2001-06-04 Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction
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- when: 2001-06-04
- author: James Perloff
- source: The New American
- topics: Pearl Harbor attack government cover-ups engineered provocation conspiracy theories archive.org/links
- link: http://web.archive.org/web/20071103231101/http://thenewamerican.com/node/1106
- title: Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction
- summary: “Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, stated in 1944: "Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war."”
a pre-9/11 argument that the attack on Pearl Harbor was more or less arranged by the US government.
This article appears not to have been migrated to The New American's current site management software, but there are several other related articles.
...comprehensive research has not only shown Washington knew in advance of the attack, but deliberately withheld its foreknowledge from our commanders in Hawaii in the hope that the "surprise" attack would catapult the U.S. into World War II. Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of Production, stated in 1944: "Japan was provoked into attacking America at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history to say that America was forced into the war."
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