KOHLER AND ESPIONAGE ON THE ISLAND OF TENERIFE - REJOINDER

A Whisper of Espionage: Wolfgang Kohler and the Apes of Tenerife (Ley, 1990) tells the story of the author's quest for information pertainin g to a first-hand report that espionage on behalf of Germany was condu cted in the Canary Islands during the years of World War I and indicat es that Wolfgang Kohler, while director of the German Primate Research Station on the island of Tenerife, collaborated with Ernst Groth, Ger man Consul to Tenerife and chief of the Tenerife spy ring, in building a radio transmitter to communicate military intelligence to Germany. Teuber (1994) claimed that the book was based on rumor. The present pa per (a) answers this charge by providing some primary and secondary so urces of information that constitute the evidential foundation for the interpretation presented in A Whisper of Espionage and (b) corrects e rrors contained in Teuber's article.