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Japanese Culture and dominant ideology of the time, had tap roots that went back centuries, and features that appear  odd, to the western mind. One being a devoted obedience to the Emperor, and Emperorship, in which he, always a he, has the status of a demi-god. Which made him the pivot point for Japanese politics, useful for those social, political elites in their contention for power. For another, an almost death-cult acceptance of self sacrifice.

MI2, Canada’s military signal’s intelligence service, Directed by Colonel Edward Drake, and its closely associated British MI2, with similar duties, which was closely associated with GC&CS and MI6, took a more pragmatic view. As did the unique brilliance of Winston Churchill, focused 0n the growing existential threat posed by German fascism,  under a leader who early who personified pure evil, Adolf Hitler.

He had, however, a second focus, which had emerged in the 1930’s in the Pacific, on Japan, which Churchill recognized as a threat to Britain’s life line, to her Empire in the Pacific.

In a complex manner, into this nest dropped a third pole, the United States, personified by FD Roosevelt. A ‘ navy man’, having been Secretary of the US Navy, accutely aware of the strategic dimensions of the changes that were in rapid, dangerous, flux.

With the German invasion and victory over France, the picture became even more complex. France had the largest empire after Britain, with holdings in Africa, the Mediteranean, and the Pacific. Those concerns greatly magnified with Japan’s 1931 invasion of M, and grew larger with her occupation of France’s colonies in Africa,

A large and complex Chess Board into which dropped the US, and FD Roosevelt, with his accute awareness of the threat Japan posed in the Pacific, and the threat posed to Europe, and to Britain – the linchpin to, let us say, to the Western Democratic impetus – of the world.

A linchpin that, in the 1930’s, became aware of the rising threat to her and her empire posed by Japan. Which brought awareness of the importance of Hitokappu-Wan, the bay on the island of Iterup, and its potential as a staging waters for the Imperial Japanese Navy. How this insight first appeared is unknown, except to say that the  need for a secret staging area was obvious.   That meant a necessity for a navy distributed, as the Imperial Japanese Navy was, across the Four Home Islands, at risk of detection of her vessels immediately as they left those islands in any aggresive,  threatening move. Such a movement would have to be masked by stealth. That, in turn, reqired a staging area – remote, distant, beyond suveillance notice or watch – in this case, identifiable to the clever officers of the RCN’s Naval intelligence, an island in the remote Pacific, distant from the trade lanes of the Pacific, virtualy unpopulated, with almost nonexistant communications, comprised of one easily controlled radio link, a large, quiet bay, ideal for holding a large fleet, that, to the intelligent observer, meant Hitokappu-Wan.

Which, in 1936, brought the attentions of JSM Stratton, Cambridge astronomer an astrophysicist, and radio intelligence officer, who took it upon himelf to lead an expedition to study the total eclipse of 19 June of that year. For which he set up his telescope, and other istruments, on the heights of Hikkaido, at a point with a good view of the island of Iterup, and of Hitokappu-Wan.

What is most interesting is how the information from the interview of my source, the Lieutenant who led the the MI2 team that tracked Kido Butai, coincided with what I learned from the documentary sources from the Library and Archives Canada. there was one little contradiction that raises a sigificant question. So lets turn to the matter in our next post

The Pearl Harbor Problem

Ottawa, Canada’s capital, a hot summer day in July, 1961. Along with my parents and two siblings, I had just returned from Zweibrücken Germany, where my RCAF officer father had completed a four-year posting at the Canadian fighter base there. We had recently returned to the family home on Cunningham Avenue, in the tranqil suburb of Alta Vista, in Ottawa, Canada.

Young boy as I was, I had no warning that I was about to be brushed by what could only be said to be a black-winged creature from the past, the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor of the 7th of December, 1941. For the United States, the beginning of the War in the Pacific and entrance to the War in Europe. Wars that would take twenty, thirty, perhaps as many as fourty million lives.  The worst war in human history.

Of course,  I that day in Ottawa, innocent boy that I was, I had no idea that I was about to be introduced to the true story of Pearl Harbor, and  its beginning,  a mystery of which even now, decades later, the world has no knowledge.

