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FTR#1362 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
FTR#1363 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
U.S.S. Arizona
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Introduction: With the GOP targeting Social Security (implemented by FDR), the historical and cognitive discrediting of the New Deal has featured a fascistic revisionist history of Pearl Harbor.
Maintaining that Roosevelt deliberately let the attack proceed to bring the U.S. into World War II, this revisionism paints FDR as a traitor.
In this meticulously-researched and documented presentation, we not only refute this historical slander and revisionism, but demonstrate conclusively that Admiral Kimmel [in charge of Naval forces in Hawaii] and (perhaps to a lesser extent) General Short [in charge of Army forces in Hawaii] bear responsibility for the failure.
Destroyer U.S. Shaw Explodes at Pearl Harbor
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Points of Discussion and Analysis Include: The revisionist conspiracy theories about Pearl Harbor, blaming FDR, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Chief-of-Staff George C. Marshall among others for the failure of the military high command at Pearl Harbor; Major Henry Clausen’s pouch featuring a magnesium bomb to carry the decrypted messages from the Japanese Purple Code (a diplomatic code that was broken by U.S. intelligence personnel); The secure office in which Henry C. Clausen worked; The Army Board’s self-serving scapegoating of Chief-of-Staff Marshall; Three of the officers on the Army Board had been demoted by General Marshall; Among the shills attacking FDR was GOP Senator (from Michigan) Homer Ferguson, exposed as a propagandizing fool by Major Clausen; 1944 GOP Presidential Candidate Thomas Dewey was among those who pointed the accusing finger at FDR for deliberately allowing the attack to proceed; Warning on 1/24/41 of “a surprise attack upon the fleet or the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The dangers envisaged, in order of their importance and probability, are considered to be (1) air bombing attack, (2) air torpedo plane attack, (3) sabotage, (4) submarine attack . . . .’ ”; A message sent to Admiral Kimmel and seen by General Short–“The dispatch sent by the Chief of Naval Operations to Kimmel began with the fateful words ‘THIS DISPATCH IS TO BE CONSIDERED A WAR WARNING . . . . “; After noting that the U.S. had broken the Japanese Purple Code (a diplomatic code) ” . . . . Washington knew from reading these messages that war would have to break out, with Japan attacking somewhere in the Pacific. Therefore, the Navy in Washington alerted Kimmel on December 3 by sending two advisory messages that paraphrased the intercepts . . . . War had to follow; it was inevitable. . . .”; GOP shill Ferguson’s attempts to deflect blame toward Roosevelt: ” . . . . ‘But that was never sent to Kimmel and Short, was it?’ ‘It certainly was,’ I [Clausen] replied. I had him stone cold dead. . . .”; The Hawaiian newspapers had ample warning of the potential attacks to come; FDR knew that the intercepted messages meant that war was inevitable; Churchill and British intelligence knew that the intercepts meant that war was coming and alerted the U.S.; The role of the Bletchley Park codebreakers in communicating (to no avail) the Japanese imminent attack; The participation of one of those codebreakers–the late Colonel Harry Beckhough–on Mr. Emory’s website; Discussion of the U.S.S. Antares, the destroyer U.S.S. Ward and the warning they provided to Admiral Kimmel–to no avail; The attack on Pearl Harbor and the role in it played by General Minoru Genda, the eventual head of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, and the recipient of a medal from the U.S. Air Force; The performance characteristics of the aircraft carriers in the Pacific and the battleships in Pearl Harbor; The leak of the U.S. Navy’s code-breaking secret to the Japanese via the Chicago Tribune and its FDR-hating publisher Robert McCormick; The commencement of the Golden Lily operation with the Rape of Nanking in 1937; The fact that the breaking of the Japanese code informed the U.S. of the nature of the cargo of their ships, possibly informing today of the position of sunken Golden Lily treasure.
1. We begin by setting forth the revisionist conspiracy theories about Pearl Harbor, blaming FDR, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Chief-of-Staff George C. Marshall among others for the failure of the military high command at Pearl Harbor.
2. Next, we chronicle Major Henry Clausen’s pouch featuring a magnesium bomb to carry the decrypted messages from the Japanese Purple Code (a diplomatic code that was broken by U.S. intelligence personnel).
3. We then highlight the secure office in which Henry C. Clausen worked.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 24.
The Arizona’s forward magazines explode; 07/12/1941.
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4. Next, we note the Army Board’s self-serving scapegoating of Chief-of-Staff Marshall.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 58.
5. Three of the officers on the Army Board had been demoted by General Marshall!
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; pp. 25–26.
6. Among the shills attacking FDR was GOP Senator (from Michigan) Homer Ferguson, exposed as a propagandizing fool by Major Clausen.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 32.
