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where PURPLE traffic was processed. Monitor Post 2 was requested to send
in some intercepts as a test. In San Francisco, Harold W. Martin, the
noncom in charge, punched onto the teletype tape the intercepts that the
post had picked up since airmailing in the bulk of the day's material, as
well as the earlier ones. Among the later ones was Yoshikawa's final
message, which thus became one of the first to move on the direct wire
as a real, nontest item. S.I.S. received it a little after midnight. But PA-K2
was a low-priority system, and the message had originated in a consular
office. It was set aside to be worked on later.
Besides, S.I.S. had more important things to worry about. Like OP-20-
O, it was going frantic in a search for the 14th part. Captain Robert E.
Schukraft, head of the intercept section, and Frank B. Rowlett, the
civilian cryptanalyst in charge of the Japanese diplomatic solutions,