[Infowarrior] - Resource: The Magic Background To Pearl Harbor

[Richard Forno]

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/magic/

FOREWORD


The Department of Defense is releasing for public use and research  
this multi-volume study giving the "MAGIC" or communications  
intelligence background of the 1941 Pearl Harbor disaster. In its  
review of classified records pursuant to E. O. 11652, the Department  
of Defense decided that it was in the public interest to declassify  
the intelligence which the U.S. obtained from the communications of  
its World War II enemies. This study contains a major part of the  
communications intelligence which the U.S. derived from intercepted  
Japanese communications during 1941.

The documentation presented here is both voluminous and significant.  
The large volume of intelligence concerning Japanese secret plans,  
policies, and activities which U.S. cryptologic specialists produced  
will augment the information already available on Pearl Harbor from  
Congressional and other public hearings. Of particular importance in  
this study is the correlation of the intelligence with the discussions  
of Secretary of State Hull and Japanese Ambassador Nomura in the  
critical months before Pearl Harbor. Scholars no doubt will find new  
challenges in this voluminous intelligence information as they examine  
not only the decisions made by the U.S. but also the intelligence  
which influenced and occasionally prompted those decisions.

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The Pearl Harbor History Associates are happy to be able to bring this  
work to the Internet after decades of being hidden in the stacks or  
costing $100+ for each volume on the used market. We hope this will be  
useful in the study of the events leading up to the attack on Pearl  
Harbor and the study of events leading to wars whenever they occur.   
Our greatest wish is that by learning more about how wars start we can  
learn more about how to prevent them, and some day will come the time  
when we will "study war no more."

.... files at:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/magic/