Dr. Crawford

USS Maine the Lusitania and Pearl Harbor: Conspiracy or Fate?

“Let the fight come if it must. I don’t care whether our sea-coast cities are bombarded or not, this country needs a war.”  Theodore Roosevelt: Letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

   If one subscribes to the theory that history is linear, then a mere recitation of the reported facts surrounding historical events will suffice. Most readers will not rush out to buy Gary Allan’s book “None Dare Call it Conspiracy,” or Prince Michel Sturdza’s “Betrayal by Rulers,” or even his monumental work “The Suicide of Europe,” a book which details how President Wilson rescued the murderous Bolsheviks when they were surrounded by French, British, and Russian Nationalist troops in 1919, and the continued surrender of nation after nation to the communist Moloch by Western leaders. Conspiracy is a difficult thing to prove, but when the facts surrounding the events are put forth, barring those destroyed or classified as secret by the Round Table, it is possible to recreate the actual events.

     So a trip back in time is necessary to postulate how this treachery might have started; we begin with the mystery surrounding the sinking of the USS Maine under the watch of Theodore Roosevelt, a 33 Degree Mason who was Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley. TR resigned after the Maine was destroyed and hurried off to lead the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill in the war against Spain, a war he did everything in his power to bring about. During this time period the American people along with their President William McKinley were isolationist, while TR and the industrialists and commercial interests had grand imperial designs in regard to conquering Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, having already stripped Mexico of its colonies in the war of 1848.

   In the same vain then we can compare the mysterious events surrounding the explosion on the USS Maine in 1898 to the inexplicable events that took place in 1915 when First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, a 33^rd Degree Mason and a member of Committee of 300, quite possibly conspired to sink the Lusitania to bring America into WWI against Germany. And finally we can the examine machinations of FDR, a 33 Degree Mason who in all probability allowed Pearl Harbor to be bombed in order to bring America into an unnecessary war with Germany.

   The machinations involved in this possible conspiracy include the interception a Japanese cable, the President’s determination to hide it from the commanders at Pearl harbor,  the laments of General Prince Paulus Powell, the White House aide who received the message and was held under house arrest by Marine guards until after the bombing, and the mysterious deaths of the intelligence officers at Pearl Harbor who intercepted the message, the burning of the filing cabinets, and the supposed suicide of, Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal.  

   Now keeping in mind what Mark Twain said about mankind when referring to the bloodletting in slaughterhouses, “that of all the creatures on earth, man is the most despicable,” let us deconstruct the idea that history is linear, and through that imaginary straight line let’s add men who may have had evil intentions in believing that “the end justifies the means.” It would be difficult to say that because that this person was a 33^rd Degree Mason, or that person was connected to Skull and Bones, or that person was a member of The Committee of 300, and so on and so forth, that such and such events occurred, but let us start with the men in question, Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt, keeping in mind that all these men were in some way connected to the so-called “Illuminati.”

   Taking into consideration America’s notion of “manifest destiny” in the late 19^th century it is not beyond comprehension that the USS Maine was sunk in order to get America into a war with Spain. The events leading up to the explosion which took place on the night of February 15, 1898 reveal the American government’s lust for power, urged on by greedy and powerful men such as Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, a man who owned several newspapers which used “yellow journalism” to spread war fever against Spain, and banksters such as J.P. Morgan. Hearst was also a prominent member of The Bohemian Grove, a secret society for journalists, and he owned The New York Journal and several other papers, while his fellow propagandist and war-monger Joseph Pulitzer owned the New York World.

   Bohemian Grove is an organization which many conspiracy theorists say is a part of the Satanic Illuminati, and it is clear from a reading of Romanian Prince Michael Sturdza’s book “Betrayal by Rulers” that agents planted in the offices of newspapers throughout the world led to the Bolshevik subjugation of eleven European nations, the betrayal of China, the defeat in Korea and Vietnam, and the continued mollycoddling of the Soviet thugs by Western leaders who were tricked by the “Insiders” i.e., the hidden powers of darkness, into believing that the Beast could be reined in, only to realize their ignorance and by 1950 be begging for Hitler to rise from the grave to save them from the Soviet annihilation.

