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OBITUARIES; Roberta Wohlstetter, 94; wrote Pearl Harbor study
2007
Overview
A longtime resident of Los Angeles, Wohlstetter was a researcher for Rand Corp. when she wrote \"Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision,\" a classic in its field that explained why the United States and its leaders were caught unawares by the catastrophe that drew the nation into World War II. Wohlstetter described a predicament in which the government was unable to distinguish important \"signals,\" including decoded Japanese cables and ship movements, from \"noise,\" the blizzard of conflicting or erroneous information that confronted policymakers, military leaders and intelligence officials in the weeks and months preceding the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She began to work on the Pearl Harbor study in the mid-1950s, drawing largely on 39 volumes of congressional hearings on the attack published in 1946. Meticulous in its detail, it offered a convincing argument against simplistic blame-laying, even though, as Wohlstetter wrote, \"Never before have we had so complete an intelligence picture of the enemy.\"
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Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
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