Thread by @JMichaelWaller

This Pearl Harbor day, let's not only remember our dead.

Let's also remember Stalin's secret agents who worked to make sure the Imperial Japanese attacked us and not the Soviet Union. centerforsecuritypolicy.org/one-more-reaso…

2) Pearl Harbor 80th anniversary "is an occasion to remember something else: How foreign agents operate within our government to manipulate decisionmaking with fatal effects.

Some of the most dangerous foreign agents aren’t spies who steal secrets. They are agents of influence."

3) "... the Venona decrypts show precisely how Stalin’s secret agents within the federal government worked with other agents worldwide to ensure that Japan attacked the United States and not the Soviet Union."

4) "This mobilization, as the late M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein describe in their 2012 book Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government, led up to the Pearl Harbor attack." barnesandnoble.com/w/stalins-secr…

5) "Those agents saved Stalin from a two-front war until Japan lay on its back in 1945, and in the meantime bled out Chiang’s Chinese resisters until Mao was strong enough to take the war to them, too."

Mao and the Chinese Communist Party hid in the mountains.

6) "Central to this was Richard Sorge, a German Communist and Soviet GRU military intelligence agent who led an international clandestine network in Shanghai. The Russians revere Sorge as one of their greatest agents of all time." historyofspies.com/richard-sorge/

7) "Sorge’s 'right-hand man' Ozaki 'had exceptional facilities and an exceptional position within the highest quarters of the Japanese government' and exercised 'his influence toward keeping Japan from attacking Russia and … to encourage them to move south'" to attack the US.

8) "Thus did policies promoted in official US circles by White, Currie, and Lattimore dovetail with those advanced by the Sorge-Ozaki network in Japan – all converging toward the result that there would be ... no Japanese attack on Russia."

9) Would Japan have attacked Pearl Harbor anyway? "'There is no way of telling,' ... It had been presumed that Japan would ... ultimately attack the United States. But that moment – autumn 1941 – was a vital time for Japan to choose between waging war on the USSR or on America."