Friday, September 02, 2011

Peace without Hiroshima was not on the Owl's agenda


At 14:04 in this video by Anthony J. Hilder, he notes that the atomic bomb planned at Bohemian Grove was dropped on the "two most Christian" cities in Japan, after they already knew Japan was trying to surrender.

Indeed, it was Cardinal Ottaviani and OSS officer Martin S. Quigley (who died earlier this year in West Hartford, CT) that were charged with negotiating this for a faction that aren't cold-blooded murderers like the other.


The author, under cover as a representative of the American motion picture industry, was a secret OSS agent who opened a secret channel of communication through the Vatican to the Japanese government in 1945. For many reasons, including the compartmentalization of American high strategic policy, this approach to possible peace was not effectively pursued, and the war ended with the atomic bombings. A fascinating account of a might-have-been.


While posing as a commercial film rep in Ireland, he was working in fact for the Office of Strategic Services and its director, Maj. Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan. Toward the end of the war, he took a similar assignment in Italy, where he sent back-channel peace feelers to the Japanese government.

Mr. Quigley, who wrote two books about his years as a secret agent, came from a family with deep connections to the Catholic Church and the movie industry...

Mr. Quigley wrote in his 1991 book, "Peace Without Hiroshima," that Donovan sent him to Rome in early 1945 to try to facilitate negotiations through Japanese diplomats at the Vatican.

OSS historians confirmed that the Vatican was one of many diplomatic channels between the U.S. and the Japanese. The war ended that August after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan.


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