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Report Debunks Theory That the U.S. Heard a Coded Warning About Pearl Harbor

Sun, 2008-12-07 05:34 — ABN

This article strikes me as being really bizarre. Does the author not know or is he being duped? Why would NSA "historians" publicize this "conclusion" only last week?

The "Winds Code" was little more than an obvious (and very effective) smokescreen used during the Congressional investigation of 1945-46 into the Pearl Harbor attack.

It was raised as a subject at the time to deflect attention from the truly significant question of whether FDR knew of and allowed the attack to happen, a claim that is based on a good deal of very credible evidence that the US had broken the Japanese military code known as "Num 5" (for the five digits assigned to each Japanese character).

Here is a paragraph from Robert Stinnett's "Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor":

"News of the 'Winds Code' system created a media sensation during the Congressional hearings. Reporters focused on the 'Winds Code' and lost interest in the less fantastic naval intercepts. Eventually the controversy was dismissed when Congress learned that the implementing weather message was never transmitted by Japan. By then the Num 5 dispatches had been forgotten." ("Day of Deceit" was published in 2000; the quoted paragraph refers to events that happened during 1945-46).

So why are NSA "historians" selling old wine in new bottles one week before the anniversary of the event? Are they confident that history does indeed repeat itself? Worked 60 years ago, so why not today? Why is the NYT using a very misleading headline as the "Winds Code" would not have given specific warning of the Pearl Harbor attack though scores of coded (Num 5) Japanese military dispatches most certainly did?

Here's another thought. If NSA historians have corroborated Stinnett's research on the "Winds Code" might we therefore not have even more confidence in his very well argued thesis that FDR knew about the attack, provoked the attack, and then hid the evidence after the attack? ABN
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It has remained one of World War II’s most enduring mysteries, one that resonated decades later after Sept. 11: Who in Washington knew what and when before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941?

...But after analyzing American and foreign intelligence sources and decrypted cables, historians for the National Security Agency concluded in a documentary history released last week that whatever other warnings reached Washington about the attack, the “winds execute” message was not one of them.

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