-- cther prominent anti-clan-chill_ lritiahera qere there iwrieoned Ii hia._ __
= - amt a gear after can lent vain eeateacee, nae btaila or_.,| _ 6 o_aetoaie_hi.ng eaae hogan talent oat. lent! lather a veteran Of.f"-_-'f';'.'":'f
__: _ hi q. . the! aia -anarioan Bar Md atrved treat are in "-- ~<. -.. _ Lhtatea Gomugr Qeniceg hie :c%r ".9:-. Aha E. gxaeit,- Jwnue. I. 92|'., Iaahiagga, D. 0.! Iidoved, drew a Var Departaat penaion. _'- "r_ '1' the eon, ler lent, entered the state hepartaent Service an a glerreand had a eecard tour trilliant en-rice. Ina aathor aae aeomtaaed o .;.:.§f*..-"-I, etzlanaicatiag Iith hr acn during Iartina thrcagh the State Depart.-ht 57+-». =-Illl 8115- Iotuatil three Inch after Ient'e arroat did hie aotheag1 92 Irena the State hat:-rtnat, even the tact" that commieation Iith hr eon .4".had eeaaed, and _ n all detail: wee nefuaed hr. hater Ira. hat, e .=='; -__ learned through tho a:-um: mean; in Iaahington, n. 0., an the-aeri-.' Q,-:;_ " ouneee or the eaee an-can tron the tact that t involved Uinatcn thaw Io"-'1-'_,- A chill hiaaelf. n anneal: to the am» n-gun-at for um-um c|:.1i92*",-u 1 her lon'l'cala hronght aoatl; I-nae rehaa 0 um rice Ana:-zen mm:' cf more the sixty 1aara_ or hp, the had, rith her laaehand, earned her -.'-1'1 . - at-main" in nan; foreign lands. aeeietant Secretary otltate naeclnaarih--.L. _ _ Long -finally received Ire. leat,.uhen aha rened to leave the state he-_.[email protected]$"I 'pa!'tacnt I1!-llO92lt_IO0i.h'ulGIIl. Ia auhjected her to a torrent at an:-[7-?'*f.A . Icrda and eoncludodu hen the nritieh are through Iith your eon,-'ea '~_ ,3. mu maewh him to ta» unit of the law. nae. lent eeum 'Pr@_e- j:*.>,*+.- ' cute for Iht, Ir. I-nag?" b Aalietant leclvetary of Stat-e'II_t '.;'»'-' ' at1o_to ea; tor that ' ' "
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'21,. " In I51; l9ll, ahout ai: acnth after tb aentenoi of lent, tho : :._-=_;..l'i.ret iatiaationl reached Ira. lent that there Ind teen eeerot .._',t ~. "~ . .- - eahlea heteeea iliaatea dgaull and !'1-aaslu l.!=!!eaec-alt in @-
~ lthertloett, a nalapaperuan r :11" alocohtod with that nimmoa rmr 5;and non a circulation can on tslflil MZIHI. "leotiaaid, in er--' _.¢~-_!oct' that the aahlea tad tneatod bi the conduct cf the uar, mludin;slam for Anglo-American cocporatiqp, and egecitieallyi the ad Lease -In - crlnula. In ale: mic cm: prcnilaa of an support e arm» vrv:>ason- . J da larvicea Idle aaaured tor Ir. hooaevalth thir $0115 Milli. -81! " ""1 .7-an Uinetcn Churchill should luperaedo Prim liniater Clmaherlaia in ctfioe. ..,_-llr. Scott implied that London and Uaahiagtca llilll-{0!'§Il gate:-ally ac- _canted thu truth at the atcriea thit -Ill in lay, 91;!, t rear or
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Stephan hiide or the Legal opurtnoot end Prose Ielotionebeportne t ortho lmbxsy, ens told hy them that the cohlee vhich loot hnd oodgd Io
and doeodod ct the instructions of Amhessndor lenned , vere sent betweenPresident llooeevolt end Winston Churchill vhen the Lttes ens still!i:-ot L-ord oi =1.» .-.o-4.112;. Ehoe o-.-= =§::=:.=:= er om British zoom:
665068 lo did not vont to try this oeso, but since his on Government
end iolanseodor insistod, there ens nothing else to do. they one mm,"Hie anther hos boon to eoe us end we hope ehe is entistied, heco-uses
publicity in this utter eould he nest enhon-seeing to both governments.