   According to Michael Busby in his book Solving the Airship Mystery Hearst owned several newspapers and each devoted eight pages a day to fanning the flames of the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, as well as the subsequent disaster of the sinking of the USS Maine. Their theme was “Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain, and Busby hinted that an American industrialist engineered the sinking that killed 270 Americans, and that Hearst used this disaster as a propaganda tool to further his agenda: “we must liberate our colonies,” referring to America’s attempts to conquer Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Busby states that Hearst sent artist Frederic Remington to investigate the supposed Spanish massacres against the Cubans and Americans living in Cuba, and that Remington reported back that there were no atrocities and no war. To this Hearst responded, “Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.” In the Afterword to the book he again quotes Hearst: “We must be alarmingly enterprising and we must be… original…and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.” Such is the propaganda arm of a possible conspiracy (Busby 352).

   Now let us look at the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine and TR’s connection to William Chandler and his brother Lewis, two mysterious gunrunners who ferried munitions to the Cuban revolutionaries who were seeking independence from Spain. In a letter to William Chandler TR wrote: “I earnestly hope that events will so shape themselves that we must interfere sometime not in the distant future.” And again a letter to A.T. Cowles: “It is very difficult for me not to wish a war with Spain, for such a war will result at once in getting a proper Navy. Apparently TR was miffed at being outfoxed by London in the Venezuela-British Guyana border dispute, and was eager to build a Navy that would allow America to compete with the imperial ambitions of London (www.havanajournal.com).

   Thus we have established the mind set of one of the background players in the sinking of the Maine, noting TR’s “imperialist mindset” and war at any cost mentality which is expressed in the following 1895 quote to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge: “Let the fight come if it must. I don’t care whether our sea-coast cities are bombarded or not, this country needs a war.” Hence the USS Maine was sent to Havana Harbor based on the lie that Spanish soldiers were carrying out anti-American attacks, and here is where the connection between the Chandler Brothers and TR come into play. In 2010 a BlogSpot titled The American Chronicle the possibility of a conspiracy was laid out:

   According to this article a Danish naval munitions expert  by the name of Frederico Blume invented battery and clock activated mines which could be attached to ships, and the designs were sent to New York by Cuban patriots where they were fabricated into working mines and then sent to Cuba were Cuban revolutionaries worked with Americans to sink the Maine.”  A letter sent from Cuba by historian Carlos Lopez to Ronald Hilton in 2001 supports this claim as it referrers to an article in Thalassos titled “What Really Sank the Maine?” which criticized Admiral Rickover’s findings and urged American historians to seek out the truth. In short the article says that Rickover ignored the Cuban connection and the fact that Cuban agents were agitating for war against Spain and seeking help from Peru and other nations in their attempt to ignite a war (www.theamericanchronicle.blogspot.com).

   Referring to the article Lopez points out the following facts:  Cuban officials in Peru met with Blume [naval explosives expert] to learn all they could about how to blow up Spanish ships. The plans and materials were then sent to New York where the mines were developed, then sent back to Cuba where they were assembled by the Chandler Brothers and their American technicians. The Cubans then sabotaged several Spanish vessels, and it is the opinion of Cuban naval historian Capt. Jorge Navarro that it was this type of explosive that set off the secondary explosion on the Maine (www.web.stanford.edu).

    So here we have the basic tenets of a conspiracy: powerful men whose interests involved the making of war, i.e. industrialists who would profit, politicians who would gain power through their imperialist ambitions, and Bohemian Grove types like William Randolph Hearst who would buy up every newspaper in the world in order to control what people read and think, thereby ingratiating himself to the Order of Celestial Wealth and Power.

   We have already established TR’s connection to the gunrunning Chandler Brothers, but who were they and who did they represent? We might also ask the question of who were the American technicians who assembled the mines in Cuba, and how strong was their connection to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt. A preliminary search for William and Lewis Chandler seems not to produce results, indicating a cover-up to protect TR and his greedy capitalist friends on Wall Street. And of course the investigatory cycle leaves us with the question of whether the explosion was caused by Spanish mine, or whether an internal explosion was triggered by conspirators:

1.         April 1898: Capt. William T. Simpson said that a mine triggered an explosion in the ship’s magazine.

2.         1911: Rear Admiral Charles E. Vreeland stated that a small explosive caused the damage.

3.         1976: Admiral Hyman Rickover said that an internal fire in the coal room caused by spontaneous combustion ignited the magazine…

4.         1999: National Geographic stated that internal coal room fires and external explosion conspired to sink the Maine.

