TheCodeBreakers
naval, and radiotelephone circuits with which the agencies were familiar
and put them on voice newscasts.
The Army asked the Federal Communications Commission to listen
for the winds code execute. Army stations at Hawaii and San Francisco
tuned to the newscasts, as did Navy stations at Corregidor, Hawaii, and
Bainbridge Island, and four or five along the Atlantic seaboard. Rochefort
placed his four best language officers—Lieutenants Forrest R. Biard, J.
R. Bromley, Allyn Cole, Jr., and G. M. Slonim—on a 24-hour watch on
frequencies suggested by Washington and on others that his unit had
found. The Dutch in Java and the British in Singapore listened. In
Washington, Kramer made up some 3x5 cards for distribution to MAGIC
recipients. They bore only the portentous phrases, "East Wind Rain:
United States. North Wind Cloudy: Russia. West Wind Clear: England."
Soon plain-language intercepts were swamping GZ. Bainbridge ran up