TheCodeBreakers
The Japanese in Washington destroyed their last machine and codes
after encoding a final message that they were so doing—the last message
sent on the Washington-Tokyo circuit, and read, of course, by the
American codebreakers. But in Honolulu, police guarding the consulate
after the attack smelled papers burning and saw smoke coming from
behind a door. Fearing a conflagration, they broke in and found the
consulate staff burning its remaining documents in a washtub on the
floor. The police confiscated what proved to be the telegraph file plus five
burlap sacks full of torn papers. These reached Rochef ort's unit that
evening. Woodward was still working long hours in an attempt to break
the PA-K2 messages that Mayfield had brought. Since the attack, the fear
of sabotage had swelled to enormous proportions. "Nothing coming to
light," his notes read, "so it was decided to reverse the process of
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