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onto them. The recipients always read the flagged messages; the others
they did not always study, but they did skim them.
Distribution was usually made twice a day. Intercepts that had come
in overnight went out in the morning, those processed during the day
went out at the end of the afternoon. Especially important messages were
delivered at once, often to the recipients' homes if late in the evening.
Each agency sent its MAGIC copies on to the other with exemplary
promptitude, despite a natural competition between them.
As Bratton put it: "I was further urged on by the fact that if the Chief
of Naval Operations ever got one of these things before General Marshall
did and called him up to discuss it on the telephone with him, and the
General hadn't gotten his copy, we all caught hell." (Marshall demurred:
"I don't think I gave anybody hell much.")
Delivery to the White House and the State Department incurred
difficulties
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