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Lewis makes interesting reading. Unfortunately, he has taken too little effort with his research.

Page 358, he repeats the hoary myth Joe Kennedy, Sr., was a bootlegger.

Page 414, he calls _Eldridge_ an "escort destroyer". She's a destroyer escort (which is a specific type of ship).

Finally, he completely bungles his treatment of the Pearl Harbor "conspiracy". A nine for probability? It's a zero. Did he read _nothing_ of the contrary view? Stinnett's claims have been extensively refuted by professional historiographers. His views are garbage.

From my own reading, I can say Stinnett is either incompetent or stupid if, as he says, he does not know JN-25 and the "5-digit" code are the same. I knew that at 12, after reading two books (_Silent Victory_ and _Double-Edged Secrets_, both in Stinnett's bibliography.)

Japan's attack achieved surprise; that's hardly "sneaky".

FDR knew an attack was imminent? Really? How? Nothing in Purple (correctly rendered a proper noun, contrary to Lewis) said so. (Nor was their anything in J-19, which Stinnett completely ignores.) The U.S. Navy had detected a Japanese task force--it was bound for Thailand.

"Evidence suggests he [FDR] provoked Japan"? Garbage. He wanted Japan to appear provocative so he could apply a blockade in aid of China without being the belligerent. "Letting Japan attack Pearl Harbor was his way of sea-changing U.S. opinion"? Garbage. It would have been stupid and counter-productive. War with Japan benefitted only Germany, and even Hitler knew it. Certainly FDR did. (So did Commander Arthur McCollum, author of the notorious "Eight-Point" memo; earlier in the year, he wrote another, which the conspiracy nuts convinetly ignore, so pereptive, he might well have been in Hitler's staff meetings!)

"hundreds of decrypts...showing the build-up"? Nonsense. There was _absolutely nothing_ in Purple about a buildup. (David Kahn memorably calls this a "Purple herring".) Purple was a diplomatic cypher, and the Japanese Navy was not telling the diplomats what it was planning, let alone doing. Most of the "decrypts" Stinnett relies on were sent by Japanese land-line, before the _Kido Butai_ ever sailed, and so were not susceptible of intercept. (Stinnett hides that fact--or, more probably, fails to understand it.) Moreover, any IJN radio traffic would have been in JN-25, which, before about 10 December 1941 (recall fails me, here) OP-20G _could not read_, even had intercepts been available.

"Aggressive move in a few days"? The message (which Lewis conveniently omits) lists all the potential targets, from the Philippines to Thailand. Hawaii is _never mentioned_ in _either_ of the two "war warning" messages. (I know. I've read them both.)

"This means war". That is rather different from knowing IJN planned to attack Hawaii within days. More to the point, nobody in DC believed Japan capable of executing two major naval operations at one time.

"Roosevelt apologists"? Garbage. The facts are, MacArthur had all the information denied Kimmel and Short, plus _eight and a half hours_ warning, plus explicit intructions to commence operations against Japan, and he _still_ got caught. (Or did FDR arrange _that_, too?) Stinnett's thesis is contradicted by his _own witness_ (Duane Whitlock, in note eight to Chapter Two).

"Failure of intelligence to reach Pearl Harbor". DC was paranoid about security, and nobody expected Hawaii to be attacked; the Philippines, where attack _was_ expected, got the Purple machines and codebooks denied Hawaii--for all the good it did. The fear was Japan would learn Purple was compromised. (Indeed, at one point, even FDR was off the "need to know" list!)

The embargo placed on Japan's oil was intended by FDR to be on things like aviation gasoline, to encourage Japan to make peace with China. Somebody at State escalated it--and it backfired.

How was any of this good for Britain, the usual excuse advanced? It diverts U.S. material from Britain to fighting Japan. Even Hitler understood this. FDR has been trying to aid Britain for over a year. Moreover, Churchill himself wanted to avoid a war with Japan, and hoped the U.S. could "frighten" Japan into submission. It did not work... More to the point, any "conspiracy" would be political suicide; FDR would have to be an idiot.

Calling Stinnett a "naval officer" gives him more credibility than he deserves. Calling him, and other revisionist conspiracy loons, "truth seekers" is preposterous. Moreover, he is making up evidence; his alledged film reels at the National Archives belong to a series which does not exist, and his promise to provide proof remains unfulfilled (because there is none).

Excellent review as I am currently reading. The answer to your question about "where are all the UFO videos and pictures because people have mobile phones?". They're there my friend. Go and find them.