Parker, Frederick D.: Pearl Harbor Revisited.v1.12 August 2014
 

Pearl Harbor Revisited covers the political, military and intelligence background leading up to Pearl Harbor.

Those looking for a smoking gun will be disappointed because there were many factors that led to the devastation of the attack.

Though focused on communications intelligence factors, it also points out the inconsistent policy of the US in opposing Japanese expansion in Asia while supplying the materials for the Japanese to do so.

It shows a series of military communications which were read only after the fact. They clearly show the preparations and practice for Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately, all the intelligence people could read at the time were the diplomatic communications that something was going to happen sometime, somewhere.

This is a publication of the NSA and as a US government publication it is in the public domain.