Gordon W. Prange’s “At Dawn We Slept” is the first and for a time the be most serious study of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A product of thirty-seven years of research and by a historian who spent several years, from 1945 to 1951, with the US General Headquarters, Far East Command General Command, in Tokyo, and from October 1946 to June 1951 chief of General Macarther’s G-2 Historical Section, and from June through July 1951 he was acting director of the Military History Section. Said to know more “about the attack on Pearl Harbor than any other person. He interviewed virtually every surviving Japanese officer who took part in the Pearl Harbor operation, as well as every U.S. source. The scope of his research is without equal.” The original over 3,500-page manuscript was edited for publication by two of Prange’s students, Dr. Donald M. Goldstein and CWO Katherine V. Dillon, USAF (Ret.) With the claim, in their words, that “Gordon Prange approached this study with as nearly an open mind as any American could bring to the subject of Peal Harbor…  he began this project with ‘no ax to grind, no preconceived thesis to prove, no one to defend.’ He tried at all times to be as objective as humanly possible.’ ” And adds, “the primary source of the American side of the problem was and probably always will remain the forty volumes comprising the report and testimony of the joint congressional committee which investigated the disaster. These volumes include the committee’s own record plus those of the preceding investigations, as well as a host of supporting documents.” There are, however, “some limitations and idiosyncrasies… We list not necessarily in order of importance. 1. Space did not allow treatment of the revisionist thesis that President Roosevelt wanted and either permitted the attack or deliberately engineered it to bring the United States into WWII by ‘the back door.’ For the record, Prange dealt with this exhaustively in his original manuscript and reached the conclusion that neither the evidence nor common sense justified this view of the matter.’

The Appendix, “Revisionists Revisited”, the Editors Goldstein and Dillon add ex-post-facto comments on the ‘Revisionist School’ of the Pearl Harbor history. Comments identified by “would have”, “could not be certain that”. As for “Would have”, “Could have”, who cares. It is what actually happened that is important. Anything else is either specious reasoning, false, or irrelevant, meant to mislead.

A Total Solar Eclipse

To know why, we must go back to the 19th of June 1936, the day of a total solar eclipse, which caused a band of darkness to circle the globe,  a village on the Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, where a renowned Cambridge University astronomer, FJM Stafford, adjusted his telescope to view the adjacent island of Iterup, 200 nautical miles distant, the first  of the islands that arc from Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido to Russia. And while Professor FJM Stafford, Colonel in the Royal Corps of Signals, brilliant mathematician, astrophysicist, hero of the First War, might have chosen any other site, in Inda, Australia, or elsewhere, chosen the isolated village of Karishimi in the north Japanese island of Hokkaido…. For one, recent developments in the Pacific that were of deep concern to Briain, Japan’s 1931 invasion of Manchuria, installing a puppet Chinese emperor, making it an imperial possession. Posing a threat to the British Empire in the Pacific, notably Malaya, Singapore, Burma, India, along with Australia and New Zealand; France’s Indochina of Vietnam and Laos And two otial traffic the British Government, military services and special services. Traffic the security of which was essential to the security of Britain. One professional, that led him to Hokkaido, and the remote village of Karishimi, for his astronomical ministrations. had one other quality, never publicly displayed, spy. Not a common every-day lurker, a gentle, modest radio and generous man, with little self-interest, but endowed with very-exceptional powers of intellect and – tested in war – courage. Someone to rely on. In April 1940 (verify year), he arrived in Ottawa and, accompanied by Captain Ed Drake, then Assistant Director of the Canadian Army’s MI2, arrived at the Examination Unit, Canada’s then civilian signals intelligence (SIGINT) organization, in a house at 245 Laurier Avenue in Ottawa, beside the residence of Canada’s Prime Minister’s, Mackenzie King. A singular fact of which Japanese authorities were quite unaware.

