
Pearl Harbor Conspiracy? (FDR, Advance Knowledge, Soviet Spy)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Operation Snow - The Soviets' Agent of Influence
Harry dexter white became a willing participant in operation snow and helped set about provoking a war with japan. His memorandum to secretary of the treasury, morgan thou, contained a pro soviet anti british slint. This memo was outwardly framed as a plan to insure peace but contained conditions that would be perceived by the japanese population as insulting and lead to war. Skilfully manipulating morganthow and hornbeck, white was able to turn us. Policy toward japan in an increasingly belligerent direction.
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Transcript

In 1941, the US and Japan engaged in tense negotiations to avoid war, but failed. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss who was responsible for that failure; whether the failure was intended; and what role Soviet agent Harry Dexter White played in all this.
