[Stamp] Foreign Office Pol. I M 2181 Secret Reich Matter Received: 11 July 1941
Received by Secret teleprinter
TELEPRINTER OFFICE .
of
THE FOREIGN OFFICE Secret Reich Matter
Telegram: Special Train Westphalia No. 711. 11 July 1941. 1245 hours.
Through Office of Reich Foreign Minister to Legation Councillor Kramarz. No. 637.
Reference Teletype No. 2110 of 5.7. from Washington, Herr Reich Foreign Minister requests you-submit immediately a written report regarding who amongst those in New York arrested on suspicion of espionage worked with the Abwehr and who with the SD. Paragraph. Herr Reich Foreign Minister requests for your investigations that you contact the Abwehr and compose your report in collaboration with Minister Luther.
— Sonnleithner —
Received: 11.7. 13.31 hours.
Pol I M
Secret Reich Matter 2 North America, /s/ Not mimeographed.
H. Kram.
Telegram to the Foreign Office, with Ribbentrop's request for a report on persons arrested in New York for espionage, to identify who worked with the Abweehr (military intelligence) and who worked with the SD
Authors
Franz Sonnleithner, von (diplomat, office of the Foreign Minister (1940-41))
Franz von Sonnleithner
German diplomat (1905-1981)
- Born: 1905-06-01 (Salzburg)
- Died: 1981-04-18 (Ingelheim am Rhein)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; jurist
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/50024416
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000029132577
Date: 11 July 1941
Defendant: Joachim Ribbentrop, von
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-4053
HLSL Item No.: 451676
Document Summary
PS-4053: Cable re. the arrest of German agents in the U.S. Sent by a member of Ribbentrop's office
PS-4053: Telegram ordered by Ribbentrop, 11 July 1941, while on a journey: the foreign office is requested to send him an immediate report showing which of the persons arrested in new York on suspicion of espionage worked for German counter-intelligence (abwehr) and which for the Sd