"Denyav" wrote in message
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Churchill, all the decoded messages placed in the public arena.
Stimson, the Japanese must fire first. Dulles a claimed quote,
Hoover no quote at all presente


Churchill:"..from the end of 1940 the Americans had pierced the vital
Japanase
ciphers and were decoding large numbers of their Military and diplomatic
telegrams"


Indeed they had penetrated Purple , the diplomatic cipher
and a number of other codes, but not JN-25

FDR:"The war starts tomorrow"
Dec.6,1941


Quite so , an attack of the Phillipines and Malaya
was expected and all Pacific commands had been
issued a war warning.

Keith