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Admiral Kimmel's Story was written in the first person allegedly by Rear Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel. (I suspect much of the book was actually written by Laurence F. Safford, USN.) Kimmel was the Pacific Fleet commander at Pearl Harbor from 1 February to 17 December 1941. Admiral Kimmel's Story - as with his Roberts Commission, Navy Court of Inquiry, Army Pearl Harbor Board, and Joint Congressional Committee testimony would have us believe that he was deprived of critical intelligence that had been available in the War and Navy Departments. (Funny, the same charge has been made about Lieutenant General Walter C. Short, the commanding general of the Hawaiian Department in 1941.) What Kimmel's Story, thousands of pages of testimony and most revisionist books haven't told their readers is that the same intelligence that was available in Ultra-Washington in 1941 was also available at the highest level on Oahu. I've been working on a book, to be titled CLOSING THE LOOP ON PEARL HARBOR since 1 March 1989. Until my book is published, read Robert B. Stinnett's DAY OF DECEIT: THE TRUTH ABOUT FDR & PEARL HARBOR.
I do not fault Admiral Kimmel or General Short or any of their key staff members. Neither do I fault the top brass in the War and Navy Departments---or President Roosevelt. We had to get into the Second World War. We had to do so with a unified people. For this reason, we had Pearl Harbor. (Battle loses are a given in any battle ever fought. You go into any battle and you know you will have losses. The losses we had on Oahu on 7 December 1941 were well worth their cost in what it did to unify our people.
If one must blame anyone for Pearl Harbor, put the blame on the 70 percent or so of the American people who wanted this country to stay out of "Hitler's war." No intelligent person can today say that "we shouldn't gave gone to war against Nazi Germany." Anyone who believes that must be himself/herself a nazi or must think we can achieve peace at any price.
By the way: Both the ComInt unit of the 14th Naval District and the 9th Signal Intelligence Unit of the Army (at Fort Shafter) had Purple machines in 1941. And don't let anyone tell you that we were not reading JN-25 in 1941. We were. Dates on the paper copies of the intercepts have been sanitzed. Our Government "sanitized" many documents such as the "war warnings" and the daily Com14 Communications Intelligence Summaries in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Ditto, many of the Magic intercepts published in JCC exhibits one and two.
Put Admiral Kimmel's Story in the same trash heap where Fuzzy Theobald's The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Contribution to the Japanese Attack belongs. Ditto, do the same with "AND I WAS THERE": Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets. I can name many more titles on Pearl Harbor I'd recommend the same treatment with---unless someone wishes to see how a propaganda campaign is run. (The U.S. Navy & the U.S. Naval Institute have played a leading role in the coverup of Pearl Harbor over the years.)
Gordon W. Prange spent 37 years of his life researching Pearl Harbor. But remeber this: What is known as Prange's first book on Pearl Harbor, AT DAWN WE SLEPT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PEARL HARBOR, was completed by two of his former students after Dr. Prange died. The editor was the same Bruce Lee who edited the so-called "Layton book" ("AND I WAS THERE") and actually wrote PEARL HARBOR: FINAL JUDGEMENT with the late Henry C. Clausen.
Perhaps someday someone will come along and really dig into how good our intelligence was on 9/11. That won't be me, however. CLOSING THE LOOP ON PEARL HARBOR - and all the research that has gone into it - will be my last involvement with anything that is (or can be considered) "a national security related topic."
Unfortunately, democracies are not perfect. The problem with any democracy is everyone can vote---but not everyone is well versed on many of the key issues of our time.
Pearl Harbor was for our greatest good. I'd have done what FDR and his ultras - including Admiral Kimmel & General Short did - if I were to go back in time. Spend your time reading Winston Churchill's THE GRAND ALLIANCE.
Kindest regards & Semper Fidelis,
Andrew (Andy) McKane IV
1024, Friday, 25 November 2005
Missoula, Montana


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