 The family lived the good life on Japanese pay, but Bernard Kuehn soon came to the attention of the FBI as a possible suspect because of his Nazi connections and lack of any source of income.After the Attack on Pearl Harbor, he was arrested and on February 21, 1942, he was sentenced by a military commission to be shot "by musketry" as a spy.After volunteering valuable information about the Japanese and German spy networks, his sentence was commuted to 50 years hard labor, but after the war he was deported to Germany.