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New book. Inside cover blurb. Gavin.
DAY OF DECEIT
THE TRUTH ABOUT FDR AND PEARL HARBOR
by Robert Stinnett
Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American intelligence, or
a brilliant Japanese military coup. It was the result of a carefully
orchestrated design, initiated at the highest levels of our government.
According to a key memorandum eight steps were taken to make sure we would
enter the war by this means. Pearl Harbor was the only way, leading officials
felt, to galvanize the reluctant American public into action.
This great question of Pearl Harbor--what did we know and when did we know
it?--has been argued for years. At first, a panel created by FDR concluded
that we had no advance warning and should blame only the local commanders for
lack of preparedness. More recently, historians such as John Toland and
Edward Beach have concluded that some intelligence was intercepted. Finally,
just months ago, the Senate voted to exonerate Hawaii commanders Admiral
Kimmel and Lieutenant General Short, after the Pentagon officially declared
that blame should be "broadly shared." But no investigator has ever been able
to prove that fore-knowledge of the attack existed at the highest levels.
Until now. After decades of Freedom of Information Act requests, Robert B.
Stinnett has gathered the long-hidden evidence that shatters every shibboleth
of Pearl Harbor. It shows that not only was the attack expected, it was
deliberately provoked through an eight-step program devised by the Navy.
Whereas previous investigators have claimed that our government did not crack
Japan's military codes before December 7, 1941, Stinnett offers cable after
cable of decryptions. He proves that a Japanese spy on the island transmitted
information--including a map of bombing targets--beginning on August 21, and
that government intelligence knew all about it. He reveals that Admiral
Kimmel was prevented from conducting a routine training exercise at the
eleventh hour that would have uncovered the location of the oncoming Japanese
fleet. And contrary to previous claims, he shows that the Japanese fleet did
not maintain radio silence as it approached Hawaii. Its many coded cables
were intercepted and decoded by American cryptographers in Stations on Hawaii
and in Seattle.
The evidence is overwhelming. At the highest levels--on FDR's desk--America
had ample warning of the pending attack. At those same levels, it was
understood that the isolationist American public would not support a
declaration of war unless we were attacked first. The result was a plan to
anger Japan, to keep the loyal officers responsible for Pearl Harbor in the
dark, and thus to drag America into the greatest war of her existence.
Yet even having found what he calls the "terrible truth," Stinnett is still
inclined to forgive. "I sympathize with the agonizing dilemma faced by
President Roosevelt," he writes. "He was forced to find circuitous means to
persuade an isolationist America to join in a fight for freedom....It is
easier to take a critical view of this policy a half century removed than to
understand fully what went on in Roosevelt's mind in the year prior to Pearl
Harbor."
Day of Deceit is the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret
and our worst military disaster.
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