[aristeides]

If you look closely at the blackboard listing the names of the people with access to Magic intelligence that appears early in the movie Tora Tora Tora, you will see LCDR Arthur McCollum's name. He, along with FDR, was one of less than a dozen people cleared to receive this intelligence. Given the particularly close relationship that FDR had with the Office of Naval Intelligence, I regard it as virtually certain that LCDR McCollum, head of the Far East Desk of that office, personally knew FDR. One can imagine all sorts of ways in which McCollum's thoughts could have been communicated to FDR, even if it wasn't done officially by the book.

[pjhoward]

President Roosevelt had no particular connection with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Yes, he was an Assistant Secretary of the Navy during WWI, but there was no special connection with the ONI than there was with the War Department's G-2. There is some indication that McCollum's "Eight Point" memo did not even get as far as Captain Anderson, the Head of ONI at the time. The endorsement of McCollum's immediate superior indicates it was sent back to him without being forwarded on.