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UNITED STATES GOVE. Memorans..... TO Mr. DeLoach. DATE: 8-2-62 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED . IFIED : I FROM HEREN IS uWJ. SUBJECT: MRS. FRIEDEL KUEEN, aka.( MRS. BERNARD JULIUS OTTO KUEN BACKGROUND: The Honolulu Office, by letter of 7-25-62, has forwarded a newspaper clipping from the Honolulu "Star-Bulletin" of 7-24-62, which reveals that Mrs. Kueh the widow of Nazi spy Otto Kuehn, is suing the United States Government for $27,000 as "compensation for selzure and auctioning of their Hawaii property in 1945." It wa. indicated that she had'engaged a Washington, D. C., attorney. The newspaper story. about Mrs. Kuehn, who is now residing in Germany, characterizes her as a "broken. persecuted by the FBI and her husband was convicted of a crime he never committed. 1 She made other false accusatlons about the FBI with respect tohe manner in which he family and Her /were treated after their arrest subsequent to the bombing of Pearl Harbor on'127-41. After setting forth Mrs. Kuehn's remarks, the Honolulu "Star- Bulletin" newspaper then set forth the more accurate account of the story of Otto Kuehn and his family based upon its newspaper files. It described Otto Kuehn's ALL espionage activities prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the fact that he had. b6 confessed to the FBI some of his relationships with Japanese Government officials. b/c INFORMATION IN BUFILES: Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn and his wife Friedel were apprehended by. dangerous enemy aliens. The Bureau developed evidence of a sufficient nature to. bring charges of espionage against Qtto Kuehn. Inasmuch as Hawaii was under ygrtia!. law at that time, Kuehn was tried by military commission..[He was found guilty/and was sentenced to be executed; however, the sentence was subsequently commuj to 50 years imprisonment at hard labor.'Kuehn was transferred to Fort Leaeyworth, Kansas, on 11-20-42 McT-13 bs-/57y 3N 1 - Mr. DeLoach I - Mr. Sullivay. IE AUG 8 19S2 3 AUG 13 1982