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You folks have a far more successful history than many of you perhaps realize. I’ve spent the past 30 years or so (many of those years full-time) working on the background to the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor that unified the American people for fighting the Second World War. There are many books on this subject as you will already know, but not a single book “closed the loop on Pearl Harbor” as I am doing. I’m completely of the belief that right up to the moment of 7 December 1941 neither our Intelligence nor our leadership failed us. What happened is that we used our Intelligence in working out our War Plans. Army & Navy relations were far better than many writers suspected; OP-16 and OP-20 worked well together; ONI’s director to 14 January 1941 was assigned duty after that date as Commander Battleships Battle Force—the billet Walter S. Anderson was still in on 7 Dec. 1941. The officer many writers including Paul Stillwell at the Naval Institute refers to as “Terrible” Turner was actually “one of history’s ablest military leaders.” On another point, many of the documents covering the pre-7 December 1941 period and published in the 39-volume Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings were sanitized. (I’ve read the entire 39-volumes of PHA and their so-called REPORT. I’ve also indexed that material to make the job of quoting testimony including much disinformation easier to do.) I have very great respect for our communications intelligence personnel, both then and now. As one example of heavily sanitized documents in PHA check out the so-called Com14 (HYPO) daily ComInt summaries published as exhibits of the Hewitt Inquiry and Clausen Investigation and the JCC (this latter as JCC Exhibit 115). These documents are all bogus and many of them have been flagged as being bogus. As Captain Ellis M. Zacharias testified to the Roberts Commission at Pearl Harbor on 8 January 1942, see PHA23, p. 1019: “I consider that on the 1st of December, 1941, we had an excellent and efficient intelligence organization working in Hawaii….” (In 1941 Zach was CO of the USS Salt Lake City attached to the Pacific Fleet.) Also, for any of you who may doubt what I’m writing check out Admiral James O. Richardson’s “On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor” memoir written with the help of VADM George C. Dyer. Their Chapter 14, War Plans, notes Change No. Six to the Orange War Plan of 26 March 1937 (see Treadmill, p. 304). Change No. 6 begins: “The Army and Naval Forces stationed in the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS will be prepared at all times to defend Oahu against all forms of surprise attack, including the following…..” This paragraph was omitted from both Rainbow 3 and Rainbow 5. It was shortly after Richardson’s receipt of Rainbow 3 that the officer messenger who delivered it to him, then Commander (later VADM) John L. McCrea was notified by CNO Stark that Richardson would be relieved by H.E. Kimmel. No mention of this relief had been known to McCrea prior to his arrival in Manila to deliver the new Rainbow 3 to Admiral T.C. Hart. Admiral Charles P. Snyder requested his own relief as Commander Battle Force at the same time J.O. Richardson was relieved. There are many twos and twos to put together to really figure out what happened with Pearl Harbor, and I believe I’ve accomplished most of this work with the net result being that my major conclusion is accurate. This major conclusion is that our senior military personnel on Oahu had the same Intelligence and the same deliberately conceived war plans that our senior leadership had in Washington, D.C. We allowed Pearl Harbor to happen to unify the American people for the duration of the Second World War. I am not a critic of this policy. I am not a former or present day anti-war hippie. I, too, am a Navy veteran and spent much of my youth as a Navy junior. I dearly love the U.S. Navy. Members of the American armed forces are my brothers and sisters in arms as far as I’m concerned. I’m willing to die for all of you who serve our country honorably. If it is believed by our ComInt personnel that the full story of Pearl Harbor should never be made public, I will keep my big mouth shut and will make no attempt to have my book published. If on the other hand the timing is right to make the facts public, I’ll stand behind every word I write. I’m willing to spend the rest of my life helping other people understand why we had to have Pearl Harbor and the importance of keeping our military strong. Tomorrow, 1 January 2018, I’ll put a copy of the two page letter I wrote to General John F. Kelly, chief of staff to President Trump on my Facebook page, Pearl Harbor McKane. I wrote that letter in early December. I believe in and respect you ComInt personnel. I don’t wish to do anything that would damage the reputation of our armed services or any of the great military personnel who served this country in WWII. Thank you & Happy New Year to all of you for your excellent and dedicated service to the United States of America. Sincerely yours, Andy McKane, Springville, Utah.

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