Government Documents

This message - sent from Tokyo to Berlin one week before the attack on Pearl Harbor - was intercepted, and decoded, by the U.S. government.   ...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from Tokyo to Japan's two ambassadors in Washington twelve days bef...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from the Japanese emissary in Washington to Tokyo eleven days befor...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from Tokyo to Japan's emissaries in Washington - ten days before th...

This message was intercepted, and decoded.  It was sent from Tokyo to Japan's two ambassadors in Washington.   SECRETFrom: TokyoTo: Wash...

This telephone exchange, between Japan's emissary in Washington and the Head of American Division of Japanese Foreign Office, took place on the 26th...

This message was intercepted, and decoded, by the United States.  It was sent from Japan's emissaries in Washington to Tokyo, twelve days before ...

This map of Ireland depicts its political and geographical borders from "The Pale" (of 1515) until partition (between the Irish Republic and Northern ...

James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, disagreed with the Naval Court of Inquiry's opinion.  He issued his own assessment in two differing forma...

James Otis wrote that the "lust of power" leads to an abuse of political power.

How was it that Japan selected Pearl Harbor as the attack target?  What types of resources did Japan assign to the mission?The U.S. Navy's Histor...

Soon after the Pearl Harbor attacks, official inquiries began.  How could this have happened?  Was America so completely unprepared for a Ja...