James Bond Warned FDR About Pearl Harbor!

[PoliticalChic]

Fact is, James Bond was not needed and the thesis for this thread relies on the reader not being aware of important information. Think about it. Books were written and being studied in places like Annapolis and West Point about the Japanese attacking America.

The real James Bond, Dusko Popov, was sent by the Brits to make sure FDR couldn't deny he had been warned.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Although I am pleased to see it here this is old news. Anyone with the penchant for a little research knew this 40 or more years ago. The information is there, documented, irefutable and damning. Do a little research and watch your cynicism meter peg.

To whom are you addressing this post?

 

[irosie91]

Monday morning quarter-back

 

[irosie91]

James Bond tried to warn FDR but the message was intercepted by SPECTRE while Bond was being tortured by a “laser”

Why are you trying to derail the thread with your nonsense posts? ...

comic relief

 

[Toronado3800]

An attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan was being studied and predicted at war colleges since the early '20s. Hector Charles Bywater had been writing essays and articles predicting attacks by the Japanese as a Naval expert and correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph before publishing his first book in 1921. Two more books followed

Google "Sea Power in the Pacific" 1921 and: "Grear Pacific War" 1925.

Exactly what I've said, you dunce.

Japan knew, the Germans knew- Japan’s allies, the British knew- they sent a spy to make sure the White House knew, the Soviets knew- they had planned it, even the Korean Kilsoo Haan knew-

...and it was well advertised by a number of sources, including newspapers and the start of a Hollywood film by John Huston....who altered it to the Panama Canal after the attack.

The only one who didn't know....sort of.....was the great Roosevelt.

But....he did know how valuable it would be to his beloved, Stalin, to prevent Japan from attacking the Soviets.




While American racial policies might have been an irritant….San Francisco barred Japanese student from public school in 1905, among other things…..there is this Japanese-Russian history:

a. First Sino-Japanese War of 1895. Russia provided military support to the Qing Empire in China

b. After squabbling over Korea, the Japanese opted to go to war, staging a surprise attack on the Russian navy at Port Arthur on February 8, 1904.

c. Japan was an ally of Britain and the United States in WWI.

d. And, 1918–1922 Japanese military forces went to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by western powers and Japan to support White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War. The Japanese suffered 1,399 killed and another 1,717 deaths from disease in that intervention.[Wikipedia]

e. The Soviet–Japanese border conflicts was a series of battles and skirmishes between the forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Empire of Japan, as well as their respective client states of Mongolia and Manchukuo. Lasting from 1932 to 1939.


And, Japan knew of the natural resources in Siberia….and how useful they could be in empire-building.






Sooo…..in order to build an empire, the question for Japan: attack north, or attack south, the Soviet Union, or the United States. Based on history, North seems the obvious choice…..

Or….

What could be better for the Soviet Union than a war between Japan and the United States!
Just imagine what would have happened had America had a President who wasn't a Stalin boot-licker.





I run circles around you, don't I, you dope.

If Japan had seen the U.S. as a non threat perhaps they would have skipped that non aggression treaty with Russia. Not sure what they would have done with Siberia, how quickly they could have occupied it and turned it into a plus for their war machine, but that would have been interesting.

I THINK the best Russian strategy would be to virtually let the Japanese have Siberia until at least Winter of 42. The Japanese never won the war with China and would have had to seriously refocus their military aims. This assumes the U.S. dedicates itself entirely to a war in Europe providing total aid to England against the Germans. This requires Roosevelt to be President not a NAZI bootlicker like Charles Lindbergh.

 

[Toronado3800]

An attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan was being studied and predicted at war colleges since the early '20s. Hector Charles Bywater had been writing essays and articles predicting attacks by the Japanese as a Naval expert and correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph before publishing his first book in 1921. Two more books followed

Google "Sea Power in the Pacific" 1921 and: "Grear Pacific War" 1925.

We can't talk with a poster blinded by who is paying her or hatred, but yeah, we seemed really READY for war then and there. I think the Philippians situation was a bit more ridiculous really. FDR really could have refocused our military totally on air defense but he wasn't that kind of military genius. Oops. A lot of folks got taken in at the beginning of WWII by how it was going to be fought. Go figure, the aggressors were the ones ready for war.

