but it gets closed by the secretary of state henry stimson, who says, at least according to the story, the gentlemen do not read each other's mail. during into world war ii there is not a real central organizer of the american intelligence effort. and that is really where the cia gets painted after the war because a lot of people look back at world war ii, especially on pearl harbor, and the lesson is not that we did not 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 when talking to each other. that is the cia's initial role. it is less about operations and more about coordination of effort. but you can actually see that this happens again and again. the 9/11 commission report has very similar conclusions, but the problem was not a failure of collection but a failure to put the pieces together in time to prevent such a major attack. steven scully: i was just do as do about 9/11. just going to ask you about 9/11. researching this topic, does that surprise you? david hadley

on december 4, 1942, the school received notice from henry stimson, the secretary of war, that the school was being taken over. condemnation proceedings were used and it was decreed that all records of the acquisition be sealed from public view. almost 54,000 acres were required. almost 9000 acres were public land. the cost of acquisition was $440,000. >> after pearl harbor, we all knew that we were kind of playing an endgame. we would get out of school and we were off to war. and so in the beginning of the '42, there was already surveyors around here from the government, and then they took it over. they brought around mega bulldozers. actually fantastic construction in a very short. period of time. >> construction crews started throwing up buildings for administration, laboratories, housing, schools, and everything else the community needed to function. it looked more like a boom town that a war camp. all of this was around the ranch school. >> so all of this just before christmas, these two dudes show here, the -- show up first one in a porkpie hat and the second one in a fedora. it too

frank who ran against roosevelt in 1936 as a republican vice-presidential candidate the second was henry stimson the old upper crust new york lawyer serving as a secretary of war under republican president taft and secretary of state under republican president hoover. they disagreed with virtually every tenet of the duke deal but they believe japan and germany posed great threats to use united states to verbally to put service ahead of their party affiliation and it costs them. they were rolled out to the republican party for a tie and think about it in today's terms if president obama selected paul ryan to become his defense secretary [laughter] but we are fortunate these to a conservative republicans and their liberal democrat boss could criticize differences and work together and we're also fortunate they would head the military branches with two of the finest officers our nation has produced. general marshall dignified comedy period prided himself on self discipline never letting his personal feelings get in the way of service to his country and eloquent speaker that was trusted name to the