5.         1961: Capt. Jorge Navarro Custin, a Cuban naval historian who defected to U.S., wrote a book implicating U.S. industrialists and Cubans. Custin detailed the work of Frederico Blume of Demark whose specialty was naval explosives.

Winston Churchill: First Lord of the Admiralty: “Nothing will bring sympathy along with us so much as American bloodshed in the field.” (September 5, 1914)

   Moving on to WWI we can detect the same pattern of possible conspiracy by British intelligence and Lord Admiral Churchill. Indeed similarities are startling. We begin with the intrigues behind the sinking of the Lusitania and the deaths of over 2700 people. While certain documents are still classified in the British realm, the controversy is ongoing, at least in the minds of historians, and one cannot help but feel that there is a pattern of malice, beginning with the fact that the Lusitania was ordered to reduce speed and the fact that her destroyer escort Juno was recalled to port, and the fact that Churchill changed the rules of engagement ordering the Auxiliary ships to ram any German submarine that might be surfaced, thereby forcing the German sub commanders, who previously ordered the crew of the munitions or merchant vessels to abandon ship, to launch torpedoes in fear of their own lives.

   In his 1972 article published in “Life Magazine” Colin Simpson reignited the conspiracy controversy by claiming that Churchill and the Admiralty deliberately allowed the Lusitania to be sunk in order to bring America into the war. Fritz Springmeier in “Bloodlines of the Illuminati” quoted Simpson as saying that this act of deceit was “the foulest act of willful murder ever committed on the seas,” and soon the British apologists launched an attack on Simpson’s article and the book that was to follow. But before we get to the apologists and the facts they chose to ignore, let’s look at the evidence that Simpson provided.

    An article written in 1999 by Keith Allen written on the website www.gwpda.org outlines Simpson’s claim that Churchill and the Admiralty deliberately allowed the Lusitania to travel in dangerous waters off the Southern coast of Ireland in order to draw America into the war against Germany. This claim he said was in accord with the information written by naval intelligence historian Patrick Beesly in his book Room 40, which was the Admiralty Intelligence Center. Thus we have the following accusations portrayed in a few pages of Simpson’s book Lusitania and expanded on in Beesly’s book Room 40:

1.      German Commander Bauer’s message ordering three U-2 subs to the Irish Sea decoded by the British.

2.      Only Grand Fleet notified, coastal stations of Queenstown, Liverpool, and Milford Haven not notified (Beesly 97-99 and Simpson 94 chapter 7 and 115-119 chapter 9).

3.      Escort warship Juno ordered to Queenstown.

4.      The May 5^th Admiralty Conference, Simpson’s main indictment of criminality (Simpson 125-29).

5.      Lusitania not warned that Juno was withdrawn.

6.      Lusitania not told that U-20 was approaching.

7.      Admiral Coke at Queenstown told but did not warn Lusitania.

   Simpson believed that the two men at the conference most responsible were First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill and Admiral Jack Fisher, whom he says were either “preoccupied with the Dardanelles…or that it was the pinnacle of Churchill’s higher strategy of embroiling the U-boats with a neutral power (Simpson 125-126). And this is a critical point since Lieutenant Commander Kenworthy, a mysterious character who first claimed that he was summoned to   the meeting by Churchill who asked him what effect the sinking of a British Liner with American passengers would have on the Wilson administration, then later denied ever meeting Churchill.

   The most damning fact pointing to conspiracy according to Simpson is the claim by Kenworthy in his 1928 book Freedom of the Seas, which said in effect that he [Kenworthy] left the Admiralty meeting in disgust when he learned that the Lusitania was to be deliberately exposed to German submarines. Simpson quoted Kenworthy on page 211 of Lusitania, as saying in The Freedom of the Seas that the “Lusitania was sent at considerably reduced speed into an area where a U-boat was known to be…” a statement which Kenworthy later denied writing. Simpson claims in a footnote on page 211 of the original manuscript that he wrote “deliberately sent,” and that in an act of censorship the Admiralty ordered the publisher to change “deliberately sent” to “was sent” (www.gwpda.org).