 

[Votto]

Today, yet another new experience for government school grads: real, documented history.




1.Current scholarship has clearly placed the blame for the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Franklin Roosevelt and his slipshod administration.

The central question was whether Roosevelt was essentially working for the benefit of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communists, or he was simply…..slow-witted.



2. First and foremost, everyone expected that the Japanese were planning on going to war. The only unknown factor was their target. They wanted very much to be a major force, and, based on the lack of natural resources, needed to conquer some geography that provided same. They had some probing military action against the French, in Indochina, but the majority of their aggression had been vis-à-vis with Russia, even before the Bolsheviks took over: there were a number of battles, wars, between the Rising Sun and the Red Star.

For Japan, it was either war, or economic strangulation, and many in the West imagined they could get the popcorn, and watch the Pay-per-View battle begin.

They overestimated Roosevelt, and underestimated Stalin. Many still do.




3. Now…’James Bond’? Well not the super-spy we all love, but a real spy on whom Ian Fleming based his fictionalized version: Dusko Popov.

“Dušan "Duško" Popov, OBE (10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System.”
Duško Popov - Wikipedia


4. Now…Popov, the playboy-spy, was collecting a salary from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, and from his real bosses, British MI6. On August 10, 1941, he hopped over to America on orders from the Abwehr, to gather information on American military defenses, and industrial capacity.

“Upon his arrival in New York, Popov was met by agents of the FBI who grilled him for days. In his memoirs, Popov said that one of his first statements to FBI bureau chief John Foxworth was: "You can expect an attack on Pearl Harbor before the end of the year . . . " Did Hoover Know Of Pearl Harbor?




The Japanese knew, of course, but so did the Germans, and the British….and, the Soviets who controlled Roosevelt’s foreign policy, they knew.



Only Franklin the Great didn’t seem to know…….


Next……warning of the impending attack.

The Japanese Code was broken long before Pearl Harbor, but we are led to believe they did not see it coming?

Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941 and they claim they did not know about it, but at the battle of Midway they used the broken code to decimate Japan on June 5, 1942?

Really? Who believes this nonsense?

 

[Toronado3800]

Today, yet another new experience for government school grads: real, documented history.




1.Current scholarship has clearly placed the blame for the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Franklin Roosevelt and his slipshod administration.

The central question was whether Roosevelt was essentially working for the benefit of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communists, or he was simply…..slow-witted.



2. First and foremost, everyone expected that the Japanese were planning on going to war. The only unknown factor was their target. They wanted very much to be a major force, and, based on the lack of natural resources, needed to conquer some geography that provided same. They had some probing military action against the French, in Indochina, but the majority of their aggression had been vis-à-vis with Russia, even before the Bolsheviks took over: there were a number of battles, wars, between the Rising Sun and the Red Star.

For Japan, it was either war, or economic strangulation, and many in the West imagined they could get the popcorn, and watch the Pay-per-View battle begin.

They overestimated Roosevelt, and underestimated Stalin. Many still do.




3. Now…’James Bond’? Well not the super-spy we all love, but a real spy on whom Ian Fleming based his fictionalized version: Dusko Popov.

“Dušan "Duško" Popov, OBE (10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System.”
Duško Popov - Wikipedia


4. Now…Popov, the playboy-spy, was collecting a salary from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, and from his real bosses, British MI6. On August 10, 1941, he hopped over to America on orders from the Abwehr, to gather information on American military defenses, and industrial capacity.

“Upon his arrival in New York, Popov was met by agents of the FBI who grilled him for days. In his memoirs, Popov said that one of his first statements to FBI bureau chief John Foxworth was: "You can expect an attack on Pearl Harbor before the end of the year . . . " Did Hoover Know Of Pearl Harbor?




The Japanese knew, of course, but so did the Germans, and the British….and, the Soviets who controlled Roosevelt’s foreign policy, they knew.



Only Franklin the Great didn’t seem to know…….


Next……warning of the impending attack.

