How a soviet mole in FDR's White House...triggered Pearl Harbor.

[Sundance508]

'Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. intelligence agencies, or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery—until now. In Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor, author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, forever.Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double-agents and communist sympathizers—most notably, Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.'

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Snow-Soviet-Triggered-Harbor/dp/1596983221&tag=ff0d01-20

 

[irosie91]

I used to read idiot books like that------long ago

 

[WillowTree]

As soon as I can walk again I am going to buy this one

 

[Sundance508]

The communist agent who caused Pearl Harbor and Global Economic havoc.

The Communist Agent Who Caused Pearl Harbor — and Global Economic Havoc

 

[Sundance508]

I used to read idiot books like that------long ago

hehheh..................
John Koster is not the first author to lay the Japanese bombing ofPearl Harbor largely at the feet of Soviet agents. He has, however, connected major pieces of that Soviet activity within the United States in significant detail.

Mr. Koster, a serious author of history and U.S. Army veteran, has written a volume shining new light on the Soviet plot — specifically as it involved Harry Dexter White.

In “Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White HouseTriggered Pearl Harbor,” the author follows the twists and turns ofWhite’s perfidy as a top official in FDR’s Treasury Department. Not the least of the New Dealers who relied heavily on White’s judgment was his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau, as well as others in President Roosevelt’s Cabinet.

Mr. Koster writes that White pulled off “one of the most devastating acts of treason in American history.”

If one were to produce a movie spy thriller based on this real-life espionage case, the opening scene in April 1941 would show a cautious Vitaly Pavlov inching his way toward a payphone in Washington. The “second-in-command” in the NKVD (predecessor to the KGB) looks around to be certain he was not being followed.
He nervously drops coins in the phone and reaches White at his desk. White speaks softly to avoid being overheard. At first, the Treasury official tries to blow off Pavlov, who cites a third party’s code name that White recognizes. He proposes the two meet soon.

“I have a pretty busy schedule,” White says. Assured the proposed rendezvous was super-important, they meet at a certain time at the Old Ebbitt Grill, a longtime restaurant (still today) near the White House.

One may wonder why they did not pick a more remote, cheap joint to discuss undercover business. But for White, the proximity to his workplace was a convenience issue. Not for the first time was treason plotted within “plain sight.”

White agreed to provoke a war between the United States and Japan.

“Operation Snow” mentions a host of issues leading to Dec. 7, 1941. At the top of the list was oil. Japan didn’t produce any. The only question was whether to attack the Soviet Union for its oil or to attack an area in “the West” for the same goal. The first inclination of the Imperial Japanese government was to attack the Soviets. Japanese-Soviet relations were historically strained anyway.

Though it is not clear that White knew the Japanese would ultimately bomb Pearl Harbor, his focus was to spare the Soviets from attack from “the Land of the Rising Sun.” This he would do by actively influencing the Roosevelt administration against reaching a rapprochement with the Japanese. This book does not record whether White experienced the slightest angst as 2,402 American bodies piled up on that “day of infamy.” But he had lost sleep (literally) when he thought FDR was leaning the “wrong” way.

Once the Hitler-Stalin pact abruptly ended, there was but one area of concern that induced Japan to remain in the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy: its mistrust of communism and its long-standing feud with the USSR, dating back to the Soviet predecessor, czarist Russia (with whom the Japanese had fought a war). Moreover, Japan had rejected Nazi Germany’s vicious attitude toward world Jewry.

Mr. Koster prints large portions of August 1948 testimony by Harry Dexter White before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The former Treasury official knew he had failed to exonerate himself in his committee appearance, and he ended his life three days later in a disguised suicide. The still-raw emotions over the dead at Pearl Harbor possibly meant disgrace and prison, or worse. The prospect apparently was too much.

Though White is rightly featured as a key player in this plot, he did have help that could have been (but is not) even briefly mentioned in this book: Owen Lattimore at the Office of War Information, Lauchlin Currie at the White House and the Sorge spy ring in Tokyo.

Richard Sorge has been labeled as one of the most effective Soviet agents in history, whose undercover work had penetrated the Japanese government. Sorge was a wounded World War I German who posed in Japan as a German journalist loyal to the Nazis. In reality, he was a hard-boiled Soviet agent, member of and loyal to Moscow’s military intelligence directorate. Just before his arrest, he had told Josef Stalin that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor. Let not these omissions dissuade you from reading “Operation Snow,” a worthy addition to the still unfolding histories of World War II.

