Fred Cannings installed and maintained the telegraph circuit between the Japanese government and the Japanese embassy in Washington D.C. He believed that the Japanese warned the US of the Pearl Harbor attack. He researched this topic with Kilsoo Haan, a Korean national who had engaged in intelligence activities through the Sino-Korean Peoples League. Canning’s collection contains newspaper articles, correspondence, photographs, reports, and speeches on the topic of the Pearl Harbor attack.
"Merry-Go-Round" by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, Washington Daily, December 15, 1941
The article from a Washington D.C. newspaper tells the inside story of the diplomatic negotiations that went on between U.S. and Japanese officials prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Navy Had Map for Year Showing Jap Attack Plan" by Helen Buchalter, The Washington Daily News, December 10, 1941
The article suggests that the American Naval Intelligence was alerted to a possible Japanese attack more than a year before Pearl Harbor. It includes a map from a Japanese naval textbook showing a triple-route plan of attack in the Pacific, that seems to include the Hawaiian islands.
"Sino-Korean Forecast on Hawaii Disregarded" by Raymond Z. Henle, The New York Times, December 11, 1941
The article claims that the State, War and Navy departments of the U.S. Government were in possession of information which might have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"Mrs. Roosevelt Answers Charge That F.D.R. Planned Attack on Pearl Harbor to Involve the U.S. in War" by Eleanor Roosevelt, St. Louis Post Dispatch
The article, written by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, denies President Franklin Roosevelt's involvement in supressing knowledge that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked.
"Who Was To Blame For Pearl Harbor?" by Jack Anderson, Parade, December 4, 1966
The article discusses recently declassified Pearl Harbor documents which include Japanese coded messages which had been intercepted by U.S. Intelligence, but were only deciphered on December 8th, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"FDR Knew, It's Claimed", Honolulu-Star-Bulletin, December 7, 1976
This article covers the efforts of Fred E. Cannings to convince the public that the highest levels of the American government knew in advance about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor