Mystery is the Heart of the Problem

It is one of the many curious aspects of the Pearl Harbor Problem is that its solution was by a small, virtually unknown to the Canadian public, military intelligence unit, with headquaters in Ottawa: Military Intelligence 2, or MI2.  a Canadian-British unit Army, unit closely integrated with the British Army’s MI2, also a signals intelligence unit in the guise of a radio signals unit. And with Britain’s Governmant Code and Cypher School, or GC&CS, now Government Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). unknown to Canadian, British, and American publics. Curious, given that it played one of the most important and central events of the Second War. In fact, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Second War that it largely produced, were responsible for much of the political world as we know it.

The Pearl Harbor mystery, itself, is easy enough to state: What  did Winston Churchill and FD Roosevelt know of attack on Pearl Harbor?, and, When did they know it? There are, of course, additional questions, including  one that is troubling and of particular importance. How has the truth been so effectively obscured? Sy the mystery produces are also easy to state, at are, at least in,Harbor the attack on Pearl  principle, solvable. Just take the trouble to find the correct witness, uncover the documentation, and figure it out. Simply said, the fact that the true story of what happened that day 7 December 1941 remains unknown, hidden by a cloud of disinformation and falsifications, is one of the great unsolved stories of the Second World War. A war that cost some sixty-million lives, and configured the political, economic, social and cultural world as we know.

So, what, exactly, is the Pearl Harbor problem? To keep it simple: What did Winston Churchill and FDR Roosevelt know, and when did they know it? Of course, there are a host of related problems, and questions, without answers. One might ask what Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie-King know, and when did he know it, and what he and Colonel Drake discussed when the met, in the weeks before Pearl Harbor? And what about the vast secret intelligence apparatus surrounding that event, even years before that event, not to speak of the vast apparatus, including British Security Coordination, BSC, under the Canadian William Stephenson, whose primary purpose was to construct, or conceal, whatever truth we are meant to know, or not, to persuade the public to take the right attitude. As one might say, one of the great mysteries of the Second War.

Long before he knew of the Pearl Harbor problem, this author, in a manner of speaking, met the Canadian Army officer who led the unit responsible for its solution. And, later still, met the man who led the team of that unit that found the solution. And learned of a Cambridge astronomer, and astrophysicist, and member of Britain’s GC&CS, the Government Code and Cypher School, very much involved in solving the problem. A man who began studying it several years before even the Japanese military, in particular the Imperial Japanese Navy, had even conceived it. A clairvoyance forming compelling argument for the importance of secret intelligence. At times, the very fate of nations, even civilizations, can be at stake.

It is just a matter of What, and When?

At 6:00 o’clock on the Sunday, the 26th of November 1941, thirty-four vessels of Kido Butai, the Strike Force of the Japan Imperial Navy, raised anchors with a clatter of chains that disappeared into the desolate, wild beauty of Iturup, the largest and northernmost of the Kurile Islands. Two hours later, after forming-up into a convoy, in line, one-by-one they slipped into the vast, dark waters of the Pacific.

Aboard the vessels, the sailors and airmen, apart from a few indoctrinated officers, did not know their destination. However, after a year of training to drop torpedoes and bombs, and use cannons, they knew that war was their purpose. Singapore? Manila? Philippines? “Surely, not Hawaii!” they would say, knowing instinctively what their ultimately fate would be.
Twelve days and 2,000 nautical miles later, at a carefully chosen location, they again refueled from the accompanying tankers to eight-hundred kilometers North of the Hawaiian island Aloha, where they launched first one, then an hour later a second, flights of fighter aircraft, torpedo bombers and Zeros. The aircraft lifted off the six carriers of the fleet and flew 300 kilometers to the US naval base at Pearl Harbor and attacked the vessels of the US Pacific Fleet at anchor. Several capital Ships were destroyed, over 2, 500 American navy personnel and over eight hundred civilians, were killed, in the most serious military defeat in US history. The attack enraged the American public and brought the US war with Japan. Germany, foolishly allied with Japan, declared war against the US three days later.
The US entered the Second World War, allied with Great Britain, Canada and her other allies.

But questions about the attack on Pearl Harbor immediately arose. The majority of the American population had opposed the prospected war with Japan, many thinking it was a device to assist Britain, which was very much at peril from Germany. Had the US truly been surprised by the attack on Pearl Harbor? they asked. Or did President Roosevelt have foreknowledge, and had let the attack take place, to bring the US into the war, against the sentiment of many of her citizens, in support of Britain? Did Churchill know but not inform Roosevelt? Did Britain conspire to bring the US into the war, to protect her from a lethal threat? The questions immediately became moot with the attack on Pearl Harbor, which immediately sealed the fate of Japan.
Nonetheless, five US congressional inquiries, and many investigations by historians and other, that have produced a vast literature, have provided few answers. We shall, of course, address those questions and provide the best answers.
No answer because no attention has been given to a Canadian signals intelligence (SIGINT) team, that had recently set up in a modest building in downtown Ottawa, under a cloak of secrecy. Its objective? – to uncover Japanese intentions, which were thought to be menacing.
The author’s investigation began with an interview of a man who had a member of the unit in question. A man who became a major figure in Canadian signals intelligence, known by colleagues for his role in the Pearl Harbor project. An interview confirmed by further interviews and documentation.
Into Dark Waters: Pearl Harbor and Canadian most secret intelligence, describes leading personalities, the activities of the intelligence unit, revelations of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt; astrophysicist who helped in the search for Kido Butai; details of a most secret intelligence operation in Japan, three years before the attack on Pearl Harbor; an appreciation of the psychic interest and study of that astrophysicist.
The implications with regard to Winston Churchill, Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
And an appreciation of a most, perhaps the most brilliant and successful, Canadian secret intelligence operation of all time.