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section of Berlin. Here he passed on his experience to a new generation.
But such training takes time, and any intelligence that the R.S.H.A.
obtained from communications continued to come to it from other
sources. It seized an occasional plaintext telegram and somehow
acquired a one-part Spanish code and used it to read intercepts. It also
was granted what must have been the first opportunity in history to get
codes wholesale. Yamato Ominata, Japan's intelligence chief in Europe,
offered to deliver the Yugoslav general staff and Turkish, Vatican,
Portuguese, and Brazilian codes for 28,000 Swiss francs, or about
$20,000. The offer may well have been accepted, for all those codes were
read at one time or another by various German agencies.
In addition, the R.S.H.A. depended upon the military and the
Forschungsamt for communications intelligence. Thus, in the autumn of