Pearl Harbor: Senior Soviet Ambassador Toured Honolulu the day before the Pearl Harbor Attack
This Wouldn't be in a James Bond Movie Because It'd be Too Unrealistic
Maxim Litvinov was a senior Communist revolutionary. He is credited with gaining U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union after FDR came to power in 1933.
It took the Soviets 15 years to gain official recognition from Washington, and that was important because it enabled trade and commerce between the two countries, something much more valuable to the Soviets than the Americans.
It also facilitated the massive espionage apparatus deployed against Washington, enabled by official passports between the two countries.
The Soviet Union was never a real country, it was always just a group of gangsters occupying a massive country after murdering its prior rulers. Notably it saved some of its worst horrors and atrocities for its own peoples: its often overlooked that the Russian people suffered the worst under the many horrors of the worker’s paradise.
Litvinov was its official foreign enabler for this ruling gangster party.
So it’s more than a little odd, smelling of something more than a coincidence, that on the Friday before the Sunday attack on Pearl Harbor, Litvinov just happened to be passing through.
The news reports that he departed Saturday for Washington. The next morning the Japanese would attack.
When Litvinov landed in Hawaii, the Imperial Japanese Fleet was 400 miles north of Hawaii. When he left, they were roughly 260 miles away.
He arrived just in time, and left just in time.
He was scheduled to arrive in Washington at noon local time on Sunday December 7th, 1941. Because of the time differences, the Japanese attack started less than an hour later.
Here’s one source that claims to convey what Litvinov’s present-sense-impression was during the attack: ambivalence that it was unlikely to help the Soviet Union survive.
This is nonsense, duplicity either by Litvinov or by the authors of this book who don’t know better or who don’t want to admit the obvious. Litvinov knew that by keeping the Japanese occupied fighting America, they were now no longer a threat to Russia, a historical adversary. Japan was also fighting a foe that had the enormous resources and manpower to fight a long war, whereas Japan was ill-equipped to last more than six months.
Total ecstacy is what Litvinov was feeling at hearing the news.
I don’t think this necessarily proves anything vis a vis the ‘taxonomy of Pearl Harbor advance warning claims’ but these kind of coincidences are hard to ignore.
The masthead from the Honolulu Advertiser, December 5, 1941:
Politica | PEARL HARBOR SERIES:
Pt 13 - No, White Men Probably Weren't Piloting Pearl Harbor Attack Planes
Pt 12 - FDR was Jap Oil 'Appeaser'... Until he Cut it Off a Week Later to Start a War
Pt 11 - A Week Prior to the Pearl Attack, Admirals Discuss "Offensive" Against Jap Fleet on the Move
Pt 10 - Fr. Aloysius Schmitt & John Austin aboard the sinking USS Oklahoma
Pt 9 - Weak Leads-- Pearl Military Judge Drafts Martial Law Before Attack
Pt 8 - Reporter Tells US Japs Will Attack After Midnight on Dec. 6th
Pt 7 - Toward a Taxonomy of Claims about “Advance Knowledge” of the Attack
Pt 6 - Japs Were Trying to Escape Panama on Dec. 2nd
Pt 5 - Yes, there was Warning of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Pt 4 - ‘Very Bitter’ Housewife in ‘45 Notes Flaws in the Official Story
Pt 3 - Lloyd’s of London Cancelled Insurance Policies in August 1941
Pt 2 - Tips About The Pearl Harbor Attack 77 Years Late
Pt 1 - Pearl Harbor Revisionism