A village that overlooked the  Island of Iterup

The Pearl Harbor story began several years earlier, even before the day of a total solar eclipse, 19 June 1936, the village of Kamishari, on the Japanese Home Island of Hokkaido.  Where FJM Stafford, Cambridge University Fellow, professor of astrophysics, member of the Royal Corps of Signals (RCS), radio intelligence specialist in the First War, and radio intelligence specialist in the Second,  who led the expedition to observe the local characteristics of the event, managed the entire worldwide astronomical expedition, with teams from Russia, India, Australia and Japan, to name just a few, and with the members of his team, set up their telescopes and related instruments. Stafford was so keen that, wanting a particular site for his observations, asked the Japanese astronomer who had initially taken the spot, to exchange places. Which the kind Japanese professor agreed. The observation post was special for Stafford, odd given that, as astronomers, there professional concern would be thought to be the heavens, not below. Whatever the case, the spot chosen happened to overlook, 200 nautical miles distant, the first major island of the Kuriles, Iturup. And Hitokappu-Wan, the bay from which, two-and-one-half years later, Kido Butai would gather, then, on the morning of 26 November 1941, set sail for the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and the attack on Pearl Harbor. At that point it time, Stafford would be in Ottawa, as close associate, scientist and assistant to Captain Drake,  then the Director of MI2. So close that  Stafford and Drake shared the same office. 

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Figure 3 Iterup, Island in the Kuriles, location of Hitokappu-Wan

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Pearl Harbor , the Spies

Two decades or so ago,  after release of a story I had brought to the Fifth Estate, an investigative program of Canada’s television network,  the CBC,  about  a civilian of the RCMP Security Service who was falsely accused of being a Soviet spy, (Leslie James Bennett story, 1993), I was asked if I had anything else in mind. What came to mind was  a story about Canadian signals intelligence, paricularly of the Second War, a topic virtually  unknown to the  Canadian public. “Go ahead”, they said. “If you find anything interesting, let us know.” Which brought me to  interviewing  persons involved in Canadian  signals intelligence, some in the early years of the War, 1939 – 1942. And to two decades of inquiry, to a story that might well change the history of the Second World War.

There were two Canadian signals intelligence organizations in the Second War, both with headquarters in Ottawa. The “Examination Unit”, directed mainly to civilian targets,  and a unit of the Canadian Army, responsible for military signals intelligence, closely associated with an equivalent British organization.

It was from Somerset House, in downtown Ottawa, from where Canadian military intelligence tracked Kido Butai, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, to its attack, on 7 December 1941, on Pearl Harbor. Which brought the US into the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe. An event that made Somerset House one of the most important historical buildings sites in Canada. Of which the Canadian public, and the world, has no knowledge.

A state of mind of which Canadian, and several other authorities, very much wish to maintain.

The success of the Canadian team that tracked Kido Butai, and determined that Pearl Harbor would be the target, and its story, solves one of the great remaining mysteries of the Second World War.

Which takes us back to my interview of a man, at Somerset House, who lead a team set up to watch the Imperial Japanes Navy. In particular, at a time when it thought that Japan might attack British, French, Dutch or US  colonies or assets in the Pacific, that  did just that. And to the spies who have made every effort to try to ensure that the story not be told.

The Interview
Of the several interviews I made in Ottawa was with one Thomas (TGS) Colls, of British origin, who came to Canada in th 1930’s. During the First World War, he had joined the Coldstream Regiment, but the war ended just as he finished his training. A disapointment, he said, “But, at least, I would live.” Having been with the oldest, and one of the most storied, British guards regiments, upon his arrival in Canada he was quickly accepted into the Canadian Army at the beginning of the Second War. He chose, and was chosen, by the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, the RCCS, responsible for Canadian Army communication. and quickly was made a lieutenant.

For a signals regiment, of any military, communications security is a primary concerns. So, too, is signalsd intelligence, which of course becomes much more prominent in time of  war.

Lieutenant was with MI2 during the Second World War, including at Somerset House, as intelligence analyst. More specifically, involved in traffic analysis, or TA, the primary task of MI2, which involved analyzing the external characteristics of targeted communications traffic, such as call signs, frequency, location, visual form of the signal on screens, distinctive tempo of sending operators, and much more. Everything apart from the message itself, which was the concern of decryption and communications intelligence in regard to meaning.

