Operation Snow

How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor

John Koster

• Publisher: Regnery History
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781621572923
• eBook ISBN:
  9781596983298
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Intelligence & Espionage
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Americans have long debated the cause of the December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup, or a failure of U.S. intelligence agencies, or even a conspiracy of the Roosevelt administration. But despite the attention historians have paid to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the truth about that fateful day has remained a mystery—until now. In Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor, author John Koster uses recently declassified evidence and never-before-translated documents to tell the real story of the day that FDR memorably declared would live in infamy, forever. Operation Snow shows how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used a vast network of double-agents and communist sympathizers—most notably, Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into war against the United States, demonstrating incontestable Soviet involvement behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor. A thrilling tale of espionage, mystery and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.

Table of contents

• Praise
• Title Page
• Dedication
• CAST OF CHARACTERS
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1 - MEETING OF MASTERMINDS
• CHAPTER 2 - AGENT OF INFLUENCE
• CHAPTER 3 - RED STAR VS. RISING SUN
• CHAPTER 4 - EASTERN THUNDER, NORTHERN FROSTBITE
• CHAPTER 5 - THE MAY MEMORANDUM
• CHAPTER 6 - WAR PLAN ORANGE
• CHAPTER 7 - KILLING OFF THE CABINET
• CHAPTER 8 - THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
• CHAPTER 9 - THE NOVEMBER MEMORANDUM
• CHAPTER 10 - THE KOREAN CASSANDRA
• CHAPTER 11 - THE SEARCH FOR SCAPEGOATS
• CHAPTER 12 - NEMESIS
• CHAPTER 13 - CHECK AND CHECKMATE
• Acknowledgments
• A NOTE ON SOURCES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• Copyright Page