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on duty next door in OP-20-GZ, the translating section. He put a red
priority sticker on the decode and hand-carried it to the Signal
Intelligence Service, the Army counterpart of OP-20-O, where he knew
that a translator was on overnight duty. Leaving it there, he returned to
OP-20-G. By now it was after 5 a.m. in Washington—the message having
lost three hours as it passed through three time zones in crossing the
continent.
The S.I.S translator rendered the Japanse as: "Will the Ambassador
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." The —"reply" referred to had been transmitted by Tokyo in 14
parts over the past 18½ hours, and Brotherhood had only recently
decrypted the 14th part on the PURPLE machine. It had come out in the
English in which Tokyo had framed it, and its ominous final sentence
annaabi.ee 
