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

by John Koster Narrated by Michael Kramer

Overview

On December 7, 1941, the nation of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and prompted the United States' entry into the bloodiest war in human history. Americans have long debated the cause of the bombing; many have argued that the attack was a brilliant Japanese military coup or a failure of US 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. 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 account of espionage, mystery, and war, Operation Snow will forever change the way we think about Pearl Harbor and World War II.

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

U.S. Army veteran Koster (Custer Survivor) here says that Harry Dexter White—an economist in the Treasury department, not at the White House—at the direction of the Soviet secret police (NKVD), encouraged war in the Pacific to reduce Japanese pressure on the USSR while it was fighting the Germans on the eastern front in Europe. However, Koster does not provide enough documentary evidence to prove this, and none of the many other important factors and actors involved in America's stance after Pearl Harbor is elaborated here. While it would be appropriate to discuss the activities and influence of communist agents in Washington at the time, Koster spends most of his book rehashing the well-known military and diplomatic history leading up to Pearl Harbor, contrary to the implication that White's story will be central to his argument. VERDICT Conspiracy theorists and those interested in any discussion of Soviet infiltration of the U.S. government may wish to consider.—DKB

JANUARY 2013 - AudioFile

In 1948, Harry Dexter White, previously an official in FDR’s Treasury Department, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Shortly thereafter, he died of a heart attack. For six decades, leftists have considered him a victim of the Red Scare. For just as long, some on the right have believed he escaped prosecution by dying. Based on limited new evidence of White’s contact with Soviet intelligence, Koster spins a conspiracy theory focusing on White’s asserted responsibility for Pearl Harbor. The author also finds him responsible for the Final Solution and the Battle of the Bulge. Michael Kramer delivers the book in the slightly nasal tone favored by narrators of right-wing conspiracies. His pronunciation is clear, his pace easy to follow. F.C. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169916744
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	09/17/2012
Edition description:	Unabridged

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