or Kent e revelation or the neture of his offense-vss eede on thefloor oi tho hi-it h louse or Canons in e question put to thoGovornmnt hy Richard It. che, I.?., Indeoendont Leno:-iten Oeu-not the homo lee:-story e ehother any oi these oehlognm or seseogeevore soot by the Irina Iinister Iineton Chm-chillLho nd the hock oitho then Prime llinistor llevillo 0he|iboi'lninH" 1' oneeeg of ggmio gee!-3
tery Morrison on the floor ofrerlineent roe} Io inroi-notion onn prop-
erly ho givon out ehout oonfidentiel doomente ihich Iere ertrected '
tron the Am:-icon !nhossy."_ .- - .
- . this oztroordinns-y disclosure on the floor of the British Home '. 1-! of Ootsnons Ins nlnost -- hut not quits -- eucoeeetully surpassed' in tho Ann:-icon prose. Ion; editors regarded it es too s ooking '
to use. Ono large newspaper oofened it to legal counsel end see toldthat it night no liholoue. Ioeever, in ono early sorning editgmn of the
rthur eon - Uoshington, D. ., film-BBL!-D, or Iovemhor 12, 19-il, A '_ 92¬II_lll1-D5 srote: - . _ ' U _j 0I ' On Iovolhor ll, 19ll, shout one yeer erter the trial end sentencing l
_. "rho undorstsnding hare is that not only oohleg:-nee from '
Ill. Churchill to Ir. loosovelt behind Ctmehor.l.nin"e hoot, hut - -
from Ill. Roolovelt to Ir. Churchill are involved. Iho Uhite -
Rouse in response .to on inquiry yesterday professed to hvo no .
1n!Ul'BtI.OI1O'htbll-lDJldt.' - -- - '_ it
. "!'he correspondence ens supposed to heve relsted to British '
end Anerioen policy roger-ding the Iuropeen oer. Among the quee_- . -
tione touched upon one s_eid to have been e mono, vigorous pi-ose-
- _ eution or tho ear than hed hoen eohievod by Ir. Ohomherlein, end
the poesibilitiee or the United Stntee toting en ective port insupportof Ureot lritoin. _ _ '_ " Yv _ - - I' .- ' "According to one version, the device er Lend Lease legis-', _~. =. lotion tor, circumventing the United Stotee Ieutreliti Lev end 4_t the Johnson Actttorhidding extension oi credit to hr tsin es e *
e. » _1 ' neteeen the Anericen 1'1-eeident end the Uritish levy heed. - - _~ - -:
Disclosure or the teat of the eehlegs-ens would estehlish
whether Ir. Churchill" invited, or Ir. Roosevelt nde, soy cow _ -_
' nitmonte or the United dtetes Uovernaent._to e policy of siding : o
. he-itein thet res not oontenplsted by existing United ltetesjev. , ,___ '-_ . . ol 92' _ - '!2-Q -'.-in-.-'=== or -.='er,tM nooident I-d teen =_lh..d1-2
time for permitting, it not enoonreging, uillisn 0. hullitt, _ -_
_enl=NIofs Ironos end rolend to.get into thesnr sith promise!U ' of Amer eon support. . . '. _.