Colls became an important figure in Canadian postwar signals intelligence organization, Communications Branch National Research Council (CBNRC). Several years as Head of Group “O”, responsible for Communications Intelligence (COMINT); advisor to CBNRC Directors; Liaison Officer to the leading members of the world’s most exclusive association, the ‘Five Eyes’,  Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and USA’s National Security Agency (NSA).

In sum, an important figure in Canada’s most secret intelligence activity. And of its most significant success. Which became the topic of discussion for our interview: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the 7th of December 1941.
More specifically, the answers to the two questions that remain: What did Winston Churchill, and Franklin Delano  Roosevelt, know about the attack on Pearl Harbor?, and, most important, When did they know it?

Questions that five special Congressional inquiries, numerous investigations by historians and other specialists, learned academics and observers, knowledgeable and curious about the true meaning of the Second World War, have been unable to answer. At the cost of much disputation and risk to reputation. Answers that he, the MI2 team that in 1941 he led, and MI2, under the brilliant leadership of Director Colonel Edward Michael Drake, discovered, in one of the most brilliant achievements of Canadian most secret intelligence. Of which of  Canada and the world has precisely no knowledge.

The interview began abruptly with the statement “I solved the problem of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He went on to say that he discovered that Kido Butai, the Japanese attack fleet, “was in movement”, after leaving Hitokappu-Wan, where it had ‘staged’ after the vessels arrived from ports in the Home Islands. “We did not know where it was headed, but not long after concluded that the three most likely targets were Singapore, Philippines, and Pearl Harbor.

Days before the attack, he determined, and reported, that the target was Pearl Harbor.

An extraordinary discovery, one that provided much of the answer to the great mystery of the attack on Pearl Harbor. But not quite. That would come much later.

An answer that would be given by a document, which I discovered in Canada’s National Archives, a dozen blocks from Somerset House, where Colls and the MI2 team he headed made their discovery. A document that not only tells us What Churchill and Roosevelt knew, and When they knew it, but provides the undeniable, concrete, evidence that over eighty years of inquiry has failed to produce.

Which brings us to a further drama in the great mystery of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and insight as to its origin, and why it has existed as long as it has.

The Theft

It had been over a decade that I had refrained from writing about my discovery with regard to the true story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, for a quite simple reason. There had been such an orchestrated denial of the truth, I reasoned, that the public would be incapable of escaping that denial. Unless, I reasoned, I could discover documentary evidence. Which I recently discovered,  two documents in Canada’s National Archives. One, a single page in an unbound file of draft entries to a diary, one page with a brief penciled note by Colonel Ed Drake, Commanding Officer of MI2, on duty December 6, 1941, about the “grave matter of the emergency meeting to be held that evening. And about his travels to the Pacific Coast, both Canada’s British Columbia and Washington State of the US. A day that ended with a visit to Washington DC, home of OP-20-G, the headquarters of the US Navy’s signals intelligence organization, close to the White House, closely allied and interoperative with Canada’s MI2. A precious access to the truth of Pearl Harbor. The second document, a bound volume, entitled  “Diary 1940”, for which the draft entries in the loose sheets were meant to be added

It so happened that on 30 January 2024 mentioned my discovery of the two precious documents to an acquaintance, who had spent several years in Canada’s signals intelligence CBNRC, later renamed CSE, Communications Security Establishment. He left CSE and joined Canadian Security Intelligence Service. On the 29^th of February, I visited Canada’s National Library and Archives, with the intention of again studying the two previous documents, and discovered they were missing from the LAC volumes where they had been. I made inquiries, and learned that two CSIS agents had visited LAC, obtained accessed records assigned to me. More recently, I have learned that a group of CSIS agents were filmed going through the records, and removing several. From LAC witnesses to whom I spoke, it seems they had a festive time going through the records.