The Japanese Code was broken long before Pearl Harbor, but we are led to believe they did not see it coming?

Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941 and they claim they did not know about it, but at the battle of Midway they used the broken code to decimate Japan on June 5, 1942?

Really? Who believes this nonsense?

I think there is a bit more to it. If you know war is coming, you park all your ships there and wait.

Now if you know an air attack is coming....

Not sure this is the greatest article on it but: The Coventry Blitz 'conspiracy'
Did Churchill do the right thing there?

IF FDR knew the exact nature of the Japanese attack he may not have expected his commanders to be caught THAT badly by it but welcomed the invitation to war.

This is a terrible link: Allies Knew About Battle of the Bulge - Why they Ignored Intelligence but it brings up another conspiracy. Given the disposition of troops Eisenhower just had to be tempting the Germans into attacking between Spa and Bastogne. Can't really admit that type of thing to the families of the battered bastards though. The bulge battle in '44 was a blessing for the allies in the bigger sense, let the Germans tire themselves out advancing rather than on the other side of the Rhine. S

 

[Freiheit]

Although I am pleased to see it here this is old news. Anyone with the penchant for a little research knew this 40 or more years ago. The information is there, documented, irefutable and damning. Do a little research and watch your cynicism meter peg.

What difference does it make? I did the research years ago and came to the conclusion Mr. Roosevelt actively sought a war with Japan. Do a little research on the Gulf of Tonkin event and you will find one of Mr. Roosevelts disciples doing the same thing.
These are just the tip of the iceberg.



To whom are you addressing this post?

 

[Freiheit]

I have written replys to your post "to whom are you addressing this post" and they are not showing up what is going on?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Today, yet another new experience for government school grads: real, documented history.




1.Current scholarship has clearly placed the blame for the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Franklin Roosevelt and his slipshod administration.

The central question was whether Roosevelt was essentially working for the benefit of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communists, or he was simply…..slow-witted.



2. First and foremost, everyone expected that the Japanese were planning on going to war. The only unknown factor was their target. They wanted very much to be a major force, and, based on the lack of natural resources, needed to conquer some geography that provided same. They had some probing military action against the French, in Indochina, but the majority of their aggression had been vis-à-vis with Russia, even before the Bolsheviks took over: there were a number of battles, wars, between the Rising Sun and the Red Star.

For Japan, it was either war, or economic strangulation, and many in the West imagined they could get the popcorn, and watch the Pay-per-View battle begin.

They overestimated Roosevelt, and underestimated Stalin. Many still do.




3. Now…’James Bond’? Well not the super-spy we all love, but a real spy on whom Ian Fleming based his fictionalized version: Dusko Popov.

“Dušan "Duško" Popov, OBE (10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System.”
Duško Popov - Wikipedia


4. Now…Popov, the playboy-spy, was collecting a salary from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, and from his real bosses, British MI6. On August 10, 1941, he hopped over to America on orders from the Abwehr, to gather information on American military defenses, and industrial capacity.

“Upon his arrival in New York, Popov was met by agents of the FBI who grilled him for days. In his memoirs, Popov said that one of his first statements to FBI bureau chief John Foxworth was: "You can expect an attack on Pearl Harbor before the end of the year . . . " Did Hoover Know Of Pearl Harbor?




The Japanese knew, of course, but so did the Germans, and the British….and, the Soviets who controlled Roosevelt’s foreign policy, they knew.



Only Franklin the Great didn’t seem to know…….


Next……warning of the impending attack.

The Japanese Code was broken long before Pearl Harbor, but we are led to believe they did not see it coming?

Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941 and they claim they did not know about it, but at the battle of Midway they used the broken code to decimate Japan on June 5, 1942?

Really? Who believes this nonsense?

Did you think that this meant that FDR didn't know that an attack was coming?

The Japanese knew, of course, but so did the Germans, and the British….and, the Soviets who controlled Roosevelt’s foreign policy, they knew.



Only Franklin the Great didn’t seem to know…….