7. 1944 GOP Presidential Candidate Thomas Dewey was among those who pointed the accusing finger at FDR for deliberately allowing the attack to proceed.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 23.
8. ” . . . . The primary duty of Short and Kimmel was to protect the fleet. This was made clear by the Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, who wrote a letter to his counterpart, the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, on January 24, 1941, which said: ‘If war eventuates with Japan, it is believed easily possible that hostilities would be initiated by a surprise attack upon the fleet or the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The dangers envisaged, in order of their importance and probability, are considered to be (1) air bombing attack, (2) air torpedo plane attack, (3) sabotage, (4) submarine attack . . . .’ ”
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 229.
9. ” . . . . On November 27, 1941, both the Navy and the Army sent special warnings of war to their respective commanders at Pearl Harbor. The dispatch sent by the Chief of Naval Operations to Kimmel began with the fateful words ‘THIS DISPATCH IS TO BE CONSIDERED A WAR WARNING . . . . ’ The message also instructed Kimmel to inform Short of the warning, and Short acknowledged, after the Japanese attack, that he had, in fact, seen that message. . . .”
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; pp. 85–86.
10. ” . . . . These last three messages were of extreme significance. When a nation prepares to launch an attack and go to war, one of the most indispensable steps it takes to make sure that its codes and code machines cannot be captured by the enemy . . . . Washington knew from reading these messages that war would have to break out, with Japan attacking somewhere in the Pacific. Therefore, the Navy in Washington alerted Kimmel on December 3 by sending two advisory messages that paraphrased the intercepts . . . . War had to follow; it was inevitable. . . .”
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; pp. 68–70.
11. Speaking of the breaking of the codes and the alert sent to Kimmel, GOP shill Ferguson said ” . . . . ‘But that was never sent to Kimmel and Short, was it?’ ‘It certainly was,’ I [Clausen] replied. I had him stone cold dead. . . .”
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; pp. 260–261.
12. The Hawaiian newspapers had ample warning of the potential attacks to come.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; pp. 155–156.
13. FDR knew that the intercepted messages meant that war was inevitable.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 195.
14. Churchill and British intelligence knew that the intercepts meant that war was coming and alerted the U.S.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 44.
15a. We note the participation of the late Colonel Harry Beckhough–one of the Bletchley Park codebreakers–on Mr. Emory’s website.
@Harry Beckhough–
Once again, it is deeply gratifying to see one of the heroes of Bletchley Park using this website and continuing the struggle against fascism.
In a supplemental comment, perhaps you could provide interested readers/listeners with information about ordering your books.
In addition, I, too, have been warning about this and predicting that the seeds sown in the latter stages of the war and during the postwar period would blossom anew.
Those seeds are now sprouting. We must all be “constant gardeners,” pulling the weeds wherever we find them.
Best,
Dave Emory
15b.
| Harry Beckhough harry.beckhough@gmail.com 83.216.149.234 |
all detailed in my books “Germany’s Four Reichs” 2002/3 and sequel “Germany’s FOURTH Reich” 2007/8 with accurate forecasts now coming true |
. . . . This cheery centenarian could well have written his own epitaph in the title of his autobiography Thinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – a play on the words of the children’s pudding game with cherry or prune stones!
He was a thinker, a lifelong philosopher; a tailor who started his own clothing companies including the famous Double 2 shirt brand; a soldier who fought through World War Two with the Eighth Army achieving the rank of colonel; and a spy because he was invited to join Britain’s code-cracking team at Bletchley Park whose work in breaking enemy codes was credited with ending the 1939–45 war years earlier than it might have dragged on. . . .
16. The next two items discuss the U.S.S. Antares, the destroyer U.S.S. Ward and the warning they provided to Admiral Kimmel–to no avail.
“U.S.S. Antares”; wikipedia.org
. . . . On 7 December 1941, Antares stood toward the entrance to Pearl Harbor at 06:30 with a 500 long tons (510 t) steel barge in tow, having arrived from Canton and Palmyra and expecting to transfer the barge to a tug and then proceed into Pearl. Not sighting the tug at the appointed time, Antares altered course, turning slowly to the east, when her watch suddenly spotted a suspicious object about 1,500 yd (1,400 m) on the auxiliary’s starboard quarter. Antares notified the destroyer Ward, on patrol off the harbor entrance, and the latter altered course toward the object which proved to be a midget submarine. A PBY Catalina from Patrol Squadron 14 showed up almost simultaneously and dropped smoke floats in the vicinity; meanwhile, Ward went to general quarters and attacked, sinking the intruder. . . .
