Now, though, according to Robert Stinnett, author of Day
Of Deceit (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 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.
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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.