 

[whitehall]

James Bond warned JFK about Dallas

Sadly the CIA hasn't been on top of any major event in the 20th century but that's another story. COS George Marshall was credited with having an almost photographic memory but he couldn't remember where he was during the early morning hours of arguably the most important date in his career on 12/7/1941 when his people were frantically looking for him. Subsequent investigations were politically slanted and Marshall got a pass while front line commanders (with the possible exception of MacArthur) were blamed.

When Marshall found out about the attack, he made the following statement:

"Pearl Harbor was the only installation we had anywhere that was reasonably well equipped. Therefore we were not worried about it. In our opinion, the commanders had been alerted. In our opinion there was nothing more we could give them....In our opinion it was the one place that had within itself to put up a reasonable defense. The only place we had any assurance about was Hawaii."
John Koster, "Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor," p. 356



How many lies can you find in that brief statement?

Marshall had the documents in his hand. He knew the attack was coming but he decided to send a Western Union telegram instead of lifting the freaking phone. Was "magic" more important than the thousand lives on the Arizona? The only logical reason for the FDR administration's criminal negligence is the ingrained racism. There was no national intelligence network so the old farts in congress relied on racist assumptions prevalent at the time that the Japanese were nearsighted little yellow people who had a balance problem and were unable to build a ship that would float or a plane that would fly. FDR was anxious to get the American civilian population motivated for the real war in Europe while the Japanese were considered pushovers.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Japanese should have attacked the USSR, instead Stalin had his American sock puppet, FDR goad the Japanese into attacking the USA

 

[Freiheit]

John Tolands' Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath published in 1982 started me researching FDR and the start of WW2. It is an excellent read and an historical study of import. It will be of benefit in understanding the reality of FDR.

 

[PoliticalChic]

James Bond warned JFK about Dallas

Sadly the CIA hasn't been on top of any major event in the 20th century but that's another story. COS George Marshall was credited with having an almost photographic memory but he couldn't remember where he was during the early morning hours of arguably the most important date in his career on 12/7/1941 when his people were frantically looking for him. Subsequent investigations were politically slanted and Marshall got a pass while front line commanders (with the possible exception of MacArthur) were blamed.

When Marshall found out about the attack, he made the following statement:

"Pearl Harbor was the only installation we had anywhere that was reasonably well equipped. Therefore we were not worried about it. In our opinion, the commanders had been alerted. In our opinion there was nothing more we could give them....In our opinion it was the one place that had within itself to put up a reasonable defense. The only place we had any assurance about was Hawaii."
John Koster, "Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor," p. 356



How many lies can you find in that brief statement?

Marshall had the documents in his hand. He knew the attack was coming but he decided to send a Western Union telegram instead of lifting the freaking phone. Was "magic" more important than the thousand lives on the Arizona? The only logical reason for the FDR administration's criminal negligence is the ingrained racism. There was no national intelligence network so the old farts in congress relied on racist assumptions prevalent at the time that the Japanese were nearsighted little yellow people who had a balance problem and were unable to build a ship that would float or a plane that would fly. FDR was anxious to get the American civilian population motivated for the real war in Europe while the Japanese were considered pushovers.

"The only logical reason for the FDR administration's criminal negligence is the ingrained racism."

Perhaps one reason, since FDR certainly didn't like minorities of any sort, but you haven't explained why he revealed his love of all things Soviet as one of his first official acts.

It was on November 16, 1933 that Roosevelt announced to the world his life-long infatuation with psychopath Joseph Stalin: he reversed American policy to give his imprimatur to the blood-soaked Soviet Union.

If this act, based on FDR's additional pro-Soviet passions, was rational....then these folks must have been irrational:
"Four Presidents and their six Secretaries of State for over a decade and a half held to this resolve," i.e., refusal to recognize the Soviet government.

That was written by Herbert Hoover, one of those four Presidents. He wrote it in his Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath by George H. Nash, published posthumously, obviously, in 2011, pg 24-29.




My thesis is that FDR knew as well as Stalin did that Japan was poised to attack his flank, and needed that attack elsewhere.

I suggest you research the Sorge Group of spies that he unleashed in Tokyo, as well as those FDR welcomed into America.

 

[danielpalos]

Today, yet another new experience for government school grads: real, documented history.




