Munson Report

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In 1941 Curtis B. Munson, a "Businessman-turned-Spy," was commissioned by United States President Roosevelt to investigate and report upon the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in California and Hawaii.

This report came about following the interception of messages from Tokyo to Japanese Americans in Hawaii requesting details about the U.S. Military Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. The report found very little hostility amongst the Japanese American population, and portrayed them as loyal to America. Munson worried that the people were being wrongly imprisoned.

[edit] Related Reading

• Extracts From The Report
• The Munson Report - Digital History
• Chapter 3: "A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II" Confinement and Ethnicity: Barbed wire divider An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites - by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord - NPS
• Chapter Two "From Pearl Harbor to Evacuation" - Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz - by Sandra C. Taylor - University of California Press