Writes Jack Douglas: Sometimes “loose lips can sink ships,” though I know of no instance in U.S. history in which that proved true. If The ONI, FBI, and other U.S. citizens breaking the Japanese codes and getting the details of their up-coming attacks had made those facts known to the American people, they would have prevented the sinking of the battleships at Pearl on Dec. 7th. It was “Betty” Stark, the CNO [Chief of Naval Operations} and FDR and all the others who knew who did not make that knowledge public and sent a very slow telegram to the Adm. … Continue reading ‘Loose Lips’ Our Salvation