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Title: Declassified Memo Hinted of 1941 Hawaii Attack
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URL Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/wa ... -hinted-of-1941-hawaii-attack-
Published: Nov 30, 2011
Author: Paul Bedard
Post Date: 2011-11-30 07:08:35 by A K A Stone
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Views: 3092
Comments: 5
Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo's military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR's failure to act on a basket load of tips that war was near. In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR's declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4 warned, "In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii." The memo, published in the new book December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World went on to say that the Japanese were collecting "detailed technical information" that would be specifically used by its navy. To collect and analyze information, they were building a network of spies through their U.S. embassies and consulates. Historian and acclaimed Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, author of the just released December 1941, doesn't blame FDR for blowing it, but instead tells Whispers that it "does suggest that there were more pieces to the puzzle" that the administration missed. The 70th anniversary of the attack is next month. In fact, he compares the missed signals leading up to Japan's attack to 9/11, which government investigations also show that the Clinton and Bush administrations missed clear signals that an attack was coming. [ Read: Mengele Nazi Diaries Could Fetch $1 million.] "So many mistakes through so many levels of Washington," said Shirley. "Some things never change." His book also reveals another blockbuster historical moment: On the night of the Pearl Harbor attack, FDR and his war cabinet considered declaring war on all three Axis Powers—Japan, Germany, Italy—but in the end the president only targeted Japan. At the time, the U.S. was still healing from World War I and isolationism was the word of the day. Shirley, aided by son Andrew as his chief researcher, takes a new tack in his book about Pearl Harbor. Instead of just writing how it all went down, his book attempts to give readers a feel for how the country felt 70 years ago. He accomplishes that by providing anecdotal information from nearly 2,000 newspapers and magazines. [Read: Hitler's Treaty Signing Desk Set To be Auctioned.] "The goal here," Shirley writes in the preface, "is to make the reader feel as if they are experiencing the day to day events as they unfolded. Some historians don't like to go into the arduous tasks of going through thousands of newspapers preferring instead to rely on those bits and pieces of news reporting they may glean from other books. I did, and consequently the reader will find stories and information from the month of December 1941 they have never heard before." One example: the Red Ryder BB gun was introduced in December 1941.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Limited Hangout. FDR initiated the Only thing that would get us out of the Depression. Paulson Gave Hedge Fund Managers Inside Information November 30th, 2011 # # FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO WAR AND DICTATORSHIP ... whatreallyhappened.com/WR.../ARTICLE5/index.phpCached - Similar You +1'd this publicly. Undo On the night of February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, lying in Havana harbor in a ... The much repeated claim that the Japanese fleet maintained radio silence on .. # Battle of Midway - WORLD WAR II - Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet ... www.uss-hornet.org/history/wwii/midway.shtmlCached You +1'd this publicly. Undo Unfortunately for Yamamoto, the U.S. Navy had broken a key Japanese naval code ... strict radio silence while awaiting the approaching Japanese strike force. ...
That's because all of his policies were bullschitt, and he knew it!!!!
"CHANGE" you can step in..... The thing about failed history is that you're going to repeat it until you get it right. See Today for details. Except now we can only do collapsing 'civil wars.' Russia and China are combat ready as I type.
But his history we don't need to repeat, especially economically!!!!
"CHANGE" you can step in..... But his history we don't need to repeat, especially economically!!!! You repeat history until you get it right. Yes, it's gonna hurt, but that's the only way humans learn, evidently...;}
#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
FDR initiated the "ONLY" thing that would get us out of the Depression.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!! Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!!
#3. To: CZ82 (#2)
That's because all of his policies were bullschitt, and he knew it!!!!
#4. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
The thing about failed history is that you're going to repeat it until you get it right.
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!! Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!!
#5. To: CZ82 (#4)
The thing about failed history is that you're going to repeat it until you get it right.
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