The con-es ondence hotuoon Ir. Churchill end the President. __psssod through tfu Ana:-ioen lmhossy in London. Tyler Kent,
' clerk in tho Imhoeey, node copies or tho Churchill end Rooeevelt
- oehlograno and shoved them to Uootoin Archiheld heme? I IBIIN1
' or the louse or Coslnons. -
"glue long or eorrespondence soon heomno known end the
responsibility therefore woe traced to young toot. The vengeance
of the British and Auoricnn dovernmonte for this brooch of trust o
' use swift and certain. _ --1
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"Joeeph P. Kennedy, then American Anbaeeedor to Great .2
Britain, discharged lent, end the British Government immediately
arreeted hie on charges of eepionego. After lent had been held
in Jail for lone tile he woe given a trial. .'i'he eepionage
charges fell flat, finally wae convicted of larceny of
goecrrgent coon: ntenced tc cocoa rear: in pric on,where he now is." - e '
Captain Runny. who Ind been shownor -given copiee of thecorrespondence wae placed under detention under the Defenee of
the Realm Act. -
In mid-euneeer of 1911, after receipt of the inforention from the1 ';- Britieh Bmbneey in Unehington through In-. 91:23; em. lent ewehtJ a passport frcen the United States State Depa _ at to g_o to Ing-
lnnd. Ihie wae denied her. Ire. lent than veiled upon e newepepor-'nan with Baltimore connections, Ir. Inn Roeemclwrlene, since heard in
_t_1I_: on-3'11 Qonthe of 19 no _e newe enalyet on Station WITH, Baltimore,
lurylandj to go to England for her. lire. lent financed hie trip on con- .
dition that I-ocFa:-lane would interview the Inglieh Solicitor who defend-
ed Iiont, and would do hie beet to interview lent hienelf in prieon on ,
the Iele of Right. Ieclarlnne reached I land by the Atlantic Clipperin larch, 1&2. Ugnon hie return from Bngninnd, ltacferlene reported to
lire. Kent t t he d been able to accomplish all of theee eeeignmente. ,In eew lent on the Isle ofwight. Kent told him um the neeignennt of J
handling the sue-reptitioue co lee prayed upon his mind and conscience. 1_
The oath, taken by all roroign Ber-rice Clarke, in "1 do eelemnly ewear 92
or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United
States against all enemiee, foreign and dometic, etc. _ _ }ifnnt eanmielheend 1-_l-mi-. M-ea nae-I-e-.-he -___-- ----_--w- ---- v¢_v en-Ir.-Qeeeeeee-e-ereince he was the accredited public servant of e State Department charged
by Congroee, at this time, with preeorving the neutrality of tho United
was refueed. Bo then undo hctoetatic copiee of the cables penning
roe cceenitting the United States to war without authorisation of Congreee 92dtatee. he eekod for a transfer from the Embeeey in London. Hie requeet E
throughhie hands and hid than in hie room. Kent grew de:Erate ever thedirection the correepondence wnetnking, since obv ouely Proeident
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Before Kent's transfer from lloscoe to London In been reproeed 'H by Rmsimn authorities for his criticism of Soviet -thods and Oossnunism,
and use e no Ibo nsturslly would hrs been under surveillance by the"Soviet secret Service in lnglend. - ,; ; .
J-I .might lmwe procured the Churchill-Roseselt cables either photestatically
or teztually by entering Kent's room during his absence. It is also pos-
sible tht Russian spies procured the cables in the English court room
ehere, on dennd or tip barrister, the cables were exhibited. _ j I1§ -ode of i-ler Rent iuiieit that the iiiiiien Secret Beiee
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But the Qnner in which the Soviet Gosernmnt gained possession of
the cables is isssaterial. The tact ct such possess on lms been substan-
tisted by Colonel A. O. llolluire, an attorney, Southern Building Hashing-ew, n. c. It puts up doviet Gowermmnt in e. position to use the im-
proper interchange between the now head of tlm British Oovernmnt and .
the President or the United State! in such smnner and st such time as 1-92%nn best suit *-1._~_~ policy er Qantas Eidcaping rm-or 9292!- it that .928talin used possession or these cebles at teheran to blschmil Rooseveltf ate consenting to the Soviet absorption of Finland and other ssmllFuropeen states. - " - .
ten Boss llscrarlane returned to America by plane in September, 19!!,-I 7 landing in Ievrcundiena and continuing to loo Io:-1; by n t. with -him on plane and boat was e free-lance writer, John Brysgqsen, .
usually known as John"Bryan, grandson of William Jenningseryan and son _
"or our llinister to Denmark, Ruth Bryan Rhoda; John Bryan bed interested
-hineeli strongly in the Kent Case end the position or the Right Club mem-
bers in tngland, and had openly criticised both the British and lumaricen
governments. he had been imprisoned for six months in London and releas-ed gust in time to return on the plane with IlscParleoe. Be tad been es-
psl ed from England with ten shillings and it eas Ire. Kent's money, fur-
nished by llaalhrlane, which brought him back to the United States. He _ _
took s. room in Greenwich Village, lee York City, and began discussing _
the Kent Case freely and with sehesence. On January 2,- 19 , he was,
found dead in his re. the circunmtances, as placed in the police re-
cords or the Iev Iork city Police, remin contradictory end mysterious. »
Since this incident -- or accident -- llaclhrlane has indicated s. desire
to disassociate himelr from the case; or mention or the case, givingas his reason a tear for the personal safety or rylsr lent.