   So what we have is Simpson’s indictment based on Kenworthy’s claim that a plot was hatched at the Admiralty conference, and his later claim that he never met Churchill, but did indeed call him a “reactionary militarist.” Pointing to the subtle passage on page 72 of Freedom of the Seas Kenworthy tried to defuse Simpson’s claim that he [Kenworthy] left the meeting in disgust, a statement that cannot be found in any edition of his book, by bringing up the section concerning the British blockade issue: “The British did not retaliate in kind and no neutral ships were ever sunk. They let a [test case] go before public opinion: the Lusitania steaming at half-speed straight through a submarine cruising ground was incontinently sunk” (www.gwpda.org).

   It appears that this is political doublespeak for the justification of sacrificing the Lusitania, with the two objectives being to bring America into the war, and to, as Kenworthy subtly claims, to try the contentious issue of British starvation blockades in the court of public opinion, i.e. let the public decide the Lusitania disaster. The story from here on is blurred, as is the case with most conspiracy theories, with accusations flying back and forth, with Admiral Turner, the Commander of the Lusitania being branded as incompetent, and historian Colin Simpson being branded as a liar. Kenworthy, according to Keith Allen in his lengthy article Lusitania Controversy, on www.gwpda.com, says that Kenworthy later claimed that he was never in the Intelligence Section of the Admiralty, that he never made the statements in his book Freedom of the Seas that Simpson quotes, and that he was not at the Admiralty meeting, and that he was only a sailor.

   Critics of Simpson point to Beesly’s assertions in Room 40, pages 96, 104 and 110, that no evidence exists that Juno was assigned to escort the Lusitania, and that it was an old warship not equipped to stave off submarine attack. Other Simpson bashers claimed that the damning statement that he quoted from Kenworthy cannot be found in any edition of Freedom of the Seas, and that no statement in the book even comes close. However it appears that even if Simpson be remiss in summarizing Kenworthy’s words, the paragraph in Kenworthy’s book which says that a “test case be put forth” is a thinly veiled reference to the Admiralty meeting whereby the sinking of the Lusitania was hatched.

    And the criticism of Simpson continued with a blistering attack by Bailey and Ryan in their 1975 book The Lusitania Disaster: An Episode in Modern Warfare, in which they launched personal attacks against Simpson, his 1972 Times article, and his subsequent book Lusitania.  These attacks were followed up by book reviews of Baily and Ryan’s work in The Organization of America Historians by Calvin Enders of Central Michigan University and Carl Boyd of Old Dominion University in The Society for Military History. These book reviews support the findings of Thomas A. Bailey, a diplomatic historian, and Paul D. Ryan, a retired navy captain in saying that Simpson’s claims were not credible.

    According to these 1972 reviews of Simpson’s book by Baily and Ryan, Simpson’s findings were not credible. The authors claimed, as did Churchill, that the sinking was the fault of an inept Captain Turner offset by the “exceptional seamanship skills of Kapitanleutnant Schwieger, the commander of the U-20 submarine. These two writers, ignoring America’s isolationist policy, stated that if the purpose was to get America into the war, “why did it take two years for America to enter?” Thus we have, as in the case of many conspiracies and cover-ups, one man’s word against the establishment, and when we realize the power the establishment kingpins have to destroy lives and careers, we can understand why Kenworthy changed his story, and we realize why truths become murky and scoundrels prevail (Boyd 96).

   But setting these pro-British Admiralty apologists aside for the moment, let’s examine some further damning evidence pointing to conspiracy. On the site www.lusitania.net we are told that in the book The Intimate Papers of Colonel House it is written that Foreign Secretary, Lord Grey, a member of “The Round Table Group”, asked House, “What would America do if a British liner was sunk with American passengers aboard?” Recall then Kenworthy supposedly being asked the same question by Churchill, then later denying the whole conversation, and again the hand of deception points toward conspiracy or cover-up. Given these intriguing quotes then, let’s look at the original cargo list for the Lusitania that was found later in Wilson’s papers along with a supplemental list that was added to the original shortly before the disastrous voyage.  

   A blog article published by James Perloff titled False Flags at Sea examines the cargo manifesto and the mysterious machinations surrounding the original munitions list which contained explosives designed to ignite on contact with sea water. Right off Perloff states that British Naval Attaché Capt. Guy Guant was sent to the Du Pont Munitions Plant in Christfield, New Jersey to buy guncotton, this following his meeting with chemist Dr. E.W. Ritter Von Rettegh around April 26, 1915. The issue discussed was the explosive nature of pyroxyline, the main chemical found in guncotton, and Guant learned that this substance exploded when it came into contact with seawater. The blog claims that the guncotton was disguised as cheese and butter, and that this guncotton caused the second explosion which sank the Lusitania in approximately eighteen minutes (jamesperloff.com).

