[Inyokern]

Did you read DAY OF DECEIT?

Perhaps the most over-hyped overblown book in history. Books like that could only come out after Gordon Prange (the author of "Tora Tora Tora") had died. No one dared publish that nonsense while Prange was alive because he would shoot these ridiculous theories.

Of course, Roosevelt, Stimson and the rest of the people accused of being in the supposed conspiracy have been dead for a long time. But, it seems that the death of Prange in 1980 was really what opened the flood gates on these conspiracy books.

[aristeides]

There were already conspiracy books about Pearl Harbor appearing before Stimson died. Come to think of it, John Flynn was writing before FDR died. And didn't John Toland write his book before Prange died?

[jamaksin]

Prange's (perhaps best known text) "At Dawn We Slept" - published after his death by Goldstein and Dillon (his research associates) has at least four known problems which call into question its creditability.

As to Prange's ability to counter so-called conspiracy theories, no support in this corner.

Also, comment please on the continued denial of access to any of the pre-Pearl Harbor Japanese naval "raw" intercepts to this day.