LONDON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Texas oil billionaire J. Paul Getty helped provide support to Hitler's Germany, newly released intelligence documents say.
The file links Getty to a shadowy network of financiers who supplied the Nazis with fuel in defiance of a British blockade and accuses him of gathering spies and traitors around him at his fashionable Hotel Pierre in New York, the London Telegraph said Monday.
The "Suspect Persons" file prepared by the Foreign Office for the Ministry of Economic Warfare was just declassified at the National Archives in London. It appears to be the work of the British Security Co-ordination team in New York, run by William Stephenson, Churchill's secret envoy to President Roosevelt, code-named Intrepid.
"Getty, controller of Mission Oil Corp., which holds German patents licensed by I.G. Farben and Standard Oil of New Jersey subsidiaries, returned from Europe in November 1939 talking breezily about his 'old friend' Hitler," the documents said.