   And the mentioning of the DuPont Munitions Plant brings us to the Wall Street financiers surrounding President Wilson, and their determinations to bring America into the war on the side of Britain. Call them the Illuminati, if you will, but there is no doubt that their financial agent Colonel Edward House, convinced Wilson that millions could be made when loans were granted to the European parties to keep the war going, at a time when the warring parties were at a standstill due to lack of funds for war materials, and the war had grinded to a halt. It is not unreasonable to claim that these greedy, financial barons are in fact representatives of Satan, and that their goal is financial gain through death and destruction, often times financing both sides of a war.

   To continue with Perloff’s assessment then, we can compare Churchill’s duplicity with that of House and Wilson, and digest the fact that Congressman Charles Lindbergh’s book Why is Your Country at War? was blacklisted and that the plates were seized by the American government. An expose of the financial giants who were profiting from the war, perhaps? Perloff lays it out: the bankers led by J.P Morgan used Teddy Roosevelt and his “Bull Moose Party” to split the Republican Party, drawing support away from President Taft and boosting Wilson. This also derailed Senator Robert La Follette, who along with Congressman Charles Lindbergh Sr. and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan represented the populist wing against the Wall Street war-mongers (7).

    Perloff then quotes Curtis Dall, FDR’s nephew: “Wilson pledged to banker Barnard Baruch to do four things if elected President:

1.      Lend an ear on who should occupy his cabinet.

2.      Support the creation of a central bank, i.e. the Federal Reserve.

3.      Support the creation of an income tax.

4.      Lend an ear to advice should war erupt in Europe.

       And thus the financial agents of the Illuminati, “munitions manufacturer Cleveland Dodge, National City Bank/Rockefellers, and banker Jacob Schiff of the Rothschild entity Kuhn, Loeb Bank,  are put in place, with “Assistant President House,” or as Perloff calls him, “the banker’s handmaiden,” directing the coup (7).

   Skipping over then the implementation of the Federal Reserve and the income tax by Colonel House, “the unseen guardian angel” of the Federal Reserve Act, as noted by House’s Skull and Bones biographer Charles Seymour, we can now tie the importance of the sinking of the Lusitania to the plans of the Wall Street brokers and their plans to get America into WWI, while clearly seeing the implications of Churchill’s actions when he later wrote, “The Maneuver which brings an ally into the field is as serviceable as that which wins a great battle.” Thus we have agents of the Illuminati, if you will, on both sides of the Atlantic pushing for war, and looking for a “false flag” to ignite it, and the unscrupulous, bloodthirsty Churchill in the right place at the right time.

   Enter into the picture American Ambassador to England, Walter Hines Page, who according to Perloff was being supported by a $25,000 stipend from munitions manufacturer Cleveland Dodge, and the conspiracy grows. In the chapter “A False Flag Foreknown” Perloff states that on “May 2, 1915—five days before the Lusitania was sunk --- Page write to his son: “If a British liner full of American passengers be blown up, what will Uncle Sam do? That’s what’s going to happen.” In short then Perloff writes that on the morning of the May 7^th, the day the Lusitania glided into the path of the German submarine, House, Round Table agent Sir Edward Grey, England’s Foreign Minister, and King George V, and as stated in “The Intimate Papers of Colonel House,” King George asked, “Suppose they should sink the Lusitania with American passengers on board?” (9).

   According to the author then, Captain Dow, the commander of the Lusitania, resigned as he refused to ferry passenger with munitions, and was replaced by Captain William Turner, one of the fall guys for the disaster. As we said earlier, the ship was carrying not only guncotton, an explosive us in making British mines, but also “six million rifle cartridges and more than 50 tons of shrapnel shells. Perloff notes that the chemist, Dr. Ritter von Rettegh was sentenced to prison for “utterances prejudicial to the peace of the Nation, while Captain Gaunt, the British Naval Attaché was promoted to Rear-Admiral and knighted (10).

