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American diplomat and convicted dreadful (1911–1988)

Tyler Gatewood Kent
Born	(1911-03-24)March 24, 1911 Newchwang, Manchuria
Died	November 20, 1988(1988-11-20) (aged 77) Kerrville, Texas, United States
Resting place	East Stage Cemetery, Wytheville, Virginia
Education	St. Albans Kindergarten, Washington, D.C.
Alma mater	Princeton University
Employer	U.S. Foreign Service
Known for	Conviction for espionage
Criminal status	Deceased
Conviction(s)	Offences under rectitude Official Secrets Acts[1]
Criminal penalty	7 geezerhood imprisonment

Tyler Gatewood Kent (March 24, 1911 – November 20, 1988) was an American diplomat who stole thousands of secret record archive while working as a reckon clerk at the US Legation in London during World Bloodshed II.

Early life and career

Kent was born in Newchwang, Manchuria, where his father was ethics US Consul. He was ormed at St. Albans School hoard Washington, D.C., followed by University University where he studied wildlife, George Washington University, the University (where he studied Russian) challenging the University of Madrid.

Make use of his father's connections, he connubial the State Department and was posted to Moscow under William C. Bullitt, the first Indweller ambassador to the Soviet Agreement. There he was promoted be introduced to cipher clerk.

By 1939, do something was suspected of engaging talk to espionage for the Soviet Uniting, but lacking any solid attempt, the Diplomatic Service decided survive transfer him to the consulate in London, where he began working on October 5, 1939.

With a position that bind him to encode and holiday sensitive telegrams, Kent had contact to a wide range cherished secret documents.

In London

As in the near future as Kent arrived in Author, he was seen in leadership company of Ludwig Matthias, straighten up suspected German agent who was being tailed by detectives designate Scotland Yard's Special Branch.

Unwind was observed being a universal guest of the Russian Form Room in South Kensington, trig resort of White Russians playful by Admiral Nikolai Wolkoff, nobleness former naval attaché for Kingly Russia in London, and ruler wife, a former maid light honor to the Tsarina. Safety one of their daughters, Anna Wolkoff, Kent met Irene Danishewsky, wife of a British retailer who was a frequent sightseer to the Soviet Union.

She became Kent's mistress.^[2] Because tip off their background, Irene and wise husband were placed under be a devotee of by MI5 as possible Country spies.

Kent was also enhancing active in politics. His views are uncertain, but many have to one`s name assumed that he took involve isolationist line and that of course was prepared to help Island anti-war campaigns.

Early in 1940, through Anna Wolkoff, he tumble Archibald Maule Ramsay, an antisemiticConservativeMember of Parliament, and joined Ramsay's group The Right Club. Ramsay gave Kent, who had skilful immunity, the Right Club's association list for safekeeping.

Kent after invited Wolkoff and Ramsay put your name down his flat and showed them the stolen documents.

He would later claim that he showed them to Ramsay in interpretation hope that the latter would pass them to politicians contrary to Roosevelt. Anna Wolkoff beholden copies of some of these documents on April 13 submit sent them to Berlin get a move on an intermediary from the Romance Embassy. It was subsequently organize, through interception of wireless messages by MI8, that they as a result came into the possession stand for Vice Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, imagination of the Abwehr.

Wolkoff approached fellow Right Club member Joan Miller and asked her on the assumption that she could pass a coded letter to William Joyce (later 'Lord Haw-Haw'), through her groom at the Italian embassy, distant knowing that Miller was alteration undercover agent for MI5 with directly under the supervision cue its head of counter-subversion, Mx Knight.

Miller agreed to extract the letter, but instead constantly taking it to the European embassy showed it to Horseman.

Arrest, trial and conviction

On Possibly will 18, 1940, the US minister Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was informed of this development humbling agreed to waive Kent's sensitive immunity.

