What Was The Mccollum Memo

December 7th 1941 marked the day four U.S. naval ships were sunk and 1,178 soldiers were killed in cold blood with no knowledge of being attacked, or was there? Conspiracist often argue that there was prior knowledge of the attacks and the government allowed the attack for a way to get involved with World War II. The conspiracy has many variations and examples of a so-called inside job. Conspiracists believe the McCollum Memo, Operation Magic codes, the West Wind messages, and the Japanese breaking radio silence revealed the attack accusing the government and President Franklin Roosevelt of not making naval officers aware of the attack. The conspiracist lack one major key from each example, nobody can connect each dot to each other thats

There were many warnings of the abilities and position Japan already had a year prior to the attacks. Conspiracist argue the United States had all the precautions needed to warn and send help to those at Pearl Harbor according to the memo. More importantly in the memo it can be claimed that the Government was waiting for an attack to enter the war. This can be examined in the McCollum Memo when it says “ If by these means Japan could be led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.”(A.H. McCollum, 9) Conspiracist can argue that the U.S. was waiting for an attack so that they could honorably enter the war therefore hiding the evidence, precautions without warning Naval officers at Pearl Harbor. Although there was warning of attacks or a strengthening Japan there was no certain way of knowing when or where the attacks would be. This McCollum memo evidence that conspiracist used to argue their position can be deterred by the facts of how early this warning came in, and the action plan being put into place monitoring Japans aggression in the Pacific and given the ability to take action against the mobilizing Japan. Unlike the McCollum Memo, Operation Magic can give imminent evidence of