   Thus we have the makings of a “false flag” operation, and on page 21 Perloff reminds us of the Zimmerman note, a note from Germany’s Foreign Ambassador, Arthur Zimmerman to the German Ambassador in Mexico, suggesting a military alliance with Mexico, thereby bogging America down in defense of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil interests in Mexico. Commenting on the restructuring of Europe following WWI, Perloff quotes foreign affairs analyst, Hilaire du Berrior: “Three empires, six monarchies and twenty-three duchies and principalities disappeared because leaders who had a stake in nationhood had been carried along in the losing tide,” i.e. make the world safe for democracy…really meant…make the world safe for the Illuminati…” (22).

False Flag at Pearl Harbor: FDR learns from his Beloved Winston

“We knew well in advance that the Japanese were going to attack. It was a lie that we didn’t have direct communication with Washington, D.C.” – Lt. Col. Clifford Andrew

   The Pattern of conspiracy detected in the sinking of the USS Maine and the sinking of the Lusitania is not an unreasonable assumption given the statements and actions of the characters involved, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor can be viewed in the same vain; the attempts to involve countries in wars without the consent of their people using “false flag” operations gives conspirators a “cause belli” which can then be perpetrated through the media by journalists who are members of secret societies vis a vie an Octopus ubiquitously titled the Illuminati or The Bohemian Grove. There is no doubt that we can follow this “false flag” pattern up to and beyond The Gulf of Tonkin incident, but for the moment it is not our purpose to write a book.

   In 1975 a lawyer by the name of Hartford van Dyke published a newspaper titled “The Skeleton in Uncle Sam’s Closet” which said that Roosevelt and his advisors had full knowledge of the coming Japanese attack, yet kept this knowledge from Admirals Kimmel and Short in order to anger the American people into the European war. Hartford got the story from his father, Hartford van Dyke Sr., who got it from his Uncle Gerald Mason Van Dyke, an intelligence officer at Pearl Harbor during the bombing. Mason Van Dyke, according to the newsletter, laid out the following timeline:

1.      Lt. Clifford Andrew sent warning of attack to Washington at 2:00 p.m. on 4^th December 1941.

2.      Message received in Washington by Admiral Prince Paulus Powell: Sec. of Navy Frank Knox notified Sec. of War, Henry Simson notified, Roosevelt informed.

3.      Knox and Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal while attempting to set up defense perimeter were, along with Powell, placed under Marine guard until after the bombing.

   Van Dyke then claims that Roosevelt sent a message to the Army Intelligence Officer at Pearl Harbor, Lt. Clifford Andrew which said: “The Japanese will attack, do not prepare defenses, we need the full support of the American nation in a war time effort by an unprovoked attack upon the nation ( Van Dyke 1-2). While scholars admit that this claim has never been substantiated, recent research seems to support it. Lt. Clifford Andrew was shot in the back of the head at his home in Oregon in 1966, and we only have the words of his confidents and Admiral Prince Paulus Powell who met the elder van Dyke at a political conference:

“Here I was on Saturday morning, Washington time. I grieved; you don’t know how I grieved. And yet I couldn’t do anything because I was under guard. If I had ever sent a message to Pearl Harbor I would have been shot on the spot. It was one of the most dastardly things any president or king has ever done in the history of the world. And there’s no way to keep it from happening again.”

         Van Dyke then relates that the forty top secret file cabinets at Pearl Harbor were burned and that Undersecretary James Forrestal “was thrown out of a seventh floor window of a Bethesda hospital (3). Further on in the Skeleton we are told that Roger Stolley, a colleague of Lt. Clifford Andrew confirmed the events, and then reiterated them in a 1992 article in the Journal for Historical Review. Stolley claims that Andrew told him the following: “We knew well in advance that the Japanese were going to attack. At least nine months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I was assigned to prepare for it.” The article says that Stolley related that he was under “direct orders from President Roosevelt…and was ordered to withhold from commanders in Hawaii vital intelligence related to the location of the Japanese fleet (4).

    Van Dyke then outlines new research given to us by John Toland in his 1986 book “Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath,” which seems to back up Van Dyke’s claims in “The Skeleton in Uncle Sam’s Closet.” He states that Toland received a letter from Col. Carlton Ketchum who informed him that “warnings…began in the fall of 1941, coming from the Dutch Embassy, the Dutch Secret Service and British Secret Service (4). He also points out that on page 343 of Toland’s book that Roosevelt received a warning from someone in Japan, and Roosevelt’s advisors as well as Hoover were told not to notify the commanders in the Pacific.

