THE FOREIGN SERVICE
                              OF THE
                     UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


                                American Embassy, Lima, Peru,
UNCLASSIFIED                                February 7, 1949.


No. 148

     Subject:  Dr. Ricardo RIVERA SCHREIBER, Peruvian Ambassador
                to Italy, makes Statement that he informed
                United States of Japanese Plan to attack Pearl Harbor.


     The Ambassador had the honor to report that Dr. Ricardo RIVERA
SCHREIBER, Peruvian Ambassador to Italy (see CBD July 26, 1945), has
just returned to Peru by way of New York after six years absence in
Europe.  Dr. Rivera Schreiber was formerly Ambassador to Spain and
before that Ambassador to Japan.  He was also a member of the
Peruvian delegation to the Preparatory Commission of the United
Nations, and presided over the Legal Commission of the Assembly.
He id the brother of Eduardo RIVERA SCHREIBER, Secretary to the
Presidency of the Military Junta of Government in Lima.

     On February 4, Dr. Rivera Schreiber, in an interview with the
press, stated that he had been instrumental in advising the United
States of the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor, but that his
information had been discounted as rumor with the consequent loss
and suffering caused by the events at Pearl Harbor and the war.

     Enclosed is copy of the interview as it appeared in El Comercio
of February 5, 1949, and translation of a portion of the article.


Enclosures:
     1/  Clipping from El Comercio of February 5, 1949
     2/  Translation of portion of above.


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