1.Current scholarship has clearly placed the blame for the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Franklin Roosevelt and his slipshod administration.

The central question was whether Roosevelt was essentially working for the benefit of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communists, or he was simply…..slow-witted.



2. First and foremost, everyone expected that the Japanese were planning on going to war. The only unknown factor was their target. They wanted very much to be a major force, and, based on the lack of natural resources, needed to conquer some geography that provided same. They had some probing military action against the French, in Indochina, but the majority of their aggression had been vis-à-vis with Russia, even before the Bolsheviks took over: there were a number of battles, wars, between the Rising Sun and the Red Star.

For Japan, it was either war, or economic strangulation, and many in the West imagined they could get the popcorn, and watch the Pay-per-View battle begin.

They overestimated Roosevelt, and underestimated Stalin. Many still do.




3. Now…’James Bond’? Well not the super-spy we all love, but a real spy on whom Ian Fleming based his fictionalized version: Dusko Popov.

“Dušan "Duško" Popov, OBE (10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System.”
Duško Popov - Wikipedia


4. Now…Popov, the playboy-spy, was collecting a salary from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, and from his real bosses, British MI6. On August 10, 1941, he hopped over to America on orders from the Abwehr, to gather information on American military defenses, and industrial capacity.

“Upon his arrival in New York, Popov was met by agents of the FBI who grilled him for days. In his memoirs, Popov said that one of his first statements to FBI bureau chief John Foxworth was: "You can expect an attack on Pearl Harbor before the end of the year . . . " Did Hoover Know Of Pearl Harbor?




The Japanese knew, of course, but so did the Germans, and the British….and, the Soviets who controlled Roosevelt’s foreign policy, they knew.



Only Franklin the Great didn’t seem to know…….


Next……warning of the impending attack.

everybody knows Government solves all problems. Thank Goodness FDR was a left winger.

 

[Markle]

Today, yet another new experience for government school grads: real, documented history.




1.Current scholarship has clearly placed the blame for the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Franklin Roosevelt and his slipshod administration.

The central question was whether Roosevelt was essentially working for the benefit of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communists, or he was simply…..slow-witted.



2. First and foremost, everyone expected that the Japanese were planning on going to war. The only unknown factor was their target. They wanted very much to be a major force, and, based on the lack of natural resources, needed to conquer some geography that provided same. They had some probing military action against the French, in Indochina, but the majority of their aggression had been vis-à-vis with Russia, even before the Bolsheviks took over: there were a number of battles, wars, between the Rising Sun and the Red Star.

For Japan, it was either war, or economic strangulation, and many in the West imagined they could get the popcorn, and watch the Pay-per-View battle begin.

They overestimated Roosevelt, and underestimated Stalin. Many still do.




3. Now…’James Bond’? Well not the super-spy we all love, but a real spy on whom Ian Fleming based his fictionalized version: Dusko Popov.

“Dušan "Duško" Popov, OBE (10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System.”
Duško Popov - Wikipedia


4. Now…Popov, the playboy-spy, was collecting a salary from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, and from his real bosses, British MI6. On August 10, 1941, he hopped over to America on orders from the Abwehr, to gather information on American military defenses, and industrial capacity.

“Upon his arrival in New York, Popov was met by agents of the FBI who grilled him for days. In his memoirs, Popov said that one of his first statements to FBI bureau chief John Foxworth was: "You can expect an attack on Pearl Harbor before the end of the year . . . " Did Hoover Know Of Pearl Harbor?




The Japanese knew, of course, but so did the Germans, and the British….and, the Soviets who controlled Roosevelt’s foreign policy, they knew.



Only Franklin the Great didn’t seem to know…….


Next……warning of the impending attack.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Today, yet another new experience for government school grads: real, documented history.




1.Current scholarship has clearly placed the blame for the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Franklin Roosevelt and his slipshod administration.

The central question was whether Roosevelt was essentially working for the benefit of Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communists, or he was simply…..slow-witted.



