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Author: FDR knew attack was coming

9:23 a.m.
12/6/2001
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/120601/pea_fdrknew.shtml
By Steve Fry
The Capital-Journal

Within days of the devastating Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, two American newspapers called for an investigation focusing on Washington, D.C., and high levels of the War Department and Navy Department.
On Dec. 18, 1941, the Chicago Tribune sought an independent inquiry that "can investigate in Washington," according to Robert B. Stinnett, author of the book, "Day of Deceit: The Truth about F.D.R. and Pearl Harbor."

The other newspaper was The Topeka Daily Capital.


A day after the Tribune demand for an inquiry and 12 days after the attack, The Daily Capital editorialized that the American people wanted a complete investigation without making scapegoats or whitewashing anyone "whose negligence or incompetency contributed to the loss of American lives, ships and planes. If the lack of alertness extended to the 'higher-ups' in War and Navy departments, let the heads fall where found."

A five-member board of inquiry headed by U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts had just been appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Daily Capital's call to probe the "higher-ups" came just three days after the newspaper ran banner headlines on page 1 that named the battleship USS Arizona and five other ships as having been lost in the attack nine days earlier. Headlines said 91 officers and 2,635 enlisted men had been killed.

A nearby story said Topeka families of four Navy men were "very worried" because the sailors had been aboard the Arizona and a second damaged battleship and their families hadn't been notified that they were safe. Yet another story said a nurse from North Topeka was safe at a hospital in Manila in the Philippine Islands.

Stinnett unequivocally contends that Roosevelt knew the Pearl Harbor attack was coming and had approved an eight-step plan to provoke the Japanese into attacking the United States.

The attack unleashed popular support by Americans to enter World War II, which started in Europe in September 1939. Before the Pearl Harbor attack, most Americans -- including aviator Charles Lindbergh, auto industrialist Henry Ford and newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst -- opposed fighting in the war, Stinnett writes.

Roosevelt wanted America to enter the war on the side of England, which by October 1940 stood alone against Germany, which was threatening England.

The author of the eight-part plan was Lt. Arthur McCollum, head of the Far East desk for U.S. Navy intelligence in Washington, D.C. McCollum, who thought war with Japan was inevitable, wrote a memo outlining the eight-step plan on Oct. 7, 1940, and "with F.D.R.'s involvement," McCollum's proposals took effect the next day, Stinnett wrote.

McCollum's solution to American opposition to involvement in the European war was to provoke the Japanese, Stinnett writes, and the sixth step in the plan was to keep the American fleet in Pearl Harbor.

Stinnett says the truth about Pearl Harbor was buried for 54 years.

Intercepted and decoded Japanese military and diplomatic radio traffic before the Pearl Harbor attack was locked in U.S. Navy vaults, and intercepted messages were stamped "Top Secret" in August 1945 to keep the public from seeing them, Stinnett writes. American service personnel who handled the Japanese radio traffic were threatened with losing their military retirement and benefits if they went public with what they knew, Stinnett writes.

Stinnett credits most of his book with documents he received after he filed a series of requests through the federal Freedom of Information Act. Copies of some of the declassified documents -- including McCollum's five-page memo, pages detailing what National Archives sites or other research libraries were used and copies of intelligence reports -- compose almost one-third of "Day of Deceit."

Stinnett, a veteran of the Pacific war, felt "outrage" that secrets had been hidden from Americans for 50 years, but he understood the "agonizing dilemma" faced by Roosevelt.

Roosevelt "was forced to find circuitous means to persuade an isolationist America to join in a fight for freedom. He knew this would cost lives. How many, he could not have known," Stinnett writes in "Day of Deceit."


The Pearl Harbor attack was something to be "endured," from Roosevelt's perspective, in order to stop a "greater evil," the Nazi Germany that had started the Holocaust and was planning to invade England, Stinnett writes.

As for the Roberts board of inquiry, in January 1942, the board blamed U.S. Navy Adm. Husband Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet, and Lt. Gen. Walter Short, commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department. It didn't fully examine or publicly discuss the interception of Japanese radio traffic due, in part, to the need for military secrecy, Stinnett said.

