Internment:
The US had comprimised both JN-25 and Magic —they were reading Japanese signals.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the FBI naturally became MUUUUCH more interested in the traffick backlog of the last stuff right before the attack.
They leveraged all their resources on just that and blanched at the results —the Japanese pre-war commo got very technical, very low-level about prep for attacks on the US Defense Industrial Base across the continental United States; blowing up factories.
It included references to calling on Japanese-Americans as a personel resource to that end.
The US at the time couldn’t say, “We’re interning these people cuz WE ARE READING TOP SECRET JAP CABLE TRAFFIC, and it says we MUST do this...”
That would mostly be asking the Japanese to alter their methods, right?
That would have been totally nuts. So they simply said nothing, made vague sounds about “risk of contacting submarines”, etc.
The heroics of the “Go For Broke” Brigade were totally real but the notion that all recent arrivals had no love for the Empire of Japan is wrong.
Fort Meade is NSA, right?
Know what it was before that?
It was an internment camp —for GERMAN-Americans.
Joe DiMaggio hailed from San Francisco, right? His Italian dad was a fisherman there right before WW2:
FBI impounded his boat for the whole war:
“Risk of contacting Axis submarines”.
“Internment:
The US had comprimised both JN-25 and Magic —they were reading Japanese signals.”
Bingo! Thanks for bringing this up. I’ve posted before about MAGIC, and it seems few are aware of the Intercepts. The MAGIC intercepts indicated an active effort by the Japanese Consulates to recruit both Japanese Nationals and Japanese-Americans I to spy and conduct espionage and it appears they were successful.
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
Hmmm - this meme sounds familiar for some reason. I wonder why?