"Jan Rasmussen" <1@2.3> wrote in message
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> "Kert Rats" <stendod@gravklar.dk> skrev i en meddelelse
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>
>> Hvilket forhåndskendskab havde Roosevelt til angrebet på Pearl
>> Harbour? Kan du henvise til kilder på Internet?
>
> Her er mit bud,,,
>
> "The McCollum Memo:"
>
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/McCollum/
> ....
> "It is not believed that in the present state of
> political opinion the United States government is capable of
> declaring war against Japan without more ado; and it is barely
> possible that vigorous action on our part might lead the
> Japanese to modify their attitude. Therefore, the following
> course of action is suggested:"
>
> A. Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of
> British bases in the Pacific, particularly
> Singapore.
> B. Make an arrangement with Holland for the use of
> base facilities and acquisition of supplies
> in the Dutch East Indies.
> C. Give all possible aid to the Chinese government
> of Chiang-Kai-Shek.
> D. Send a division of long range heavy cruisers to
> the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore.
> E. Send two divisions of submarines to the Orient.
> F. Keep the main strength of the U.S. fleet now in
> the Pacific in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands.
> G. Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese
> demands for undue economic concessions,
> particularly oil.
> H. Completely embargo all U.S. trade with Japan,
> in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed
> by the British Empire.
>
> 10. If by these means Japan could be led to commit an
> overt act of war, so much the better.
>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Deceit-Truth-About-Harbor/dp/0743201299/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/102-1782878-0970553
> "Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction
> during World War II,
> examines recently declassified American documents and concludes
> that, far more
> than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor,
> Roosevelt deliberately
> steered Japan into war with America."
>
> Historians have long debated whether President Roosevelt had advance
> knowledge of
> Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Using documents
> pried loose through
> the Freedom of Information Act during 17 years of research, Stinnett
> provides overwhelming
> evidence that FDR and his top advisers knew that Japanese warships
> were heading toward Hawaii.
> The heart of his argument is even more inflammatory: Stinnett argues
> that FDR, who desired to sway
> public opinion in support of U.S. entry into WWII, instigated a
> policy intended to provoke a Japanese attack.
>
> The plan was outlined in a U.S. Naval Intelligence secret strategy
> memo of October 1940;
> Roosevelt immediately began implementing its eight steps (which
> included deploying U.S.
> warships in Japanese territorial waters and imposing a total embargo
> intended to strangle
> Japan's economy), all of which, according to Stinnett, climaxed in
> the Japanese attack.
> Stinnett, a decorated naval veteran of WWII who served under then
> Lt. George Bush,
> substantiates his charges with a wealth of persuasive documents,
> including many
> government and military memos and transcripts. Demolishing the myth
> that the
> Japanese fleet maintained strict radio silence, he shows that
> several Japanese naval
> broadcasts, intercepted by American cryptographers in the 10 days
> before December 7,
> confirmed that Japan intended to start the war at Pearl Harbor.
> Stinnett convincingly
> demonstrates that the U.S. top brass in Hawaii--Pacific Fleet
> commander Adm.
> Husband Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter Short--were kept out of the
> intelligence loop
> on orders from Washington and were then scapegoated for allegedly
> failing to anticipate
> the Japanese attack (in May 1999, the U.S. Senate cleared their
> names).
>
> Kimmel moved his fleet into the North Pacific, actively searching
> for the suspected Japanese
> staging area, but naval headquarters ordered him to turn back.
Kun fordi USA så klart havde brudt japanske koder og vidste alt om
Pearl Harbour angrebet, havde USA bragt denne bases 3 hangarskibe i
sikkerhed.