17. “U.S.S. Ward; wikipedia.org
. . . . Pearl Harbor
On the morning of 7 December 1941, under the command of LCDR William W. Outerbridge, Ward was conducting a precautionary patrol off the entrance to Pearl Harbor when she was informed at 03:57 by visual signals from the coastal minesweeper Condor of a periscope sighting, whereupon Ward began searching for the contact.[4] At about 06:37, she sighted a periscope apparently tailing the cargo ship Antares whereupon she attacked the target.[4] Though unconfirmed at the time, her guns holed a Japanese Ko-hyoteki-class, two-man midget submarine. The death of its two-man crew was the first American-caused casualties in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, occurring a few hours before Japanese carrier aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor. The submarine was attempting to enter the harbor by following Antares through the antisubmarine nets at the harbor entrance. By entering territorial waters of a neutral country without signalling any intent to stop, the submarine was not entitled to “innocent passage” protections and the neutral party had a right to use whatever means to protect its territory.[citation needed] Ward fired several rounds from its main guns, hitting the conning tower of the submarine, and also dropped several depth charges during the attack. . . .
18. A pivotal role in the attack on Pearl Harbor was played by General Minoru Genda, the eventual head of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, and the recipient of a medal from the U.S. Air Force.
“Minoru Genda;” wikipedia.org.
General Minoru Genda (源田 実, Genda Minoru, 16 August 1904 – 15 August 1989) was a Imperial Japanese Navy flight officer, JASDF general and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he became the third Chief of Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. . . .
. . . . On his return to Japan, he was assigned to the First Carrier Division and met with Yamamoto in early February 1941, during which time Yamamoto presented some ideas for attacking the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Genda warmed to his ideas.[6] Genda had previously considered an attack on Pearl Harbor in 1934 and had discussed the possibility then with Takijirō Onishi. Genda emphasized to Yamamoto that “secrecy is the keynote and surprise the all-important factor.”[7] Genda felt that the task was “difficult, but not impossible”[8] and began working on the details of the plan. Genda favored a three wave attack using six aircraft carriers for a successful air strike.[9] Genda was responsible for much of the training, especially in the new tactics of shallow-water torpedo use, effective use of level-bombing by tactical aircraft, and coordinating several aircraft carriers simultaneously. He played a key role in persuading IJN leaders to name Mitsuo Fuchida, his classmate at the Japanese Naval Academy, as the leader of the air attack.[10] . . . .
. . . . After the establishment of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in 1954, Genda was commissioned into the Japan Air Self-Defense Force as a Major General. He served as its Chief of Staff from 1959 to 1962.[15][16] As commander of the Air Self-Defense Force, Genda successfully pushed for the acquisition of the F‑104 Starfighter, of which Japan bought 230. This became part of the Lockheed bribery scandals, as evidence emerged that Lockheed had paid him a bribe.[17] Genda visited Lockheed’s headquarters in California and at his own request personally flew a Starfighter. He was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States Air Force a few months later.[18]
After retiring from the military in 1962, he ran for and was elected to the upper house of Japan’s legislature, the House of Councillors, as a member of the Sato Faction within the Liberal Democratic Party. He was the first of several former SDF officers who entered politics under the auspices of the Sato Faction, mostly at the far right end of the Japanese political spectrum. He remained influential in politics for more than 20 years, as a leading member of the Defense Division of the LDP’s Policy Affairs Research Council, often representing the hardline nationalist position advocating abrogation or curtailment of Article 9 of the postwar Japanese Constitution and open remilitarization of the armed forces. . . .
19. We chronicle the leak of the U.S. Navy’s code-breaking secret to the Japanese via the Chicago Tribune and its FDR-hating publisher Robert McCormick.
“Echoes From a Past Leak Probe” by Jess Bravin; Wall Street Journal; 8/7/2013.
Newly released documents provide a road map of how the government tried to mount a no-holds-barred legal attack against journalists suspected of leaking military secrets.
The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which advises the executive branch on the extent of its own powers, published in late July a selection of previously secret legal opinions spanning from 1933 to 1977. Among them were memos about a June 7, 1942, scoop in the Chicago Tribune by correspondent Stanley Johnston, who saw a naval intelligence file while traveling with the Pacific Fleet.
Pentagon officials were stunned by the headline, “U.S. Navy Knew in Advance All About Jap Fleet,” when they saw the story, which also ran in the Washington Times-Herald. The article all but revealed one of the war’s greatest secrets: that the U.S. had cracked the Japanese navy’s code. It reported that Japanese fleet strength “was well known in American naval circles,” that the U.S. Navy knew the Japanese were likely to stage a feint against the Aleutian Islands, and that “the advance information enabled the American Navy to make full use of air attacks on the approaching Japanese ships.”
