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498 Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
going to attack Britain and the United States and maintain peace
with Russia?”
Stark: Not that I recall.
Kimmel: Do you recall the phrase “Winds Message”?
Stark: I don’t recall such a message. . . . Not the slightest recollection
of a discussion of the so-called “Winds Message.”
And more in the same vein. 21
Biesemeier objected. 22
Kimmel then asked Stark if he recalled receiving any important
intelligence on December 6, the evening before the attack.
Stark: I couldn’t say what I was doing that evening. My
remembrance is—I think I was home but I couldn’t say. I don’t
recall clearly. . . . I haven’t the slightest recollection of any message
bearing on this, or any other subject, being given to me
between the time I left the offi ce and the . . . next morning. 23
Stark did remember a discussion with Marshall Sunday
morning, December 7 about the message asking the Japanese
ambassador to call on Hull that day at 1:00 p.m. But otherwise he
recalled nothing of signifi cance about that message. 24
Admiral Schuirmann, Navy Liaison with
State Department, Evasive
Rear Admiral R.E. Schuirmann, who had been director of
Central Division, Offi ce of Chief of Naval Operations, and liaison
with the State Department, was not much more responsive.
21Ibid., p. 729.
22Ibid., p. 730.
23Ibid., part 32, pp. 132–33.
24Ibid., pp. 134–36.