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fiba exposes FDR
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Favors photographers with his famous smile. FDR Library, Hide Park, New York |
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 Edward R. Murrow, CBS news corres- pondent extraordinaire, got the news story of his life when FDR called him to the White House for a meeting immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack. Photo courtesy CBS. |
| Blackouts did not apply to the White House on the night of December 7, 1941. Most of the crowd;s interest is directed toward the photographer instead of the mansion, where Eleanor Roosevelt was preparing a Sunday dinner for invited guests in the first-floor family dining room just above the taxi's rear lights. Photo courtesy Library of Congress. |
THE TRUTH ABOUT
FDR AND PEARL HARBOR
by Robert B. Stinnett
| DAY OF DECEIT is the definitive final chapter on America's greatest secret and their worst military disaster. |
 (right) Admiral James D. Richardson is joined by his flag Lieutenant, ThomasEddy, on bridge of his flagship, USS New Mexico.Navy Photo |
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| Pearl Harbor was not an accident, a mere failure of American Intelligence, or a brilliant Japanese military coup. It was the result of a carefully orchestrated design, initiated at the highest levels of the US government. According to a key memorandum, eight steps were taken to make sure America would enter the war by this means. Pearl Harbor was the only way, leading officials felt, to galvanize the reluctant American public into action. |
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| (above right) The eccentric Lieutenant Commander Joseph J. Rockefort (with raised hand) commanded station HYPO in 1941. He is shown here in a game of dominoes aboard the USS Indianapolis in 1940. Photo by Carl Mydans for Life Magazine. |
| This book is dedicated to the late United States Congressman John Moss (D., CA), author of America's Freedom of Information Act. Without the FOIA the information revealed in this book would never have surface. I was able to express my gratitude to the Congressman when he was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists during an awards dinner in San Francisco, March 19, 1997. |
 The attackers. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto held Japan's major afloat command in 1941 as Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Imperial Japanese Navy photo. |
 Vice-Admeril Chulchi Nagumo, commander of the Firs Air Fleet. Imperial Japanese Navy photo |
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| (top right) Richard Kotoshirodo assisted Morimura in gathering intelligence information for the Japanese navy. Kotoshirodo, an American citizen, was later sent to a Utah internment camp at Topaz, but was never charge with espionage. Photo from FBI files. |
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The author of Day of Deceit, Robert S. Stinnett, served in the United States Navy under Lieu- tenant George Bush from 1942 to 1946, where he earned ten battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. He worked as a photographer and journalist for the Oakland Tribune until 1986. He resigned to devote himself to this book. He is a consultant on the Pacific War for the BBC and the Asahi and NHK Television in Japan. He divides his time between Oakland and Hawaii. |
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| (far left) The SS Shaw hit by Japanese bombs while in dry dock, presented one of the most dramatic photographs of the attack. US Navy photo (above center) Tragedy left its mark that day in Oahu. A victim of the Day of Deceit on the shore of Kaneohe Bay. US Navy photo, National Archives. (far right) Rescue squads work on the capsized bull of the USS Oklahoma in an attempt to rescue trapped sailors. Lawrence McCutcheon, the first American believed to have been killed in the raid, died at his post high on the mainmast of the Maryland (top) US Navy photo |
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REVIEWED
BY:
John Toland, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of Infamy. "Step by step, Stinnett
goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible
secrets that have never before been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing
that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from
the public until Stinnett's Freedom
of Information Act requests finally persuaded the navy to release
the evidence."
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REVIEWED
BY:
Gore Vidal. "Many of us who are veterans
of World War II's Pacific
Theater of Operations have always suspected that the December
7, 1941, Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor was deliberately
provoked. A half century later, Robert Stinnett
has come up with most of the smoking guns. Day
of Deceit shows that the famous 'surprise'
attack was no surprise to our war-minded rulers, and that the three
thousand American military men killed and
wounded one Sunday morning in Hawaii
were, to our rulers and their present avatars, a small price
to pay for that 'global empire' over which
we now so ineptly preside."
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Jacket
design by Rick Pracher
First published in the USA in 2000 by The Free Press (A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.) and in the UK in 2000 by Constable * Co. Ltd. |
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