TheCodeBreakers
questions. Kramer, 38, who had studied in Japan from 1931 to 1934,
had had two tours in O.N.I, proper before being assigned full time to GZ
in June, 1940. An Annapolis graduate, chess fan, and rifle marksman,
he lived in a world in which everything had one right way to be done. He
chose his words with almost finicky exactness (one of his favorites was
"precise"); he kept his pencil mustache trimmed to a hair; he filed his
papers tidily; he often studied his MAGIC intercepts several times over
before delivering them. Included in this philosophy was his duty. He
performed it with great responsibility, intelligence, and dedication.
The first task of OP-20-G and of S.I.S. was to obtain intercepts. And in
peacetime America that was not easy.
Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934, which
prohibits wiretaps, also prohibits the interception of messages between
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