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Originally Posted by whell
Its no conspiracy theory. Its not a secret that Ambassador Grew alerted the State Department in January 1941 that he had picked up intelligence that Pearl Harbor was at risk of an attack from Japan. Problem is no one took him seriously.
In December 1941, after US cryptographers had broken Japanese code, we knew a Japanese attack might be coming, but the cryptographers were unable to discern where the attack would be. No one put the pieces together. No one put the US pacific fleet on alert.
And of course, that morning, radar operators on Oahu picking up the inbound Japanese aircraft. No one believed them either.
It wasn't a conspiracy. It was a human failure of communication, poor preparation and poor reaction of epic proportion.
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pete was implying that FDR knew before hand there would be an attack on Pearl Harbor itself.....your points may be correct.
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