TheCodeBreakers
" At 8:30 p.m., the pilot message was telegraphed from the
cable room to Tokyo's Central Telegraph Office, from where, 45 minutes
later, it was radioed to the United States. Bainbridge Island intercepted it
and relayed it to OP-20-G. By five minutes past noon on Saturday,
December 6 (Washington time), OP-20-o had delivered the teletype copy
to S.I.S., which promptly ran it through the PURPLE machine. By 2 p.m.
Bratton had it, translated and typed. An hour later it was in the hands of
the Army distributees. S.I.S. had officially closed at 1 p.m. and was not
due to reopen until 6, when it was to go on 24-hour status. But this
notification of the imminent receipt of the long-awaited reply to Hull's
note of the 26th led to telephoning employees Mary J. Dunning and Ray
Cave about 2:30 and asking them to report to work. By 4 both were
there.
In Tokyo, Kameyama had released the first 13 parts of the Japanese
note to the Central Telegraph Office. Following the instructions of the
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