Monday, Dec 08, 2008 A new study has concluded the US did not
have advance warning about Japan’s plan to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Research has been released on the 67th anniversary of the attack
on the key naval base which forced America to join World War II.
There have long been allegations that some in Washington knew in
advance that the Japanese planned to target Pearl Harbor on
December 7, 1941. Now, a team at the National Security Agency
(NSA) has carried out a study which rules out the long-held
theory surrounding one of the Second World War’s most enduring
mysteries (ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW) According to historians,
secret messages buried in Japanese-language weather reports,
meant to alert Japanese diplomats worldwide to destroy
confidential codes as war with America, Russia and Britain was
beginning, did not reach US officials prior to the attack. Under
Japan’s “winds execute plan”, East wind rain meant the US, north
wind cloudy was the erstwhile Soviet Union and west wind clear
was Britain if diplomatic r