The Pearl Harbor controversy may be redefined through a study of radio intelligence as practiced by the United States Navy (USN) in 1941. Newly released primary documents, supported by secondary historical and technical accounts, explain the effectiveness of USN radio intelligence in terms of its principal activities in 1941: cryptanalysis, traffic analysis and intelligence reporting. This evidence also demonstrates the extent to which the USN exchanged intelligence with its Allied counterparts. USN radio intelligence penetrated the vast expanses of the Pacific, permitting the partial reading of Japanese naval messages and the tracking of Japanese vessels. In the period preceding the Pearl Harbor attack, radio intelligence provided the USN with foreknowledge of Japan's intentions and actions in the north Pacific, although Washington failed to provide its Hawaiian commanders with adequate forewarning. Washington's response can now only be defined in terms of gross neglect or careful design, rather than surprise.

Cette these se veut de proposer une alternative aux differentes explications psychologiques qui existent entourant les multicides seriels aux Etats-Unis. Pour ce faire, nous avons opte pour une demarche empirique ou la cueillette de donnees est effectuee par une revue de la litterature. Nous avons opte pour l'approche du conflit-social (marxiste-feministe) qui tient compte des inegalites existant entre les sexes, les races et les classes sociales au sein de la societe americaine et de la domination qui les sous-tendent. Sous cette optique, cela permet de recreer une vue d'ensemble du phenomene plutot que de ne s'attarder que sur l'une de ses composantes. Pour les fins de cette recherche nous avons inclue sept categories: soit femme; enfant; homosexuel; "race"; economique; famille et personne a charge. Elles correspondent a la typologie des victimes orchestree dans une perspective du conflit social. Nous terminons par l'elaboration d'hypotheses qui stipulent que les multicides seriels seraient une des formes d'abus de pouvoir que les hommes blancs et heterosexuels pratiqueraient afin de raffermir leur domination systemique.

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The Amerasia case concerned the theft of classified U.S. federal government documents by government officials and left-wing critics of U.S. foreign policy. The case did not result in serious criminal penalties and the failure of the prosecution has never been adequately explained. There is some superficial validity to the contention that the case was legally weak to begin with, but it is important to situate the Amerasia case in the context of the debate over the direction of U.S. foreign policy in the transition from World War II to the Cold War. Although conclusions on the subject at this point must remain tentative, there is persuasive evidence that the Truman administration ensured that the U.S. Justice Department did not prosecute the case vigorously because a committed prosecution of the Amerasia case had the potential to compromise or undermine U.S. foreign policy in the early months of the Truman presidency.