Certainly, for CSIS to access the records assigned to me by Library and Archives Canada required them to request and receive the assistance of LAC, and to have a judicial warrant. Also, the warrant must be presented to the LAC officials effecting the access. Otherwise, the search is in conflict with the Canadian Charter of Rights, within the Canadian Constitution, in particular, to Section 8, Search and Seizure.

At a Justice Canada site, I consulted the file that that lists all judicial warrants, listed by the name, and quickly confirmed that now judicia warrant had every been issued against me. That meant that CSIS had both was able to consult the

For CSIS to commit such an act, without a judicial

Which has brought to mind the possibility of an action against both Library and Archives Canada, and CISIS, for a denial of Charter Rights, specifically contrary to Section 8, Search and Seizure, without Judicial Warrant. Others could be added.

As mentioned in an earlier post, the truth of the attack on Pearl Harbor was revealed to this author in an interview with an intelligence officer from the Canadian Army’s signals intelligence unit MI2, particularly from its headquarters in Ottawa. A unit that worked in close association with Britain’s MI2, which at the time, during the Second World War, of which performed the same function – managing military signals intelligence. Part of the responsibilities of MI2, British and Canadian, was directing and managing the “Y” network of intercept stations. Britain’s MI2 was much larger than the Canadian, for the simply because Britain’s “Y” network was worldwide, covering the British empire, which was truly global. The Canadian “Y” network was much smaller, but nonetheless extended over a very large country, with intercept sites from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Major sites in the Atlantic Provinces focused on German submarine threat to trans-Atlantic traffic, especially important for movement of vital supply to Britain from Canada. Sites in British Columbia and Alberta were focused on the threat posed by the Imperial Japanese Navy to Britain’s Empire in the Pacific. The major Pacific  intercept site was Esquimalt, which managed the Canadian Pacific stations, reporting to MI2 and Roya Canadian Navy intelligence in Ottawa.

During 1940 to the December1941, the major concern for Canadian intelligence on the Pacific was the increasing threat from Japan to the British colonies, particularly  Hong Kong, Malaysia/Singapore, as well as the threat to allied Australia and New Zealand.

A mentioned in an earlier post, at the behest of the CBC investigative program Fifth Estate, I undertook research into the possibility of a history of Canadian signals intelligence.  A largely unknown subject, given the recent wartime experience, when secrecy on the on the subject was existential. In security, the default to maintain secrecy. It was in the 1960’s and 1970’s that some of the barriers were somewhat reduced in Britain and in the US. My interest was the Canadian and British experience in the early phase, of the war, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of 7 December, 1941, which brought  the war to the Pacific, and US into the war that extended to both Europe and the vast Pacific.  Why?,  one might ask? An interesting question. For one, there was such a complex play of conflicting and intersecting interests that made it a fascinating puzzle.  Especially since several of the main actors Britain, the US, German and Russia in particular, obviously played a hidden game. Particularly Britain and the US, a game in which Canada played a supporting, and much hidden, role. Partly because I found it curious that those who speak of or question the possibility of foreknowledge, do not study or write about the detail. Often they wave statements claiming inability  to decypher Japanese radio messages, and To a large extent, I was curious that British and American SIGINT were more open that Canadian, which raised the question, “Why?”

A simple question, it appeared.  I soon learned that finding the answer was not simple at all.

I thought of locating persons who been involved in signals intelligence during the war came to mind. I found reference to an unclassified periodical of CBNCC, for her employees, that mentioned all the names of employees. I requested all copies under the Access to Information Act, and several weeks later received copies in which the names of current employees had been removed, but not the names of past employees.  With the aid of public directories available at Canada’s National Archives, I was able to locate several, and their telephone numbers. I was able to speak with several,

Several years ago, after CBC Fifth Estate produced a story I had brought to them, with success, (Leslie James Bennett, McLoughlin, 1993) they asked if I had anything else in mind. I suggested a history of Canadian signals intelligence, a highly classified subject of which I knew very little, apart from it  being virtually unknown, highly classified,  and important topic of which the  Canadian public knew little or nothing. “Go ahead”, they said. “If you find anything interesting, let us know.”

