THE ENIGMA OF PEARL HARBOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200030096-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 96
• Publication Date: December 3, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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By: GEORGE ROME
Tnher -7.'1941!
Who ever forget that "Day .o n aniy . .
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E,(.1.1.1'.1.ildav 20 years later, when a war long-fought and
separates US' from Pearl Harbor Day and a new war
,kons, people can tell you where they were, who told them
, %Oat they did. Like a nightnrihr, indelibly branded
Y,.1,ind it won't I.,- forgotten.
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'11), ?vriter of this at tide on that trirra: as in
on the sixtis floor of the :?taring at
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ont news N. 'i F?,!?
fon am! haA feneefi
hczwei'n the I_ Jtip.r
a Nude and econotnie erribar:::oin W-
-;evelt.
Japane-;e transports. and NV ars1:!;),:. h;iti 1,0, a ob!.,?rved
aaking thrott'..t the South China Sea. Wer' they headed
\aid the Dutch E,it indies,.where the Jt-'-s warlord-
pd
to find the oil and gasoline denied theta by the U. S.?
?,Fqq4,1.1,,j-teacied toward .British Malaya. with its va
l'i?tte?O'k,e403;'4n4.:gliigapore; Britain's Far 1:,:atcrii bastion
Dec.t) iiyt1foroAa 6 Roosevelt had ,:t,nt a persona
rOr Ilir?Olutoi begging him for the .sake o
,
.IitIiI1 1,? tayj,h, hand
Lc, ?
Of the Japanese warlords. -
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an opt -rt
t' r sit-tan:fro,
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-tst and the i.,1?01 the East
Tfri IVICITYfit of thts pies.*
t4!,4tuf? the lurk
.91i twt tragic da-'. began to Nvrit
;what e consiticccti a perauratin
analyck of sanAtiop.
hours latr 'Started ;Ior-itt
4,.,Mirror & omp,osing tonna `.1:,
.9ff his eop,!. Passilge thrOugh
City room. he \vas,Iiist) ' by
totlict boy, Too eiv.ited s
the boy thrtlet lore a 4)
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front the -..teteV
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?rocricas braltar nf tY,se Paelfic
1,, a sCjia so sof eNiflokling, sink:
r sitter a pall ),if, greasy
fst ni flaming fitcl tanks
ttured pov. der nytcazines,
salibrs aboard tito ships hi
tatticAsiintt? fought back he-
oicalft. It bad been uleekontl,:nst :
sts.s1I tla?t.sii, nal foil' half
h. cr,?tt.s and a tiiirit ot'inp of-
fj, ch. asItote cat pass, Those
01.1 reisr.tined broke,..rspen locked
.aiiiitiiiIton chest sir ran to the
gills..., et en fired Afrs
hail no tither .treapons.,
c.tvc and NintineS Wore Un
kw,. 1,, get a platfe'lpto,t,'be,,
Th.- At 11:v ssisinqge.XIttc,_get "(fr.:1y
a d0/..1, .1,,hmesfoff'.0)01;ruti,WaS's
at \N'n?-?,try.,116 its retbae
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1 ffirofidly,It the4J moor.
wee,. sunk orrapati.e.d,.
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0104 vo-L4,k,-;1114-icali-
rti Virginia.trid'NeVada.?
cuSi-battert.cl sttook, six
l!et the'1eaSC4aiftied
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fuel and atnittual
tot
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