During the week or July I, 1948, llrs. Kent received e letter h-om
England traniniiting infofmtion that her barrister, iae, being-owware that British authorities night be considering the release of TylerKent from prison, had applied for I cancellation of the deportation or-
der shioh has stood over Kent's head since his imprisonment. llr. New
stated his celier that it would be unwise for tent, t reasons or bodi-ly safety, to re-enter American jurisdiction or leave:-ritish {Eradic-tion until the gowerment in the United States become gem fr M1, go-ward his client. . ,e . - - ' -
,- !he details of this extraordinary a1'1_'o-ir in real life Vere Ihispgp-15 ed to a larger and larger number er persons in the newspaper vcrld,in Congress, and other circlei.. rhey reseiaed unknown to the larg»er Amrican aa hritish public: until -ea 15, 1;-'4-t, ehen iueitio'ni' anddebate broke out in the is-itisn Imme ct ceseons concerning tin 1-1,3? or
the Government to continue the imprisonment for tour years without trialor e member or the British tarliameot, nanly, Captain Archibald Rasmay.
The same members or rarliaunnt who lmd raised the "question-on the sometlcor back on Iovemberll, ieli, rrticipated. rm» use em-e was a
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_i few days after this extended debate, Oliver Lyttelton, lliniaber1 -9 of War Production in the British Cabinet, said n a speech thati America Had provoked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. thisstatement was challenged by Secretary of State Cordell Bull, and llr.Lyttelton tempered his statement wit out denying its sense. ' ' '-
In February, l9 , hrs. lent had taloen a chance and sent her son. -!_Qe reprint of the Banning article in the Washington, D. C., TIME-. "' I-ERALD of Iowember 12, 941, asking the prison authorities to giveit to him. They did and he acknowledged its receipt. llrs. Kent at once
wrote back asking him to comment on i contents, paying especial atten-tion to paragraph 5 which related, in effect, that Roosevelt and Chu.r- , .
phill had planned Lend Lease by eablegram a year before the American
people ewer heard-cf it. . _ S - .
On lay 15, -1914!, Ira. lent received a cable signed by her son, . -kyle:-"Kent, tron prison, reading: lewsgeper story essentially true.A few days later she received a lethy otter from her son confirmingthe original story about the Churn ll-Roosevelt cablegrams published 4
in -llovember, l9*4l. Beginning June 17, l9#l,'the long story reached the
American press, on the disclosures mde in the British House of Commons.
The most complete story came through the CHICAGO TBIBURE Foreign Service,signed :1 l.arry_Rue. All of these-items passed through British censor-ship, w ch is controlled by the Churchill government, indicating thatthe Government no longer feels obligated to conceal the circumstances oi _
the 1!!-tv6XC1EL'l'ig92: between Churchill and Roosevelt which arranged for the ~
abandonment of its neutrality by the United States.". . _,p_ _ . _cl -
Obviously the disclosures of the Ret Case cables can only label
Mr. Churchill as clever, even though irregular and captions toward a
superior. But they srignntize the President of the United States as
having proceeded in entire disregard of the Constitutional procedure towhich he is sworn by oath of office. 1 A
The disclosures fro;-. England on the Kent Case were.b1-ought out on
the floors of the United States Senate and Ho-use of Representatives
on the afternoon of Jxne l9, 19%, and on several successive days.A debate between Senator Hen:-£1: Shipstead, Senator Tom Connolly, Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, and a number of others over the Kent Case occupies
several pages in the Congreesioml Record of June l9. Senator wheeler
related that long agc he had asked Secretary Hull in writing how an Amor-
ican Smbassy member could be trim in a secret British Court for stealing
papers that wont through the American Embassy. the State Department sent _
a special representative to molliry Senator wheeler. The State l>epert- .