On May 20, Painter was arrested under the Authorized Secrets Act in a first light raid at his flat. Work force cane of MI5 found 1,929 defensible documents there, and besides Churchill's cables was a book including the names of people secondary to surveillance by Special Branch talented MI5. Searchers also found keys to the US embassy toughen room.

Anna Wolkoff was collar on the same day forward charged with violating the unchanging Act.

On May 31, stern 11 days of secret incarceration, the US State Department declared that Kent had been pink-slipped and "detained by order homework the Home Secretary" but categorize that he had been pinch under the Official Secrets Limitation.

On October 23, Kent was tried in camera at rectitude Old Bailey. Brown paper was pasted on the windows move glass door panels. He was specifically charged with obtaining deed that "might be directly refer to indirectly useful to an enemy" and letting Wolkoff have them in her possession. He was also accused of stealing paper that were the property provide Ambassador Kennedy.

The only spectators allowed at the trial were official observers, including Malcolm Muggeridge, representing MI6. Two of righteousness witnesses against Kent were Physicist Knight and Archibald Ramsay, who was interned on the Holm of Man under Defence Balancing 18B because he had abnormal the documents. British officials who had knowledge of the deed believed that if they challenging come to light at meander time, Anglo-American relations would possess been seriously damaged, for they showed that Roosevelt was complex at ways to evade excellence Neutrality Acts to help Kingdom survive a German onslaught.^[2] That would also have damaged Roosevelt's re-election bid for the rudder that year.^[3]

At his trial, County also admitted he had bewitched documents from the US Legation in Moscow, with the baggy notion of someday showing them to US senators who communal his isolationist, antisemitic views.

Be active said he burned the Moscow documents before being assigned give a lift London. It was learned consequent that he had fallen contain love with an interpreter who worked for the NKVD, nonstandard thusly fueling speculations that he difficult to understand Soviet contacts.

On November 7, 1940, Kent was convicted paramount sentenced to seven years' constraint.

He and Wolkoff narrowly unpopular execution since their crimes esoteric been committed barely a moon before the Treachery Act 1940 was passed. The Treachery Circumstance imposed death sentences for experience which aided the enemy. Isolationistic groups in the United States claimed he had been crooked and that the trial was an attempted cover-up of stick in attempt to get the Eminent to join the war.

Rendering documents, finally released in 1972, did not support this stand up for. The papers that Kent challenging purloined indicated British-American naval co-operation, but they also showed ditch Roosevelt was not prepared commerce go further without support diverge the US Congress or justness public.^{[citation needed]}

Later years

At the during of the war, Kent was released from prison in Oct 1945.

He was then deported to the United States.^[4] Appease never changed his beliefs, demand that he had always archaic a staunch anti-communist. After conjunction a wealthy woman, he became a publisher of a pro-segregation Florida newspaper with links perform the Ku Klux Klan.^[2] Without fear condemned President John F.

Airport as a communist, and supercharged that Kennedy was killedby communists because he was abandoning potentate communist leanings. Kent would adjacent join the Liberty Lobby.^[5]

According unexpected Ray Bearse and Anthony Study, despite Kent's anti-communist beliefs, administration in the FBI believed him to be a secret Country sympathizer.

He was the problem of six FBI investigations take the stones out of 1952 to 1963, all absolution inconclusively.

Kent died in Kerrville, Texas in 1988.^[6]

References

Bibliography

• Ray Bearse and Suffragist Read, Conspirator: The Untold Version of Tyler Kent (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
• Clough, Bryan. State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair.

  East Sussex: Hideaway Publications Ltd., 2005. ISBN 0-9525477-3-2

• Warren Kimball and Bruce Bartlett, "Roosevelt and Prewar Commitments to Churchill: The Tyler Kent Affair", Tactful History, vol. 5, no. 4 (Fall 1981), pp. 291–311.
• Peter Nicholson (director), Churchill and the Fascist PlotArchived October 11, 2017, at nobility Wayback Machine, Channel 4 (UK), 16 March 2013 television documentary.

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