FDR and Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
The film examines theories and possible conspiracies surrounding Pearl Harbor. There has been much debate about how and why the United States was taken by surprise, and to what extent and when American officials knew about Japan’s plans and related issues.
Some believe that all parties knew about the attack in advance and may even have allowed or encouraged it in order to force the United States into the war. The film includes versions of Pearl Harbor Advance – Intellectual Debate and more.
Before the attack, Lieutenant Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi, commander of the Japanese task force, received a briefing from Hawaiian Vice Consul Masashi Morimura. Morimura, whose real name is Takeo Yoshikawa, was a Japanese naval officer who was sent to Hawaii on a spy mission in April 1941.
Yoshikawa’s communiqué was intercepted, declassified, and translated by the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the intercept was sent to Washington, but Admiral Kimmel did not receive the information. He fails to mention that many of them were not deciphered or translated before the Japanese attack.