Navy Secretary Frank Knox wrote to Attorney General Francis Biddle, demanding indictments. The headline alone “discloses secret and confidential information to the detriment of our national defense,” Mr. Knox wrote. Mr. Biddle then asked staff for advice, resulting in the just-released memos. . . .. . . . The memos are noticeably silent on one possibly pertinent point: Tribune’s publisher, Col. Robert R. McCormick, was an incendiary antagonist of the New Deal and, before Pearl Harbor at least, a vociferous opponent of intervention in World War II. . . .
20. The Rape of Nanking–the subject of Iris Chang’s best-selling, nonfiction book, saw the beginning of the Golden Lily operation. Note that Prince Takeda, was in charge of Golden Lily operations in the Philippines, as well as Prince Chichibu (in overall charge of Golden Lily).
. . . . In the Rape of Nanking that followed, some 300,000 defenseless civilians were slain by Japanese troops, between 20,000 and 80,000 women of all ages were raped repeatedly, including children, adolescent girls, and grandmothers, many of them disemboweled in the process. Men, women and children were subjected to acts of such barbarism that the world recoiled in horror. Thousands of men were roped together and machine-gunned, or doused with gasoline and set afire. Others were used for bayonet practice, or to practice beheading, in a sporting competition to see which officer could behead the greatest number that day. Weeks passed while atrocities continued, streets and alleys piled high with corpses. Unlike previous mass atrocities, done out of sight, these were witnessed by hundreds of Westerners including diplomats, doctors and missionaries, some of whom smuggled out photographic evidence.
It was at this point that Golden Lily came into existence.
When the Japanese Army swarmed down the China Coast in 1937, crossed the Yangtze, and moved westward to Nanking, so many units were involved across such a broad front that there was danger of Japan’s ruling elite losing control of the financial side of conquest, as rival commanders competed for spoils. How could you keep army or navy officers from side-tracking gold bullion and priceless art works, not to mention smaller scale theft by soldiers? At the same time, groups of yakuza were moving through newly occupied areas, conducting their own reign of terror. To keep everything under strict control at the highest level, the Imperial General Headquarters created Golden Lily (kin no yuri) named after one of Hirohito’s poems. This was to be a palace organization of Japan’s top financial minds and specialists in all forms of treasure including cultural and religious antiquities, supported by accountants, bookkeepers, shipping experts, and units of the army and navy, all overseen by princes of the blood. When China was milked by Golden Lily, the army would hold the cow, while princes skimmed the cream. This organization was put directly under the command of the emperor’s brother, Prince Chichibu. We know the date because the Imperial General Headquarters itself was only set up in the imperial palace in Tokyo in November 1937, just as the Rape of Nanking was commencing. . . . The Imperial Army already had a number of Special Service Units, among them intelligence teams specializing in different kinds of cultural and financial espionage, and secret service agents like General Doihara, outside the ordinary command structure. These were reassigned to Golden Lily, giving it the resources needed to find treasure of all kinds, from the sublime to the most prosaic.
In Nanking, the first wave of Golden Lily helpers were kempeitai [the Japanese intelligence service]. Special kempeitai units moved through the city seizing all government assets, blowing open bank vaults, breaking into and emptying homes of wealthy families of whatever gold, gemstones, jewelry, artworks, and currency could be found. Nanking had been rich for over a thousand years. Many wealthy and prominent Chinese had mansions in town, and estates in the surrounding countryside. This was not the only time Nanking was ransacked by conquerors, but it was by far the most deliberate, meticulous, and systematic. At least 6,ooo metric tons of gold are reported to have been amassed by the kempeitai during this first pass. Historical research into looting shows that what is officially reported typically is only a tiny fraction of what is actually stolen. Also looted were many of the small biscuit bars that individual Chinese prefer to hoard, along with small platinum ingots, diamonds, rubies and sapphires, small works of art, and antiquities. These were taken from private homes and from tombs vandalized by the army in the countryside. Remorselessly thorough, the Japanese hammered the teeth out of corpses to extract gold fillings. . . .
. . . . A number of other princes joined Golden Lily at this stage, spending the war enriching Japan, rather than participating in less glamorous and dangerous combat assignments. Aside from Prince Asaka [the Emperor’s uncle and in charge of the Rape of Nanking–D.E.], we know Prince Chichibu and Prince Takeda were at Nanking because both later confided to friends that they had horrific nightmares from witnessing atrocities. . . .
21. The breaking of the Japanese code informed the U.S. of the nature of the cargo of their ships, possibly informing today of the position of sunken Golden Lily treasure.
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; Leo Cooper [HC], London; Copyright 1992 & 1993 by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee; ISBN 0850523907; p. 48.
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