The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor

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The neocons called for a new "Perle Harbor" in the year 2000 in the PNAC document Rebuilding America's Defenses. The thing is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was not a surprise and this has been known at least since 1994. Governments that commit great atrocities against their own people to goad them into war rely on the refusal of the population to believe their own government could be so nefarious. Yet history shows that such acts are a common occurance. In the book "Day of Deceit" by US Navy Commander Robert Stinnett, using documents declassified in 1994 he proves that not only did FDR know the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor, but that he had followed an 8-step plan by ONI Lt. Commander Arthur H. McCollum to goad Japan into the attack. What makes Stinnett's book an important one is that he agrees with what FDR did, which means his account of the deception is pretty well balanced with no ax to grind.

The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor

On October 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence submitted a memo to Navy Captains Walter Anderson and Dudley Knox (whose endorsement is included in the following scans). Captains Anderson and Knox were two of President Roosevelt's most trusted military advisors.

The memo, scanned below, detailed an 8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the United States. President Roosevelt, over the course of 1941, implemented all 8 of the recommendations contained in the McCollum memo. Following the eighth provocation, Japan attacked. The public was told that it was a complete surprise, an "intelligence failure", and America entered World War Two.

This memo, which proves that the government of the United States desired to lure Japan into an attack, was declassified in 1994. It took fifty years for the truth about Pearl Harbor to be revealed. Will we have to wait that long for the truth of 9-11 to come out?

More about the Pearl Harbor Deception is at Pearl Harbor: Mother of all conspiracies (at least until 9/11)

THE BONES OF STATION H The remains of the radio intercept station on Oahu that picked up Admiral Yamamoto's order for the attack.

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Great post, VK.