Category: Allied Warning Claims

• Red Warning

  This theory claimed that the Australian government warned Washington that a Japanese fleet was moving toward Hawaii and that the warning was ignored or suppressed. In its strongest form, it holds that Australian or Allied monitoring stations detected movement or radio signals from the Japanese striking force and passed a clear alert to the Roosevelt administration on December 6, 1941. The public record for this claim is weak. It appears chiefly in later political rumor and Pearl Harbor revisionist literature rather than in the strongest official documentary record. NSA historical writing specifically identifies the Australian-warning story as one of the cover-up rumors circulating in Washington during the 1944 election controversy.