Pearl Harbor as an Intelligence Failure

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This paper examines the events surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 in order to evaluate if the lack of forewarning was directly due to a failure on the side United States intelligence community to give sufficient, correct information to government as well as to the military decision-makers. It analyzes the different theories that have emerged and examines proof existing from official, public and private sources in an attempt to determine who was to blame.

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"Moreover, the processes of security, information assessment and diffusion, and intelligence management along with production were sternly flawed where the security affair restricted key information to some decision-makers, who for the most part, were not skilled as intelligence analysts. Thus, this corrupted the information assessment process as well as turned the intelligence community mainly into a collection agency. There was none within the government who had blame for conducting all source study, preparing a synchronized product, and make certain appropriate diffusion of information to the appropriate associations."

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