2. First and foremost, everyone expected that the Japanese were planning on going to war. The only unknown factor was their target. They wanted very much to be a major force, and, based on the lack of natural resources, needed to conquer some geography that provided same. They had some probing military action against the French, in Indochina, but the majority of their aggression had been vis-à-vis with Russia, even before the Bolsheviks took over: there were a number of battles, wars, between the Rising Sun and the Red Star.

For Japan, it was either war, or economic strangulation, and many in the West imagined they could get the popcorn, and watch the Pay-per-View battle begin.

They overestimated Roosevelt, and underestimated Stalin. Many still do.




3. Now…’James Bond’? Well not the super-spy we all love, but a real spy on whom Ian Fleming based his fictionalized version: Dusko Popov.

“Dušan "Duško" Popov, OBE (10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System.”
Duško Popov - Wikipedia


4. Now…Popov, the playboy-spy, was collecting a salary from the Abwehr, German military intelligence, and from his real bosses, British MI6. On August 10, 1941, he hopped over to America on orders from the Abwehr, to gather information on American military defenses, and industrial capacity.

“Upon his arrival in New York, Popov was met by agents of the FBI who grilled him for days. In his memoirs, Popov said that one of his first statements to FBI bureau chief John Foxworth was: "You can expect an attack on Pearl Harbor before the end of the year . . . " Did Hoover Know Of Pearl Harbor?




The Japanese knew, of course, but so did the Germans, and the British….and, the Soviets who controlled Roosevelt’s foreign policy, they knew.



Only Franklin the Great didn’t seem to know…….


Next……warning of the impending attack.

Are you actually positing that the President of the United States functioning to save the Soviet Union is irrelevant?

Or....that you can find anything.....anything....in my posts that isn't a fact???


Let's hear it.

 

[whitehall]

James Bond warned JFK about Dallas

Sadly the CIA hasn't been on top of any major event in the 20th century but that's another story. COS George Marshall was credited with having an almost photographic memory but he couldn't remember where he was during the early morning hours of arguably the most important date in his career on 12/7/1941 when his people were frantically looking for him. Subsequent investigations were politically slanted and Marshall got a pass while front line commanders (with the possible exception of MacArthur) were blamed.

When Marshall found out about the attack, he made the following statement:

"Pearl Harbor was the only installation we had anywhere that was reasonably well equipped. Therefore we were not worried about it. In our opinion, the commanders had been alerted. In our opinion there was nothing more we could give them....In our opinion it was the one place that had within itself to put up a reasonable defense. The only place we had any assurance about was Hawaii."
John Koster, "Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor," p. 356



How many lies can you find in that brief statement?

Marshall had the documents in his hand. He knew the attack was coming but he decided to send a Western Union telegram instead of lifting the freaking phone. Was "magic" more important than the thousand lives on the Arizona? The only logical reason for the FDR administration's criminal negligence is the ingrained racism. There was no national intelligence network so the old farts in congress relied on racist assumptions prevalent at the time that the Japanese were nearsighted little yellow people who had a balance problem and were unable to build a ship that would float or a plane that would fly. FDR was anxious to get the American civilian population motivated for the real war in Europe while the Japanese were considered pushovers.

"The only logical reason for the FDR administration's criminal negligence is the ingrained racism."

Perhaps one reason, since FDR certainly didn't like minorities of any sort, but you haven't explained why he revealed his love of all things Soviet as one of his first official acts.

It was on November 16, 1933 that Roosevelt announced to the world his life-long infatuation with psychopath Joseph Stalin: he reversed American policy to give his imprimatur to the blood-soaked Soviet Union.

If this act, based on FDR's additional pro-Soviet passions, was rational....then these folks must have been irrational:
"Four Presidents and their six Secretaries of State for over a decade and a half held to this resolve," i.e., refusal to recognize the Soviet government.

That was written by Herbert Hoover, one of those four Presidents. He wrote it in his Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath by George H. Nash, published posthumously, obviously, in 2011, pg 24-29.




My thesis is that FDR knew as well as Stalin did that Japan was poised to attack his flank, and needed that attack elsewhere.

I suggest you research the Sorge Group of spies that he unleashed in Tokyo, as well as those FDR welcomed into America.

