the role of General Marshall in Pearl Harbor fiasco was most interesting.
Marshall had mysteriously disappeared and reappeared at his office until 11:25 a.m. December 7. Marshall started reading the Japanese ultimatum to the United States message. All his staff officers including Marshall agreed that a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor will happen at U. S. forces somewhere in the Pacific, at about 1:00 p.m. The message to the various commander was ready at 12 noon.
Marshall did not use the scrambler telephone on his desk, or the Navy radio, or the FBI radio any of which could have reached the Honolulu commanders in thirty or forty minutes before the attack began. Instead, the message was sent by Western Union to San Francisco and by RCA commercial radio to Honolulu and not marked "priority." It reached General Short's headquarters six hours after the attack, and Admiral Kimmel had it two hours later.
General Marshall seems to have deliberately held up his message and sent it by means he knew would get it there too late. The Army Pearl Harbor Board saw no reason for this blunder. The investigators remarked: "We find no justification for a failure to send this message by multiple secret means either through the Navy radio or the FBI radio delivered to Admiral Stark
( How The Far East Was Lost - Anthony Kubek )
Senator Joseph McCarthy had this to say of George Marshall's career.
something like this.
Marshall's actions and decisions always and ultimately benefit the Russian more than the American. it defies common sense and basic logic. Marshall is not a moron. it can't be pure coincidences. there are no explanations and it's completely unfathomable, one has to suspect treason...