Which brought me to requesting all copies of an internal pulication of CBNRC (Communictions Branch National Research Council), Canada’s sigals intelligence organation. Current names and identies were deleated from the copies, for reason of security. I soon  found that the names of several had been removed,  which, I learned much later, was not nessarily because they were still employed by the postwar CBNRC or CSE, but because they had been involved in operations during the war that, postwar, remained sensitive and classified, a clue that was of considerable importance.

In reaality, there were two watime signals intelligencech at the time I began my inqiries, was the only signals intelligence unit of which I was aware, the Examination Unit WW2.  preceding interviewing persons who had been in that activity in Canada, by two organizations, the aforementioned “Examination Unit”, which primarily, but not exclusively, was with civilian targets,  and the Canadian Army’s Military Intelligence 2″, MI2,  directed, largely, but not exclusively, to military targets.

From 1939 to 1942, period of most importance for topics discussed, MI2 was in Somerset House, at the south-east corner  of the intersection of Bank Street and Somerset Avenue, which, abandoned and neglected, in very bad condition, it remains to this day.

What took place there, during several days and weeks of November 1940 – December 1941, makes Somerset House is one of the most important historical sites in Canada. Of which, given the continued secrecy that has cloaked, even historians of the City of Ottawa, of Canada’s Department of National Defence, and a closely nearby firm of very competent historians, Know History, who, ironicly, know nothing at all.A state of affairs that that Canadian, and several other, public authorities would very much like to maintain.

Not of the speak of the members of Canada Parliamentary, a mere ten blocks away, along with the passing American tourists, who have particular reason to know what transpired during days f 1941, those who lossed family or loved ones from the Japanese attack on Pear Harbor, including those of the 60 millon of the war that followed.

The Interview
Of the several interviews I made in Ottawa was with one Tom (TGS) Colls, who as Lieutenant was with MI2 during the Second World War, including at Somerset House, as intelligence analyst. More specifically, involved in traffic analysis, or TA, the primary task of MI2, which involved analyzing the external characteristics of targeted communications traffic, such as call signs, frequency, location, visual form of the signal on screens, distinctive tempo of sending operators, and much more. Everything apart from the message itself, which was the concern of decryption and communications intelligence in regard to meaning.

Colls became an important figure in Canadian postwar signals intelligence organization, Communications Branch National Research Council (CBNRC). Several years as Head of Group “O”, responsible for Communications Intelligence (COMINT); advisor to CBNRC Directors; Liaison Officer to the leading members of the world’s most exclusive association, the ‘Five Eyes’,  Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and USA’s National Security Agency (NSA).

In sum, an important figure in Canada’s most secret intelligence activity. And of its most significant success. Which became the topic of discussion for our interview: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the 7th of December 1941.
More specifically, the answers to the two questions that remain: What did Winston Churchill, and Franklin Delano  Roosevelt, know about the attack on Pearl Harbor?, and, most important, When did they know it?

Questions that five special Congressional inquiries, numerous investigations by historians and other specialists, learned academics and observers, knowledgeable and curious about the true meaning of the Second World War, have been unable to answer. At the cost of much disputation and risk to reputation. Answers that he, the MI2 team that in 1941 he led, and MI2, under the brilliant leadership of Director Colonel Edward Michael Drake, discovered, in one of the most brilliant achievements of Canadian most secret intelligence. Of which of  Canada and the world has precisely no knowledge.

The interview began abruptly with the statement “I solved the problem of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He went on to say that he discovered that Kido Butai, the Japanese attack fleet, “was in movement”, after leaving Hitokappu-Wan, where it had ‘staged’ after the vessels arrived from ports in the Home Islands. “We did not know where it was headed, but not long after concluded that the three most likely targets were Singapore, Philippines, and Pearl Harbor.

Days before the attack, he determined, and reported, that the target was Pearl Harbor.

An extraordinary discovery, one that provided much of the answer to the great mystery of the attack on Pearl Harbor. But not quite. That would come much later.

