Glen Rock August 29, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 7 “Operation Snow,” Glen Rock author John Koster’s new book about why the Pearl Harbor attack took place, is now available. The new book, published by Regnery History in Washington, D.C., tells the story of how Harry Dexter White, a U.S. Army officer in World War I, an honor student at Columbia, and graduate of Stanford with a doctorate in economics from Harvard, instigated a war between the United States and Japan acting under orders from the Soviet NKVD (later the KGB). White was later fingered as a Soviet agent by his former courier, Whittaker Chambers, and he asked for a hearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee in August of 1948. After making a rousing patriotic speech on “The American Creed,” which is often quoted to show he was a misunderstood liberal, White was exposed by HUAC Chairman J. Parnell Thomas of Allendale and Congressman Richard Nixon, formerly of Park Ridge, among others, as having placed a number of communists in important U.S. Treasury Department jobs. The book contains transcripts of a large part of the testimony before HUAC. “The House Un-American Activities Committee transcripts are arresting in their exposure of White’s duplicity,” said Professor Louise Barnett of Rutgers University. “Fascinating and compulsively readable. What a book!” White died of a “heart attack” three days after the hearing. Some believe his death was a suicide by an overdose of digitalis. He was written up as a victim of “McCarthyism,” even though Senator Joseph McCarthy was all but unknown in 1948 and was not involved with the hearing. The FBI, decoding Soviet diplomatic messages with the help of the Army Signal Intelligence Service, confirmed in 1950 that White had been a Soviet spy with the unwitting assistance of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not instigate the Pearl Harbor attack, but knew about it for a full day in advance and failed to warn the Pacific Fleet. White’s role in triggering Pearl Harbor, however, was Local author’s book on Pearl Harbor now in print but InHye Lee, a Ridgewood High School and New York University graduate and former Math Team coach, translated the text of the May 1941 meeting between Pavlov and White. Her translation forms the opening chapter of “Operation Snow.” John Czop of Ridgewood confirmed the accuracy from the widely known Polish translation of Pavlov’s book. White used his in-depth analysis of Japanese economics -- and the gullibility of several Roosevelt advisors who were not communists -- to impose sanctions on Japan that saner diplomats and military leaders warned would lead to a Pacific war for which the United States was not ready. Shizuko Koster of Glen Rock translated Japanese documents that indicate that the Japanese were astounded by the unexpected hostility of the United States. Jessica Mok (continued on page 16) The cover of John Koster’s new book ‘Operation Snow.’ unknown until 1996, when Vitalii Pavlov, former lieutenant general of the KGB, wrote in his own memoirs that White had helped save the Soviet Union from a two-front war by deliberately instigating a war between the United States and Japan. Pavlov’s book has not been translated into English,