What did Japan say when they found out that...
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What did Japan say when they found out that...
...the US was "reading their mail" to such an extent?
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Farrago was one of the early writers on this subject. 'The Broken Seal'. had some on the subject. You might check to see if any of his books were sold in Japan. As with the Enigma/ULTRA decryption the subject remained classified for several decades. So its not like Halsey or King were explaining it to their Japanese counterparts in September 1945.
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The fact that the US had exploited the Japanese diplomatic cipher codenamed PURPLE was divulged during the Congressional hearings which started on 15 November 1945 and included in the documents the committee released in 1946, as mentioned at https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic ... tigations/ and elsewhere.
As for the Japanese naval codes, I'm not certain but I think that the fact that they had been broken was repeatedly mentioned in Morison's 15-volume "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II", starting with volume 4, "Coral Sea, Midway and submarine actions, May 1942-August 1942", which was published in 1949, if not in one of the first three volumes.
As for the Japanese naval codes, I'm not certain but I think that the fact that they had been broken was repeatedly mentioned in Morison's 15-volume "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II", starting with volume 4, "Coral Sea, Midway and submarine actions, May 1942-August 1942", which was published in 1949, if not in one of the first three volumes.
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A są poszlaki, że to Polacy po I wojnie nauczyli Japończyków łamać amierykańskie szyfry. I tak je łamali, aż się USA połapało i zatrudniło przy szyfrowaniu Indian Navaho
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"And there are indications that it was Poles who taught the Japanese to break American codes after the First World War. And so they broke them until the US found out and hired Navaho Indians to encrypt" ???
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Yeah, one of my projects.Rob Stuart wrote: ↑08 Apr 2022, 14:58The fact that the US had exploited the Japanese diplomatic cipher codenamed PURPLE was divulged during the Congressional hearings which started on 15 November 1945 and included in the documents the committee released in 1946, as mentioned at https://www.nsa.gov/History/Cryptologic ... tigations/ and elsewhere.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/magic/
I recall that the worst weakness for SEM's books was the lack of INTEL analysis. I could be remembering someone else.As for the Japanese naval codes, I'm not certain but I think that the fact that they had been broken was repeatedly mentioned in Morison's 15-volume "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II", starting with volume 4, "Coral Sea, Midway and submarine actions, May 1942-August 1942", which was published in 1949, if not in one of the first three volumes.