ment's wish was to lmsh up the matter. Senator Connolly, Chairman ct
the Foreign Relations Committee and Administration Floor header, had torush to a telephone to call up the State Depgrtment to find out how to A
answer the charges of Senator Shipett-ad. '1' reupon, Conn-ally olaimd
that the United States Government had waived Tyler Kent's diplomatic
immunity and that he was than prosecuted under British 1-aw. But Senator
Connolly did not make clear the charge. The Connolly statement does not
hold water, for Tyler Kent was sentenced on the charge of stealing docu-
ments ,' which, if stolen at all, were stolen from the AIERICAI EMBASSY in _AMERICAN EMBASSY CODE -- certainly no affair of the British Government
at the time. .'l'1:nt Government won d indeed have. arrested Churchill forsecretly sending cables without Easing them through censorship in war-tine, cables which went behind t back of the then British Government, -
and in essenceconspired. for the downfall of that Government. 'l'here- i
tore, the British part in the case is entirely illegal or ultra-officialand the crime, it any, was against the American Government only. _ S
A Kent's trial by a British Court therefore r-.-mains a complete traves--!-7 t of Justice and a thoroughly illegal action. Consul CeneraL..T_nhn' ""CA$1_"hardt, ncw Chief ct Foreign Service Personnel in the State De- .
psrtmont tlashington, was the only American observer allowed to be
present in the Kent trial. He was placed under oath not to disclose any
details or the hearing. Is he known lent since the lattsr's boyhood.
lie told llrs. Kent, after his return to this country, that Tyler did '-
no-thing reprehensible, but merely was unwise in the way he went about doing
it. Ilrs. lent saw Ambassador Kennedy after his resignation from his .
London pcst.. see urea tin it her son tee been rightly accused of seinea spy. Be replied that there was no basis wlntewer -for tlntwsuspici-on. .wclterliicvomn, CHICAGO IRISH!!! correspondent, states that tsnnedy told Ahim: am very much -ashamed or the part I played in the Kent Case -- .
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cretic Convention. Upton Cleee, redic cunentetor, gave the lent
Ceee netionwide publicity on eeverel occeeione. Ilewepepere reetured it.
llillione of Anerioene beeeee eeneitieed to the preeence in the new Deal _cloeet of e lent Oeee eleletoo renkinf in Lawhnce with the Pearl Ber-
bor ekeleton. then on September 2, 9-N, Stete Depertnent ieeued elength; deteneett lte eurnender of nun; lent to Britieh euthoritiee.rilre. Ient'e reply to Iecre lull in copy at which wee eent to every-_ _.-
the lorgtreleeee by tb Btnte Depertnent on Septenher 2 reletiwe to TylerKent le entirelz unenewered the point on which the Anerieen people de-
nend en inweetip ion 1.0. tlb existence or non-exletence of eecrete pro-Inr ngreenente -L 3 tin Preeldent er the United Stetee withoute 'tbe edviee end eoneent the denote". . ."Ver: few people heeidee hie
iq§her_gre intereltefin Tyler lent pence. Int one hundred end thirty
ndn million lmrieene ere vitelly concerned to know whether or not itin true tnet in tiep or geee, II gee: before the Lend Leeee Bill endA ether eeeeuree were put tore the eeete, they bed been planned between' the Lnerieen Preeident and the Iritieh lee: hee,d'." On September 5, 19-NOlulnneeeedor Joeezf. Kennel! ee went o bet for the law noel.§elIg0QI ngnlt-ed, _ ejor. lupin 01' 1500.ceblegr-an Ind been found
in 'r11er Ient'e room, but did not ecleaawledge the neture or the cable-grue. Iewe onthe Kennedy etetenent reached Kent in prieen end theritieh Lntheritiee Ernitted him to wire hie nether on September ll,l9N|_ '1 Kennede-e tenant !'elee." -
leigltjhepter 1n_thie tenteetie ceee occurred 5ept_enbor_26,_£_ . on tmt note the Iieehington, TI. C. T1851-HERALD headlined:_ "Britieh Free lanai, filer Ient'e Friend. tlith edoquete pree-eure true beo_k-hue eonet tuen upon Congreeeenn, the lent Cue eeem
eure to boil over no econ e_e Oongreee reconvenee. Uh; ehould en American
citizen whoee terebeere fought in eiefflmarlcnn wer be linprls enod abroadinloutright denial of hie dipltlntic righte, when even hie Perlizueentarylnend hie wen i-eleiiedi _. _
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,1 1..Late Friday afternoon, May 24, 1963, Assistant Attorney *-
General John Douglas of the Civil Division stopped by the office !;;.
