Talk:James Lawrence Fly

Cox committee allegations
The allegations of the Cox committee against Fly were quite wide-ranging. Can anyone verify that the cited reference actually supports the claim? (A scan would be nice; putting the text in Wikisource would be even better.) What I've read (in Broadcasting) instead accuses Fly of thwarting a military plan to suppress Japanese-language commercial radio broadcasting in Hawaii in the months before Pearl Harbor, and making a spurious connection between this and the success of the attack. Fly was also accused of "dominating" the FCC and of taking action on the FCC's behalf without the approval of his fellow commissioners, particularly with regard to setting up the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service and the War Problems office. 121a0012 (talk) 00:45, 27 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I see what happened now. The Cox committee was taken over by Rep. Lea after Cox resigned, and it was under Lea that the committee published this allegation.  Lea called Hoover to testify before the committee, but Hoover, acting under orders from the Attorney General, refused to answer most of the committee's questions.  121a0012 (talk) 04:33, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Additional source
Broadcasting notes a profile of Fly:

121a0012 (talk) 03:50, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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