FDR: Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
The film talks about failure among intelligence agencies to share their information.
Some people believe FDR knew the Japanese were planning an attack on Pearl Harbor but did nothing so the United States would be drawn into the war.
Others say there is no evidence at all that FDR conspired in any way to hid the impending attack. (Here is where debate and logic come in. For those who believe FDR did know what was to happen it is up to them to prove that FDR knew. Solid proof is needed, not suspicion and innuendo. The believers must prove their case; it is not up to the unbelievers to prove theirs.)
There was a Congressional investigation that produced 25,000 pages of information. It laid the blame on the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
The Bomb Plot Message of October, 1945. The message was asking Japanese spies to pinpoint where ships at Pearl Harbor kept anchor.
He claims FDR himself saw the message and did not inform the commanders at Pearl Harbor of its contents.
Hill is not the only one to believe there was a conspiracy to let Pearl Harbor be attacked, thus forcing the United States into the war. (The country was, at that time, isolationist and people in general wanted nothing to do with what was going on in Europe, nor did they care about the Japanese invasion of China. Thus, the theorists believe, something was needed to get the American people angry enough and scared enough to change their opinions about becoming involved in the war. Letting Pearl Harbor be attacked, they believe, was something that FDR figured would provide that spark for anger.)
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He also claims that the Japanese warships heading towards Pearl Harbor did not maintain radio silence, and that they communications were picked up and their positions were known. One man who intercepted the signals later had his logbook confiscated by Naval Intelligence and it somehow disappeared. The guy's writings had pinpointed just where attack was coming from. The author also claims a lot of radio stations picked up the communications and a meeting was held about the communications and that FDR was at the meeting.
The American people did not want war, the film goes on to say. About 75% of Americans said they did not want to go to war against Germany according to one pre-war poll.
A memo was written in 1940 and listed eight actions that could be undertaken to provoke Japan into attacking the U.S. This would, of course, lead to the United States entering the war. The memo went to the director of Naval Intelligence and, it is assumed, to FDR himself.
A poll taken after the attacked showed that around 60% of Americans thought that Germany was behind the attack. Japan, at the time, was an Axis power, closely aligned with Germany and Italy.
One of the authors that doesn't believe in the conspiracy theory.
An author who says the Japanese code had not been broken before the attack, and thus any messages claimed to have been decoded and indicating an attack were wrong.
An author who agrees that the United States deliberately provoked Japan, but this did not extend to pushing for an attack on any particular place including Pearl Harbor.
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