TheCodeBreakers
In 1939, the agencies had often
required three weeks to funnel a message from interceptor to recipient.
In the latter part of 1941 the process sometimes took as little as four
hours. Occasionally an agency broke down a late intercept that bore on a
point of Japanese-American negotiations and rushed it to the Secretary
of State an hour before he was to meet with the Japanese ambassadors.
Volume attained overwhelming proportions. By the fall of 1941, 50 to 75
messages a day sluiced out of the two agencies, and at least once the
quantity swelled to 130. Some of these messages ran to 15 typewritten
pages.
The top-echelon recipients of MAGIC clearly could not afford the time to
read all this traffic. Much of it was of secondary importance anyway.
Kramer and Colonel Rufus S. Bratton, army G-2 Far Eastern Section
chief, winnowed the wheat from this chaff. Reading the entire output,
they chose an average of 25 messages a day for distribution. At first
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