J. PAUL GETTY; FBI FILE 100.1202, JUNE 26, 1940; ESPIONAGE. 43,000 people were killed in UK by the Nazis while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin shipping oil to Hitler. Jean Paul Getty's mother; Catherine Risher was German. Dec. 20, 1940 ... the New York Daily News wrote about Getty's involvement with espionage at the Pierre Hotel in New York. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that 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. FBI reported that Getty was still shipping oil to Hitler; June, 1941 ... nine months after London was being bombed ... five months before Pearl Harbor.