PEARL HARBOR DATA HELD SHARED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505150003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 1, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Pearl Harbor data; held shared.,
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pre- than it was. man technique for encoding declassified and made .public
viously secret documents The documents do not sup- secret material on microdots, since the article was published
show that FBI Director J. Ed- port allegations that Hoover such as the periods in tele- show the German Interest in
gar Hoover shared with,mill- failed to share information rah messages. Lary intelligence a double that might, have helped the- , B. lJ Pearl Harbor was relayed to
ped. they One of the dots he brought Navy intelligence and that the
agent's disclosure that the Roosevelt administration pre- with him contained a list of FBI worked with the Navy to
Axis powers viewed Pearl pare for the Japanese aerial detailed questions about air- supply Popov with bogus in-
Harbor with unusually keen assault on Dec. 7, 1941. Pratt production rates, pilot formation to relay .
military interest just months German and Japanese 'in- training and Pearl Harbor . It is not clear from the files
before the Japanese attack on terest in Pearl Harbor; was defenses.
the military base. obvious from a list of ques. Writing iii December's edi- questionnaire or how soon it
The newly declassified doe' tions posed to secret agent ' tion of the American' Histori- was
uments show that the FBI, Dusko Popov by his 'German lid Navy and Army
P?cal Review, two Michigan intelligence. . But a Sept, 30,
acting on that information, masters when he:was sent to State -University professor4 194}, memo indicates it had
worked with the Office of Na- the United States in summer charged that Hoover failed to been dong some 'time earlier
val Intelligence to concoct . 1941. Popov, subsequently dis. make 'the questions about because
lies, filtered back through the closed his assignment to the Pearl Harbor 'available , to 4 gent 'gent dealing directly with
German agent, designed to FBI. Roosevelt or to military Intel- Popov through Popov pressing for re-
en officials. spouse from military intelli-
Harbor was better defended U.S. officials learned of a Ger- However, FBI documents gence agencies.
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