Understanding How the Psychological Groundwork Was Laid for the 9/11 Official Story

As many of us well remember, the Hollywood "blockbuster" Pearl Harbor starring Ben Affleck was released in the summer of 2001, priming Americans for the upcoming "new pearl harbor". While normally the 50th anniversary would have been the one when you would have expected all the commemorative books and movies (i.e. 1991) it seems that for some reason (kof kof) the 60th anniversary (i.e. 2001) was instead hyped for the pearl harbor attack. A close examination of Pearl Harbor-related books published in advance of 9/11, moreover, shows that many of the arguments surrounding the events of 9/11 were being hashed out with pearl harbor as the context... One example is the promotion of the incompetence defense and specifically the "lack of sharing of information between gov't agencies" charge in the following book, which we will be examining in detail, among others, in the weeks to come:

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
This book goes a long way toward ending the 50-year-old debate as to how the Japanese managed to surprise U.S. forces when they bombed Hawaii on December 7, 1941. In 1944, Secretary of War Henry Stimson selected co-author Clausen, then a lawyer in the U.S. Judge Advocate's office, to conduct an independent investigation into the Pearl Harbor attack; Clausen submitted a top-secret report on the matter, the substance of which is published here for the first time. Assisted by New York-based editor Lee, Clausen details his discovery of egregious errors of omission and commission, as well as criminal neglect of duty by the Army and Navy high command in Washington and Honolulu. He concludes that the top officers in Hawaii, General Walter Short and Admiral Husband Kimmel, were simply asleep at the switch and ignored repeated warnings. Probably the most telling factor in this failure of communication, he argues, was the Navy's arrogant hoarding of secret intelligence that should have been shared with its Army counterparts. This thoroughly engrossing narrative, as compelling as a detective novel, answers two major questions: What did Washington and Honolulu know about Japanese actions before the attack and what did they do about it? A significant historical breakthrough that should attract a wide readership. Photos. 60,000 first printing; BOMC, QPB and History Book Club alternate.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
By now everyone is aware that the worst of the Pearl Harbor tragedy might have been avoided if the United States had heeded the warnings more carefully and had had a little luck. Clausen adds to the picture by describing his high-level wartime mission to find the truth about the raid. Although he makes dramatic charges of laxness and organizational bungling, his overheated claims of outright malfeasance are neither new nor surprising. If the book adds little to the controversy, however, the wartime documents it reproduces make a useful addition to the Pearl Harbor literature. It is written in a fastidious, lawyerly fashion but is a nice supplement to Gordon Prange's classic At Dawn We Slept . Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/92; for other Pearl Harbor books, see "The Day of Infamy in Print," LJ 9/1/91, p. 206-07.--Ed.
- Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.