December 7 - Pearl Harbor Day

Over the years, pieces of the truth have emerged from firsthand sources such as diaries, diplomatic messages, personal papers, official memos, autobiographies, and various other accounts forming an appalling picture of deception — not of the U.S. government, but by the U.S. government.

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"In the historical library at York University [England], the diary of Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to America in 1941, shows that on May 2, 1941, Halifax lunched with Roosevelt and that FDR expressed the hope that U.S. patrols in the Atlantic would provoke Germany into war. The British Public Record Office in London has evidence that in both July and August, 1941, Roosevelt told the British that he intended to provoke a war."

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On the afternoon of December 7th, as reports of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began to come in, shocked senators demanded to know how we could have been so badly caught with our pants down. Roosevelt hung his head and replied, "I just don't know." William Friedman was beside himself as he paced the floor and muttered, "But they knew, they knew!" "A massive cover-up followed Pearl Harbor a few days later, according to an officer close to Marshall, when the Chief of Staff ordered a lid put on the affair. ‘Gentlemen,' he told half a dozen officers, ‘this goes to the grave with us.'" (Toland, John. Infamy. p. 321)

The following day, as we have seen, Roosevelt solemnly addressed the nation with his "surprise attack" speech. Shocked and enraged, the public's reaction was overwhelmingly favorable. All divisions of opinion were miraculously swept away. Very few knew how grossly they had been deceived.

Seventh Fire article

Pearl Harbor: Mother of all conspiracies

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10 August 1941, the top British agent, code named "Tricycle", Dusko Popov, told the FBI of the planned attack on Pearl Harbor and that it would be soon. The FBI told him that his information was "too precise, too complete to be believed. The questionnaire plus the other information you brought spell out in detail exactly where, when, how, and by whom we are to be attacked. If anything, it sounds like a trap."

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"Very late on a cold, dark night in December, a British emissary was driven through the dreary streets of Washington. Inside his diplomatic pouch he carried a secret message marked Most Urgent Personal and Secret to the President. It was a triple priority message from the British Admiralty in London that the United States of America was going to be attacked at Pearl Harbor on December 7th. Lord Halifax was swiftly shown in to the White House and conferred with Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt's hopes soared; his long-laid plans were about to be fulfilled. It was December 5th, 1941."

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In 1979 the NSA released 2,413 JN-25 orders of the 26,581 intercepted by US between Sept 1 and Dec 4, 1941. The NSA says "We know now that they contained important details concerning the existence, organization, objective, and even the whereabouts of the Pearl Harbor Strike Force." (Parker p 21) Of the over thousand radio messages sent by Tokyo to the attack fleet, only 20 are in the National Archives. All messages to the attack fleet were sent several times, at least one message was sent every odd hour of the day and each had a special serial number. Starting in early November 1941 when the attack fleet assembled and started receiving radio messages, OP-20-G stayed open 24 hours a day and the "First Team" of codebreakers worked on JN-25. In November and early December 1941, OP-20-G spent 85 percent of its effort reading Japanese Navy traffic, 12 percent on Japanese diplomatic traffic and 3 percent on German naval codes. FDR was personally briefed twice a day on JN-25 traffic by his aide, Captain John Beardell, and demanded to see the original raw messages in English. The US Government refuses to identify or declassify any pre-Dec 7, 1941 decrypts of JN-25 on the basis of national security, a half-century after the war.

September 11, 2004, may actually be the "mother of all conspiracies", but Pearl Harbor and other past attacks and passed over attack plans in America's history are ample evidence that "ordinary citizens" are pawns in a high stakes game of world power. What can you do about it? War is profitable if you are in the war business.

...you can do what you want...you will anyway.


Further reading:
The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor
The History of Pearl Harbor: The Bones of "Station H"
The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor