{"id":38985,"date":"2011-12-04T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T09:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=38985"},"modified":"2011-12-06T07:50:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:50:40","slug":"fdr-warned-of-pearl-harbor-attack-days-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=38985","title":{"rendered":"FDR warned of Pearl Harbor attack days in advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Eric Pfeiffer \u2013 Yahoo News Dec 1, 2011<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pearlharborwarning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39091\" title=\"Pear Harbor warning. Click to enlarge \" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pearlharborwarning-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pearlharborwarning-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pearlharborwarning.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A new book reports that two days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that officially brought the United States into World War II, President Roosevelt was warned about such a possible attack in a memo from naval intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">U.S. News&#8217; Paul Bedard <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/us.lrd.yahoo.com\/SIG=1434u8991\/EXP=1324151538\/**http%3A\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/washington-whispers\/2011\/11\/29\/declassified-memo-hinted-of-1941-hawaii-attack-\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">writes more<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span><\/strong>about the story:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">In the newly revealed 20-page memo from FDR&#8217;s declassified FBI file, the Office of Naval Intelligence on December 4 warned, &#8220;In anticipation of open conflict with this country, Japan is vigorously utilizing every available agency to secure military, naval and commercial information, paying particular attention to the West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The memo comes from Craig Shirley&#8217;s new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.lrd.yahoo.com\/SIG=14mc628md\/EXP=1324151538\/**http%3A\/\/www.amazon.com\/December-1941-Changed-America-Saved\/dp\/1595554572\/ref=sr_1_1%3Fie=UTF8%26%2338;qid=1322568083%26%2338;sr=8-1\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America and Saved the World<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/em><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">,<\/span><\/strong> which also reports that the Japanese were building a network of spies through their U.S. embassies and consulates. However, Shirley doesn&#8217;t blame FDR for failing to act on the memo; instead, he compares the Roosevelt administration&#8217;s inaction to the executive branch&#8217;s failure to act on pre-9\/11 intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>(Yeah right. Like we all accept without question the official version of events on 9\/11. This is another example of a presstitue preserving official history by not asking too many questions. As revealed in links to earlier reports below, there are indications that Roosevelt was aware of Japanese plans but did nothing because a Japanese attack would justify U.S. involvement in World War II, a move that prior to Pearl Harbour was very unpopular with the American public. Ed.)<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In each instance, Shirley contends, the evidence suggests &#8220;that there were more pieces to the puzzle&#8221; that the White House missed in the days and weeks leading up to the attack. &#8220;So many mistakes through so many levels of Washington,&#8221; said Shirley. &#8220;Some things never change.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And in a bit of unusually related news, 45,000 residents will <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/us.lrd.yahoo.com\/SIG=141f465vo\/EXP=1324151538\/**http%3A\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/nearly-half-german-city-to-evacuate-sunday-for-defusing-of-wwii-era-bomb-1.162031\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">evacuate a town in Germany after the discovery of one of the largest unexploded bombs in history<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">. <em>Stars and Stripes <\/em>reports the 4,000 pound bomb, with more than 3,000 pounds of attached explosives, was dropped on the town of Koblenz by the British Royal Air Force during the war. The bomb was discovered in the Rhine River, where water levels have dropped due to lack of rain. A 275-pound American bomb was also discovered nearby<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/fdr-warned-pearl-harbor-attack-days-advance-164032040.html\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Also see:<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/oldsite\/article.asp?ID=179\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/oldsite\/article.asp?ID=8508\"><span style=\"color: #ffff99;\">The Explosive Truth About Pearl Harbour<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book reiterates earlier claims that President Roosevelt was warned days in advance about Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38985"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39093,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38985\/revisions\/39093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}