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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Was the same with the Pearl Harbor conspiracy theories which starting cropping up almost as soon as the Japanese planes departed. Given the racial climate of the time, there were some who were far more comfortable with the idea that warnings were deliberately ignored from on high and the attack was allowed to proceed by FDR, than with the idea that a "diminutive, imitative people who lived in ramshackle paper cities" had caught the US Navy napping in it's biggest Pacific base.
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The FDR conspiracy theory goes back that far? I would have thought folks of the time would have an easier time believing in a Japanese 5th column.