and referred to the pending libel suit which has been filed by subjectagainst former Ambassador JosepE §e§nedy. Mr. Douglas stated thatfollowing the filing of this use auit in the State Court of Florida
early in April, 1963, the Civil Division reviewed this matter for the
purpose~of determining whethertthe suit should be defended by the-
Department of Justice. The Justice Department would have defended
the suit if it had arisen out of official action taken by Mr. Kennedy
in connection with his position as United States Ambassador. The
Civil Division concluded, however, that the libel suit had no
relationship to Mr. Kennedy's position as Ambassador. It would
therefore be inappropriate for the Justice Department to act as o{defense counsel. er 9
Hr; Douglas indicated that thereafter, Ambassador Kennedyarranged to have the suit defended by one of his private attorneys, 3,
William Payton Marron of New York. 3; ;
r Hr. Douglas stated that Attorney llarron is in the §_rocess;_'
jof securing the necessary evidence to defend the suit, and in»this,,
eenneetion.has learned that a former United States foreign otficert.
by the name'Gowen had testified in the original prosecution;gf JC,
;Kent in England for violation of the British Official Secrets Act,;
in 1940. Pertinent testimony on the part of this witness 15 said -
yto relate to two telegrams which Kent had in his possession. These
telegrams were between former President Roosevelt and British
Prime Minister Churchill. To support the testimony of the U. S.
foreign officer, it was desired that pertinent pages of the transcriptof the original Kent trial be utilized in currenB_p§og5d2n§s:
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Attorney Marron would have to resolve directly with the State
_...,Department._ Mr. Douglas said.he wou1d.in£orm Marron that he take1
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Re: Tyler Gatewood Kent
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to the State Department since
any testimony by one oi its former officers. Hr. Douglas stated
that since the State Department originally furnished a copy oi the
transcript oi the Kent trial to the FBI, he wanted to know whatthat he was reierring Attorney Marron I
that Department will have to authorize
interest, it any, we might have in connection with Barron's efforts
to lake use oi the transcript.
liter checking, I advised Hr. Douglas that, as the
{Department file will show, the British initially furnished the trial
transcript to the State Department with definite restrictions as to
up with the State Department not only the matter oi the testimony
of the former State Department official, but also the question as
to what, it any, use can be made of the trial transcript.
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GERMANY, in the early days of the war, knew the
exact strength of our ghting forces, their disposi-
tions, inventory of war materials, our prospective
war pr ctlon and our strategic plans-throughIYLEH:§NT, a code clerk at the United States Embassy inLondon." ""' -
Last night, for the rst time the full story oi the activitie
1fBritlsh Jai1_w revealed by
Mr. Kennedy Qaid: "In the
period after Britain had declared
war Mr. Churchill was very corn-
; plete in revealing to me, and
through me to Mr. Roosevelt,
Britain's unprcparedness.
"Mr. Churchill and other
high British omciels gave me the
whole picturc-gures on Britain's
lend. .-sea and air forces, the dis-
position of British units every
1 where, Britain's home inventory or
yw r materials. her prospective war
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to {Berlin via Kent.
As e code cleric Kent hm in-he
unbreakable code book at his
elbow and that is what did terrible
dam-Se." -
i Mr. Kennedy disclosed that
because of Kent's arrest America's
diplomatic c o m in u in c a t ions
throughout the world were
blacked out in the weeks before
the fall of France.
1 The black-out lasted from two to
six weeks. until couriers hadreached the embassies with no!codes.
1 Kent transmitted his inform
ticn vie Italy and Ivir. Kennecisaid that Italy might have bec:£Y ordered to stay out of the war 1'
14 months because of her useful-
ess to Germany as a transmission
el Ior information.
