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Churchill's Pearl Harbor Warning

Franklin Roosevelt's detractors and conspiracy theorists have enthusiastically embraced a conversation between Churchill and Roosevelt in which Churchill tells Roosevelt of a coming attack on Pearl Harbor. The historian John Lukacs has researched the matter, including personal interviews in Britain, and he describes the conversation as having been faked.