Richard Stanley
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I accidentally came across a copy, on my computer, of this excerpted article below, that I had thought was scrubbed from the host site. The article discusses the foreknowledge of the Red Cross as to what happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This dovetails with what Robert Stinnett detailed in his Day of Deceit, where he documented not only the top miltary foreknowledge of the attack, but asserts that FDR had approved the goading of the Japanese to do so via our execution of all the items on the McCollum Memorandum.
In more recent years General Short and Admiral Kimmel were posthumously relieved of their official responsibility for what happened at Pearl Harbor -- in regards to defense preparations. On 9/11, similar medical supplies were pre-positioned, and this time war games confusion was used to shield the military brass.
In more recent years General Short and Admiral Kimmel were posthumously relieved of their official responsibility for what happened at Pearl Harbor -- in regards to defense preparations. On 9/11, similar medical supplies were pre-positioned, and this time war games confusion was used to shield the military brass.
Families of the Pearl Harbor commanders have been championing the theory that official Washingon knew when and where the 1941 Japanese attack would occur. Evidence of secret medical shipments prior to the attack is lending credence to it.
A previously unsubstantiated report that President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested the national office of the American Red Cross to send medical supplies secretly to Pearl Harbor in advance of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack is beginning to look much more feasible.
Don C. Smith, who directed the War Service for the Red Cross before World War II and was deputy administrator of services to the armed forces from 1942 to 1946, when he became administrator, apparently knew about the timing of the Pearl Harbor attack in advance. Unfortunately, Smith died in 1990 at age 98. But when his daughter, Helen E. Hamman, saw news coverage of efforts by the families of Husband Kimmel and Walter Short to restore the two Pearl Harbor commanders posthumously to what the families contend to be their deserved ranks, she wrote a letter to President Bill Clinton on 5 September 1995. Recalling a conversation with her father, Hamman wrote:
. . . Shortly before the attack in 1941 President Roosevelt called him [Smith] to the White House for a meeting concerning a Top Secret matter. At this meeting the President advised my father that his intelligence staff had informed him of a pending attack on Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese. He anticipated many casualties and much loss, he instructed my father to send workers and supplies to a holding area at a P.O.E. [port of entry] on the West Coast where they would await further orders to ship out, no destination was to be revealed. He left no doubt in my father's mind that none of the Naval and Military officials in Hawaii were to be informed and he was not to advise the Red Cross officers who were already stationed in the area. When he protested to the President, President Roosevelt told him that the American people would never agree to enter the war in Europe unless they were attack [sic] within their own borders.
. . . He [Smith] was privy to Top Secret operations and worked directly with all of our outstanding leaders. He followed the orders of his President and spent many later years contemplating this action which he considered ethically and morally wrong. ...