Pearl Harbor's "Creepy Coincidence"

How a strange advertisement in The New Yorker Magazine leaves clues and questions about the nature of the "surprise" attack

As a reader of this substack, you know I like to dig deeper.

You might even say that I’m a conspiracy hunter… (or what I call a truther)

(And you know the joke that says, “What’s the difference between a conspiracy and reality? About six months!”)

So when I came across this weird, strange, bizarre coincidence about a little-known advertisement in The New Yorker Magazine and Pearl Harbor, I knew that I had to dig deeper.

Let me first give a disclaimer: what I’m about to share does not intend to diminish the service and sacrifice of those who were affected by World War II. My heart breaks for all those people and families who were torn apart by the horrors of war.

However.

Just as we know that the mainstream-media-merry-go-round can’t be trusted today, it couldn’t be trusted back then, either.

The news and those who control it control it for a reason: to control you, your mind, your emotions and your actions.

Propaganda is a powerful tool designed to manipulate certain information, events, facts and fabrications in order to push a desired — and often biased and misleading — pointe of view.

And the propaganda leading up to the United States’s entry into World War II was in full force, long before “the day that would live in infamy”, otherwise known as December 7, or Pearl Harbor Day.

Before we look at the weird, strange, bizarre advertisement in The New Yorker that appears to have predicted the Pearl Harbor attack, let’s remember that very few Americans were in favor of the US joining the war. In June of 1940, only about 35% of Americans thought the US should help Britain. Most Americans did not want to get involved in another overseas war.

But when Pearl Harbor incident occurred, that ended the debate, and the following day, Congress voted (with only one dissenting vote) to declare war on Japan and eventually to America’s full-blown involvement in World War II.

To this day, many questions are unanswered about the Japanese attack, which we are told included 353 Japanese warplanes which suddenly and deliberately attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men.

Students of military strategy question the thinking of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, who conceived of this stunningly-horrific attack, which could achieve nothing but failure by the Japanese and retribution by the US.

(That’s why some believe that Pearl Harbor was a US false flag: (1) The Japanese had no chance of beating the US, so the attack made no sense; (2) The US either knew of the attack and let it happen, or actually caused it in order to quickly turn lagging American public opinion in favor of the US joining the war.)

Even the official US summary of the Pearl Harbor incident offers a very strange analysis of the Japanese strategy:

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto conceived the Pearl Harbor attack and Captain Minoru Genda planned it. Two things inspired Yamamoto’s Pearl Harbor idea: a prophetic book and a historic attack. The book was The Great Pacific War, written in 1925 by Hector Bywater, a British naval authority. It was a realistic account of a clash between the United States and Japan that begins with the Japanese destruction of the U.S. fleet and proceeds to a Japanese attack on Guam and the Philippines. When Britain’s Royal Air Force successfully attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto on November 11, 1940, Yamamoto was convinced that Bywater’s fiction could become reality.

I would like to know how the US came to the conclusion that Yamamoto based his military strategy on “a prophetic book and historic attack…” and how the US knew that “Yamamoto was convinced that Bywater’s fiction could become reality.”

Is mind-reading a government skill?

Sounds more like propaganda to me.

There are many unanswered questions, and this next piece of the puzzle adds even more.

The Weird, Strange, Bizarre Advertisement in The New Yorker

Remember the weird, strange and bizarre predictive programming of 9-11?

Long before September 11, 2001, that date and those numbers showed up time and again in movies, books, TV shows — and most notably on The Simpsons, which has the reputation for predicting many “events.”

And of course, a most recent example was this in the Economist of December 22, 2012:

I cover more of predictive programming in my previous substack here.

Now, the Simpsons was not around prior to WW II, but there was a magazine (and still is) called The New Yorker.

And on November 22, 1941, basically two weeks prior to the attack on December 7, there appeared in The New Yorker, the weird, strange, bizarre advertisements that you see below:

The strange story goes something like this… (reference here)

One day in November 1941, a nondescript white male walked into the offices of the New Yorker. In accordance with the fashions of the day, he no doubt was wearing a business suit, fedora and perhaps a raincoat. The man carried with him ad plates that had been set somewhere else - perhaps by himself. He handed over the ad matrix to the receptionist with a request that they be included in the upcoming issue of the magazine, paid, and left. The incident was not at all unusual, and little note was taken of it. Upon review, the ads - for there were several of them, to be placed on different pages of the magazine in a set sequence , with most referring to one main ad - were found to be acceptable. They found their way into the Saturday, 22 November 1941 issue.

Let’s break down what makes this ad placement so strange… and the unanswered questions that go along with it.

(1) This ad was published BEFORE the US entered the war, so it’s very strange to have an advertisement for a board game declaring, “We hope you never have to spend a long-winter’s night in an air-shelter raid…” and showing an image of people yukking it up in an air-raid shelter! Yes, because bombings are so darn fun.

(2) The headline states "Achtung, Warning, Alerte!" which includes “warning” in German and French. At the very least, it’s poor taste — and at the most, it’s…weird.

(3) The body of the ad recommends that between now and Christmas that you should “…sit down and plan a list of things you’d like to have on hand…Canned goods, of course, and candles, Sterno, bottled water, sugar, coffee or tea, brandy, and plenty of cigarettes, sweaters and blankets, books or magazines, vitamin capsules…” Gee, nothing like associating the Christmas holidays with getting ready for war — a war that the US was not in.

(4) The ad finishes up by promoting “Chicago’s favorite game: THE DEADLY DOUBLE” — but it does not say where the game can be purchased. That is a very strange omission, especially given the ad was running during the holiday gift-buying season.

(5) The bottom of the ad shows a German double eagle with “XX” in the center. Make of it what you will, it’s quite foreboding.

(6) Another image of the ad (there were several scattered throughout the issue) showed the dice with 12 and 7. Is it just a coincidence that the attack took place on December 7 (12/7)?

(7) And, don’t overlook this: The ad was placed by MONARCH Publishing Company.

Yup. MONARCH. Nothing to see here, folks just a coincidence that MONARCH is the code name for one of the illegal human experimentation mind control projects admitted to by the CIA.

And just to make things even more…bizarre… the principal authors of the 1977 Senate Investigation report on the Monarch programming (part of the MK Ultra project) were Daniel Inyoue of Hawaii and Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

Arizona, of course, is the name of the battleship that was attacked in Pearl Harbor, and is the current tourist attraction and memorial.

Just sayin…

But I’m sure it’s not important. Just a coincidence.

(8) According to Craig Nelson, author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness

Later during the war, navy transport pilot Joseph Bell was flying a South Pacific route when one of is passengers, an intelligence officer, told him that many in intelligence considered this ad a secret warning. He had been assigned to investigate the matter, but every lead had led to a dead end -- the ad's copy had been presented in person at the magazine's offices, and the fee paid with cash. Neither the game offered in the ad, nor the company that purported to make it, ever existed.

You can read Joseph Bell’s first-person account of his story here.

Some speculate that the ads were a covert attempt to signal an upcoming attack by the Japanese. If that was true, it failed miserably, because neither Roosevelt nor Churchill apparently knew what was coming, or if they did, they allowed it so that the US could seamlessly enter the war without further debate.

P.S. The game was not found to exist at the time of the advertisement. However, some games have come into existence since, with very strange, nearly incomprehensible nonsense rules. Seems like a bunch of hogwash to me — what say you?

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