reading diplomatic mail at intercepting cables, but it gets closed by the secretary of state, henry stenson, who says, at least according to the story, that gentleman don't read each other's mail. so going after world war ii, there is not a real central organizer of the american intelligence effort and that is really where the cia gets created after the war because a lot of people looked back at world war ii, and especially on pearl harbor, and the lesson is, you know, not that we didn't have reason to suspect that the japanese were going to attack at pearl harbor, but that all of the different elements of the early american intelligence community weren't talking to each other. and so that is kind of the cia's initial role. less about operation and more about coronation of efforts. thatou can actually see this happens again and again. the 9/11 commission report has a very similar conclusions. that the problem wasn't a failure of collection, but a failure to put all the pieces together in time to prevent such a major attack. mr. scully: i was just going to ask you about 9/11. researching thi

on december 4, 1942, the school received a notice from henry stenson, secretary of war, that the school was being taken over. proceedings were used and it was decreed all records of the acquisition be sealed from public view. almost 54,000 acres were acresed, almost a 9000 were public land. >> after pearl harbor, we all knew that we were kind of playing it and game -- an end game. we get out of school, we are off to war. so in the beginning of the fall of 1942, where -- with already surveyors around here from the government, then they took it over. absolutely fantastic construction in a very short length of time. when you're the school would be taken over. we didn't know just when. startedruction crews throwing up buildings for administrations, laboratories, housing, schools, and every thing as a community needed. it looked more like a boom town than a wartime army camp. >> so towards the end of this, just before christmas, these two dudes show up in a calling themselves mr. smith and mr. jones. pork pie one wearing a and the second one a fedora. no way i am mr. smith and mr. jones. who