Many people feel that President Roosevelt withheld information about the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Americans, including the author known as Robert A. Theobald. Theobald, is the author of the book called, "The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor", published in 1954. He was also there at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, along with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, when they appeared together and the officer testified in front of the Roberts Commission.

Theobald believed that when France was overcome, President Roosevelt was convinced that Americans should help Great Britain fight against a "Nazi World". However, our armed forces were not ready to go into combat, they were weak and not prepared for war. Theobald knew that something horrendous must happen in order for Congress to declare a war, and the American people may not even support that decision. Americans were against wars, so an event needed to push our people over their limit to make them want to defend themselves by going to war and fighting for their country.

Theobald feels that there were some moves that our government made which led to the Ja

She says, that our decision-makers did not know the exact hour and date for opening the attack, nor have a complete list of targets, since none of the last-minute estimates included Pearl Harbor. They did not know the Japans capabilities or that Japan was willing to accept very large risks.

She says that there was a good deal of evidence that that Japan would attack the Soviet Union from the east while the Russian Army was heavily engaged in the west. Signals will be very difficult to hear, if no one is listening for signals of an attack against a highly improbable target. For every signal that came into the information net in 1941 there were usually several plausible explanations that convinced our analysts the explanations that fitted the popular hypotheses.

In November 1 and December 1, two changes in Japanese naval signs had also been evaluated by Naval Intelligence as extremely unusual and as signs of major preparations for some sort of Japanese offensive. These two changes had interfered with the speed of American radio traffic analysis. Some American radio analysts believed that all the carriers were near Japan because they had not been able to identify a carrier call sign since the middle of November. Other analysts believed that they had located one carrier division in the Marshalls.

So the question remains, did President Roosevelt know the air attack was going to hit Pearl Harbor? Many believe that he did, however I have my own beliefs on this subject.

Wohlstetter indicates that before the war, our naval radio experts could not read the content of any Japanese naval or military coded messages, they were able to deduce from a study of intercepted ship call signs the composition and location of the Japanese Fleet units. After a change in call signs, says Wohlstetter, they might lose vision of some units, and units that went into port in home waters were also lost because the ships in port used frequencies that our radios were unable to intercept.

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