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The Navy Court of Inquiry (July 24–October 19, 1944) 539
Q. Th e testimony before this court was that it had been received
by naval intercepting means and therefore the record of this
message would naturally be kept in the fi les of the Director of
Naval Communications, would it not?
Noyes: Yes.
Q. Can you explain why this document is missing from the
fi les of the Director of Naval Communications?
Noyes: I don’t think . . . that any such message was received by
naval means.
Q. Th en at no time did you learn from anyone of the execution
of the winds message in any form, and at no time did you tell
anyone of the execution in any form of the winds message? Is
that the way you want to leave your testimony on that subject?
Noyes: Th at is right; yes. 173 . . . [T]o the best of my remembrance
no execution of the so-called “Winds Message” was
fi nally received. 174
At the conclusion of Noyes’s questioning, he apologized for
“not hav[ing] been able to answer the questions more specifi -
cally.” But, he reminded the Court, it had been three years since
he had handled any of these messages, and there had been thousands
of them.
September 21, 1944, found the NCI back in Washington,
with only a few more witnesses to be heard.
Information on Ship Movements
At the request of Stark, 16 messages between Tokyo and
Manila, Tokyo and Seattle, Tokyo and Singapore, and Tokyo and
173 Ibid., p. 900.
174 Ibid., pp. 905–06.