Excerpt from Pearl Harbor Attack, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack Congress of the United States Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session
Congress of the United States, Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Washington, D. C.
The joint committee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 a.m., in., in the caucus room (room 318), Senate Office Building, Senator Alben W. Barkley (chairman), presiding.
Present: Senators Barkley (chairman), George, Lucas, Brewster and Ferguson; and representatives Cooper (vice chairman), Clark. Murphy, Gearhart and Keefe.
Also present: William D. Mitchell, General Counsel: Gerhard A. Gesell, Jule M. Hannaford and John E. Masten, of counsel, for the joint committee.
[1060] The Chairman. The committee will please come to order.
Before Secretary Hull is called, the counsel has some documents, I understand, to present for the record.
Mr. Gesell. That is correct, Senator. We are starting today with a series of witnesses from the State Department. I thought at the outset we should place in the record certain document material which can be used in the examination of certain witnesses. Additional documents will be provided from time to time, but this is the basis of the initial set.
We have placed comparable sets to those being introduced before each member of the committee.
These are all documents that were put in the hands of the members of the committee sometime earlier. We simply arranged them and regrouped them in exhibit form, to facilitate the committee's reading the exhibits, but the material contained in these exhibits has been in the hands of the members of the committee.
The first, to be marked as exhibit 15, is a series of three documents from Mr. Grew to the Department of State, dated January 27, November 3, and November 17, 1941, respectively.
The first, is the dispatch in which Mr. Grew referred to the possibility of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and I want to call the committee's attention to the mimeographed [1061] sheet in that exhibit which shows the transmission of that document to the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet from the Chief of Naval Operations. I would like to offer that as Exhibit 15.
The Chairman. Do you want that included in the transcript of the hearings?
Mr. Gesell. No, these are merely exhibits, Mr. Chairman.
The Chairman. Without objection, it may lie marked.
(The documents referred to were marked "Exhibit No. 15.")
Mr. Gesell. As Exhibit 16, we would like to offer a series of documents relating to the joint, memorandum of General Marshall and Admiral Stark to President Roosevelt under date of November 5, 1941.
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