Pearl Harbor

[calbert at tiac.net]

It certainly would help explain Hoover's reflexive but 
incomprehensible rejection of the information provided by the Soviet 
spy Richard Sorge prior to the attack. The story is told in The 
Second Oldest Profession, by P. Knightly (a truly great non-fiction 
read).

love,
cfa

> The discussion about A. J. P. Taylor reminds me that there is
> presently a controversty being waged in the New York Review over
> whether the Japanese were tricked into the 1941 attack on Pearl
> Harbor. Pynchon denier Gore Vidal takes the affirmative.
> 
>                 P.
>