Yeah I read the book about basebal player Hank Greenburg being a U.S. spy but the information was either discarded or ignored. Maybe the term "racism" gives a different connotation in the 21st century. There was no cognizant intelligence network available to the FDR administration in the 30's and apparently they didn't care. You can find ample documentation that the FDR administration held on to 19th century opinions about the Oriental race including Japanese. Government propaganda depicted the Japanese as a war like (subhuman?) race that was incapable of industrial development. It's kind of puzzling that FDR called the "Old Soldier" out of retirement to command the U.S. and Filipino troops most likely to be the target of Japanese aggression once war was declared and it turned into one of the worst defeats in U.S. history within four months of hostilities. What the hell was FDR thinking?

 

[PoliticalChic]

James Bond warned JFK about Dallas

Sadly the CIA hasn't been on top of any major event in the 20th century but that's another story. COS George Marshall was credited with having an almost photographic memory but he couldn't remember where he was during the early morning hours of arguably the most important date in his career on 12/7/1941 when his people were frantically looking for him. Subsequent investigations were politically slanted and Marshall got a pass while front line commanders (with the possible exception of MacArthur) were blamed.

When Marshall found out about the attack, he made the following statement:

"Pearl Harbor was the only installation we had anywhere that was reasonably well equipped. Therefore we were not worried about it. In our opinion, the commanders had been alerted. In our opinion there was nothing more we could give them....In our opinion it was the one place that had within itself to put up a reasonable defense. The only place we had any assurance about was Hawaii."
John Koster, "Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor," p. 356



How many lies can you find in that brief statement?

Marshall had the documents in his hand. He knew the attack was coming but he decided to send a Western Union telegram instead of lifting the freaking phone. Was "magic" more important than the thousand lives on the Arizona? The only logical reason for the FDR administration's criminal negligence is the ingrained racism. There was no national intelligence network so the old farts in congress relied on racist assumptions prevalent at the time that the Japanese were nearsighted little yellow people who had a balance problem and were unable to build a ship that would float or a plane that would fly. FDR was anxious to get the American civilian population motivated for the real war in Europe while the Japanese were considered pushovers.

"The only logical reason for the FDR administration's criminal negligence is the ingrained racism."

Perhaps one reason, since FDR certainly didn't like minorities of any sort, but you haven't explained why he revealed his love of all things Soviet as one of his first official acts.

It was on November 16, 1933 that Roosevelt announced to the world his life-long infatuation with psychopath Joseph Stalin: he reversed American policy to give his imprimatur to the blood-soaked Soviet Union.

If this act, based on FDR's additional pro-Soviet passions, was rational....then these folks must have been irrational:
"Four Presidents and their six Secretaries of State for over a decade and a half held to this resolve," i.e., refusal to recognize the Soviet government.

That was written by Herbert Hoover, one of those four Presidents. He wrote it in his Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath by George H. Nash, published posthumously, obviously, in 2011, pg 24-29.




My thesis is that FDR knew as well as Stalin did that Japan was poised to attack his flank, and needed that attack elsewhere.

I suggest you research the Sorge Group of spies that he unleashed in Tokyo, as well as those FDR welcomed into America.

Yeah I read the book about basebal player Hank Greenburg being a U.S. spy but the information was either discarded or ignored. Maybe the term "racism" gives a different connotation in the 21st century. There was no cognizant intelligence network available to the FDR administration in the 30's and apparently they didn't care. You can find ample documentation that the FDR administration held on to 19th century opinions about the Oriental race including Japanese. Government propaganda depicted the Japanese as a war like (subhuman?) race that was incapable of industrial development. It's kind of puzzling that FDR called the "Old Soldier" out of retirement to command the U.S. and Filipino troops most likely to be the target of Japanese aggression once war was declared and it turned into one of the worst defeats in U.S. history within four months of hostilities. What the hell was FDR thinking?

"Yeah I read the book about basebal player Hank Greenburg being a U.S. spy but the information was either discarded or ignored."


I don't know of any such book, nor do I know what that has to do with Roosevelt's clear and evident affection for Stalin and all things Soviet.