Steve Fry can be reached at [phone] or [e-mail].


Historical News and Comment
Pearl Harbor Attack No Surprise
Roger A. Stolley
Historians are still arguing over whether President Franklin Roosevelt knew in advance that Japanese forces were about to launch a devastating attack against the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

Mr. Roger A. Stolley, a resident of Salem, Oregon, has something important to add to this discussion. In the following essay, which first appeared in the Salem daily Statesman Journal, December 7, 1991, he provides personal information to confirm that Roosevelt not only anticipated the Japanese attack, but specifically ordered that no steps be taken to prevent it. (Mr. Stolley's essay is reprinted here with grateful permission of the author.)

John Toland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who addressed the October 1990 IHR conference in Washington, DC, tells us that Stolley's essay "rings true."


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Each year near the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, I get angry at the lie perpetrated upon the U.S. people that it was a surprise attack.

It may have been a surprise to the U.S. people, but it certainly was not a surprise to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the select few persons who surrounded him or the U.S. Army intelligence officer working under his direct orders.

I previously worked in a civilian capacity for LTC Clifford M. Andrew, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, who temporarily was assistant chief of Staff, military intelligence, general staff, United States Army.

My employment ended with Andrew on May 15, 1966 when a bullet entered the back of his head, ending his life.

Upon at least three occasions in his home in Tigard [Oregon] he related to me the history of his military life and personal involvement in the actions of Roosevelt and other officials surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack. He said:

Anything I now tell you I will deny ever saying. I am still subject to military court martial for revealing the information. The American public is completely ignorant of those affairs that occur behind the scenes in top American government positions and offices. If you try to tell them the truth, they won't believe you.

Five men were directly responsible for what happened at Pearl Harbor. I am one of those five men ... We knew well in advance that the Japanese were going to attack. At least nine months before the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor, I was assigned to prepare for it.

I was operating under the direct orders of the President of the United States and was ordered not to give vital intelligence information relating to the whereabouts of the Japanese fleet to our commanders in the field.

We had broken the Japanese code ... We'd been monitoring all their communications for months prior to the attack ... It was a lie that we didn't have direct radio communications with Washington, D.C.

It was at least 48 hours before the attack that I personally received the most tragic message of my life ... which was Top Secret and coded, which my radio operator handed to me. I had the code book and decoded it. The basic text of the message ran: "The Japanese will attack at (the approximate time). Do not prepare retaliatory forces. We need the full support of the American nation in a wartime effort by an unprovoked attack upon the nation in order to obtain a declaration of war."

That message and my 40 file cabinets of top secret information on Pearl Harbor were taken out and burned by myself and two other witnessing intelligence officers so that the Congressional investigation could not get to the truth as to what actually did happen at Pearl Harbor.

For the people of the United States both then and now I feel sorrow, for a people to have been so misled, to have been lied to so much, and to have so thoroughly believed the lie given to them.

Pearl Harbor is an example of how a small group of men in control of government has the power to destroy the life, property, and freedom of its citizens. How can this nation, or any nation, survive when its electorate is uninformed, that government hides the truth, labels it top secret, and destroys it.

The most complete and up-to-date summation of the Revisionist view that Roosevelt anticipated the attack against the American fleet in Hawaii is Toland's best-selling book, Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath. (The 398-page illustrated paperback edition is available from the IHR for $8, plus $2 shipping.)

The best overview of the background to the fateful attack remains George Morgenstern's masterful 425-page work, Pearl Harbor:The Story of the Secret War. (Available in softcover edition from the IHR for $14.95, plus $2 shipping.)

For further confirmation of Roosevelt's deceitful and illegal campaign to bring a supposedly neutral United States into war against Japan and Germany, see "Roosevelt's Secret Pre-War Plan to Bomb Japan" in the Winter 1991-92 IHR Journal, and "President Roosevelt's Campaign to Incite War in Europe," in the Summer 1983 Journal.


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Source: Reprinted from The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 119-121.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p119_Stolley.html