Certainly an intriguing mystery. Intelligence tells me the US wouldn't need to go to this extreme.
New book claims Amelia Earhart was Japanese prisoner in WWII
EXCLUSIVE: Could the mystery of Amelia Earhart finally be solved? New book claims pilot was captured while spying on the Japanese who held her prisoner until 1945 -and she took a new identity when freed
New book claims Amelia Earhart was Japanese prisoner in WWII
EXCLUSIVE: Could the mystery of Amelia Earhart finally be solved? New book claims pilot was captured while spying on the Japanese who held her prisoner until 1945 -and she took a new identity when freed
- Author W.C. Jameson says he has found evidence Earhart was on a secret spying mission authorized by Roosevelt when she crashed
- He believes her plane was fitted with cameras to record Japanese military installations in the Pacific when it lost contact in the Marshall Islands
- Jameson says he believes Earhart and Fred Noonan were shot down or landed in Japanese territory and held prisoner
- Administration did not want to admit to using high-profile round-the-world flight by female aviation pioneer as spy mission
- He believes Earhart took on identity of Irene Craigmile Bolam after being freed in 1945 and died in 1982
- Scores of Earhart documents remain classified - some of them top secret