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    A report commissioned by FDR on the probability of Japanese Americans to aid a land invasion on the United States.

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    Document B: The Munson Report

    In 1941 President Roosevelt ordered the State Department to investigate the loyalty of
    Japanese Americans. Special Representative of the State Department Curtis B.
    Munson carried out the investigation in October and November of 1941 and presented
    what came to be known as the Munson Report to the President on November 7, 1941.
    The excerpt below is from the 25-page report.

    There is no Japanese problem on the Coast. There will be no armed uprising of Japanese. There
    will undoubtedly be some sabotage financed by Japan and executed largely by imported agents. .
    . . In each Naval District there are about 250 to 300 suspects under surveillance. It is easy to get
    on the suspect list, merely a speech in favor of Japan at some banquet being sufficient to land
    one there. The Intelligence Services are generous with the title of suspect and are taking no
    chances. Privately, they believe that only 50 or 60 in each district can be classed as really
    dangerous. The Japanese are hampered as saboteurs because of their easily recognized
    physical appearance. It will be hard for them to get near anything to blow up if it is guarded.
    There is far more danger from Communists and people of the Bridges type on the Coast than
    there is from Japanese. The Japanese here is almost exclusively a farmer, a fisherman or a small
    businessman. He has no entree to plants or intricate machinery.

    Source: The Munson Report, delivered to President Roosevelt by Special Representative


    of the State Department Curtis B. Munson, November 7, 1941.

    Saboteurs: a person who deliberately destroys something to gain a military advantage


    Bridges type: a reference to Harry Bridges, a leader of the International Longshore and
    Warehouse Union
    Entre: permission to enter intricate: complicated

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