TheCodeBreakers
the aura of sorcery and the occult that has always enveloped cryptology,
he called it MAGIC.
When Bryant had finished, Kramer sent S.I.S. its seven copies, and at
8 o'clock took a copy to his superior, Captain Arthur H. McCollum, head
of the Far Eastern Section of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
From: Tokyo
To: Washington
December 7, 1941
Purple (Urgent - Very Important)
#907. To be handled in goverment code.
Re: my #902a.
Will the Ambaagador please submit to the United States
Government (If possible to the Secretary of State) our reply to
the United States at 1:00 p.m. on the 7th, your time.
a - JD-1:7143 - text of Japanese reply.
MAGIC'S solution of the Japanese one o'clock delivery message
He then busied himself in his office, working on intercepted traffic,
until 9:30, when he left to deliver the 14th part of Tokyo's reply to
Admiral Harold F. Stark, the Chief of Naval Operations, to the White
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