TheCodeBreakers
With this—being able to learn no
more—I assented to his request. In leaving, Ito said: 'We want you not to
cable the notification to the Embassy in Washington too early.'" In this
demand lay the seeds of Japan's juridical culpability.
Yoshikawa, in Honolulu, had continued sending his ship-disposition
reports after the switch to PA-K2. They were an odd melange of accuracy,
error, and outright falsehoods. On December 3, for example, he correctly
reported that the liner Lurline had arrived from San Francisco but stated
that a military transport had departed when no such thing had occurred.
The next day he informed Tokyo about the hasty departure of a cruiser of
the Honolulu class; no such ship either entered or cleared the harbor on
the 4th. Then, on the 5th, he cabled that three battleships had arrived in
Pearl Harbor, making a total—which he reported with deadly accuracy—
of eight anchored in the harbor. His messages, sent over Kita's signature,
annaabi.ee 
