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Newly Declassified Memo Reveals Roosevelt Was Warned of Tokyo’s Focus on Hawaii
Gateway Pundit ^ | November 29,2011 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 11/29/2011 7:32:32 PM PST by Hojczyk

A newly released memo revealed that President Roosevelt was warned that Tokyo was focused on Hawaii days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Washington Whispers reported:

Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo’s military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR’s failure to act on a basket load of tips that war was near.

In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR’s declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4 warned, “In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii.”

The memo, published in the new book December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World went on to say that the Japanese were collecting “detailed technical information” that would be specifically used by its navy. To collect and analyze information, they were building a network of spies through their U.S. embassies and consulates.

Historian and acclaimed Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, author of the just released December 1941, doesn’t blame FDR for blowing it, but instead tells Whispers that it “does suggest that there were more pieces to the puzzle” that the administration missed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; infamy; pearlharbor; presidents; roosevelt; worldwareleven; wwii
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1 posted on 11/29/2011 7:32:34 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

We saw this.


2 posted on 11/29/2011 7:34:42 PM PST by Patrick1 (" Let's all pray Kim Kardashian's divorce won't have an impact on her craft.")
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To: Hojczyk
paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii.”
Well that certainly narrowed it down,thank god the gulf of mexico was ruled out....
3 posted on 11/29/2011 7:36:28 PM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: Hojczyk
FDR wanted the attack to happen so we would be forced into the war.

This is not news.

4 posted on 11/29/2011 7:36:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("(...in a) a free market ... no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit." --Milton Friedman)
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To: Hojczyk
NSA had information about a possible hijacking in the Mediterranean in the early 1980s. Who knew it would be a cruise ship, the Achilles Lauro? All the hijackings up until then had been jet liners.

Possessing nonspecific intelligence always looks bad when viewed in the rear view mirror. “We should have guessed,” becomes the refrain. But there is really no way to have known and you'll go crazy trying to cover everything.

5 posted on 11/29/2011 7:38:50 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: Hojczyk

Just imagine what our grandchildren are going to learn 70 years from now about things Obama did or didn’t do. < / shudder >


6 posted on 11/29/2011 7:39:33 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Hojczyk
went on to say that the Japanese were collecting “detailed technical information” that would be specifically used by its navy. To collect and analyze information, they were building a network of spies through their U.S. embassies and consulates.

Can anyone imagine the network of spy's today in the U.S.?

With uncontrolled illegal immigration, wide open lawless borders, not to mention a legal immigration free for all, where tens of thousands from Muslim countries, the Mideast and elsewhere, go on basically unabated.

7 posted on 11/29/2011 7:39:49 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
FDR wanted the attack to happen so we would be forced into the war.

This is abject idiocy that has been refuted by an infinite amount of scholarship, including "At Dawn We Slept."

Among other things, that Japanese had absolutely NO provision or plans to call off the attack if they were discovered, or Pearl Harbor was alerted. They actually EXPECTED to have to fight their way in, and were only HOPING to achieve complete surprise if they could.

And it's not like we wouldn't have went to war if they only damaged a couple of battleships and killed a few hundred Americans. And we would have gone to war if the Japanese only attacked the Philippines.

Short and Kimmel received clear war warnings; The idea that they had to be specifically told they were going to be attacked to be prepared is ludicrous.

And as a practical matter, if Pearl had been ready the effects of the attack would have been worse. The fleet would have been at sea and every battleship probably would have been sunk in deep water.

8 posted on 11/29/2011 7:41:28 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Hojczyk

Can anyone imagine the network of spy’s today in the U.S.?

With uncontrolled illegal immigration, wide open lawless borders, not to mention a legal immigration free for all, where tens of thousands from Muslim countries, the Mideast and elsewhere, go on basically unabated.

Oh, and this is not to mention the fact, we openly trade with Communist Chinese who’s ships stroll into our ports around the clock, with cheap tainted goodies.


10 posted on 11/29/2011 7:43:43 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Hojczyk

Ping for later.


11 posted on 11/29/2011 7:44:48 PM PST by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: Hojczyk

A good look at what was going on behind the scenes with U.S. military intelligence during this time period is Edwin T. Layton’s “And I Was There”.


12 posted on 11/29/2011 7:45:06 PM PST by Stevenc131
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I seem to recall a story or book a few years back that laid out a credible scenario that Churchill knew about the Pearl Harbor attack from German naval Enigma messages, intercepted, and decoded at Bletchley Park. Churhil did NOT inform FDR, because he wanted the US in the war..and this was the only war to guarantee America would come in..


13 posted on 11/29/2011 7:45:06 PM PST by ken5050 (Support Admin Mods: Doing the tough, hard, dirty jobs that Americans won't do...)
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"..newly revealed 20-page memo.."

Apparently this was also in some other memos, revealed years ago.

14 posted on 11/29/2011 7:46:37 PM PST by Designer (Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
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To: Hojczyk

This “rumor” has been going around for years.


15 posted on 11/29/2011 7:46:57 PM PST by Mears (Tempus fugit !)
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To: Hojczyk

It is bull conspiracy garbage to say that FDR knew about the attack.

Note that the historian says that the memo was evidence that the admin missed it.


16 posted on 11/29/2011 7:47:06 PM PST by garjog
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To: Hojczyk
President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo’s military and spy network was focused on Hawaii

How odd for the Japanese to be focused on the homeport of the Pacific Fleet.

I'm ready for the shocking revelation that the Germans were focusing their spy network on Moscow and Leningrad.

17 posted on 11/29/2011 7:48:48 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Hojczyk

Not really news. Historians have been saying this for decades.


18 posted on 11/29/2011 7:48:51 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: ken5050

Can someone explain how the US isn’t in the war if Pearl Harbor is warned it’s going to be attacked?

I’ve yet to see a conspiracy nutter even try to explain this.


19 posted on 11/29/2011 7:50:34 PM PST by Strategerist
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“In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii.”

Just those three.... This memo was nothing new at the time either. The military in those days were well aware that any Asian power striking at the US would strike one of those 3 places- a kid with a map can figure that out. Their chief mistake lay in assuming that the hardest point (Hawaii) would be avoided because an enemy would want to strike at either the West Coast or the Canal, with the latter more likely because it would create huge problems transferring personnel, supplies, and warships from one ocean to the other. That the Japanese would strike at the hardest point was not expected either. Assuming the Japanese would strike was probably not outside the pale at the time- but knowing exactly where would be a guess, barring a sight of the Japanese fleet before the attack.


20 posted on 11/29/2011 7:53:04 PM PST by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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