Free Treacherous Women - Sex, temptation and betrayal (True Crime) by Gordon Kerr

who were now living in Chicago. She did not give up pleading her innocence of any crime, however, even though she was still under threat of deportation. She tried to obtain a Presidential pardon, appealing in 1954 and 1968. Slowly, the media began to come round and support her, describing the injustices she had suffered. Some campaigners argued that she should not only be pardoned, but should in fact be honoured for her bravery in helping the Allied cause from behind enemy lines.
    On 19 January 1977, in his last hour as President of the United States, Gerald Ford finally signed the grant of executive clemency that cleared her of any guilt.
    In Chicago, Iva worked in the family shop until she was in her eighties. Her husband, Felipe D’Aquino had become an undesirable alien when he had testified for her at her trial in 1949 and, as such, was barred from entering the United States. She, for her part was not sure that she would be allowed back into the country if she travelled to Japan to visit him. Under such circumstances, although she still loved him, the marriage was dissolved in 1980.
    Iva Toguri D’Aquino, Tokyo Rose, the only American to be pardoned for the crime of treason, died, aged ninety, in December 2006.

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