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538 Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy
cable, Noyes replied, “At the time there were no legal facilities [in
Pearl Harbor] for intercepting cable. . . .”
Q. Do I understand your answer to mean that they were not
receiving these cable dispatches transmitted in the purple
code?
Noyes: I should say they probably were not. 170
Q. Did you ever inform the Chief of the War Plans Division,
Captain Turner, that the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacifi c
Fleet was decrypting intelligence information of a character
similar to that which you were receiving in the Navy
Department?
Noyes: No. 171
When Noyes was asked “whether any of the code words as
set out in document 15 [the “Winds Code” set-up message]
were received in the Navy Department, either in Japanese or in
plain English?” that is whether there had been a “Winds Code
Execute,” he replied, “Th ey were not.” 172
Testimony had been presented “before this court to the eff ect
that the execution of the winds code system was received and
that a thorough search in the Navy Department fi les had failed
to reveal a copy of the execution signal.” Noyes was asked about
that: “Would the Director of Naval Communications fi les be the
normal placed in which that record would be kept?”
Noyes: If it was received by naval means, yes. . . . Otherwise, the
Offi ce of Naval Intelligence.
170 Ibid., p. 898.
171 Ibid., p. 897.
172 Ibid., p. 894.