Van Dyke notes that Toland was encouraged to by letters he received after writing “The Rising Sun,” and began work on “Infamy.” After an exhaustive two year search Toland found a witness, a Dutch Admiral named Ranneft who was in the Naval Intelligence Office in San Francisco on December 3 who told him that officers were tracking two Japanese carriers two hundred miles from Pearl Harbor. To protect the identity of the witness Toland named him “Seaman Z,” but the man’s name was revealed in the 2001 book “Day of Deceit” as being Robert Ogg. In this book by Robert Stinnett Ogg admitted that he had been tracking the Japanese fleet since November 30, 1941 (5).

   Stinnett’s evidence, according to Van Dyke was found in documents declassified in 1994 by the National Archives which show that FDR and thirty members of his cabal “knew in advance that Japanese warships were heading toward Hawaii, and a subsequent memo dated “October 1940 outlined eight steps to provoke such an attack. On page 162 of “Day of Deceit” Stinnett makes mince-meat of pseudo-historians such as Stephen Ambrose:

“After Sixty years it is clear that the U.S. Navy, the army, and the press were all wrong. Overwhelming evidence [from the national archives] proves that Yamamoto as well as other commanders of the Task force warships broke radio silence and that their ships were located by American communication intelligence units”

“…there is no escaping the electronic surveillance…six U.S. Navy monitor stations from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Samoa, Hawaii, Corregidor and two from San Francisco followed every move of Nagumo and the Akagi.”

On page 186 a note from a radio operator: “We had the purple machines and the means to intercept, decode and translate messages…since we were so near to Japan and its naval operation area we were in an excellent position to intercept radio broadcasts.” And in summation on page 203 a note from Lt. Com. Joseph Rochefort: “It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country” (6).

   In summation of the documents uncovered by Stinnett he states that General George Marshall held a secret news conference [four news media outlets and three major wire services] on November 5, 1941 whereby he told the reporters that “the U.S. could read Japan’s coded radio messages, that the reporters were sworn to secrecy and that General Short and Admiral Kimmel had not been briefed. Stinnett informs us that “Naval Intelligence had cracked the Japanese code as early as 1940, fifteen months before the attack, and that Admiral Nagumo’s first radio message was intercepted on April 22, 1941, eight months before the attack, thereby proving that “a systematic plan had been in place long before Pearl Harbor to arouse the United States from its isolationist position” (7).

    And there we have it; the pattern of deceit buttressed by the fact that “the Navy classified all documents TOP SECRET, and according to Stinnett on page 256 of “Day of Deceit:” “All radio operators and cryptographers were gagged on threat of imprisonment and loss of all benefits. Navy director of Communications, Rear Admiral Leigh Noyes, sent a memo ordering all commanders to “destroy all notes or anything in writing.” We can conclude our essay with the following addendums given to us in the article “The Skeleton in Uncle Sam’s Closet:”

1.      Stimson’s war diary: “it was not until November 25 that FDR announced to War Cabinet that “an attack was expected perhaps as early as next Monday (December 1).”

2.      November 25, 1941: Kimmel receives a briefing that an attack was imminent. On November 28 he received the message from Admiral Stark: “Undertake no offensive action until Japan has committed and overt act.”

3.      1999: Senate exonerates Kimmel and Short of dereliction of duty. Nine Pearl Harbor investigation never examined the TESTM dispatches or questioned why Kimmel was kept out of the loop.

4.      A 15 hour delay where no action was taken. “Three Army generals determined that the delay began Saturday night, December 6, and ended at 11:00 the next morning (8).

   Thus we have the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine in 1898, the mystery surrounding the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, and the mystery of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. I think it would be safe to say that “false flag” operations were involved in each these incidents, and that the “Invisible Wall,” or more precisely, the “Illuminati” or the “Octopus” that Robert Stinnett ran into while researching FDR’s deception during Janet Reno’s reign is real. In the final paragraphs of his article Hartford Van Dyke puts the icing on the cake: “Every year like a ghost, Pearl Harbor intrudes upon us and haunts us…the association with 9/11 with the annual phantom of Pearl Harbor put’s the ‘wink’ in hoodwink. Not only are we being controlled, but we’re being taunted with that control (10).