FALSE FLAG OPERATION (1941b): Lieutenant Ellsworth Hosmer, a communications officer for the office of naval intelligence, receives information from commercial radio operators that a large naval fleet of the Empire of Japan is en route to the republic of Hawaii.

       Postscript: For the next four days Hosmer tracked the Japanese strike force as it sailed to the north of Hawaii.

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Subsequent Events:

References:

Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, (New York: Free Press, 1999), 190-93.

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