Wes Vernon is a Washington-based writer whose broadcast career included 25 years with CBS Radio. His column appears regularly at RenewAmerica.com.



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[WillowTree]

The communist agent who caused Pearl Harbor and Global Economic havoc.

The Communist Agent Who Caused Pearl Harbor — and Global Economic Havoc

Conspiracies are not my ideal.

 

[Picaro]

The communist agent who caused Pearl Harbor and Global Economic havoc.

The Communist Agent Who Caused Pearl Harbor — and Global Economic Havoc

Conspiracies are not my ideal.

Well, the right wingers are jealous of all the left wing cranks getting attention the last few days, and feel a need to show they have stuff out there, too.

 

[Sundance508]

The communist agent who caused Pearl Harbor and Global Economic havoc.

The Communist Agent Who Caused Pearl Harbor — and Global Economic Havoc

Conspiracies are not my ideal.

Well, the right wingers are jealous of all the left wing cranks getting attention the last few days, and feel a need to show they have stuff out there, too.

The role of Soviet Agents in The Attack on Pearl Harbor.

The role of Soviet agents in the Pearl Harbor attack

 

[Picaro]

The communist agent who caused Pearl Harbor and Global Economic havoc.

The Communist Agent Who Caused Pearl Harbor — and Global Economic Havoc

Conspiracies are not my ideal.

Well, the right wingers are jealous of all the left wing cranks getting attention the last few days, and feel a need to show they have stuff out there, too.

The role of Soviet Agents in The Attack on Pearl Harbor.

The role of Soviet agents in the Pearl Harbor attack

I'm certain some 40 years of previous Japanese history had far more to do with Pearl than some innuendo driven speculations by Koster.

 

[Sundance508]

Richard Sorge...The master spy who helped alter the course of WWII.
Richard Sorge: The master spy who helped alter the course of WW2

 

[Sundance508]

There is the way the world works and then there is the way people are led to believe it works.

For instance....now we know that the Bush administration covered up Saudi connections to 9/11 aka how saudi oil money financed the attack amongst other things and blatantly rescued members of Osama Bin Ladens family that were in the U.S. at the time of 9/11 as well as some very important Saudis...flown out of Tampa, Florida on a special flight.

What Really happened in regards to the attack on Pearl Harbor:

PEARL HARBOR - MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Not exactly sure how 75 years ago is a current event. Moved

 

[Sundance508]

Not exactly sure how 75 years ago is a current event. Moved

Well, never have liked all the arbitary dividing up of topics as is practiced by boards these days....I miss the old aol political boards ...much better formats.

Anyhow...you could have at least posted the forwarding address. hehheh

 

[whitehall]

The Soviet Union was an ally of the U.S. during WW2 after Hitler double crossed fellow insane monster Joe Stalin. FDR called Stalin "Uncle Joe" and made jokes about Churchill at his expense. Pearl Harbor was a complicated case of negligence and insanity courtesy of the FDR administration. The U.S. had no "intelligence" agency as we know it today. The FDR administration depended on rumors, inuendoes, assumptions and racial stereotypes in a foreign policy that defies logical understanding. The actual intelligence data at the time made the gross racially biased assumptions that the Japanese people were pushovers because they were a little nearsighted bucktoothed brown race who were incapable of building a ship that would float or a plane that would fly. FDR invited a Japanese attack so he could get into the real war in Europe. Pearl Harbor was a prime example of criminal negligence but the FDR administration had absorbed the news media into the administration in violation of the 1st Amendment and any reporter who dared to tell the truth at the time would have found himself in jail for the duration.

 

[Sundance508]

'Pearl Harbor was the terminal result of a complex of events moving in many parallel
courses. National ambition and international intrigue, diplomacy, espionage, politics,
personalities, and the personal responses of men to crisis — all of these were of equal or
greater importance than purely military considerations. Finally, Pearl Harbor reduced
itself to a study of the reasons for which the United States was taken to war, the methods
by which it was taken to war, and the motives of those who determined that course'.

Full text of "Pearl Harbor:Story of the Secret War"

 

[Picaro]

Yes, those wonderful Japanese were just a bunch of peaceful hapless hippies the Evil FDR just jumped on for no reason. Dindonuttin. Those planes, carriers, and armies were actually Americans in disguise, and didn't really exist.

 

[Sundance508]

Yes, those wonderful Japanese were just a bunch of peaceful hapless hippies the Evil FDR just jumped on for no reason. Dindonuttin. Those planes, carriers, and armies were actually Americans in disguise, and didn't really exist.

Da kiddie pool is over dere>>>>>>