Beans Spilled
He emphasised that Italy did
not go to war until after Kent's
arrest. Scotland Yard Iouncl copies of
I 1,500 documents locked in a strong
box in Kent's roorns._
j "The beans were spilled " when
Ithe Italian Embassy telephoned
Kent's rooms while Scotland Yard
imen and United States Embassy
olcials were there.
' II America had been at war, Mr.
Kennedy added. he would have
recommended that Kent be sent
b to America to be shot.
r. Kennedy waived diplomaticH"-Jim unity with the approval of_ AA th State Department and turned ___,__,..__ -Ke t over to the British authorl- 1 _ _ ._ '*"" """"
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Great Britain, and the war is over
eno eensorsnip is ended, there is no reason why the
American people shouldn't have all the facts bouttwo tremendously important facts in our couy.First. from the standpoint of time, is the case of Pyle ent-
ihe young U. S. Suite Department career men
time in a British ieril following his wartime secret trial in London.
Kent was tossed into an Isle of Wight hoosegow after our U. S.Ambassador to London. Joseph P-.f92l:'Iennedy, had been ixructedby Roosevelt and former Secretary oi state Cq_r§_e_11.___ uli to
waive Kent's diplomatic immunity to which he wasentitied!
and have him tried in secret in order to suppress the secret
messages passed between Roosevelt and Churchill, which Kent
lied decoded as a part oi his State Department Job.
.» And second-second only because of-timing--is the story of
arl Harbor which Roosevelt and his associates furiously and
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line. importantly, one of Truman's good friends and a former
Senate colleague for whom he has the highest regard, Michigan's
Republican Ferguson, will carry the ball in the iorthcoming
smash et the Roosevelt secrecy wail.
This is the wall of secrecy, thrown up around the whole Pearl
Harbor story since the hour of the Ja.p victory--a wall of secrecy
which was strong enough to prevent the now retired Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court Roberts from getting the complete
and frank testimony from army snd navy officers in Hawaii
who wished to tell the investigator for their country what really
happened and whybut were tasted by White House and State
Department WI-ime instructions.
The case of young Kent is particularly important. even more
so than Pearl Harbor, perhaps, ii the allegations concerning
Roosevelt-Churchill secret messages turn out to be true. _
it true. Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be marked down" in
historytas s colossal liar who deliberately deceived and betrayed
his nation by telling his fellow citizens that his intemationol
policy was to keep this country out oi any European war, while
in Britain headed by warloving Churchill after ditching the
peace loving Chamberlain, all under Roosevelt promises that he
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' THE facts of the Tyler Kent ease are these: I
The young man, whose rather before him had been a .
State Department career official. was in charge of the code room
in our London Embassy back in September 1939, when Prime
Minister Chamberlain proclaimed to the Houseoi Commons that
His Majesty's government had decided to declare war on Germany
and hoped that they could persuade France to follow suit.
Then came the days of the phones war and FDR. was becoming
restless in Washington because he didn't think Chamberlain was
pressinir the attack on Germany.
In tact. there were certain telephone conversations between
Roosevelt in Washington and American Ambassadors Bullitt in
Paris and Kennedy in London in which F.D.R. bluntly observed,
"Can't you put some iron in Chamberlain's backbone?"
Then came the Roosevelt coded messages to Chamberlain's
lieutenant. one Winston S. Churchill. then a member oi the
Chamberlain government. ~
Young Kent got the secret Roosevelt-Churchill messages Bs a =
part oi his regular job. In_the_ phony war months 01 '39-'40 hefcopied them. decided to quit the State Department service and
return to Washington and place them before-the Senate and House
Committees on Foreign Affairs.
Then came the overturn of the British cabinet. the harassed .
and liling Chamberlain was tossed out. Churchill became Prime |
Minister. Kent was grabbed by British security police from Scab lllnd Yard. ii
Roosevelt and Hull told Kennedy that they didn't want Kent
tried in this country where his defense might create ciisunity"
and that it was O.K. by us to have American Citizen Kent of a
neutral America. tried under the secrecy of wartime star chamber
sessions with the public barred. all evidence impounded and testi-
mony or witnesses suppressed.
