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Administration Directed Supplementary Investigations 579
Bratton said in his affi davit that the only set he delivered that
evening was to the secretary of state, between 10:00 and 11:00
p.m. to the State Department night duty offi cer. Th e sets for
Miles, Gerow, and Stimson, Bratton said, “were not delivered the
night of 6 December 1941, but were delivered the next morning,
7 December 1941, with the fourteenth part.” Bratton concluded
his affi davit:
Any prior statements or testimony of mine which may be contrary
to my statements here . . . should be modifi ed and considered
changed in accordance with my statements herein. Th is
affi davit now represents my best recollections of the matters
and events set forth . . . after having my memory refreshed in
several ways and respects. 41
Early August found Clausen
back in the United States
In the affi davit Colonel Sadtler, a signal corps offi cer at the
time of the attack, signed for Clausen in August in Washington,
D.C., he discussed “a possible ‘Winds Code’ execute message”
that Noyes had given him on December 5, 1941. Sadtler was
already “alarmed by the series of Japanese diplomatic and consular
intercepts which I had been reading over a considerable period
of time, and the mounting tension, and the information which
Admiral Noyes had just given me.” After conferring with Miles
and Bratton, he had gone to his offi ce and “personally typed a
proposed warning which I intended to recommend be sent to
the overseas commanders.” 42 According to Sadtler’s recollection,
it read substantially as follows:
41 Ibid., part 35, pp. 97–98.
42 Ibid., pp. 98–99, August 13, 1945, affi davit.