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Is it true: Pearl Harbor Foreknowledge?

Unsubstantiated70% confidence

There's no solid evidence for it.

Draft only: separate intelligence failures, strategic warnings, and decoded traffic from claims of deliberate sacrifice.

The claim

Claims that US officials had specific foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack and allowed it to happen to enter World War II.

Key evidence

The McCollum Memo proposed actions to provoke Japan into war

Wohlstetter's definitive analysis attributes failure to intelligence noise, not deliberate withholding

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