862.20210/2060: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
Río de
Janeiro, November 20, 1942—3
p.m.
[Received 7:32 p.m.]
[Received 7:32 p.m.]
4872. My despatch 8826 of October 22, 1942.91 Tribunal de Segurança Nacional has imposed the following prison sentences on members of the Schlegel espionage ring: Theodore Friedrich Schlegel 14 years; Gustav Eduard Utzinger, Erwin Backhaus, Nicolau von Bellingshausen, Karl Thielen and Rolf Trautmann, 8 years each.
Caffery
- Not printed.↩