On December 18th, the FBI discreetly declassified 48 pages in a doc file titled, “Pearl Harbor Assault December 7, 1941 Half 01.”
Within the documents, it was revealed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover greenlighted a surveillance program in Hawaii simply two months earlier than the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
On web page 8 of the newly declassified paperwork, the Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) workplace in Honolulu, Robert Shivers, wrote to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on August twenty third, 1941, asking him to enact a surveillance program to spy on Japanese communications from Hawaii to Japan.
Shivers wrote, “So that the Honolulu Area Division could also be suggested extra absolutely of Japanese actions, it’s deemed obligatory that technical surveillance be established on all trans-Pacific phone communications between the Territory of Hawaii and Japan.”
In Hoover’s first response to Shivers on September 3, 1941, he wrote that the Division would determine on his request.
On October 26, 1941, Hoover gave Shiver the FBI’s last determination and wrote, “Authority granted to put in technical surveillance of telephonic communications between Hawaii and Japan.”
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The newly declassified paperwork additionally include a number of intercepted calls, however the particulars of the calls have been redacted.
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December 2nd, which was simply 5 days earlier than the Pearl Harbor assault, the FBI Hawaii workplace despatched a surveillance replace to Hoover.
The redacted replace reported {that a} name was intercepted between Hawaii and Japan and was largely simply household gossip.
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December 2nd was the identical day Nazi spy Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn offered particular indicators of U.S. warships to the Japanese consulate.
After the Pearl Harbor Assault occurred, Kuehn grew to become a suspect in espionage and, simply 76 days later, was sentenced to demise by musketry.
Within the newly launched paperwork, there aren’t any communications detected from December 3-7, which leaves purpose to consider an element two doc dump could quickly be launched or just saved from the general public’s eye without end.