The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, marked a turning point in the history of U.S. intelligence. Hoover Senior Fellow Amy Zegart explains the crucial lessons learned in Washington in the wake of the surprise attack. Drawing on once top secret communications in the papers of State Department official Stanley Hornbeck at the Library & Archives, Zegart describes how the intelligence failures that led to Pearl Harbor inspired a fundamental restructuring of the US intelligence apparatus.
Featured in this video are documents from the Stanley Hornbeck papers and Poster US 6034 from the Poster Collection housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University
Also featured is Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (Princeton University Press, 2022) by Amy Zegart.
For links to the poster collection and Amy Zegart’s book, click here: https://www.hoover.org/research/pearl-harbor-and-us-intelligence?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=reflections_youtube
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