The FBI ignored compelling evidence of the attack on Pearl Harbor because J. Edgar Hoover didn't trust the Serbian double agent Dusan Popov. He was code named Tricycle by the British MI5 because he was the head of a group of three double agents. Some say he had the nickname to reference his frequent love affairs. Hoover didn't trust Popov because he was a double agent, even though MI6 had told the FBI in New York that he would be arriving. Popov himself has said Hoover was quite suspicious and distrustful of him and, according to author William "Mole" Wood, when Hoover discovered Popov had brought a woman from New York to Florida, threatened to have him arrested under the Mann Act if he did not leave the US immediately.
When Dusko arrived in New York in August 1941, he acquainted US officials with the high-level German and Japanese interest in Pearl Harbor four months before the "Day of Infamy" attack; however, no warning of this interest was ever passed down to the US military. Of the eight formal investigations of the Pearl Harbor attack, not one mentions either Popov or the questionnaire. When the captain of the ship on which Popov was traveling on December 7th announced the Pearl Harbor attack, Popov felt proud knowing he gave out the information beforehand- however the feeling died down once he heard the tragic results of the attack, wondering how such a disaster could have occurred when he had already provided the critical defense information.
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