An answer that would be given by a document, which I discovered in Canada’s National Archives, a dozen blocks from Somerset House, where Colls and the MI2 team he headed made their discovery. A document that not only tells us What Churchill and Roosevelt knew, and When they knew it, but provides the undeniable, concrete, evidence that over eighty years of inquiry has failed to produce.

Which brings us to a further drama in the great mystery of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and insight as to its origin, and why it has existed as long as it has.

The Theft

It had been over a decade that I had refrained from writing about my discovery with regard to the true story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, for a quite simple reason. There had been such an orchestrated denial of the truth, I reasoned, that the public would be incapable of escaping that denial. Unless, I reasoned, I could discover documentary evidence. Which I recently discovered,  two documents in Canada’s National Archives. One, a single page in an unbound file of draft entries to a diary, one page with a brief penciled note by Colonel Ed Drake, Commanding Officer of MI2, on duty December 6, 1941, about the “grave matter of the emergency meeting to be held that evening. And about his travels to the Pacific Coast, both Canada’s British Columbia and Washington State of the US. A day that ended with a visit to Washington DC, home of OP-20-G, the headquarters of the US Navy’s signals intelligence organization, close to the White House, closely allied and interoperative with Canada’s MI2. A precious access to the truth of Pearl Harbor. The second document, a bound volume, entitled  “Diary 1940”, for which the draft entries in the loose sheets were ment.

It so happened that on 30 January 2024 mentioned my discovery of the two precious documents to an acquaintance, who had spent several years in Canada’s signals intelligence CBNRC, later renamed CSE, Communications Security Establishment. He left CSE and joined Canadian Security Intelligence Service. On the 29^th of February, I visited Canada’s National Library and Archives, with the intention of again studying the two predious documents, and discovered they were missing from the LAC volumes where they had been. I made inquiries, and learned that two CSIS agents had visited LAC, obtained accessed records assigned to me. More recently, I have learned that a group of CSIS agents were filmed goinan g through the records, and removing several.

Which has brought the wish to bring an action against both Library and Archives Canada, and CISIS, for a denial of Charter Rights, specifically contrary to Section 8, Search and Seizure, without Judicial Warrant.

Text Method, Inc. speaks to several subjects and topics. A principle subject being Mysteries, of which, to begin, are two:

1. The Japanese Attack, on 7 December 1941 on Pearl Harbor
2. Death in Ice Valley, also known as Death of the Isdal Woman, whose body was found in the valley of the Norwegian  mountain was  found.

In a world of mysteries, why these? For one, because this author happened upon them, in the same manner, by interview, of two officers once of  Canada’s most secret foreign intelligence service, responsible for signals intelligence, SIGINT, in  Canada’s Capital, Ottawa.

The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the Second World War to the Pacific, and to its being the most destructive in history.

Almost one-hundred years have passed since the vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy  the attack fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Kido Butai, secretly left Hitokappu-Wan, the bay on the island of Iterup, then in the Japanese Kirules, and entered the Pacific, to make its three-and-a-half nautical mile journey to the Hawaii island of Oahu,  and its target, Pearl Harbor.

From that event, it has been a mystery how the vessels of Kido Butai succeeded in

The second, in 1970, the body of a woman was found in a mountain valley near Bergin, Norway. By the evidence, she had been murdered by persons unknown, and the body showed that if had been partially burned. There were no identification documents. Police investigation did not uncover identification,  but did discover evidence of recent extensive travel, to several European countries, including Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Austria and Germany, and finally, several days in Bergen, Norway.

For both, ignorance has been the rule. As we shall see, powerful, sophisticated, and obscure forces have, and continue, to be at work to ensure that  state of ignorance.

There are two other reasons for focusing on them. One that a serious mystery – challenging, difficult to resolve,  deeply important – are simply irresistible. Another that, in the troubled world with perils in abundance, it is necessary for us to ‘tighten up’ so we can successfully deal with them. Quite simply, we cannot allow our children, and humanity, to be so at risk.

And as for Canada’s lovely, seemingly quiet, capital city, those who believe that little of importance takes place are quite wrong.