by Cheephillippe

Created on: April 09, 2007   Last Updated: May 08, 2007

British author Thomas J. Summers writes, in his unauthorised biography of J. Edgar Hoover, that the FBI Director telephoned the head of the Honolulu Police Department's Intelligence Division on Thursday, December 4th 1941 and warned him to get himself and his family out of town before - 7 A.M. Sunday December 7th (The man had been a close acquaintance of Mr. Hoover). The Australian Government frantically and repeatedly attempted to reach General Marshall in Washington D.C. with very explicit warnings of the Japanese attack. Their last telephone call was made at 10 P.M. Saturday evening December 6th 1941 - when an aide told the Australians that the General was out riding his horse in the dead of winter at night - and could not be reached! The Peruvian ambassador to Japan handed J. Foster Dulles (you'll recall him as the Secretary of State) the entire Pearl Harbour attack plan earlier, having obtained it at an ambassadorial cocktail party from a Japanese official. Roosevelt faced uncompromising opposition to entry into World War II from several isolationist state governors in the Pacific Northwest & Upper Midwest, and from German-Americans and elements in the Deep South. There was a distinct sentiment amongst some Americans, as well, to refrain from rescuing the British Empire. Mr. Churchill allowed the Luftwaffe to level much of Coventry one night, having been thoroughly warned by the folks at Bletchley Park who had broken the Germans' Enigma codes - this, while preserving British mastery of those codes for use in the Allied invasion of Europe several years later, as well as achieving mastery of the North Atlantic over the U-boats, a requisite for the invasion later. So Roosevelt's treachery and fraud had precedent (and with the 9/11 attacks, antecedents, albeit more crude and insulting) ....... You may search the Internet at this time and find far more revealing information about the Pearl Harbour attack. Roosevelt had an eight-step plan of provoking the Japanese into initiating a war with the U.S.A. The provocations brought militaristts to power in Japan, and FDR's final act of positioning the Pacific fleet at Pearl as a tempting target led to World War II. (The commander there had confronted FDR angrily, and the President fired him and filled the position with the meek and compliant Admiral Husband Kimmel - upon whom the blame was placed later for the attack! Hardy-har-har, as columnist Dave Barry, formerly of the Miami Herald, used to say. The combined law enforcement-intelligence community today has this practise honed to an art form, but that's another story. For a clue, see some of my other Helium articles).

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