Monday, December 8, 2008
Pearl Harbor
A quotation from Nicholson Baker's 2008 book, "Human Smoke": "Henry Stmson [Roosevelt's Republican Secretary of War and reputedly a member of Skull and Bones] was writing in his diary. He, Knox, Stark, Hull, and Marshall had been in the Oval Office with the president, batting around a problem that Roosevelt had brought up. The Japanese were likely to attack soon, perhaps next Monday, the president said. 'The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves,' Stimson wrote. 'It was a difficult proposition.' I was November 25, 1941."
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An Interview with Robert B. Stinnett by Douglas Cirignano
On November 25, 1941 Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto sent a radio message to the group of Japanese warships that would attack Pearl Harbor on December 7. Newly released naval records prove that from November 17 to 25 the United States Navy intercepted eighty-three messages that Yamamoto sent to his carriers. Part of the November 25 message read: “...the task force, keeping its movements strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and deal it a mortal blow...”
Now, though, according to Robert Stinnett, author of Simon & Schuster’s Day Of Deceit, we have the proof. Stinnett’s book is dedicated to Congressman John Moss, the author of America’s Freedom of Information Act. According to Stinnett, the answers to the mysteries of Pearl Harbor can be found in the extraordinary number of documents he was able to attain through Freedom of Information Act requests. Cable after cable of decryptions, scores of military messages that America was intercepting, clearly showed that Japanese ships were preparing for war and heading straight for Hawaii. Stinnett, an author, journalist, and World War II veteran, spent sixteen years delving into the National Archives. He poured over more than 200,000 documents, and conducted dozens of interviews. This meticulous research led Stinnet to a firmly held conclusion: FDR knew.
Link to Full article.
www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=408
MetaTron: I read the Stinnett book some years back. It did indeed seem to have documentary evidence I hadn't seen in other Pearl Harbor books, such as the Oct. 1940memorandum by McCollum in Naval Intelligence laying out eight steps (that FDR eventually took) that would provoke Japan into committing an overt act of war.
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