[.ca] Pearl Harbor: Mother of All Conspiracies (ISBN 0738868892)

Outdated Fraud:
This book is a mess of every conspiracy under the sun. It was proven false by Budiansky and MANY others. THE KEY documents that CONSPIRACY theorists (like Willey) told us the government was keeping SECRET were DECLASSIFIED in 1998 and 1999 and are at the National Archives at College Park. They state that as of December 1, 1941, only 10 percent of the code groups and 5 percent of the additive groups had been recovered in AN-1 (aka JN-25B). Also a report by OP-20-G on decrypts produced in various Japanese code systems for each month of 1941 reports the number of decrypts in JN-25 as "none" Futhermore a complete internal history of the solution of JN-25, was written at the end of WWII. This document, which provides great cryptologic detail,explains how JN-25 was broken during each period. It fully confirms the testimony of the USN personnel involved. By the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, no JN-25 message had been read for intelligence value. I'd also like to say that ALL of the Japanese officers involved including, Abe, Chigusa, Fuchida, Fujita, Genda, Goto, Ishiguro, Kusaka, Maki, Matsumoto and Yoshioka all maintain radio silence was strictly observed. Fuses were removed from the transmitters and the transmitter keys were disabled. Read ("The Pearl Harbor Papers") It was NOT possible! Willey, it seems will not engage in defending his work. More that likely he knows that it is outdated.

Myth making and outright falsehoods.:
Mark's book simply fuels the fantasy world of conspiracy "fans". He routinely takes quotes out of context, ignores inconvenient facts and distorts information to promote his own program, that of hate for FDR. Compare this book with Gordon Prange's works. It's easy to tell which person did the work and gives a rational view of the events surrounding this sad day in US history. If you want to see where Wiley has distorted the original information, check out www.ibiblio.org/pha, where thousands of pages of text await the person who doesn't want to be lead by the nose.

Finally - The Truth!:
Of all the books I've read about Pearl Harbor, this is the best! The author seems to know a great deal about codebreaking and, if anybody can nail the betrayal, Willey has done it!

A Painful Truth:
The truth always hurts and so I fully believe this book to be true. Why? Because I read Eric Nave's account first. Eric Nave was a cryptographer working for the British Royal Navy in SE Asia (Hong Kong)and documents how the Brits were reading the Jap codes, long before Pearl Harbour. The American documents are not incorrect, for they simply show the American code breakers had not yet cracked the code. True and this helps with the cover up. Thing here is it is not what the documents do tell you, it is what they don't say. The Brits had been reading the code and it is inconceivable that the Brits would have withheld the information. Willey has it about right but will the offical line ever change? Well, may be in about 50 years!