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Attack & Cover-Up The Pearl Harbor Attack
Means & Motive
Info Warfare The 12/7/1941 Pearl Harbor Attack bears many superficial parallels with
contents the 9/11/01 attack on Manhattan and Washington D.C. In both cases
Means & Motive around 3000 Americans were killed in a devastating sneak attack
means against undefended targets. In both cases the sitting president used the
remote control attack to commit the nation to a war, a commitment that would have
NORAD's no-show been almost impossible without the attack.
stand-down
war games
demolition tech A closer look at the two attacks reveals more parallels. In both cases
energetic materials those at the top of the military chain of command knew of the attack in
covert demolition
wtc explosives
advance, and allowed it to proceed.
military command The USS Arizona
motive excerpt
manufacturing enemies title: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
empire expansion
attack on Afghanistan authors: Kristi Richardson and Mark Fisher
invasion of Iraq
drug trafficking On December 5 1941, at a Cabinet meeting, Secretary of the Navy
petroleum pursuit Knox said, "Well, you know Mr. President, we know where the
corporate profiteering
corporate welfare
Japanese fleet is." "Yes, I know" said FDR. "I think we ought to tell
everybody just how ticklish this situation is. We have battleship row
urban renewal
gold heist information...Well, you tell them what it is, Frank", said FDR. Knox
precedent became very excited and said, "Well, we have very secret
20th century attacks information that the Japanese fleet is out at sea. Our information
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Operation Himmler
is..." and then a scowling FDR cut him off.
Pearl Harbor
Gulf of Tonkin On the evening of December 6, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Operation Gladio
Operation Ajax
the president of the United States, received a message intercepted
1990s attacks by the U.S. Navy. Sent from Tokyo to the Japanese embassy in
Kuwaiti incubators Washington, the message was encrypted in the top-level Japanese The Ogala and Helena
WTC 93 bombing "purple code." But that was no problem. The Americans had
Oklahoma City
attack scenarios
cracked the code long before that. It was imperative that the
Northwoods president see the message right away because it revealed that the
Operation Bojinka Japanese, under the heavy pressure of Western economic
sanctions, were terminating relations with the United States.
Roosevelt read the thirteen-part transmission, looked up and
announced, "This means war." He then did a very strange thing for
a president in his situation.

Nothing

The Japanese secret declaration of war never reached the people

who needed to hear it the most - Admiral Husband E. Kimmel,
commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl The USS Shaw
Harbor, Hawaii, and the unit's commanding general, Walter Short.
Pearl Harbor, it was common military knowledge, was where the
Japanese would strike. If they struck. At dawn the next morning a
Japanese squadron bombed Pearl Harbor and the surprise attack
was just that, a complete surprise. At least to Kimmel and Short
and the 2,575 American servicemen who died.

It may not have been such a surprise to Generals George C.

Marshall and Leonard T. Gerow and Admirals Harold R. Stark and
Richmond Kelly Turner. They were the military's top brass in
Washington and the only officers authorized to forward such
sensitive intelligence to outlying commanders. But the decoded war
declaration did not reach Kimmel and Short until the morning, with
the attack well underway off in the Pacific. Marshall and Stark,
supreme commanders of the U.S. Army and Navy respectively,

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later testified that the message was not forwarded to Kimmel and
Short because the Hawaiian commanders had received so many
intercepted Japanese messages that another one would simply
confuse them. A pathetic lie.

Internal army and navy inquiries in 1944 held Stark and Marshall
derelict of duty for keeping the Hawaiian commanders in the dark.
But the military buried those findings. As far as the public knew, the
final truth was uncovered by the Roberts Commission, headed by
Justice Owen Roberts of the Supreme Court, and convened eleven
days after the attack. Like another investigative commission
headed by a Supreme Court justice on a different topic more than
twenty years later, the Roberts Commission appeared to have
identified its culprits in advance and gerrymandered its inquiries to
make the suspects appear guilty. The scapegoats were Kimmel
and Short, who were both publicly crucified, forced to retire, and
denied the open hearings they desired. One of the Roberts
Commission panelists, Admiral William Standley, would call
Roberts's performance "crooked as a snake."

There were eight investigations of Pearl Harbor altogether. The

most spectacular was a joint House-Senate probe that reiterated
the Roberts Commission findings. At those hearings, Marshall and
Stark testified, incredibly, that they could not remember where they
were the night the war declaration came in. But a close friend of
Frank Knox, the secretary of the Navy, later revealed that Knox,
Stark, and Marshall spent most of that night in the White House
with Roosevelt awaiting the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the
chance for America to join World War II.
page: http://www.carpenoctem.tv/cons/pearl.html

Admiral Kimmel, in a 1958 interview, articulated the reason he and

General Short were kept in the dark about the impending attack --
Roosevelt needed the attack a pretext to enter the war.

My belief is that General Short and I were not given the

information available in Washington and were not informed of the
impending attack because it was feared that action in Hawaii might
deter the Japanese from making the attack. Our president had
repeatedly assured the American people that the United States
would not enter the war unless we were attacked. The Japanese
attack on the fleet would put the United States in the war with the
full support of the American public.

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