Dupuy, Trevor N. "Pearl
Harbor: Who Blundered." American Heritage 13 (Feb. 1962): 65-80.
According to Sexton, this "somewhat polemical examination of the decisions and actions of key American political and military leaders ... attributes the Pearl Harbor disaster to a failure of leadership on General Marshall's part."
Farago, Ladislas. The
Broken Seal: The Story of "Operation Magic" and the Pearl Harbor
Disaster. New York: Random House, 1967. London: Arthur Barker, 1967.
The Broken Seal: "Operation Magic" and the Secret Road to Pearl
Harbor. New York: Bantam Books, 1968. [pb]
According to Constantinides, "[e]xperts have found the book unreliable as cryptological and intelligence history." Sexton finds that the book "[f]urnishes valuable background, but has been superseded by more recent works."
Ferrell, Robert H.
"Pearl Harbor and the Revisionists." The Historian 17 (1955):
215-233. [Petersen]
Fish, Hamilton.
Fish, a former member of the U.S. Congress (R.-NY), died in 1991. His memoirs continued the anti-FDR theme established in at least two earlier books.
1. Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1992.
Surveillant 2.5: Fish argued that the "U.S. defeat at Pearl Harbor was compounded by the knowledge that it was deliberately provoked by a U.S. President influenced by a Soviet spy in his own government. That spy, we are told, was Harry Dexter White. White, called here a Soviet spy taking direct orders from Moscow, assisted FDR in implementing a covert and treasonous plan to issue a war ultimatum to the Japanese in order to prompt a strike on the U.S."
2. FDR: The Other Side of the Coin -- How We Were Tricked into World War II. New York: Vantage, 1976.
3. Tragic Deception -- FDR and America's Involvement in World War II. Greenwich, CT: Devin-Adair, 1983.
Fishel, Edwin C., and
Louis W. Tordello. "FDR's Mistake? Not Likely." International
Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 5, no. 3 (Fall 1991):
360-372.
This article is a refutation of the ideas presented in Edward S. Barkin and L. Michael Meyer, "COMINT and Pearl Harbor: FDR's Mistake," International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 2, no. 4 (Winter 1988), 513-531. The latter article focuses on the work of "neo-revisionists" who emphasize the interception of Japanese Naval radio transmissions, rather than MAGIC, as warnings that were ignored -- or, rather, that Roosevelt deliberately failed to communicate to the commanders at Pearl Harbor.
Flynn, John T.
Flynn was a conservative journalist and a leader in the pre-World War II America First movement. In the two pamphlets listed below, "Flynn accused [President] Roosevelt of pursuing policies against Japan throughout 1941 that could only lead to war." Zimmerman, I&NS 17.2/127.
1. The Truth about Pearl Harbor. New York: J.T. Flynn, 1944.
2. The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor. New York: J.T. Flynn, 1945.
Furer, Julius A. "The
Pearl Harbor Attack." In Administration of the Navy Department in
World War II, 87-102. Washington, DC: GPO, 1959. [Petersen]
Goldstein, Donald,
and Katherine V. Dillon, eds. The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese
Plans. Washington, DC: Brassey's (US), 1993.
According to Bates, NIPQ 11.1, this book contains "translations of documents by Japanese naval officers involved in the planning and execution of the attack on Pearl Harbor.... [The] authors contend that these documents prove, in so far as memory can be trusted, that the Japanese task force never broke radio silence until the strike was in the air, and that neither Churchill nor Roosevelt could have known of the attack plan."
Kruh, Cryptologia 18.1, also notes the presence of "records confirming that the Japanese task force never broke radio silence," and calls this work a "major contribution to our understanding of that unforgettable day."
Holmes, Wilfred J.
"Pearl Harbor Aftermath." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings,
Dec. 1978, 68-75.
Howard, Michael E.
"Military Intelligence and Surprise Attack: The 'Lessons' of Pearl
Harbor." World Politics 15 (Jul. 1963): 701-711. [Petersen]
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