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J. P. GETTY; FBI FILE 100.1202, JUNE 26, 1940; ESPIONAGE: 43,000 people were killed in the UK while Getty was in Berlin still shipping oil to Hitler five months before Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941. 2003 Documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that in Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces' war production plants. Jean Paul Getty's mother; Catherine Risher was a German. It was the job of the FBI in peace and in war to root out internal enemies of the USA. After Pearl Harbor - J. Edgar Hoover personally issued approval for the custodial detention of J.P. Getty - as an enemy of the USA. Dec. 20, 1940 the New York Daily News wrote about Getty's involvement with espionage at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.