Pearl Harbor

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In a message dated 05/24/2001 9:19:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
calbert at tiac.net writes:


> 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).
> 

Another account by Dusko Popov (A Yugoslav agent for UK in the Balkans) who 
got information about the extreme interest the Japanese took in the British 
air raid on the Italian fleet anchored in the Bay of Taranto:

           http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html  
(this website has a big axe to grind against Roosevelt & should be read with 
caution -- that being said, many of the facts cited are quite interesting)

"11 November 1940 - 21 aged British planes destroyed the Italian fleet, 
including 3 battleships, at their homeport in the harbor of Taranto in 
Southern Italy by using technically innovative shallow-draft torpedoes."

"10 August 1941, the top British agent, code named 'Tricycle', Dusko Popov, 
told the FBI of the planned attack on Pearl Harbor and that it would be soon. 
The FBI told him that his information was 'too precise, too complete to be 
believed. The questionnaire plus the other information you brought spell out 
in detail exactly where, when, how, and by whom we are to be attacked. If 
anything, it sounds like a trap.' He also reported that a senior Japanese 
naval person had gone to Taranto to collect all secret data on the attack 
there and that it was of utmost importance to them. The info was given to 
Naval IQ."


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