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Kent's abstraction of documents had been noticed and on May 20 he was arrested in a dawn raid at his flat (1,500 documents were found there). Ambassador [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.]] agreed to waive [[diplomatic immunity]] and Kent was tried ''in camera'' under the [[Official Secrets Act]] 1911. On November 7, 1940 he was convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. The trial and imprisonment of Kent, and the co-operation of the US authorities, led [[isolationist]] groups in the USA to claim that he had been framed and that the trial was an attempted [[cover-up]] of an attempt to get the USA to join the war.
Kent's abstraction of documents had been noticed and on May 20 he was arrested in a dawn raid at his flat (1,500 documents were found there). Ambassador [[Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.]] agreed to waive [[diplomatic immunity]] and Kent was tried ''in camera'' under the [[Official Secrets Act]] 1911. On November 7, 1940 he was convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. The trial and imprisonment of Kent, and the co-operation of the US authorities, led [[isolationist]] groups in the USA to claim that he had been framed and that the trial was an attempted [[cover-up]] of an attempt to get the USA to join the war.
At the end of the war Kent was released and deported to the USA. He there insisted that he had always been a staunch anti-communist, but was nevertheless interrogated by the [[FBI]] in 1951, where he told no more than had been disclosed at his trial. The FBI investigation has been criticised as naive. Afterwards, Kent was associated with far-right newspapers linked to the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and expressing anti-Jewish opinions. He died in [[Texas]] in 1988.
At the end of the war Kent was released and deported to the USA. He there insisted that he had always been a staunch anti-communist, but was nevertheless interrogated by the [[FBI]] in 1951, where he told no more than had been disclosed at his trial. The FBI investigation has been criticised as naive. Afterwards, Kent was associated with far-right newspapers linked to the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and expressing anti-Jewish opinions.<ref>[https://youtu.be/mdNb7lqXNDs?t=364 Roosevelt’s Partnership with Stalin], Tales of the American Empire, June 18, 2026. [[YouTube]],</ref> He died in [[Texas]] in 1988.
==References==
==References==
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*Ray Bearse and Anthony Read, ''Conspirator: The Untold Story of Tyler Kent'' (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
*Ray Bearse and Anthony Read, ''Conspirator: The Untold Story of Tyler Kent'' (New York: Doubleday, 1991).