There are many conspiracies in this world, but a very important one is the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many people ask, “Did Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) know about the fateful attack on Pearl Harbor?” New York writer, Robert B. Stinnett, knows the answer to this question.
Robert states that FDR knew one week or more in advance about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. FDR knew this because American Naval Intelligence had cracked the Japanese naval codes in the early fall of 1940, fifteen months before the attack. Cranky poets and some republican politicians began to suspect that somehow Pearl Harbor was a set-up. Some say that FDR used Pearl Harbor just for a reason to go to war. According to historian Stephan E. Ambrose, the Japanese naval fleet was lost due to their strict radio silence. But Washington was underestimating the Japanese by assuming the attack would come against Dutch or British possessions in East Asia, not against Hawaii. Robert B. Stinnett states that all this information is false.
After receiving a top secret file, containing over one million documents relating to United States Communication Intelligence before and during the war, Robert discovered something. The intelligence network was composed of twenty-one radio intercept stations located along the North American coast from Panama to Alaska, and on the pacific islands from Hawaii to the Philippines. Ninety percent of all Japanese radio transmissions were intercepted by one or more of these stations. Once intercepted and translated, the intelligence information was sent to top United States military, naval, and cabinet officials, including the president. In all, about thirty-six individuals were sent this information. Intelligence information was withheld from Lieutenant General Walter C. Short, the commander of army forces in Hawaii, about a Japanese strike at Pearl Harbor. They also withheld this information from Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the pacific fleet. FDR had set them up...