Robert Stinnett
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Robert B. Stinnett is a former an American sailor who earned ten battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. He is the author of Day of Deceit, regarding U.S. government advance knowledge of the World War II Pearl Harbor attack.
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[edit] Biography
He participated in World War II as a Naval photographer in the Pacific theater, serving in the same aerial photo group as George H.W. Bush. In 1982 he read the book At Dawn We Slept which contained allegations that challenged the official line about Pearl Harbor. He went to Pearl Harbor to investigate and write a news story. After more than 10 years of further research, and a lot of requests to the United States Navy under the FOIA, in 1995 he uncovered a 1940 memo discussing a plan to entice Japan 'to commit an overt act of war' against US, to crystallise public support for joining WW2. His claim that this plan was adopted personally by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and that the truth was kept from Navy commanders in Hawaii, has naturally proved inflammatory.
He is currently a research fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
[edit] Works to date
- Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. 1999.
- George Bush: His World War II Years. 1992.
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[edit] External links
- Downloadable audio interview with Scott Horton
- Radio interview about Pearl Harbor
- Unwelcome Guests: "Fooling Most of the People Most of the Time"
- List of Stinnett presentations about Day of Deceit
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