L UPSHOT of it all was that State Department Employe Tyler
M8? 1940.Kent received a seven years sentence from the British court in
' According to former Ambassador Kennedy, Kent had copied
. some 1.500 code messages exchanged between Roosevelt and thei then ambitious Churchill, who in 1939 was eagerly awaiting the- day to ditch Chaiberlaill and get the Prime Minister's job.
Latest cables from Britain say that Kent will be released from
his Isle oi Wight confinement October 1 and be deported. to the
. United States. . "
_American counsel for Kent started a move to halt the de-
* N partition proceeding--on the astounding grounds that the State
'_t Department would seek to re-an-est him on similar charles in order
. l to Prevent him from making public his knowledge of the Boose :
ll volt-Churchill messages, I
l This legal move has now been dropped. Meanwhile. British
authorities have reported that because oi the shipping situation
due to return oi U. S. service personnel it may be impossible to
deport Kent to his homeland "ion months."
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B! NEAL PATTERSON
and DAVID CHARNAY
NEW YORK, Dec. 5 NY News!.
Tyler Kent, former code elerk in
the Amerie"-n Embassy at London
who overnight became the central
ligure in the greatest Anglo-
Arnerican espionage mystery of
World War II, came home from
ve years in a British tail yester-
day to hurl charges of falsehood at
- i5 erstwhile chief, former Ambas-
sador Joseph P. Kennedy.
Kent. whose friends have.hl1gEd. he was railroacled toprison to forestall his exposureof alleged secret pledges ex-changed between President Roose-velt and Winston Churchill. be-fore America was drawn into thevar-also virtually assured him-self of an early seat before amnsresslonal investigating com-mittee.
Willing to Testify
On a Hoboken pier, soon afterweoarkinz from the British
Irelilhter Silver Oak, Kent de-iared he could give information
o the committee now sifting thePearl Harbor disaster, Not as to'ne Pearl Harbor phase. but as
cards Americais entry intowar."
He said he was willing to testifyIfore at committee or any-= ier oper authority, but that.e di 't know a Republican re-uest already had been made to
e earl Harbog__Co1n_in_ittee toAll him. "'" "
To more than 40 newspaper-men 5.e 34-year-old excareer diplomatomitted that embassy papersad been found in his Londoniartrnent, but avoided commentI] former Ambassador Kennedy's
'aiement that they totaled 1.500.;"There were some documents int
v apartment," was how Kent}at it. "I don't wish to revealieir contents at this time. Thelf
ere related to embassy matters." .
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"Is it true, reporters asked,not the information you wereikin: home went to the theneutrai Italian Embassy and by-ciomatic pouch to Rome andn to Berlin?"
"That's pure invention by Mr.'ennedy. I dont. know whetherrn-' information reached Rome or.~riin." ' ' _
Q.Is it true there was a phone.i1 from the Italian Embassy towur apartment while Scotlandard eearchine it!
. Kennedy.Q.--»What about the charge that
o of your decoded messagesllrh were left by Anna Wolkoff,White Russian, were found in
nearby photoaraphie studioir-re they allegedly had been re-.t-ed to microfilm by a German
-rged by the British. It was a-e invention of Mr. Kennedy.
rrlci Questions '
Kent said he had known Miss.il-cnff, operator of an exclusiveiI1;|l'l dress shop and the daugh-' of a former Czarist admiral.
.* about six months before their
"est. He harried questions as to.< friendship with the girl, whois convicted with him of violat-. the Official Secrets Act.
.92-iiss Wolkoff is still serving ayear term. i
Asked ii he himself was guilty
violating that statute, Kentied:
I wanted to inform the Senate.vousidered that the documentsntalned information the Senate
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'I_v]er Kent, i'o1-mer clerk in the U. S. Embassy in London, who spent five '3-cars in :1
British jail for the alleged theft of secret correspondence, is greater] by his l'l1OlllCl' in
Hoboken, J. He arriverl on the British freighter Silver Oak 3-cstcrdm-'. Kent said
he took the documents for the purpose of relaying the iniorination to the S. Senate.
tehliy announced that no charges".are pending against him here. r
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